“Your brain, for example, is so minute, Baldrick, that if a hungry cannibal cracked your head open there wouldn’t be enough inside to cover a small water biscuit.” – Black Adder Goes Forth
Cows don’t make sounds after they run out of milk. Udder silence.
One of the main battles that the United States is losing is to . . . fat.
There are plenty of reasons for this. The first is that we have a culture where billions of dollars are made by corporations to sell stuff. What stuff? Stuff that tastes good. I don’t fault them for that – they’re responding to incentives. People want nachos covered in cheese and steak and sour cream and . . . dang, now I’m hungry.
That’s one reason. The other is that we live in a culture that’s obsessed with food. “Breakfast is the most important meal of the day,” say people whose paychecks are tied to everyone eating breakfast. And, meals are more than just consuming calories – they’re also social occasions. People get together to feast – not about the food, but about the sharing, or close-quarters combat as it’s known at our house.
And you thought I was going to ask what he wants on his omelet. Easy. One with everything.
There are also some amazingly unhealthy ideas out in society. One of them is “healthy at any size.” That’s provably false, yet now we see models who wouldn’t fit in a semi. Or a semi-trailer. Flatbed.
I understand the idea not to bully people who are overweight, but the idea of idolizing them and holding this condition out to be virtuous is damaging.
Losing weight is, though, astonishingly simple to do. As the math shows, simply eat less than what your body burns. Simple as.
The problem is that requires willpower. And the other problem is that food today is often very calorically dense: a single McDonalds milkshake can have as much as 700 calories.
So, nothing but problems, right?
Muslims won’t go to McDonalds® anymore. The go to Burka King™ now.
No, not at all. There are many solutions. When I was younger, all I had to do was amp up the exercise and I could drop weight amazingly quickly. Now that my knees seem to be coated internally with sandpaper after that first mile, that solution is a bit more difficult.
One thing that works very well for me is something a bit more radical: not eating. It’s amazing, because this particular diet costs nothing. There are no pills or powders to buy. There is no special club to join. Just don’t eat.
For how long, twenty minutes?
No. There are several strategies. One is just eating one meal a day – the nerds call this OMAD. Only eat once a day. And, honestly, that has always worked just fine for me, and was a pretty easy habit to get into. I don’t lose weight just eating one meal a day, but I don’t gain it, either.
And the meal isn’t breakfast.
And who made this? Where’s the bacon?
There is an even more radical idea – actual fasting, for days at a time. Now, I’m not a doctor, but there are actual doctors who recommend this. Jason Fung is one. Fung’s story is a simple one. He had diabetics showing up for treatment due to failing kidneys. Fung is a kidney specialist.
They told Fung that the only thing to do for these folks was to help them along. They’d die (eventually) from the complications due to diabetes. Fung rejected that, and started experimenting with fasting. And, of course, all of his patients drink all of the water, coffee, or tea that they want.
It worked. He actually increased positive outcomes for his patients. Again, I’m not a doctor and if you want to consider this, well, don’t say “the internet humorist seemed to think it was a good idea.” No. You go see a doctor or whatever it is you do to make medical decisions.
Last time I was in the hospital it was because I was confused about what the Dyson© Ball™ cleaner was for.
Me? I stumbled upon this a few years ago. It works for me, pretty well when I keep up with it. For me, what I do to lose weight is just not eat between, say, Sunday and Friday. I will tell you that if you’re not eating for 140 or so straight hours, you tend to notice it.
Oddly, the feeling I feel is mostly not hunger, but rather the idea that I should be eating. And when I’m fasting if The Mrs. cooks up something especially tasty that smells wonderful, it does make me really, really want to eat.
Am I completely willpowerful? No. I do “cheat” during the fast. Pickles have (for instance) nearly zero calories, and are salty. When I’m not eating, I’m not getting electrolytes (which, I hear, plants crave) and so salty pickles solve two problems at once.
Business lunch? How about a side salad that’s just lettuce and tomato? Vinegar or mustard as a dressing turns that into about . . . 20 calories. I really don’t sweat it on a fast day if I consume less than 100 calories. And, if I break that (I haven’t so far) I don’t consider it a loss – I just pick back up and keep going.
