“We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause.”
― Steven Pressfield, The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles
Vegetarian Challenge for 100 days, week 4 is behind! But it didn’t pass without challenges.
Challenges:
The smoking hot fried fish and pickled Asian mustard leaves with cucumbers dish was the hardest test for me last week! My hands wanted to reach the fish so many times LOL. My mom was having it.
Having the pickled without the fish isn’t the same!
Then I was at an all day seminar. The only thing on the menu that had no meat was a Caesar salad. I am not a salad person. I was very disappointed with the menu options considering it was a high end hotel.
I was hungry two hours later. It was a good thing I brought two small bananas with me. I felt like I was a little monkey that day. :-0)
Some of my friends warned me about food selections being at social events. At the time, I thought it could not be that bad because most places that I went to before had so many kinds vegetarian items.
Physical Updates:
I don’t feel much change in term of energy level. Again, this could be the combination of having enough sleep and rest.
In the past three weeks, I was consistent hungry more often. That was changed most of last week. I was hardly hungry at all. Then I started to get hungry again toward the end of the week. Strange!
Disciplinary:
As I mentioned last week that the mental discipline is the enemy to a quitter. Well this week, the urges to control when seeing my favorite food has been risen to one level higher.
Seeing the fried fish and pickled made me drooling!
The desire for food is so strong that it is very difficult to control. If you couple that when you are starving, it is impossible to control. You would be very surprise and shock what some people are willing to do when it comes to stopping the gnawing hunger. I had witnessed and experienced it myself for many years.
Going through this makes me think of the times during my childhood when I was starving to death during genocide Khmer Rouge regime. I do not want to bore with the stories as I share some of them in my book. Check it out if you have not read it.
“Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.”
― Plato
What is on my mind?
The gratitude and appreciate that I have so many choices to choose and plenty of food to eat. You and myself are included, we are blessed to have food to eat.
The fish prepared in Cambodian Asian styles is still on my mind.
Next week, I’ll going to have a getting together at a Korean BBQ restaurant.
Will I make it to week five?
Or will the Korean BBQ have me kneeling down on my knees and drooling like a dog in a hot day: The END?
Stay tune for next week update…
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