Ramadan Dia Dos: Puffy
Aug. 2nd, 2011 04:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
akilanajmahSo apparently it is NOT an eating contest.
Yesterday I ate and ate and ate. I think I was hoping that something would magically make my headache disappear (I don't even think this was related to low blood sugar, I seem to have developed some sinus trouble). In reality I did not eat much. I always feel like I've eaten a million pounds of food after fasting, but I just had some salmon, some veggies and some bread and a little cake. It's the water that gets me. That, I over do.
Anyway.
I kept thinking "Self, you ate X hours ago. You are not starving."
And then I'd think "Alhamdulillah. I have food to eat. I have choices to make. I get nourishment whenever I need it. Even when "I've nothing in the house" I eat more than someone who really has nothing. Not eating for a few hours is hard, it's hard even when you know there a a delicious piece of fish and a tasty piece of buttery cake awaiting you. What must having nothing to eat and never getting anything else feel like. Praise be to Allah, ruler of the worlds."
I'm being a little less ambitious than I thought. I'd planned to run the dogs every morning since I'll be skipping the gym... but I'm going to probably have to work up to some compromise there.
Off for fajr.
ETA--
TODAY:
I gotta start writing these posts AFTER I get dressed. Doing them before fajr and editing in a photo is madness.
I'm not really feeling the loose/drapey look of this. Probably will fiddle with it more.
Yesterday I ate and ate and ate. I think I was hoping that something would magically make my headache disappear (I don't even think this was related to low blood sugar, I seem to have developed some sinus trouble). In reality I did not eat much. I always feel like I've eaten a million pounds of food after fasting, but I just had some salmon, some veggies and some bread and a little cake. It's the water that gets me. That, I over do.
Anyway.
I kept thinking "Self, you ate X hours ago. You are not starving."
And then I'd think "Alhamdulillah. I have food to eat. I have choices to make. I get nourishment whenever I need it. Even when "I've nothing in the house" I eat more than someone who really has nothing. Not eating for a few hours is hard, it's hard even when you know there a a delicious piece of fish and a tasty piece of buttery cake awaiting you. What must having nothing to eat and never getting anything else feel like. Praise be to Allah, ruler of the worlds."
I'm being a little less ambitious than I thought. I'd planned to run the dogs every morning since I'll be skipping the gym... but I'm going to probably have to work up to some compromise there.
Off for fajr.
ETA--
TODAY:
I gotta start writing these posts AFTER I get dressed. Doing them before fajr and editing in a photo is madness.
I'm not really feeling the loose/drapey look of this. Probably will fiddle with it more.
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Date: 2011-08-03 03:09 pm (UTC)