FASTING TIPS

• Start eating more high in fibre foods before a few days before Ramadan
starts. This will aid in detoxification and cleansing of your body, as well as
preventing problems of constipation during your fast.
• You will be eating less, so spend the grocery money on quality fresh fruits.
Living primarily on junk food will only make you sick and sabotage the rest
of your fasts. Remember- you are accountable to Allah for  the
consequences of your actions.
• In the morning particularly, eat fruits, vegetables, and complex
carbohydrate foods e.g. wheat, whole meal cereals and yogurts. These
will sustain you through out the day, and maintain regular blood sugar
levels.
• Stay hydrated. Drink unsweetened juice (not juice drinks with sugar) tea
with honey (not sugar)., and ALOT of water.Fluids are more essential to
your body than food. Also keep a couple of large bottles of water near
your bed.  Drink just before you go to sleep and anytime you wake up
during the night.    
• Limit salt/sodium intake.  That includes crackers, chips, pretzels, salted
nuts, popcorn and the like.
• Limit sweets (i.e. sugar) to night time meal.  Eating sugar in the morning
means you will have a more rapid and severe peak and dip in your blood
sugar during the day.  You will be more prone to dizziness, irritability.
Sugar also increases dehydration.
• Eat one meal's worth of food, not three.  If you gain weight while fasting,
you're doing it wrong.
• Don't eat all night and sleep all day.  That is not the sunnah. Fasting does
not mean all work and activity ust come to a stand still!
• If your meal is going to be spicy, try to eat some fruit or bread first. Some
stomchas can be sensitive- especially after being empty for most of the
day.
• Be patient- getting your body used to the routine of Ramadan will take
some time, but eventually you will adjust.