Fasting
DarfurFast was today. (The idea was you spend the day going without [insert luxury item, food if you're hardcore enough] and donate the money you saved to a Darfur relief fund.) Of course I care about what's going on in Darfur, and of course I know that actually involuntarily starving sucks, but I have to admit I participated for selfish reasons as well - to join a bandwagon, to see if I could do it, to see if I could lose weight. *shame*
Well, Mom didn't take kindly to the idea. In the car this morning she yelled at me that I would be practically asleep and barely cognizant all day and I would screw up all my classes....etc. I'll admit that the day after I got to sleep at 1:30am is not the best day to fast. It is also true that I tend to get bitchy when I'm hungry. I still wanted to try it. She stopped short of force-feeding me her toast, but she made a HUGE deal of it. Ugh.
No surprise, I got really tired/hungry at about 11:30. But it wasn't any worse than after a normal late night. Pretty soon I stopped feeling hungry at all. Karate was fine as well.
I'm completely not hungry now...it's kind of strange. I guess my body has resigned itself to the idea that food is scarce right now, and is dealing in its various ways. I've had a nagging need to do this ever since I read Hunger: An Unnatural History, which was a really fascinating book. Sometime when I have several days free with no obligations (haha, like that'll ever happen, at least before next summer) I'd like to see how long I can go, and see if I get any transcendental vision-quest type hallucinations, or at least enter an altered mindstate.
(Edit: Aaargh, why is the book title bolded? I'm sure I'm using the < i > tags right - anyway, the title is supposed to be italic. )
Well, Mom didn't take kindly to the idea. In the car this morning she yelled at me that I would be practically asleep and barely cognizant all day and I would screw up all my classes....etc. I'll admit that the day after I got to sleep at 1:30am is not the best day to fast. It is also true that I tend to get bitchy when I'm hungry. I still wanted to try it. She stopped short of force-feeding me her toast, but she made a HUGE deal of it. Ugh.
No surprise, I got really tired/hungry at about 11:30. But it wasn't any worse than after a normal late night. Pretty soon I stopped feeling hungry at all. Karate was fine as well.
I'm completely not hungry now...it's kind of strange. I guess my body has resigned itself to the idea that food is scarce right now, and is dealing in its various ways. I've had a nagging need to do this ever since I read Hunger: An Unnatural History, which was a really fascinating book. Sometime when I have several days free with no obligations (haha, like that'll ever happen, at least before next summer) I'd like to see how long I can go, and see if I get any transcendental vision-quest type hallucinations, or at least enter an altered mindstate.
(Edit: Aaargh, why is the book title bolded? I'm sure I'm using the < i > tags right - anyway, the title is supposed to be italic. )