Day 3: Our first fasting day!
It's 2:15pm and I've only eaten 161 calories. I ate that (an excellent low fat peanut butter banana muffin) at 10:15am...and at 11am, Mike and I declared, "F***, we just ate and now we're hungry again!" It just goes to show how 30 years of eating whenever we were hungry has messed with our brains. Our stomachs have been quite rumbly. Mike has been drinking green tea and says that's helping keep his feeling of hunger at bay. I've been trying to keep busy so as not to think about my stomach. In particular, I've been avoiding our kitchen like the plague. You know I'm desperate when I run over to Home Depot, buy some bush trimmers, and go to town on the bushes in our front yard.
Strangely, I feel more energetic on this day of fasting. I don't feel weak. I feel like keeping myself busy to avoid thinking about food. And since I have extra time that I would otherwise be eating, I have time to do things that I've been putting off (like trimming the bushes in the front yard!). I'm even walking the dog a little longer, though to be fair, it is a nice day and it's important to take advantage of the nice weather.
I think the worst side effect is that I am irritable. Mike used *my* electric tea kettle and used it improperly in two different ways. The lid must be closed tightly AND you have to use a specific amount of water as the minimum. Otherwise, you can break the kettle. Normally, I wouldn't fly off the handle about this sort of thing (really??...) but today, the issue has exasperated me. It's *my* kettle. The least you can do is use it properly!
We still have no plan on dinner. I need to figure that out. Mike has 100 more calories to eat than me. Lucky bastard. But in the meanwhile, I have almost 4 hours to burn before dinner. In the Michael Mosley documentary, it said that when you fast (or starve), your brain makes additional neurons...mainly to make you smarter to find food. I wonder if I can use my new neurons to be better at playing video games. Hmm...
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