Tis the start of the challenge. My head hurts.
Breakfast was fine. My meal of oatmeal
and banana is just like a normal day. The preparation was different, though. It
took conscious effort to use water instead of milk. The Pros: this way it’s
stickier, which seems filling. The Cons: it lacks the rich taste I am used to.
In fact, the meals themselves aren’t
bad. I normally have eggs for lunch, but it was weird not to have a salad. I also
frequently make a dish of rice, vegetables, and beans, only this time it was a
much smaller portion and lacked spice and vegetable diversity. Like I said, the
meals themselves aren’t the hard part. But for an hour or so afterwards, I just
feel hungry, like I didn’t get enough. Luckily, the
hunger goes away.
Dinner (above) looked like the meal the school
kids receive in Bayonnais, Haiti. Many of these kids only have this one meal.
If they miss school, they miss their meal. It also means that they struggle through
the weekend without food. The crazy thing? I’m following the guidelines of this
challenge, and I still have more at this one meal than they do at lunch (or
more than they do all day, for those who rely on the lunch).
Right now I’m not hungry, but my head
hurts. Normally I turn to food to treat such a malady. In fact I’m craving one of my extras—some nuts,
chocolate, yogurt, a cookie or an orange? Nope. Instead, I’m hoping for Neil deGrasse
Tyson to distract me with the secrets of the Cosmos.
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