Me on a cleanse/fast: Day 2 | 11:03AM

Several friends have been checking in on me... to make sure I'm not on the kitchen floor, covered in twinkie wrappers, in a diabetic coma. Here's an IM conversation between my friend Robin and me.

11:03am Robin

how you feeling??

did you put me on speed dial?

11:03am John

i feel pretty good this morning!

had a headache last night.

11:03am Robin

yikes

11:03am John

surprised it took that long for the headache to come

11:03am Robin

scary

11:03am John

?

what's scary?

11:04am Robin

not eating

11:04am John

oh.

11:04am Robin

that's scary to me

I love to eat

11:04am John

let's see...

i've missed 5 or so meals so far. not that much.

11:04am Robin

whoa.

so good, I'm glad you're feeling ok

11:09am John

yes!

i'm actually feeling better than i thought.

and wanna hear something weird?

11:10am Robin

yes

please

tell me something weird

11:10am John

I haven't been hungry once.

literally.

it's strange.

11:10am Robin

be glad you don't get the food network

and

don't watch Ratatouille, whatEVER you do

:)

11:11am John

but a couple of times, i've been psychologically hungry... meaning, i noticed my mind wanting food but not because i was hungry... because of some other eating trigger.

interesting, huh?

11:12am Robin

tode

I would have eaten my arm off by now

11:12am John

prolly not, actually.

it's a neat exercise... to see the difference between true/physical hunger and psychological/pattern hunger

11:13am Robin

oh I'm psychological, all right

maybe just psycho..

not so logical

especially when it comes to eating

ok, kid, good luck on your adventure!

ttyl

11:14am John

bye!