I had a really interesting experience today… but, I’ll start at the beginning. As many of you already know all weekend all we were able to eat was rice, and Dahl and drink water or boiled chai tea (apart from the rewards of chocolate, slice, drinks or apples for some).

I was feeling so over the same repetitive meal of rice and Dahl that I had decided not to eat it on Monday morning and wait to eat until I got home on Monday afternoon. However, we were blessed with COFFEE or tea and Raisin toast, cornettos, chocolate biscuits, donuts and chocolate.

I must say I was so grateful I dived into that raison toast and coffee! It tasted so great! Later Monday I was planning to head home with Tim, and unknowingly to me. He had ordered a pizza… which the Supper Club gave us for free – thanks guys! And also we had a garlic bread between to two of us…. Melted butter has never tasted sooo good, and a little Greek salad also. That was all I ate. It probably equated for all the uneaten food I hadn’t eaten that weekend!
So this is where my interesting experience comes in today… I decided to go light on the food…. Considering what I did and didn’t eat over the weekend to make sure I didn’t make my self sick…. But as my body learnt. By not eating I became sick. I couldn’t understand why I became bed bound due to severe cramps in my stomach with the thoughts of which end my cramps were going to escape me… After trying herbal remedies… and Mylanta, I felt a little better… but then I had some pasta and the pain went. Completely!

I was in pain from not eating enough for about 3 hours tops today… but it made me wonder if people who do not eat enough experience the same pain. It wasn’t the pain of ‘ohh I’m hungry or hey, that Maccas I just saw on TV would go down well’ or that 40-hour famine pain it was like some form of gastro.

Dad offered me a thought about what I was saying.. I was always saying things along the lines of how I was sick of eating the same food and wanted variety and the chance of going back to all my “1st” world luxuries! but this is what my dad said…” We should all live the way the 1st world live, they (the 3rd world) should not have to live the way they do!” And that is so true.. so what are you going to do to change it? and more importantly…. what am I going to do?
So how is everyone else feeling?

Love your sister Steph! xoxo

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