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Fast to Faith: A 40-Day Awakening: Reconnect Your Body, Mind and Soul for Lasting Weight Loss, Sustained Energy, and Unstoppable Strength
Discover why fasting is your superpower from God. Lose weight, feel more energized, and enhance your mental health and well-being by doing one simple thing—giving your body a break.Have you been feeling tired, sluggish, and like something isn’t quite right—despite your lab tests producing normal results?
Have you been dealing with stress, anxiety, or depression by consuming refined “comfort” foods that give you a “kick,” only to result in an energy slump later in the day?
Perhaps you’re doing the best you can in terms of nutrition, but finding it close to impossible to shed those extra five pounds that seem to mysteriously pile up year after year.
What you’re feeling is definitely not unique to you.
The standard American diet is filled with inflammatory foods that age the body and wreak havoc on the mind.
What’s more, constant snacking and heavy meals cause an unbearable burden on organs like the pancreas and stomach. Yet it is precisely when these organs stop overworking that your body can focus on vital activities—like recovery and the restoration of your physical and mental health.
Fasting is the buzzword in modern health and wellness, but it is a centuries-old approach with impressive results.
This simple, easy habit empowers your body to maintain cellular health by liberating your cells of toxins and other damaged or useless components.
Best of all, fasting aligns with the Biblical view on health.
As 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 states, “Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.”
You may already be intrigued by fasting and wonder where to start. Consider this book to be your guiding hand; a friend that will provide all the information you need to start fasting and strengthen your faith by honoring your body.
Inside, you’ll
How to tap into your innate intelligence, restore the body-mind-soul connection, and honor God through fastingHow to stop harmful cravings in the bud by turning your back on the foods that cause harmful blood sugar spikes and falls The vital link between your gut health and your gynecologic health – and how fasting can restore the health of your gut microbiome and re-balance your hormonesWhy God-made “faith foods” contain the secret to losing weight, consuming nutritious meals, and promoting the optimal functioning of our organsA four-phase fasting program involving interacting with God and the sisterhood of women, featuring advice on key foods and key fasting windows to followPowerful prayers that will help you stay focused during your journey to treating your body like a templeThe 2/10/20/30 – an easy breakdown of nutrients to embrace to ensure you stay on trackAnd so much more.
“I can’t see myself going so many hours without food” you might say.
Perhaps you have tried various regimens, only to gain and lose weight, yo-yo style.
Faith-based fasting is different. It taps into your body’s innate needs and gives your cells the chance to recover and eliminate toxins.
Best of all, you won’t crave unhealthy foods or feel hungry.
This 40-day awakening is your key to unlocking a healthier, more vibrant you
If you’re ready to feel more energetic, lose unwanted weight, and feel happier and more inspired than you have in years, scroll up and click “Add to Cart” now.
Have you been dealing with stress, anxiety, or depression by consuming refined “comfort” foods that give you a “kick,” only to result in an energy slump later in the day?
Perhaps you’re doing the best you can in terms of nutrition, but finding it close to impossible to shed those extra five pounds that seem to mysteriously pile up year after year.
What you’re feeling is definitely not unique to you.
The standard American diet is filled with inflammatory foods that age the body and wreak havoc on the mind.
What’s more, constant snacking and heavy meals cause an unbearable burden on organs like the pancreas and stomach. Yet it is precisely when these organs stop overworking that your body can focus on vital activities—like recovery and the restoration of your physical and mental health.
Fasting is the buzzword in modern health and wellness, but it is a centuries-old approach with impressive results.
This simple, easy habit empowers your body to maintain cellular health by liberating your cells of toxins and other damaged or useless components.
Best of all, fasting aligns with the Biblical view on health.
As 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 states, “Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.”
You may already be intrigued by fasting and wonder where to start. Consider this book to be your guiding hand; a friend that will provide all the information you need to start fasting and strengthen your faith by honoring your body.
Inside, you’ll
How to tap into your innate intelligence, restore the body-mind-soul connection, and honor God through fastingHow to stop harmful cravings in the bud by turning your back on the foods that cause harmful blood sugar spikes and falls The vital link between your gut health and your gynecologic health – and how fasting can restore the health of your gut microbiome and re-balance your hormonesWhy God-made “faith foods” contain the secret to losing weight, consuming nutritious meals, and promoting the optimal functioning of our organsA four-phase fasting program involving interacting with God and the sisterhood of women, featuring advice on key foods and key fasting windows to followPowerful prayers that will help you stay focused during your journey to treating your body like a templeThe 2/10/20/30 – an easy breakdown of nutrients to embrace to ensure you stay on trackAnd so much more.
