Around 3pm, Mike and I started going downhill. Mike was guzzling tea like there was no tomorrow. I was feeling a bit light-headed. And we were BOTH feeling irritable. Mike said he couldn't concentrate at all. So, by 5pm, we were ready for some f***ing dinner! And that was exciting, because I had just the recipe to make us feel full, pampered, and oh yes, it's delicious.
Butternut Squash Risotto!
Yep, believe it or not, that nice portion of butternut squash risotto is an astounding 282 calories per cup. I don't think Mike and I have ever savored food moreso than we did tonight. I thought about some of the unseen side effects of fasting - that we might actually be helping the environment by not eating as much food (requiring less energy, buying less food, producing less methane :-D ). We thought about many people who fast and not by choice - that they cannot afford food and therefore cannot eat. There were a whole host of emotions.
Physically, I felt light-headed still, probably because my blood sugar spiked. Mike still felt hungry. After doing some calculations, we discovered he had 16 calories remaining for the day. So he licked the risotto pot clean since what else could he do? Even a marshmallow was 25 calories! Or he could have had 1/10th of a teaspoon of peanut butter (this reality made him cry). Poor guy!
I still have 58 calories remaining. I'm not sure what to do with them. 2 marshmallows perhaps? :-D
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