Late Night Update

It's 11pm of Day 2. I napped from noon until 2 today because I couldn't keep my eyes open. I spent most of the  morning and afternoon with a headache that wouldn't budge. Thankfully, the headache relinquished its hold on me shortly before I had to go in to work. I didn't think I could get through a whole night teaching, but I did. I think it's not the lack of food, but the lack of caffeine that's doing me in. Not eating is definitely weird, but it's actually, in an odd way, kind of nice. I feel free, somehow, like I have broken free of the stranglehold food has for a while, like I've divorced food. Somehow, I think it's easier to eat nothing than eat something.

Now before you think I'm totally nuts, I'm not going to do this whole not eating thing for too long, and I am ingesting nutrients and calories. However, I am not eating any actual chewable food. I'm not sure why this is appealing to me, or why I can do it. Some friends have said that I just like an opportunity to show off my willpower, and perhaps this is true. I do love a good deprivation challenge! Bring it on!

You're supposed to feel good after three days of fasting. Right now, I feel better than I have in the past five days, but I feel weak and tired. Tired isn't necessarily bad though (I mentioned I'm a little bit of an insomniac, right?) because it's nice reach 11pm and actually feel like I could go to bed and sleep (like regular people do). Perhaps it's the lack of artificial stimulants and depressants (caffeine and alcohol) that are letting me find my own natural tiredness.

I'm going to drink a Rooibas tea and go to bed and sleep for hours and hours.... Perhaps I might even end up liking this clean lifestyle?