Set of vratham days to observe

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Hello, I have a doubt regarding what set of days, how many days we can observe vrath during a month. I have recently started observing vrath on ekadashis (oberserving with phalaharam now).
Further, I would like to start vratham on pradoshams, sankatahara chaturthis. And I wanted to continue my grandmother's tradition, of observing complete vrath on krithikai, sashtis and saturdays. Now the problem is that between all those days, I can hardly find days to eat in some months. Hence, I ask the learned peoples of this forum, is there a prevailing practice to observe a set of days among these? Also, I would not ask this question if I hadn't recently lost 11 kilos over a year and a half, hence I am a little worried about the effects of observing vrath on all those days. Of course, I wouldn't be able to attempt to start fasting on all those days, just during ekadashi with phalaharam, I get headaches from the back of my head.

 

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Hello, I have a doubt regarding what set of days, how many days we can observe vrath during a month. I have recently started observing vrath on ekadashis (oberserving with phalaharam now).
Further, I would like to start vratham on pradoshams, sankatahara chaturthis. And I wanted to continue my grandmother's tradition, of observing complete vrath on krithikai, sashtis and saturdays. Now the problem is that between all those days, I can hardly find days to eat in some months. Hence, I ask the learned peoples of this forum, is there a prevailing practice to observe a set of days among these? Also, I would not ask this question if I hadn't recently lost 11 kilos over a year and a half, hence I am a little worried about the effects of observing vrath on all those days. Of course, I wouldn't be able to attempt to start fasting on all those days, just during ekadashi with phalaharam, I get headaches from the back of my head.

Before you start fasting you have to make sure that you are physically healthy, what this would entail is doing yoga and pranayama for a while before you start fasting (I would recommend 3-4 months before you start fasting, as fasting was intended for physical and spiritual benefits).

Furthermore, fasting is not a sign of devotion to the gods, but more for your body. Each god's day (like ekadashi, shashti, et cetera come twice a month. Therefore, I would not recommend you to fast for more than one god, so either pick your kula deivam or ishta deivam and go with it.