I’m doing the HCG diet, you know the one, where you inject
yourself daily with some kind of hormone and basically starve yourself for
three weeks in the hopes of losing 15 pounds.
You’re allowed to eat a measly 500 calories daily which is pretty much
starvation. After a week on the diet,
I’ve been so hungry I’ve contemplated eating my right arm (I’m a lefty so I
could spare it.) I’ve been so hungry that sometimes I feel woozy, like I might
tip over if I don’t steady myself. I
find myself in the “hangry” mode a lot, the deadly combination of anger brought
about by intense hunger. I’ve had difficulty concentrating and coming up with
words at times. Not a good thing for
someone who wants to blog daily.
My hunger scheme is all self-induced. Indeed, I’ve even spent hundreds of dollars
to do this to myself. Call me crazy, but
nothing feels better than stepping on the scale and seeing the needle move to a
smaller number on a daily basis. It makes
all the headaches, hunger and hassle worth every penny. That’s how desperate I’ve been to lose weight.
That’s why I read with interest about the staggering hunger
statistics in Arizona, actually just the stats from one food bank in the Valley
of the Sun. According to St. Mary’s Food Bank, one in four kids, one in five
adults and one in seven seniors struggle with hunger. This is wrong. This is
crazy. This is unacceptable.
On average, this food bank serves nearly 22, 000 people
weekly. That’s weekly, people. That
means a lot of folks in Arizona suffer from hunger and all the
damaging effects through no fault of their own. Let’s put an end to this and all donate generously to a hunger program of personal choice.
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