Food is also necessary in order to survive. But now, eating so little, I wonder just how addicted we have become to it. I sometimes look at those charts that say how much we need every day, yet if I ate all that I would be as big as a house. But we are encouraged to do so to have optimum health.

We're also encouraged by some to take extra vitamins and supplements to have this optimum health. We're always stuffing something into our mouths, or drinking something, or popping some pill or other. It's as though feeding ourselves has become an addiction, not a survival mode.

Just thinking about it as I sip my boiled water and entertain another bite of a banana J. I'm hoping I'll lose a couple pounds this week. That's the up side.