Purple Butterfly

on dieting and me

Wednesday, August 10, 2005

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And so I went on a diet but I overdid the whole thing. I ended up passing out and puking all over after two weeks. I wouldn't exactly blame it on my diet but what happened was, last saturday, at the end of my shift, after checking mails and blogs and stuff, I went home hoping to get some rest and good food. I got to my boarding house and my housemate left home-cooked meal for me and it was my fave vegetable dish. I ate a full meal by 1pm and by 2pm I headed to my makeshift bed and slept for what seemed like a total of 14 hours. I hibernated that night. It's been months now since I've had sleep for more than 8 hours. It felt really really great and relaxing. I woke up at 4am the next day with my tummy grumbling so I ate left over chicken, poured gravy over some rice and nuked the whole thing. I was about to grab my food supplement when I realized that the multivitamin beside it has been sitting there for more than 6 months. 6 months has passed and I have only taken at most 5 tablets. I opted to take that over the counter vitamin instead of my usual food supplement. I had stopped taking those tablets for 1, it makes me crave for food after an hour of taking it. Since I just ate that time, I thought it wouldn't hurt. By 9am, I could already feel my tummy making strange noises and some hunger pangs. I got home after church at around 12pm and since there was no food available, I decided to fry an egg and pair it with 3 slices of bread. That took care of the hunger. It was my first time in a long time to stay at the boarding on a Sunday afternoon, I usually go out to watch movie or coffee. I was looking forward to watch local tv and local entertainment news. At around 5pm, I felt my head ache and when I looked at the mirror I could almost see a vein just right on top of my eyebrow ticking, I was about to faint then. I thought the pain was gonna go away after resting for awhile but I suddenly felt like puking and since the bathroom is only a few steps from the room, I decided to run, and even before I got inside, I was puking on the floor. It looked like yellowish something with remnants of egg I ate earlier... gross! I was shaking and I was releasing huge beads of cold sweat. I was crying the whole time cause I didn't know what was happening to me. I had to wake up my housemate who was sound asleep by then. I felt like a child looking for my mom. At that time I had no idea what was happening, all I knew then was I was cold yet I was sweating and my head felt like breaking into half. She took me back to bed and gave me paracetamols, it still didn't help. I grabbed her arm and asked her to pray for me. She did and I just felt and overwhelming sense of peace and a warm presence enveloping my entire being, suddenly, my body no longer felt cold and the pain was subsiding. I closed my eyes then and I was feeling much better. Thank God for her and for angels. She came back with chicken adobo that I had prepared earlier. She forced me to eat and each and everytime I took a bite, my whole body would reject it, I had to cry each bite cause my stomach would grumble even more. Until she tried to tell me some jokes, she kept forcing me to eat bribing me for ice cream if I finish the whole meal. To cut the story short, after some time, I managed to eat the whole meal and enjoyed almost half a gallon on rocky road ice cream later. What I learned from the whole situation is to never deprive myself from food again, and to make sure that I eat right and not to over sleep. I guess that's it for now, lunch break is almost over so I have to get back and take more calls... oh well! 2 more shifts to go and it's pay day.. hihihi off to starbucks for me.. no diet for me on that day then!

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