All is Well

Weight Loss:  4 Pounds

Trip to Grocery store:  Treacherous.  Everything looked delicious.  I am wondering if someone, somewhere makes vegetable cupcakes.

Well, it’s Day Two of my attempt to eat only vegetables for 40 days.

What I learned today:  I like carrots in soup.  I just had a can of vegetable soup, so hopefully I won’t be hungry tonight during or after work.  I did eat the chicken in the soup, so I guess technically I’ve already broken my goal.  But it certainly wasn’t a lot of chicken.  No, instead the soup consisted mostly of carrots.

Now, I don’t like carrots, unless they are just tiny tiny tiny.  At least I didn’t think I did.  I normally will eat everything in a stew or soup except the carrots.  But this afternoon I was really, really hungry.  So, I ate the carrots.  All of them.  They had absolutely no taste, none whatsoever.  They tasted just like the potatoes in this soup.  Really, nothing had any taste, now that I think about it.  Not even the chicken.

But the soup was filling.  And since I’ve been chilled all day and can’t seem to get warm, it was nice to eat something warm, though I didn’t drink the broth.  Broth would fall under the category of drinking coffee or hot chocolate in my world.  Yuck.

Well, today was day one.

I’m attempting something dramatic in the realm of my health.  For the next 40 days, I’m going to try to eat nothing except vegetables.  I have some health issues that would be radically helped, if I were to take control of my out-of-control eating.  I often do not feel well and am low on energy.  So, with an eye toward Easter and spring, I am undertaking something similar to a fast of all things except vegetables.

Now, you may wonder why not fruits and vegetables.  Mainly because I abhor fruit.  The only fruit that I like (and I really, really like it) is bananas.  And Tomatos, if they are considered a fruit.  Otherwise, anything citrus, anything berry, ugh.  I just can not stomach them.  And bananas make my throat and mouth itch something terribly, it figures that I’d have a food allergy to the one fruit that I really like.  🙂

So, today is day 1.  Only 39 to go.

I wish I could say that this project of mine had some deeper, spiritual meaning or significance.  Unfortunately, that is not truth.  It would be nice to be able to say that I am fasting to get closer to God during these season leading up to Lent.  And maybe, that is what will happen.  I think I understand fasting, at least one aspect of it, to mean forgoing something in order to be more aware of one’s need and dependance on God.  Both difficult things for me in my nature.  As I write this, I am wondering though now if I shouldn’t spend some time thinking more deeply about the subject of fasting as it relates to my reliance upon God.

S

Gordon Fee and Douglas Stuart in How to Read the Bible for All It’s Worth:

“Indeed it is a magnificent story, grander than the greatest epic, richer in plot and more significant in its characters and descriptions than any humanly composed story could ever be.”