Forgetting to Eat

I am always stunned when some tells me that they "Forgot to eat." Are they serious? Did they really forget to eat and their blood sugar did not remind them? Or were they just to busy or otherwise engaged to eat even though their body was saying "Hello! hello. hellooo..."?

I never forget to eat. My blood sugar, when it drops, always informs every other part of my body that it is TIME TO EAT in a way that is very hard to ignore or forget to listen to. I sometimes am too busy to eat, but due to my blood sugar dipping, I have to listen before too much time passes.

Tonight, I put some chicken and potatoes in the oven to cook about 6:30pm, thinking it should be done by 7:15pm, giving me a few minutes to eat before departing for the Salon. But I timed it wrong, as when it was time to leave, the food still needed another 15 minutes in the oven.

I turned off the oven, left the chicken and potatoes in the oven, and walked over to the salon. The first thirty minutes at the Salon was fine, as I normally eat dinner around 8pm, so my body was used to the time. I ate a few grapes which buoyed up my blood sugar. By 9pm, I was feeling the lack of food. By the time my turn to present had come and gone, my tummy and head were announcing to me it was time to eat. No room for forgetting.

I left at 10:20pm to walk back home, fish the chicken and potatoes out of the still warm oven, ate a drumstick and potato, and felt human again within 10 minutes. Human enough to return to the Salon and hear the end of Summer Darling's acoustic set.