My ex-wife was so bad that she’d make a cannibal order the house salad.
This month (so far) I’ve done three fasts: one was four days, one was five and a half, and the one I’m on right now is (as I write this) 128 hours on the way to at least 140. From personal experience, the first day is the easiest, the second day is the worst, and after that they’re okay. I stop when I do to eat with family on Friday and Saturday.
So, yeah, fasting means not eating. And it sucks. But there are bonuses at the end.
The first time I ever did an extended fast I ended it with a grilled cheese sandwich and tomato soup. That soup was the best I’ve ever had in my life. The second bonus is that my stomach shrinks over five days. It takes only a small amount of food to make me feel full. Finish a steak dinner? Nope. Can’t do it. Just not enough room.
Of course, there’s also the other benefit – the scale.
And with the experience I’ve gained new perspectives. Whenever I see a story on the news about, “Local man stuck in car for three days, survived on Taco Bell® Fire Sauce™ packets,” I know that’s a joke. The average person in the United States is already walking around with decades of Taco Bell© already strapped to their bodies.
Taco Bell® is like DNA. Just four ingredients combine to make infinite combinations.
When it comes to prepping, the same lesson applies. Whenever I see lists of things to go into bug-out bags, I always see food listed. After fasting, I know the truth – unless there’s a medical condition that requires food, it can safely be skipped in almost every bug-out bag, unless it’s planned for use for over a week.
So, nationally we have a problem. The answer is simple: stop eating so much. For me, though, I’ll be the happiest man in the county around dinner time tomorrow.
“Eat to Live,” by Dr. Joel Fuhrman, is an excellent resource, too. He recommends all the leafy green vegetables you want, plus beans, with less fruit and meat.
For a fascinating and thorough look at how we ended up in this pitiful state, read “Good Calories, Bad Calories,” by Gary Taubes. You’ll trust the government and lobbyists even less than you already do.
There’s a lot of excellent info on intermittent fasting—eating only during a few hours each day—online. Dr. Sten Ekberg has a fantastic YouTube channel. An example: https://youtu.be/xVppzWCG4qw
Intermittent fasting is really what I grew up doing – I rarely ate breakfast or lunch. So, for me, IF is a maintainer.
Perhaps you might try the Keto Diet. A physician friend pushes it and seems to get a lot of success with it .
I don’t recommend “the Kato Die-At” . Apparently that was what OJ was on…….
I second this post. The Keto diet is excellent – the food tastes good, I stay leaner than on other diets, and my hair and skin are very healthy.
So, Keto is just Adkins with more fat? And better advertising, of course.
Adkins, Keto, Paleo, they all boil down the the same thing. Eat less starch and sugar.
Or as my daughter used to say: Bread (and pasta) is the Enemy!
Regarding sugars – reference Bill Whittle did a recent video on his bout with the ‘rona, including going for 8 days w/o eating and nearly no liquids either. Once he started eating again – he was actually able to (and was disgusted by) the amount of sugar he could taste in EVERYTHING.
I’m a big fan of the keto diet as well. I think carbs have some addictive component to them, and once you get over that point it’s really easy to stay on it. You just don’t get as hungry or get the habit of eating regularly, so your stomach gets smaller and you eat less. I had to force myself to eat once per day, just to make sure I was getting enough protein for lifting. I started about the time that meat prices skyrocketed due to covid nonsense, yet I was still saving money by eating mostly meat and veggies. Snack food is expensive as hell.
One thing I noticed is how anything that is processed is packed full of corn syrup. Why do brats or summer sausage need corn syrup?! So I started going to a local butcher rather than the store. I think getting off of preservatives and all the other crap they shove into food is a health benefit as well. There are studies showing those preservatives and sugar substitutes don’t cause retention of fat or other problems… but if there wasn’t some indication that it did, the makes of those substances wouldn’t have commissioned studies.
I’ve tried it, and I have yet to find a decent keto beer . . .
Ahhh, Kato. Wonder where he went after his 15 minutes. No, wait, I don’t wonder.
