Instead of starting a movie at, I don’t know, 1:40am I’m going to list to music and write because I haven’t done that in a minute.
One thing about starving like this that people don’t see/ understand/ recognize is when I am actually given, like, a full plate of food? My eyes are much, much bigger than my stomach. This is sad and frustrating for me because I look at the full plate and think of how long I could stretch it out for. Two, three days? When you’re consuming maybe 500-800 calories a day, mostly in liquid form, to see and actually eat food is.... a privilege. I don’t even have the right word. Anyway, point is, I had food today when I saw my sister and it was delicious. We ate cole slaw and I ate pulled pork. I know, I know, my Jew guilt is so real.
I think when I tell people I’m starving, they think I’m kidding... or somehow being facetious. Except I’m not. For instance, yesterday (Friday) I was at the point where my heart rate was at 39bpm after running up 3 flights of stairs and all I could do was let the room spin while I tried to stop sweating so profusely. If you run up 50 stairs and your heart rate immediately after the fact is 39? There’s a fuckin problem.And the problem is my body is shutting down. I know this.
I’m trying to get a job and after tons of interviews, I’m waiting for call backs. This is why the weekend sucks- the waiting. I’m distracting myself with Marshal and beach time and I got invited (with a ride!) to the Black Lives Matter rally in Lewiston tomorrow night (Sunday.) Until I get a job and my previous job finally pays me, I am broke as fuck... thus why I’m starving.
I’ve lost quite a bit of weight because of it and I’m trying to... I don’t know... be grateful for that? Without having it trigger my eating disorder shit. Surprisingly, that hasn’t really happened because I have absolutely nothing to restrict. Anything I eat is getting used as energy only since there are plenty of days that I go without entirely. Anyway, my starving probably seems insignificant because I’m overweight. I get that, I could afford to lose weight, but probably not by being so poor I literally can’t eat? And there are so many travelers right now, even the garbage is usually picked clean in the OP.
You are what you eat. Some days I’m nothing, some days I’m only water,
but I’ll be trash til the end.