Yeah, I am freaked out by it. Personally, the long fasting periods are not my favorite. I struggle with depression (especially this time of year and the longest fasting periods always happen to be during my worst time with depression), and if I don't get enough protein, I end up going to a very, very dark place. I don't do as badly as I used to when I attended a mission with no resident priest and we got no visits from a priest during Lent, unless we went to a parish 60 miles away. I prayed so hard to move where I am now, so that I could attend all the services, because I was afraid that I would always dread the fasting periods instead of seeing them as something to look forward to rather than seeing them as torture (and torture is pretty much how I saw them). I am getting better about not hating the fasting periods (and you are afraid of them when you end up in very dark places), but I have to admit I still struggling with seeing them as a journey and something to look forward to. At least, I don't see them as a time when I am in the middle of a stormy ocean with no life preserver and seeing no land or ships in sight to rescue me.