Ramadan: Day 3

Once you get used to the whole “not eating for 16 hours and then binge-eating for 6” system that Ramadan represents, it’s really not so bad. Sure, you have the inevitable 1pm blood-sugar crash and the post-food grumpy stage, but there is something implicitly satisfying about it all. For one, I don’t think I’ve ever loved food as much as I do right now.

“Do you usually eat plain bread?” I was asked.
“No, but during Ramadan it is the greatest snack since, umm…sliced bread?”

Doesn’t matter if it’s cold, hot, spicy, salty, sweet…it all tastes good, really good. And water. Oh, precious water. If I liked wine, water would probably taste like it. It’s like your body goes into water-processing overdrive. You just can’t get enough.

But best of all is the initial contact of food/drink on your tongue at 6pm. It’s like your taste buds are in paradise.