Hello inquisitive minds!
An update is looooong overdo. Forgive me. Life has been befittingly busy thus I’ve lacked the sufficient time to blog! But alas, I have returned to acquaint you with intriguing facts!
First ~ I am still Paleo and I’m going strong! Though I have included some grains and dairy (such as Greek Goat’s Milk Yogurt, Whole Cow’s Milk, Soft Goat Cheese – Kamut, Sourdough, Rice and Sprouted Breads) their staying power remains unknown as they are still being tested.
However, what provoked their inclusion was simply the fact that I’m not entirely 100% supportive for the concept of eating the way we did 50,000 years ago. If we, as humans, have not evolved since.. that’s fine. But the contradiction here is that our food has evolved. All of it. Despite our following suit, should we not still incur the ability to process and utilize such foods?
When we think of the human body, we think “adaptable”. Whether the body goes through an evolutionary change or simple environmental adaptation… there is no denying that the body is a remarkable vessel whose abilities are both miraculous and boundless.
Second ~ I have introduced 100% natural Vitamin D3 from VitalChoice, made entirely from lanolin in a base of certified sustainable wild salmon oil. Each pill contains 2,000 IU of Vitamin D3… so 1 a day is sufficient. So far – So good!! No adverse reactions… only positive vibes 
Lastly ~ I have traded in the Warrior Diet lifestyle for that of Brad Pilon’s Eat Stop Eat. Don’t get me wrong… It’s not that I don’t like Ori Hofmekler (the author of The Warrior Diet). It is simply that, personally, it wasn’t working well for me. The diet actually provoked me to overeat. The fasting all day, every day, until 4pm.. set off my limbic hunger signals the minute I ate.
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What is Limbic Hunger?
The name ‘limbic’ comes from the limbic system, the part of the brain that connects primitive drives, emotion, and memory. For primitive humans, gorging when food was available and abundant was only natural.
Humans evolved in an environment in which meals were likely a once per day event, because it took hours, sometimes days to hunt the wild game, then hours to prepare it. The kill was consumed in a single sitting because there were no methods available for storing the food. Several hours after the meal, bacterial growth on the uneaten portion of the meat could make the food sickening or inedible, sometimes even lethal.
For many, you cannot eat just one potato chip because of limbic hunger. Eating one chip sends signals to our brains that we should eat as much as possible while the food is available. This leads to more eating, connecting in a vicious circle that doesn’t stop until the bag of chips is empty. The primitive instinct takes control of behavior, ignoring higher thinking and preferences. Limbic hunger in the ‘land of plenty’ causes one to eat too often and eat too much.
Limbic hunger is impulsive and stealthy. You decide to eat just one donut. A few minutes or a few hours later, in the middle of the second or third donut, you remember your decision to eat only one. You chose to stop at one, but something let you reach out for the other donuts. That is limbic hunger over-riding your willpower.
Quoted – Dr. Bert Herring of Fast-5
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Now that that’s cleared up. I can explain further…
The limbic hunger lead to over-eating which triggered my eating disorder. I have been battling an emotional war with food my entire life… eating too much then not eating at all. Believe me, over-eating and becoming literally enraged with yourself for it – is not going to help the situation whatsoever.
I was so upset with myself… that I was taking it out on everyone around me. Work was becoming a trying barrage of stress. I was nearing my breaking point. I hated me and therefore hated everyone and everything regarding life as we know it. To add salt to an unhealed wound – The only thing that was providing me with some form of mental stimulus, a smidgen of joy, was MORE FOOD. It’s a terrible, vicious cycle.
Pretty dramatic, I know. But… C’est la vie.
Ergo – I had to call the stops.
How does Eat Stop Eat differ from The Warrior Diet?
Well, first off. Both lifestyles are based on Intermittent Fasting. Wherein one would schedule periods of eating coinciding with periods of abstinence.
Now – how these two differ from one another is the way with which the Intermittent Fasting (IF) is scheduled.
The Warrior Diet’s IF outline is based on an undereating phase and an overeating phase. There are 24 hours in a day…. The Undereating phase occurs for the first 20 hours. The overeating phase kicks in for the remaining 4.
During the overeating phase, one is to eat as much as they want from as many textures and flavours.. until one becomes more thirsty than hungry.
From personal experience… hunger and thirst are very veeeeeeeery easily confused for one another. Therefore this method of “overeating” doesn’t seem very relevant.
Eat Stop Eat’s IF outline is based on fasting for an entire 24 hours, two times a week. For the remainder of the week (non-fasting days) one is to eat normally, whenever true hunger strikes.
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The basis behind the idea is flexibility. You can choose what 1-2 days a week to fast on. You can literally schedule your “diet” around your life! As opposed to the other way around.
This is what makes it so easy to stick to!!
From the above example you can see how flexible it is. It doesn’t matter when you wake up, when you stop eating, whether the fasting days are back to back or completely spread apart – it makes no nevermind!
You simply eat as much as your body requires in a day and note the time you finished at. From that time to the same time the next day, you abstain from eating. You can time it so that every single day you are eating, even though you are fasting for 24 hours in between.
Here is an example: Say you stop eating at 4pm. You will fast from 4pm now til 4pm tomorrow. This means you will eat tomorrow, even though it’s the day you fast. Make sense?
It really IS that easy… and it works.
Eating this way cuts down your weekly calories by a LOT… especially if when you break the “Fast” you eat as you would normally – had you eaten all day. Do NOT gorge and stuff your face to make up for the lack of food you’ve had all day. This will completely backfire on you.
Well folks, that’s that for my update! I will be following Eat Stop Eat for the next month or two and will try my hardest to update!!
Until then… Love, Peace & Chicken Grease!
