Well, I woke up and felt all better. No sore throat. No teeth pain. In fact today was the best day in terms of discomfort. What I think is most interesting though is that today, after going through all the associated fears (Is this fast actually negative for me? Are my teeth rotting? Is my body the first body to have the fast slowly kill me? Am I safe or not?) marked the first time hunger became much more evident.

As I was walking home I thought about all the situations in the future where I will tell someone about my 10-day fast and they will reply, "No, I love food too much, I can never go that long without it", and how my experience is actually about my love of food. I believe it is common knowledge that whatever you deny from yourself extremely quickly and with great fervor becomes that which you desire the most. Alot of the cravings I had were initially derived from the fact that my body knew my mind made the ultimatum that I would not ingest any food. However, now that I am past those, I am having a deep, loving relationship with the culinary arts and am able to have some reflections as cravings...

I envisioned this amazing Vegetarian Philly sub I used to buy on Archer Road in my hometown of Gainesville, Florida which had sauteed onions and green pepper loaded with cheese and placed on a toasted bun - it would literally ooze out, yummy. I thought about the 2-for-1 white pizza's my parent's purchased when we were younger from Nero's Pizza, flecked with basil and cheap as hell. I flew back to college and my "me" days where I would order Pokey Stix (these insanely delicious breadsticks with cheese on them served with Ken's Ranch as a dipping sauce) from Gumby's pizza, pick-up a 6-pack of Tequiza (beer) and some cheesy movie and have some quality alone time.

Now that I am apart from food is when I am truly able to fully appreciate not only the immediate desires within, but the whole of my food history and all of the meaningful times I have had around it. Even moreso, now is when I will be able to almost with the utmost sincerity say a big "What, what!" to food, and in case it doesn't speak jive, "Thanks. Thanks alot".

Well, poop ya later!

--daimian

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go daimian & tony!

cheese-tastic

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