“I can’t see myself going so many hours without food” you might say.
Perhaps you have tried various regimens, only to gain and lose weight, yo-yo style.
Faith-based fasting is different. It taps into your body’s innate needs and gives your cells the chance to recover and eliminate toxins.
Best of all, you won’t crave unhealthy foods or feel hungry.
This 40-day awakening is your key to unlocking a healthier, more vibrant you
If you’re ready to feel more energetic, lose unwanted weight, and feel happier and more inspired than you have in years, scroll up and click “Add to Cart” now.
240 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 10, 2024
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September 10, 2026
I read this book over the course of a Lenten season, which felt like the only honest way to approach it. I had been curious about fasting for years, had dabbled in intermittent fasting with moderate success, but I had never encountered a framework that connected the physical discipline to something deeper. Barber writes from that intersection, and while I did not agree with everything she said, I found myself thinking about her words long after I put the book down. That is not nothing. That is rare.
What struck me first, what I am still chewing on, is the way Barber reframes fasting not as deprivation but as attention. She writes about the body as a temple with a conviction that could easily become preachy, but she grounds it in physiology. She explains what happens at the cellular level when you give your digestive system a rest. She talks about autophagy, about the pancreas and the gut microbiome, about the way constant snacking keeps your body in a state of low-grade inflammation that manifests as fatigue and brain fog and the stubborn weight that will not budge. I have read enough wellness books to know when someone is just repeating buzzwords, and Barber is not. She is a physician, and she brings that authority to the page without ever making me feel stupid. She explains things clearly, almost gently, as if she knows her reader is probably tired and overwhelmed and has tried a dozen other programs that did not work. That pastoral tone made me trust her.
The 40-day structure is deliberate and meaningful. Barber does not just offer a fasting protocol. She offers a journey, a slow unfolding, one day at a time. The book is organized into phases, each with its own focus, its own prayers, its own recommendations for food and fasting windows. I appreciated that she does not demand a drastic overnight change. She meets you where you are, acknowledges that your body has been through things, that your relationship with food is complicated, that willpower alone is not enough. The prayers at the end of each day's reading are simple and unadorned, almost childlike in their directness. I found myself saying them aloud, something I have not done with a devotional in years. They are not profound. They are not meant to be. They are meant to be said, to be repeated, to become a rhythm that carries you through the hunger.
The central theme that has stayed with me is the idea that fasting is not about weight loss at all. It is about obedience, about trust, about learning to sit with discomfort instead of immediately numbing it. Barber argues that our culture has trained us to treat every hunger pang as an emergency, every moment of emptiness as something to be filled. And she suggests that fasting, done prayerfully, is a way of retraining that reflex. It is a way of saying to God, and to yourself, that you can endure. That you are not a slave to your appetites. That your body is not your master. I found that framing deeply compelling, and deeply uncomfortable. I realized how often I reach for food not because I am hungry but because I am bored or anxious or sad. Barber does not shame that. She just invites you to notice it, to name it, to bring it into the light. That invitation changed the way I thought about fasting. It became less about what I was giving up and more about what I was making space for.
But here is where my resistance surfaced, and it is a significant one. Barber writes from a place of health, of relative privilege, of a body that responds predictably to fasting protocols. She does not spend much time on the people for whom fasting is not safe or advisable. She touches on it, briefly, in a warning at the beginning, but she quickly moves on. I thought about my mother, who has diabetes. I thought about my friend who has a history of eating disorders. I thought about the many people, particularly women, whose relationship with food has been so damaged by diet culture that the language of restriction, even in a spiritual context, could be genuinely harmful. Barber's framework is not for them, and she does not fully acknowledge that. She does not wrestle with the possibility that her approach, applied indiscriminately, could cause harm. That blind spot troubled me. I wanted her to hold the tension between the transformative power of fasting and the reality that not every body can or should fast. She does not. The book is written for a reader who is ready for this, and it does not pause to consider the reader who is not.
