Friendship became much less important to me over time because of life’s circumstances. You see, from a very early age, beginning at only age 14, I became a dislocated person who moved frequently. At that early age, both of my parents died, and I moved in with in-laws, but at a different location from where I grew up, so I lost all of those friends from my home and childhood.

Turns out that I’ve have now lived in 13 different locations in my adult life. Each move meant that I lost all the friends from the previous location. So it became ingrained in me that friendship wasn’t all that important because friends would come and go with such regularity — so they were nothing to be counted upon.

But that attitude was a mistake, I now believe. Friendship is very valuable and very rewarding, and I have missed out on a lot because of my somewhat negative attitude toward friendship that developed out of adverse circumstance.

Such is life.

Winning

I’m almost never really hungry.

Have been doing intermittent fasting now for 4 years, and for every day, I do a 19 or 20 hour fast. That means that for at least 7 to 8 hours every day (every hour past 12 hours from your last meal), my body is producing ketones for energy. It means that I’ve become “fat adapted” or “metabolically flexible”, where my body uses BOTH glucose and body fat (ketones) as a fuel source for the cells, and the longer the fast, the more this shifts toward ketones, not glucose.

But it also means that because the body can feast on body fat (ketones) at any time, there is very little hunger, as the body has a nearly inexhaustible source of food from one’s body fat if you are fat adapted, which most Americans are not because they eat too frequently (never get past 12 hours), and so the body loses this mechanism to utilize body fat instead of glucose.

This versus the person who is not fat adapted and whose body is accustomed to use only glucose for all the cells. That person is at risk of feeling real hunger any time their glycogen stores are depleted, and the glycogen stores in the liver and muscles don’t contain that much glucose, so the person can actually feel real hunger many times in a single day.

People who criticize intermittent fasting with the idea that it will induce constant hunger and ultimately binge eating don’t understand the role the ketones play in moderating appetite for those practicing intermittent fasting.

Insulin Spike

Proud of myself. With the help of 2 Youtube videos, I’ve successfully sprouted buckwheat groats.

Now the potential is leaving me almost breathless — quinoa, soy beans, beans in general, seeds galore, whatever.

I have my sprouting jars from Amazon with the special lids, and I’m ready to explore these new horizons in nutrition. Just need a little help from Youtube.

Recipes