I now know where that phrase comes from. I always thought it meant the terrible two year old stage of human children. I think it also came from the second day of anything that majorly changes in our human systems. I think it takes the first day for the body to realize something has changed and then the second day it sinks in the body goes WTF. The second day of not eating, drinking carbonated drinks, and no caffeine settled in like a runaway freight train. Finally towards the evening I was able to obtain some chicken broth and the hot meaty tasting drink really helped. I really thought I was going to starve to death yesterday. I made it through the the terrible two and actually feel fairly good this morning as I sit here drinking my decaf coffee and writing my blog.
I was reminded of when I quit smoking back several years ago. It took about 24 hours for my body to realize that something was really wrong and the reaction was a horror. In fact, I believe that is the way it was when I quit one other time. I remember going on a new diet a couple of times and having a fairly easy time of it the first day and then when that second day set in it felt like someone ran over me with a hunger truck. It was much more than that yesterday. At least on most diets, you get some sort of solid food. This diet has no solid food at all and wow did I ever know it. But, it was managed and I made it through the day and did not die or even pass out.
It seemed like everywhere I turned and everything I saw had something to do with food yesterday. There were trips through the food court at the Hamvention, there were commercials on the radio during laundry, and the commercials on TV last night were pure torture. I might as well have been sitting there watching the Food Network and all the cooks preparing everything under the sun. I never realized just how much of our everyday living is surrounded by food ads, shows, and commercials about food. No wonder so many in this country are obese. It is driven into our minds all day long, eat this, devour that, enjoy this temptation. It is constantly being drummed into our very being. Is this really wise?
I see children every day that are so large they can hardly move. I see adults that have bodies so large they cannot hardly function in their everyday activities. I often wonder if our addiction to food, especially foods that are not good for us, isn't going to eventually bring about a situation so bad that it leads to a far worse economic collapse than we have now. The expense of caring for the health care and welfare of so many that cannot work is going to be overwhelming. I don't claim to have any answers to this problem and even care to dwell on how to solve it, but I am sure if nothing is done about it, society today is going to really suffer from it. But I paint a gloomy picture and I don't really want this to be a doom and gloom blog. It is just something that I think about now and then. It hurts sometimes to see what is happening to people especially our children.
So I am off to start day three. Leaving Dayton, OH and going on to King of Prussia, PA to work there for 3 or 4 days and then off to Richmond, VA to finish off this long road trip before going home for my surgery. I really had fun this past weekend at the Hamvention and spending time with my brother. As always, I really appreciate the messages and words of encouragement. I hope Day 3 is a little easier than Day 2 but today is the first day of long distance driving which is normally one of my most avid snacking times.
Have a great day today and I will report in from King of Prussia later tonight or tomorrow morning.
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