Food For Thought: Day 11
My Thursday dawned bright and sunny around 12:15pm when I finally dragged myself out of bed. Day 3 of the cold – an unpleasant experience of runny and stuffed up nose, headache, sore throat, and fever. I had a few dizzy spells yesterday, but those have passed. Personally, I’m blaming the sickness of this ridiculous diet and my comparative lack of Vitamin C. One of the ways I keep myself healthy normally is to consume between 100% and 200% of the recommended daily intake every day, and always push towards the higher end if I feel myself getting sick. Unfortunately, at $7.50 a day I simply can’t afford to stock up on a lot of the things I’d need to do that. Where I might normally grab a bottle of orange juice on campus to supplement myself if I felt something coming on, it’s simply not within reach at this level of expenditure per day.
As a result of the once again off-kilter eating schedule, and the confusion that inherently comes with a day spent sleeping in late and with a lot of time on the couch, I have decided not to record my food for the day. However, due to my continuing poor health, I won’t be fasting tomorrow, so perhaps I shall update things once again then. Of course, this weekend is the OUSA General Assembly, where I am to be a delegate, so I shall once again be enjoying free food. I sure do seem to luck out on that front, don’t I?
I’ve been thinking a lot about the challenges that exist to living on $7.50 a day, and I sure am glad I’m just the average student in a lot of ways. Can a 135 pound, 5’9, relatively physically inactive guy live on this per day? Sure I can. Could a 240 pound 6’3 linebacker for the Western Mustangs do it? I’m not so sure. And that has been my Food For Thought today.
Andrew
