I stopped eating breakfast 🍳 11 years ago

I stopped eating breakfast 🍳 11 years ago

I was trying to figure some things out around my health.

I did a lot of reading around digestion, the nervous system, and histamines.

It appeared to me that I was experiencing symptoms of having histamines issues.

Science hadn’t really gotten to the root of what that was all about at the time.

My hypothesis was if I gave more time to digestion that would likely make a big difference.

It did.

I got really into it.

16 hour fast most days.

Many 24 hours.

Always structured around eating when I could be totally relaxed around my food.

My gym kitchen was like a mafia Don’s prison cell.

A few years after this fasting became really popular.

Books, courses, guru’s everywhere.

I could see why.

I had dropped some belly fat.

I had more mental clarity and energy in the morning.

My digestion had improved.

I started talking to my clients about it but very few of them experienced the results that I was.

And very few of those who followed the guru systems did either.

What I noticed was that those trying it were what I call “under eating”

Just like a recipe has ingredients that it NEEDS to produce it our body does too.

Protein needs
Fat needs
Magnesium, Zinc, Selenium, Vit A,B,C,D,E I could go on.

When they aren’t fulfilled the body starts to compensate and balance things out.

It perhaps stores fat, reduces energy, becomes anxious and adjtated.

I was starting to learn that most tools are focused on MANAGING our mental or physical health issues rather than fixing them.

Stress management
Anxiety management
IBS management

Ultimately when we do that it becomes the primary focus of our lives.

Our lead value so to speak.

That’s a personal choice of course and many practioners will help with that.

Most do in fact,

I’ve come to realise that I want my life to be about experiencing life rather than managing my mental or physical health.

What do you think, manage or cure?