I’ve always said: If I’m going to have carbs, I’m going to DRINK them!
Amen, and I can’t wait until hour 140.
John, American Obesity is a far greater health issue and has been for far longer than any recent pandemic that we have suffered. What is even more ridiculous (from my point of view, anyway) is it is virtually the one thing that health wise will not be addressed like others because it has become related to personal appearance and social worth. Yes, making fun of people being overweight is not going to solve the issue, but neither is celebrating people who quite clearly are going to have issues from the weight now or later on (insert “follow the science” here).
I admire your strength of will for fast. I have never completed such a long fast, only 24 to 48 hours. An interesting (and doable) other version is intermittent fasting, where the individual fasts one or two days a week. I have tried this with some success.
You are quite right, the biggest struggle – even when I am not fasting – is the fact that I “feel” like I should be eating. Which probably says something about how I view and use food in my life.
The other thing I am realizing now is the fact that I need to proactively reduce the the amount I am eating as I grow older, especially when I am not so active. I can eat what I did 10 years ago, but I end up feeling much more full than I should.
Diabetes is no joke, and it runs pretty heavily in my family. So yes, I am paying attention.
Try the keto diet. I think there is something addictive in carbs that makes you want to eat even when you aren’t hungry. I eat far less by weight and volume, yet I still have to force myself to eat sometimes to make sure I get enough protein for lifting.
Yup – it really is the biggest health threat today. Actually, the first 48 are the roughest. Every hour after 48 is not too bad.
You should have a warning icon before a comment like the “last trip to the ER” one that tells us to set out coffee down and perhaps even finish swallowing the last sip. My monitor needed cleaning anyway.
Good! I’m glad I helped clean your monitor!
I am a type 2 diabetic. I’ve gone off and on keto diets for years. They work. And they are boring.
Back last spring I had a major dental/neck infection that caused me to lose a lot of weight. I really wanted to keep that weight off, so I sorta tried to eat less sugar. My big sacrifice was giving up on weekly DQ Blizzards – my favorite of which, a medium Brownie Dough, had (I just checked) 1050 calories. Who wants those thin McDonald’s milk shakes John mentioned above that have 30% fewer calories?
Then in October I had an eye exam. Despite being type 2 and yet decades of pretty much eating whatever I want, I never had any problems show up in my retinas. Until my exam a year ago, where he saw a single burst capillary. Well, maybe that’s a coincidence, right? In October he saw several. My diabetic retinopathy has officially begun. Sigh.
Masturbation doesn’t make you go blind. Medium Dairy Queen Brownie Dough Blizzards make you go blind.
I have been 100% keto since walking out of that appointment. I’ve dropped three more pounds and currently have a “healthy” BMI of 24, down from the overweight and borderline obese figure of 29 I had when I retired almost two years ago. My A1C is better as well. Keto works. Along with hitting the rowing machine in the garage more.
A key part of success in keto is having a bread substitute. Here’s mine, made several times a week in a bread machine I got off of EBay. I routinely have a slice of this spread with cream cheese and three slices of microwaved bacon (ummm…bacon…) for breakfast on most mornings. It’s actually pretty good…particularly if you add the cocoa and cinnamon I note in the comments. Go for it, and good luck!
https://www.food.com/recipe/best-low-carb-bread-bread-machine-102631
Now that does sound good . . . .
Eating fewer calories and eating better calories with some modest exercise is the name of the game. A 700 calorie milkshake at McDs is not the same as 700 calories of eggs or meat. I have found the keto diet too hard to stick to and it felt like I was punishing myself but a diet low in carbs and especially low in sugar made a world of difference. Some eggs and bacon with a single slice of bread hits the spot to start the day. The biggest thing to avoid are the empty and bad calories: candy, soft drinks (including stuff like Gatorade), high carb snack foods, meals centered around carb heavy starch like mashed taters or mac n cheese. Everyone knows what to do, but making yourself do it is the real challenge.
There’s a protein bread sold at Aldi’s that’s low in carbs, pretty good, and is one that freezes well (allowing you to put a loaf in the freezer, and just take out the ONE slice you want, and toast it).