My other tension, and this is more personal, is the book's implicit promise of weight loss. The subtitle mentions it, the marketing mentions it, and throughout the book Barber reassures the reader that the pounds will come off. She is careful to emphasize that the weight loss is a side effect, not the goal. But she also knows, and I know, that most people who pick up this book are picking it up because they want to lose weight. They want the physical transformation. And while Barber does not make that the center of the book, she also does not fully decenter it. I found myself wondering what would happen if a reader followed the program faithfully and the weight did not come off. Would they feel like they failed? Would they feel like God did not come through? The book does not address that possibility. It assumes a body that responds as expected, and bodies, as I know too well, do not always cooperate.
And yet. And yet I kept reading. I kept praying. I kept fasting, in my own imperfect way, and I noticed something shifting. Not the scale, not the number on the tape measure, but something quieter. I began to notice the difference between hunger and craving. I began to sit with discomfort for a few extra minutes before reaching for a snack. I began to talk to God about my body, something I had never done before. I began to understand that my body is not an enemy to be conquered but a gift to be tended. That realization is not dramatic. It will not make headlines. But it is the most honest change I have made in years, and I owe it, at least in part, to this book.
Barber writes at one point that fasting is not about denying yourself but about discovering what you truly need. That line has stayed with me. I do not know if I will ever finish her 40-day program exactly as written. I do not know if I will ever reach the weight she describes as ideal. But I know that I am paying attention now. I know that I am asking different questions. I know that I am learning to trust that emptiness is not always something to be feared. That is more than I had before. For anyone who feels trapped in a cycle of food and guilt and exhaustion, this book offers a way out, not a shortcut but a path. It requires patience. It requires faith. And it requires a willingness to sit with your own hunger, physical and spiritual, until it teaches you what it came to teach. I am not there yet. But I am on the way.
What struck me first, what I am still chewing on, is the way Barber reframes fasting not as deprivation but as attention. She writes about the body as a temple with a conviction that could easily become preachy, but she grounds it in physiology. She explains what happens at the cellular level when you give your digestive system a rest. She talks about autophagy, about the pancreas and the gut microbiome, about the way constant snacking keeps your body in a state of low-grade inflammation that manifests as fatigue and brain fog and the stubborn weight that will not budge. I have read enough wellness books to know when someone is just repeating buzzwords, and Barber is not. She is a physician, and she brings that authority to the page without ever making me feel stupid. She explains things clearly, almost gently, as if she knows her reader is probably tired and overwhelmed and has tried a dozen other programs that did not work. That pastoral tone made me trust her.
The 40-day structure is deliberate and meaningful. Barber does not just offer a fasting protocol. She offers a journey, a slow unfolding, one day at a time. The book is organized into phases, each with its own focus, its own prayers, its own recommendations for food and fasting windows. I appreciated that she does not demand a drastic overnight change. She meets you where you are, acknowledges that your body has been through things, that your relationship with food is complicated, that willpower alone is not enough. The prayers at the end of each day's reading are simple and unadorned, almost childlike in their directness. I found myself saying them aloud, something I have not done with a devotional in years. They are not profound. They are not meant to be. They are meant to be said, to be repeated, to become a rhythm that carries you through the hunger.
The central theme that has stayed with me is the idea that fasting is not about weight loss at all. It is about obedience, about trust, about learning to sit with discomfort instead of immediately numbing it. Barber argues that our culture has trained us to treat every hunger pang as an emergency, every moment of emptiness as something to be filled. And she suggests that fasting, done prayerfully, is a way of retraining that reflex. It is a way of saying to God, and to yourself, that you can endure. That you are not a slave to your appetites. That your body is not your master. I found that framing deeply compelling, and deeply uncomfortable. I realized how often I reach for food not because I am hungry but because I am bored or anxious or sad. Barber does not shame that. She just invites you to notice it, to name it, to bring it into the light. That invitation changed the way I thought about fasting. It became less about what I was giving up and more about what I was making space for.
