Thursday April 9 2009

Malå, Sweden. That's me appearing in the picture, 59 kgs (130 lbs) and 162 cm (5'3)
In the name of research I hereby claim the right not to eat for an entire week!

Day by day for a week I will write about what it's like not to eat, how my body reacts, my mood..

80% of the world's population is starving. Extreme poverty is defined as people living under 1 USD a day. That is, a huge amount of people either starve to death or they go out and they hunt their food. I'm having troubles doing that, because we have about 1.5 m of snow in Lapland and the animals have either gone into hibernation or we are not allowed to hunt, because it's not hunting season.

This is what you get for a dollar a day:
I could make (very plain) soup!

Water 0 USD
Red lenses 1,80 USD/packet- 5 dl aprox. 0,8 USD
Boullion cube 1,20 USD/packet- 1 cube aprox. 0,2 USD
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TOT. Purchase: 10 USD - 2 meals of soup aprox. 1 USD

I have only by preparing and eating two meals of soup consumed my dollar! And I haven't even started on other necessary household requirements, like heating the house (I would freeze to death if I didn't...)

Also, I have another reason for this research, and that is that young girls starve themselves to look like their celebrity idol. Celebs can have a BMI calculated to as little as 13 (whereas 19-25 appears to be a healthy state of weight and hight). Girls eat their fingernails, their own hair, anything that doesn't add any calories... I even heard of cases when girls wouldn't drink water, because they thought it would make them fat.

My current weight is 59 kgs (about 130 lbs, considered a lot in the world of the rich and famous) to my 162 cm (5'3), which adds up to a BMI of 22,5. Normal it seems! I will allow myself to drink water, but not to eat anything chewable, nor will I drink anything with calories in it. My measurement around my belly is 67 cm and around my bottom it's 91.

I ate as I normally do today, except that I had a little bit of candy. My mom bought us an easter egg filled with easter candy! A huge one à la Americana Super Size Me! I think my intake might have been about 1800 kcal today, which is a normal amount for me. Look what the Easter Bunny (my mom) brought us!

I won't do any excersising this week. I love doing sports, and one of the reasons I picked this week to do this is that I've suffered an injury in my foot for excersising too much. So a little bit of rest would do my foot good! Besides, I think I'm gonna need to store my energy somewhere and not lose too much of it, because if I do, I'm not sure I'm going to make it this week working!

I'm in a good mood today, I'm full, healthy, happy... a little tierd, working week just ended! however, I have a feeling I'll start losing my temper once my stomach starts aching...

My thoughts to all girls suffering from the I-am-fat-and-ugly-complex out there, and to the 80% starving people! This is for you

Maggi