Day 1

Today for breakfast I had some orange and pineapple, cream of wheat and a cup of herbal tea at 9 am.  This is my last meal until Sunday night, which will just basically be some watermelon.

It’s now 5 pm.  We just got back from running some errands and stocking up on movies.  We got three movies and I’m pretty excited about them.  One is Forgetting Sarah Marshall – it’s one I wouldn’t go to see in the theatre, but it’s probably pretty entertaining.  Another one is Secretary – it’s an older movie pretty much about a kinky BDSM relationship between a submissive secretary and her dominant boss.  The other movie is some Spanish/Math movie, Fermat something, which is really more up Derek’s alley, but it will be interesting I’m sure.

Around lunch today, I was feeling pretty hungry.  Hungry past the point of just stomach, it was in my head too.  This lasted for an hour or two during which my mom called and talked about food to me – she’s not cruel, she’s just starting the vegan eating like we’ve been doing she had some questions.  She’s been feeling worse starting eating vegan for three days than I’ve felt during the fast so far.  During errands I was feeling OK, not so much hungry and now I sort of just feel relaxed – all I want to do it sit on the couch kind of feeling.

I’ve realized that I go get food out of boredom a lot.  When I was doing some grading and thinking about research, I walked into the kitchen at least three times knowing that I can’t eat and just sort of looked around – there’s nothing except the watermelon.  Since I work from home, eating is very easy.  Since I hate my work, I get bored a lot.  Bad combo.  This is probably why when I waited tables I was at my smallest ever – even though I ate restaurant food a lot more, I didn’t have time to snack.

Right now if I could eat anything it would be: a banana, strawberry and pineapple salad with honey on top and some popcorn to go with the movies.