But here is where my resistance surfaced, and it is a significant one. Barber writes from a place of health, of relative privilege, of a body that responds predictably to fasting protocols. She does not spend much time on the people for whom fasting is not safe or advisable. She touches on it, briefly, in a warning at the beginning, but she quickly moves on. I thought about my mother, who has diabetes. I thought about my friend who has a history of eating disorders. I thought about the many people, particularly women, whose relationship with food has been so damaged by diet culture that the language of restriction, even in a spiritual context, could be genuinely harmful. Barber's framework is not for them, and she does not fully acknowledge that. She does not wrestle with the possibility that her approach, applied indiscriminately, could cause harm. That blind spot troubled me. I wanted her to hold the tension between the transformative power of fasting and the reality that not every body can or should fast. She does not. The book is written for a reader who is ready for this, and it does not pause to consider the reader who is not.
My other tension, and this is more personal, is the book's implicit promise of weight loss. The subtitle mentions it, the marketing mentions it, and throughout the book Barber reassures the reader that the pounds will come off. She is careful to emphasize that the weight loss is a side effect, not the goal. But she also knows, and I know, that most people who pick up this book are picking it up because they want to lose weight. They want the physical transformation. And while Barber does not make that the center of the book, she also does not fully decenter it. I found myself wondering what would happen if a reader followed the program faithfully and the weight did not come off. Would they feel like they failed? Would they feel like God did not come through? The book does not address that possibility. It assumes a body that responds as expected, and bodies, as I know too well, do not always cooperate.
And yet. And yet I kept reading. I kept praying. I kept fasting, in my own imperfect way, and I noticed something shifting. Not the scale, not the number on the tape measure, but something quieter. I began to notice the difference between hunger and craving. I began to sit with discomfort for a few extra minutes before reaching for a snack. I began to talk to God about my body, something I had never done before. I began to understand that my body is not an enemy to be conquered but a gift to be tended. That realization is not dramatic. It will not make headlines. But it is the most honest change I have made in years, and I owe it, at least in part, to this book.
Barber writes at one point that fasting is not about denying yourself but about discovering what you truly need. That line has stayed with me. I do not know if I will ever finish her 40-day program exactly as written. I do not know if I will ever reach the weight she describes as ideal. But I know that I am paying attention now. I know that I am asking different questions. I know that I am learning to trust that emptiness is not always something to be feared. That is more than I had before. For anyone who feels trapped in a cycle of food and guilt and exhaustion, this book offers a way out, not a shortcut but a path. It requires patience. It requires faith. And it requires a willingness to sit with your own hunger, physical and spiritual, until it teaches you what it came to teach. I am not there yet. But I am on the way.
March 14, 2025
Has some good info, but alot of it is repetitive and it never really goes into fasting? Even the plan at the end doesn’t talk about how many days to fast or hours?
I also didn’t like the constant mentions of her supplements and podcasts to listen to and the book was full of QR codes to scan.
I do plan on using the daily readings in the back of the book for my morning quiet time for the next 40 days.
I also didn’t like the constant mentions of her supplements and podcasts to listen to and the book was full of QR codes to scan.
I do plan on using the daily readings in the back of the book for my morning quiet time for the next 40 days.
April 25, 2024
Blew me away!
So this book turned everything I thought I knew about nutrition and wellness upside down and opened my eyes to how powerful our bodies are and what God intended for us! Life giving, powerful and insightful! A definite MUST read and absolutely walk thru the 40 days. You will learn so much!
So this book turned everything I thought I knew about nutrition and wellness upside down and opened my eyes to how powerful our bodies are and what God intended for us! Life giving, powerful and insightful! A definite MUST read and absolutely walk thru the 40 days. You will learn so much!
May 18, 2025
Worth a Reac
Liked it mostly for the devotionals and fasting motivation. Easy to read. I think the full plan wasn’t for me but I took what I thought I needed from it. Well written and I appreciate the author for putting this out there. Anything connecting faith to health is much needed right now. Well done.
Liked it mostly for the devotionals and fasting motivation. Easy to read. I think the full plan wasn’t for me but I took what I thought I needed from it. Well written and I appreciate the author for putting this out there. Anything connecting faith to health is much needed right now. Well done.
May 1, 2024
BACK TO THE BASICS
This book has great basic and practical information for a reset physically, mentally, and spiritually! Thank You for the good works you are doing- without works faith is dead.
This book has great basic and practical information for a reset physically, mentally, and spiritually! Thank You for the good works you are doing- without works faith is dead.
March 7, 2026
The BEST functional medicine book I’ve read! (And I’ve read A LOT!!)
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