My hunger understood.

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Yes, indeed, I believe I know what my problem with hunger has been. While discussing things with my various medics, I was fomenting plans to change my diet. Now, I am not discussing dieting. I am talking about changes to what I eat on a regular basis. However, in that work, I myself neglected how many calories I need. And, I had been eating less in any case because of the heat. Between this and that, I believe I ended up simply eating too few calories for too long a time. That caught up with me. Several 200 to 400 calorie meals a day is simply not enough. And though, as I have discussed, man cannot live by bread alone man may also not live without bread.

Last night, when I ate beef, I gave myself double the portion that I have been eating, though a regular portion of broccoli and milk. And, that took care of my hunger, period. I was not hungry afterward, nor until when I woke up and started going. I simply cannot go on too light of meals, even if I am not particularly active. I suspect I am drinking less water lately as well, which does not help, so that needs to be tended. It curbs the appetite as well. With the soda siphons back in action, that will help. Water gets a bit boring by itself, but with a quarter of a glass of juice and the rest soda water (thus cutting most sugars, calories, etc.) or even just straight soda water, I have many more options that are reasonable to my dietary needs. I have simply been too tired to figure out what is wrong. It seems I am getting back on my feet, at least until the medicine arrives and I have to go through this again. Hopefully, this will be the last of the transitions for a while.

I also added a load of fruit in my last shopping foray. Apples, pears, and grapes, oh my. I am pretty sure I should add more citrus and less of the sugary fruits, and will in time. But this is a start. Availability, cost, and how long fruits last when I get them home must play a part in my decisions however too. As well, add in familiarity. What about pomegranates, kiwi, and some others? I am actually going to have to research fruits, as there are many I know nothing about, though those seem sugary too. This is like asking a bear with the memory of a goldfish to juggle different things on different days. I am trying anyway.

Isiah, like several other books, discusses the punishments of kings in his time, and those to come. In some of it, what ended up happening is just as he suggests, so much of it is reiteration of things I have read several times before, some of it is new though. This time, however, the writing is in a different format. I am a bit more than half way through, this is not fast reading. And of course, with all prophetic writings, obscurity can sometimes blind the reader's eye to understanding, and that a good reader which I am not. On the other side, however, it has been suggested that it is the Holy Spirit which guides the reader. Just as it is not the armies of men who will destroy His and their enemies, those men who worship god, but it will be the hand of God. So too, with reading, I think. Still, I make every effort to consciously understand what I am reading. Oddly, when I know what they are talking about, there seems to be an asterisk (leading to a footnote, which I almost never read now). When I do not have a clue, there is nothing. Ha! Perhaps I am not the only one lost in those passages.

I may or may not make a round of calls this afternoon. I have heard nothing from my Mom or lady friend in some time. Bah, they have busy lives. I may just wait another week or two. My sleep is so weird of late that I have been doing very little, so I have no real good news or such anyway. If they had news, they would have called. Yes, I will let them be for the moment. I had thought about going out shooting today, but I got such a late start that I simply did not have it in me. I simply have to figure out how to get my days switched back around. I have to do that.

It is cooling here, a great deal. It is not cold yet. It is simply pleasant, even in the afternoon. Thunder clouds, rain, lightning, and thunder have been playing in the night skies, which tends to keep it even cooler. All to my joy, of course. Sleeping has been splendid, if I am doing too much of it. I suppose I do not mind sleeping until early afternoon, for the time being, but not until the late afternoon, it leaves too little of the business day in which to do the business I need done. So, to that end, I am going to make a great effort to go to bed 3 or 4 hours earlier. I am sleeping 10, 12, and more hours, and cannot seem to change that, so I will just try to adjust for it. There is more than one way to skin a cat. Sorry D.C. There is more than one way to skin a raccoon, snake, uhrm, water buffalo?

Well, back to reading, or maybe dinner. Reading I think, I am simply not as hungry as I thought I was at first.

Good day!