72-hour Challenge / Day 2
by Reed on May.14, 2008, under Thoughts
My Experience:
Well, I think I’ve discovered that I don’t get along very well with UNIMIX (or at least as much as I ate last night). I had a full serving of UNIMIX before heading off to bed and experienced what to me seemed like hyperemesis. (Feel free to laugh at this point :^) Needless to I’ll be moving away from the UNIMIX diet to the more well-rounded sustenance diet. Rice and beans will never have tasted so good… and I can hardly wait for my plain cream of wheat this morning!
So take it easy on the UNIMIX. Maybe try a little instead of a whole “serving.” I was fine in the morning when I had little bits at a time, but having a whole “meal” of it for dinner was just too much for me, I guess.
My Reflection:
I’m actually looking forward to rice and beans, so Proverbs 27:7 (NIV) comes to mind first off.
But after that, I can honestly say that my eyes are opened and that I’m glad I had a rough go of it. I’m a fairly healthy guy for the most part and my body couldn’t handle the food I was given to eat. Not only that, but a little throwing up isn’t life-threatening for me. Now if I put myself in the sandals of someone famished, throwing up could really compromise me. The point: Being hungry, being under-nourished, is a huge risk. I can’t imagine seeing my children hungry or wasting away. Nor can I imagine being so compromised myself that I couldn’t take care of them.
All of this makes me want to do more to ease the suffering of at least a few of the hungry in our world. I hope your experience is doing the same.
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May 14th, 2008 on 8:43 pm
Participating in this challenge has opened my eyes to quite a few things. I believe that at least for me, my past experiences with complete fasting were easier than this situation of eating a little but never to the point of satiation. When you fast, at some point, the hunger pangs go away! I am realizing I very rarely experience true hunger, and when I do I almost immediately eat whatever I want until I feel satisfied. For these two days (and one to go) I’m finding myself in an almost constant state of hunger. A huge portion of our world’s people live like this day in and day out. Without the benefit of all the clean water they want – to drink, wash in or cook with. Without the benefit of being sure of the next portion to come. Without the benefit of knowing the food or water they consume will not make them sick through bacteria or parasites. Just a few of the privileges I have that most of the poor and hungry in this world do not share.
I could go on, but I’d just like to thank you Reed, for issuing this challenge. I can’t wait ’til it’s over!! But I won’t forget this feeling of hunger. I hope because of it I will be a little less thoughtless and greedy when I resume eating a more varied and satisfying menu.