Somvar Vrat
what is eaten, and how to hold it
सोमवार व्रतSomvar Vrat
Every Monday, with the Mondays of Shravan kept most widely of all.
সূত্র·Published accounts of Somvar Vrat as commonly observed·customs differ by family, region and sampradaya·পর্যালোচিত জুলাই 2026
How long Somvar Vrat runs
900–1,100kcal
One serving of each food listed below, ±10% for the hand that cooks it. A scale check, not a target. The Monday fast for Shiva. Usually a single-meal day. Many eat once, after the evening puja; others keep phalahar through the day and eat in the evening.
As the dataset states it: Sunrise until the evening puja, most commonly.
সূত্র·প্রকাশিত ব্রতের প্রথা + IFCT 2017·Somvar Vrat entry·পর্যালোচিত জুলাই 2026
What Somvar Vrat is
Somvar vrat is dedicated to Shiva and is among the most widely kept weekly fasts in India, particularly through the month of Shravan when the Mondays draw enormous observance.
As a weekly pattern, it is the observance that most resembles a structured intermittent-fasting routine — a long daily fast with one evening meal, repeated. That makes it the easiest one to plan around and the easiest to get wrong through the composition of that single meal.
Customs vary. The strictness ranges from a full phalahar day to simply satvik food with one meal. Shravan Mondays are often kept more strictly than the rest of the year.
How this entry is drawn, and how the food is counted
- The observance is read from published accounts of Somvar Vrat and written as সাধারণভাবে দেখা যায় — কখনও বাধ্যতামূলক হিসেবে নয়, কখনও সঠিক হিসেবে নয়। যেখানে বাড়িভেদে ভিন্নতা আছে, সেখানে এন্ট্রিতেই বলা আছে যে সেগুলো আলাদা।
- The arc above places the observed span between নামযুক্ত স্টেশন of the day — sunrise, midday, sunset, moonrise — and never between times. Sehri, iftar, moonrise and sunset are local and religiously significant, and this site publishes none of them.
- The length is taken from the range the dataset itself states, as a range. Where the length turns on latitude and season, no duration is printed at all.
- Food energy is per the serving each item is really eaten in, from IFCT 2017 (ICMR–NIN) where the table has the food, and from a named alternative where it does not.
- Every food is reconciled against Atwater factors on each build, and a page that fails to reconcile does not ship.
serving kcal = per-100 g kcal × (serving g ÷ 100) energy check = 4·protein + 4·carbohydrate + 9·fat (±15%, ±20% high-fibre) day shape = observed span, station → station (no clock times, ever)
What is customarily eaten, and what is set aside
Described as commonly observed. Your own family's practice is the one that applies.
Commonly eaten
- Fruit, milk and curd through the day
- One satvik meal after the evening puja
- Sendha namak where a phalahar day is kept
Customarily set aside
- Meat, fish, eggs, onion, garlic and alcohol
- Grains and pulses, in phalahar observances
সূত্র·Published accounts of Somvar Vrat·reported, not prescribed; regional practice varies and the variation is the practice·পর্যালোচিত জুলাই 2026
The food, with the numbers
Foods commonly associated with Somvar Vrat, at the serving each is really eaten in. Every one has its own page with the full breakdown.
| খাবার | এক সার্ভিং হল | ক্যালরি | প্রোটিন | কার্ব |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| গরুর দুধ (ফুল ক্রিম) | 1 glass · 200 g | 124 kcal | 6.4 g | 9.0 g |
| দই | 1 কাটোরি · 150 g | 90 kcal | 4.7 g | 4.5 g |
| কলা | 1 মাঝারি কলা · 100 g | 105 kcal | 1.3 g | 24.0 g |
| Makhana (Fox Nuts), raw | 1 কাটোরি · 25 g | 87 kcal | 2.4 g | 19.2 g |
| Samak Rice Pulao | 1 কাটোরি · 150 g | 189 kcal | 3.0 g | 30.6 g |
| সেদ্ধ আলু | 1 medium potato · 120 g | 84 kcal | 1.8 g | 17.9 g |
| পনির | 1 portion · 50 g | 133 kcal | 9.2 g | 2.0 g |
| কাঠবাদাম (বাদাম) | 10টি কাঠবাদাম · 12 g | 72 kcal | 2.5 g | 1.3 g |
| Fruit Chaat | 1 প্লেট · 200 g | 114 kcal | 1.6 g | 25.4 g |
One serving of each of these 9 items would come to about 997 kcal — a scale check, not a menu. Somvar Vrat is not a calorie target and this table is not a plan.
ব্রতের খাবারের হিসাব, প্রতি 100 g নয়, প্রতি পরিবেশন ধরে।
সূত্র·প্রকাশিত ব্রতের প্রথা + IFCT 2017·উল্লিখিত পরিবেশন ওজন অনুযায়ী·পর্যালোচিত জুলাই 2026
How to hold it without wrecking the week
This is the part nobody publishes well. None of it asks you to change the observance — training, sleep and meal timing are the variables you control, and the fast is not.
Training
Weekly and predictable, which makes it the easiest to plan for. Most people put the hardest session of the week on a different day and keep Monday for lighter work or technique — that is a scheduling choice, not a change to the observance.
Sleep
One evening meal at a normal hour has little effect on sleep. A very large one right before bed does.
Blood sugar
A weekly single-meal day is a regular pattern, so it is worth setting up properly with your doctor once rather than improvising it 52 times. That is the whole point of it being weekly.
Hydration
Most versions permit water freely. Take it — a long day fast without fluid is a much larger physiological event than one with.
The specific risk with Somvar Vrat
Low for healthy adults. Repeated weekly, though, the medication-timing question becomes more important rather than less.
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Questions asked about Somvar Vrat
What should the one meal contain?
If your observance permits dairy, protein is the thing most often missing — curd, paneer or milk alongside whatever else is prepared. A single meal built entirely on potato, sabudana and fried food leaves the week short on protein 52 times a year, which is enough to matter.
Are Shravan Mondays different?
They are kept more widely and often more strictly, and for many people they are five consecutive weeks of the observance rather than an occasional one. That is closer to a Navratri-scale pattern than to a single fast day.
Related observances
সূত্র·প্রকাশিত ব্রতের প্রথা + IFCT 2017·observance accounts and food composition·পর্যালোচিত জুলাই 2026
Practices are described as সাধারণভাবে দেখা যায়; customs differ by family, region, community and sampradaya, and this site is not an authority on any of them. Food values come from the Indian Food Composition Tables 2017 (ICMR–NIN), the older ICMR–NIN tables, USDA FoodData Central, named composition studies and the shared ThaliFacts dataset, reconciled against Atwater factors on every build. Which source applies to which food is listed per food, and every source carries the date it was last checked. General information only — not medical or religious guidance. Fasting is not safe for everyone, particularly during pregnancy or with diabetes or other conditions. Speak to a doctor first.
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