I just finished lunch and feel almost sick from all the food I ate. The recent heat wave really took a toll on my food intake and I hadn’t been eating much. When I melt and feel sweaty and sticky the last thing I want is substance. Some watermelon perhaps as it’s light, hydrating and refreshing. The sugars quickly replenish energy and all is good.

As I hadn’t eaten much in a few days and the weather is really nice a mild today my hunger returned full force. While debating what to eat I decided I wanted something really heavy. Like a grandma’s stick to your ribs sort of food and as such went to a relatively cheap lunch buffet.

It was such a contrast to my last meal of a slice of bread and a some tomato wedges and the one before that wasn’t much different either–cheap eats that require no refrigeration. This was very literally a feast. Huge, amazing and colossal. And that’s how I approached the dining too as I tallied up four plates of food. The highlight for me was these amazingly tasty and tender beef ribs that were just enormous. And there was a pork dish with some ginger in it that I alternated with bites of fresh pineapple. It was so phenomenally good.

Now my body feels full. Not just my stomach but my whole system. It feels nourished and I’m sure that’ll continue for quite some time as there’ll be digestion happening for quite a while now. I don’t understand how people can over eat on a regular basis though. I’m feeling a bit lethargic and I was starting to get nauseated from the feeling of food in my mouth when I was nearing my last bites.

Keeping track of my weight has been really difficult since becoming a homeless van dweller. I don’t have a scale and without a regular means of weighing myself I don’t know what’s going on. Sure I can jump on these random scales I come across, but they all register differently. I simply can’t be gaining and loosing ten pounds of a daily basis!

Earlier today I got back on the “usual” scale of late and I lost about four pounds in this heat wave. While I want to lose weight I’m really trying hard not to lose from malnutrition and starvation. I’ll save that for the super models. As such I tapped into the food budget a little extra hard and feasted like a queen.

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