Today, I feel like I have hit my stride with the Challenge. I haven’t been dwelling too much on what I’m eating or not eating. I’m beginning to know about how much something is going to cost me before I put it in my mouth. And I’ve been eating many of the same things I’ve eaten already this week, so no major new calculations have been needed. I’m tired, though, and I think I know why . . .
It has been a carbohydrates kind of day, I must say: cereal, bread, sandwich, pasta. Not the kind of balance I normally strive for, but I feel a little numb about it, frankly, like, who cares – I took care of my hunger. Today, it’s not too much about nutritional content or even taste, much less aesthetics (which I am normally attuned to with preparing food). I wonder if this is how some people feel who eat on $21 a week regularly – this sense of numbness about what they’re consuming. Like the only point is to satiate hunger. Nutritional content? Who has the time or money for that? I can imagine I might be annoyed by people like me who would have normally begrudged someone a Pepsi (as my classmates might recall) and insisted on more fresh foods. I realize the cost and calorie comparison isn’t as easy as I might have liked it to be. (Although I still contend the government has a responsibility here, even if it costs more!)
I do realize part of my numbness is about feeling close to the end, though. What are a couple more days of eating a poorly balanced diet when I know I’ll be able to get back to my normal variety on Monday? My health will recover. For people who subsist on food stamps for months and even years, they do not have that light at the end of the tunnel.
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