March 12 - Two Weeks Hungry

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Hello Readers,
Well I have been unable to post updates as regularly as I would have hoped going in to this, my work has been keeping me super busy, but I wanted to provide you with a nutshell of my experience so far. I have now been on rice and water for two solid weeks, barring one 24 hour period.

This past Friday I had a small wedding to attend, there was no rice served but I intentionally did not eat any of my rice portion that day and only ate a similar portion of food as I have been eating in rice, and the next evening was surprised with a birthday party in my honor. While there I ate some none non-rice foods for my dinner and had a couple not-water beverages.

While these breaks have satisfied a desire to taste something other than rice it has not abated my general hunger. While eating only rice sort of gets old, it taste's pretty good and by the time I eat everyday I am hungry for it. What I am learning is that though I'm not always hungry, although I do think about my hunger pretty frequently throughout the day, it's that there is no real satisfaction to the meal in the sense that "That was a really fulfilling meal". That's something I've always taken for granted and to look at me I've had more than my fair share of "satisfactory" meals. While this perhaps give me a slight glimpse into other's hunger it still seems pretty unfathomable to me to have live one's life and perhaps never be blessed with the luxury to eat until full from both the variety and quantity of food finishing a meal by sitting back happily from the table and loosening the pants.

I have now lost at least 10 pounds through SimpleSizing my diet and sent 10 days worth of foods savings to feed others. Will you join me by giving up tomorrow's coffee and donating $2.00 to feed a hungry person?