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09.00 After six and a half hours sleep, I came downstairs to sit at this computer. I have a glass of warm water in front of me. Shirley has already gone out to the gym where she is a frequent attendee. Lying in bed, I thought to myself that sitting around in the house would not be a good way of suppressing food cravings so I am going to have a shower very soon and then go out to the retail park at Norton to hopefully purchase an umbrella for Phoebe and a replacement large coffee cup for me. Shirley accidentally smashed the old one that I have been using for the past sixteen years, Frances brought it back from Birmingham Southern College in Alabama. It was an Alpha Omicron Pi sorority mug. So far, I am happy with the warm water and feel calm about the unusual day ahead.
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01.30 Back from the retail park at Norton where I bought two new mugs, replacement kitchen tongs and an umbrella for Phoebe so that if we again have to pick her up from school on a rainy day she will stay drier than before.
I have just sat down with a glass of warm water. Nothing to eat yet and no particular cravings either. My tummy is not rumbling and I do not have a headache. So far so good. I will see how I am feeling at around 18.00 when we usually have our evening meal.
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19.00 I have been doing some sorting out in this study, wondering why the hell am I so bad at throwing stuff away.
Still no food has passed my lips. Shirley had her evening meal half an hour ago though I did not prepare it as I usually do.
Thoughts about food have crossed my mind but no urgent cravings. I am okay. I keep drinking glasses of warm water. Is my face a little flushed? I think it is. Perhaps not eating has weirdly pushed up my blood pressure. I will test it in a little while.
Taking my evening anti-hypertension medication was something I hadn't really thought about before. Does it count as food? I am supposed to swallow those particular pills in the evening at mealtime - Atorvastatin, Ramipril and Lercanidipine hydrochloride. Surely, one day won't matter.
I think I have been a little hyperactive this afternoon. I changed the cartridges on our "Canon" printer and reformatted three pieces of memoir writing from this blog that I plan to give to Richard and Jackie when I see them on Friday. He asked me to do this.
I have also riffled through some old papers and keepsakes that I had not looked at in years. Why do I keep them?
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23.45 Still no food all day. Just warm water. I have been trying to avoid the news fallout from the horrible Epstein business over here in Great Britain. In my judgement, our prime minister, Sir Keir Starmer will sadly have to leave office very soon. It's hard to imagine him carrying on even though he never even met Epstein. But in order to curry favour with Trump, he asked Peter Mandelson to become the new British ambassador to the USA. This is widely being seen now as an act of bad judgement, inflated by political opponents and right wing newspapers.
I like Keir Starmer. In my opinion, he is a decent, intelligent democrat who has worked hard for this country in difficult circumstances but the wolves are out to get him. He will have to go. Shame we can't say that same about America's current political leader who was Epstein's best friend and no doubt still holds on to a lot of significant information that could benefit the victims' cause.
About my day of starvation - or brief fast if you like - I have noticed one visible result. You may not like to hear this but the urine I am passing has become the same colourless, crystal-clear hue as the warm water I have been drinking.
I could eat something before going to bed having just about passed the twenty four hour target but I am not going to. I will sleep on an empty stomach and eat a bowl of porridge in the morning.
It has been a lot easier than I imagined it might be.
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