Music of Hunger – Left sugar in all its artificial forms just over a month ago. I am very conscious in avoiding it. Except some fruits (natural sugar), I am not having sugar in any form. The noticeable development is that of increased hunger! This feeling of hunger was long forgotten. Like all others, I was eating almost everything I do not need, even when not hungry! Last time I felt hungry was around 10 years ago! I used to eat everything, but still felt ravishingly hungry.
How do I define hunger? My definition of hunger is that of a layman’s. Hunger is when the stomach makes rumbling noises (many a time, it can be heard by others too!) which arouses a feeling of eating any food item that comes in your way. 10 years, I desperately wanted that type of hunger. I ate less, exercised more, skipped meals to listen to the hunger music of my stomach. I cannot exactly say what caused no hunger. Probably I was eating too much, exercising less or both. Hunger simply died. I had only one duty – to keep stuffing myself. I was stuffing myself because I was told by almost everybody that the food being stuffed is good for health.
- Fistful of dry fruits
- Fresh fruits
- Fresh vegetables
- Skimmed milk
- Yogurt
- Rice/Roti
- Sprouted whole pulses etc.
It is just a sample. Everyone says the above list is good for health. When you eat too much of what is good for health, it is no health. It becomes poison. What I understand well today is what is good for health. Hunger is good for health and there is nothing better than hunger for good health. I request you to understand that I am not talking of poor people who live below poverty line and struggle to satisfy their basic needs. I am talking of people like you and I!
Hunger is such a beautiful feeling that describing it is impossible. Let me also state – not everyone can afford to feel hungry. It requires lot of discipline and self-control to feel hungry. Unfortunately, we are told scary stories of hunger and as a result we wish to avoid hunger at any cost. Absence of proper understanding of the nature of hunger can make a man perform heinous acts. The fear of hunger makes one steal, rape and even commit homicides! Hunger is not negative, it is positive in nature.
Religious hunger is totally different. We fast not because of we want to feel hunger; we fast to be rewarded in the next life! This type of hunger is self-deceptive. I am yet to find a Muslim whose weight has not increased during the holy month of Ramadan. In every religion there exists fasting, but the hunger I am talking of is totally a separate one.
Having left sugar, I also found there is no craving for it in my mind. Sugar and it’s intake in some form or other gives instant energy. An energized body cannot burn fat. The stoppage of sugar, in my case, probably making my body draw its energies from the accumulated fat & hence this blissful feeling of hunger. I pray the Lord to bless me with this hunger forever!
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Dr. K. Raja Gopal Reddy is a seasoned internationally qualified Insurance professional.
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