To Eat or Not to Eat? That is the question.

14^th October, 6.30 AM UK, or 13^th October 10.30 PM Canada

We are here. So tired. Bed.

The Experiment

Recently there was a TV programme on the BBC all about sleep, the how to guide to deal with insomnia, very early mornings, sleepwalking, and my main concern, jetlag. The apparent way to prevent the bodily time-zone confusion all lies in food… unfortunately it’s the NOT eating which is meant to help, not stuffing your face as i have now learnt. The experiment involves eating your last meal in the country you’re leaving at its normal time, not eating at all on the flight and then eating your first meal in the country you’re going at its proper time. My appetite seem to anticipate that I was planning to deprive it for the 9 hours flight or it knew that I was about to enter a country where temperature can drop to bloody -50, and therefore I must require a polar bear style roll of blubber (sexy), and so in the week leading to leaving I seemed to be eating everything I could see, I was uncontrollable, instead of excitement or nerves I was completely preoccupied with food, glorious food. I expected that me pre-travel binge would have kept me satisfied on the flight, unfortunately the hungry side of me seemed to have a stronger will that the scientific experimental side of me, and I failed seeing the jet lag investigation through as soon as the first meal was offered. I place most of the blame of the menu, it was beef cobbler, and since I have only just starting eating beef this year, the 21 years of deprivation has resulted in my complete inability to say no when it is offered… it’s just to dam good. It turns out this first meal was a my spiralling down fall, and I continued with Milly’s digestive biscuits, a sandwich, a Kitkat and anything else of Milly’s that she wasn’t going to eat. Handily Anna had heard of the same experiment and was a lot more successful in the non-eating, and so I changed my claim instead stating I was investigating the befit of over-eating….turns out there aren’t any. Three days later I am still suffering tiredness, but Anna on the other hand is perfectly fine and alert, and so it seems the experiment worked, but I am just too weak willed to try it.