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This week was week two of my Hunger Action Month Pledge (which, if you've not been around the site long enough to know, was to help increase public awareness of hunger in America & of the participants involved with food stamp programs by spending only $29.35 a week on food, the equivalent to living within the food stamp budget).
This week, instead of having the entire family complete the challenge with me, I did it on my own. As you all know Tim works 80+ hours, is very often sleep deprived and is responsible for the lives of his patients while he is operating on them. And baby Junie? Well. She's just a baby for cryin' out loud! I just didn't feel right about sacrificing their nutrition, so I didn't.
It was a difficult week. I was hungry for most of it and because I was hungry I was also more irratable and cranky. I felt like I had no energy and I canceled most all of my social engagements. And it's going to take some time before I can stomach another hard-boiled egg or canned tuna.
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Today marks the end of my Hunger Action Month Challenge. I had planned, very ambitiously, to do this challenge for the entire month of September, but am calling it quits two weeks early. There are several factors that helped me to this conclusion. Namely my entire family is sick.
Of course I could speculate that we're sick because our bodies didn't get the nutrition that we needed to help our immune systems function properly, but there are just way too many uncontrolled variables to even begin to try to even think that poor nutrition was the main cause. However, our little family does have some pretty strong immune systems – we are hardly ever sick – which leads me to believe that the challenge may have had something to do with it.
Most importantly, we need to get better and that's just not going to happen if I continue my Hunger Action Month Challenge.
There are still 10 days in September, the Hunger Action Month. I still plan to participate by living the 30 Ways Calendar, what are you going to do?