If you do the math, it’s nearly impossible to eat 2,000 calories of brocolli in a day. Even tomatoes have extremely low calories.
My doctor recommends an 18 hour fast, which may work for some, but I prefer to only eat two meals each day, when I put on a few pounds. It’s worked for years, and usually keeps my weight within 5 pounds of the high end of my supposed ideal weight. I don’t mind keeping a little extra, since I’ve seen how fast weight can disappear during stressful times, or illness.
As I’ve aged, I’ve been somewhat amazed at how few calories are required for me to remain at a steady weight. My appetite despises this fact, and constantly reminds me of its displeasure..
Indeed – I’m 29 hours in on my latest fast, and I’m really, really thinking about that grilled cheese sandwich I’m not going to have.
With me riding between 150-200 miles a week on a road or gravel bicycle (I ride a 22 yr old road bike with a TACX trainer when the weather won’t let me go outside), I tend to keep my active duty weight of 165 lbs. I ounce allowed myself to gain weight up to 185 lbs a few years after retiring from active duty and after losing the weight I swore I would never let myself go like that again. On most rides I burn between 800 to 1100 calories, which does allow me to eat mostly what I want. I still practice portion control and weigh myself every morning to guide me on how much I have to hurt myself on the bicycle or adjust my food intake for the day.
Being 64 years old with Addison’s Disease and having survived Thyroid Cancer I am doing a pretty good job of keeping this old body going. Plus, I do enjoy baking my doctor’s noodle on how I can maintain my level of activity when I am supposed to have a reduced level of endurance due to the Addison’s Disease. I have enough challenges, that I don’t want to add obesity and/or type 2 diabetes to the list.
When I was a young buck I was very well known for my ability to eat a lot with very little side effects (to be young and invincible again). Reason I received my call sign of MIKEY, because I just didn’t eat anything I ate everything. Life is too short to deny yourself the simple pleasure of eating, but moderation is the key.
Loved the Dyson ball cleaner dad joke!
I had great success keeping my weight down by riding bikes – a good 20 mile trip was awesome. But, work changes . . . .
Having suffered that wretched low-fat/high-carb Food Pyramid advice for decades with literally zero success in keeping my physique in check, I fell into low-carb/Atkins/keto/whatever at age 50 like a grateful fish to water. I don’t find it boring, or limiting or crave-inducing. It is a daily gift filled with all the meat, cheese, eggs, bacon and salmon that I craved like oxygen through the long, dark years. Pasta? Bread? Cereal? Keep ’em. I have no use for these things.
And yes, it WORKS.
I dabbled in multi-day fasts in early adulthood, dropping pounds of water per day, only to drink them right back on after the inevitable crash. Wasn’t for me (although I naturally intermittent-fast erry dang day, unable to stomach an early meal if my life depended on it).
My poor wife watches slack-jawed at how much meat/cheese/fish/eggs I can eat while keeping my scale number under what it was as a senior in high school. She is still locked into the “portion control” mindset because it allows her to have chips and Dove bars and Girl Scout thin mints so long as she accounts for their Weight Watchers “points”. But portion-controlled crap is still crap. And you can’t manage your physique effectively eating crap, IIFYM be damned.
There is literally no free lunch in this business, but VVLC (very-very low carb) is the scheme that works with the smallest component of sacrifice for me. I miss peanut M&Ms and diner pancakes more than anything else, but not to the point of miserable longing. I’ll indulge these things once or twice a year at worst.
TBC
You comment about weighing less now than you did in HS made me ponder. My BMI as a Senior in high school was under 16. I had to gain weight to join the Army. Never mind the fact that I could back-press 800 pounds or ab-press 600 pounds (the max on the machines) until I got bored. Now I’m in my 50’s, medically retired, with 3 busted discs, and a BMI of, oh, let’s see… 42. No, I’m not diabetic. My total cholesterol is now 86, up from 32 back when I was twenty (oh, how the doctors hated me). Ah, the memories, health and metabolism of youth.
No, I’m not retired for the bad back. That happened later. (I’m a veteran. I’m disabled. I’m not a disabled veteran.) Migraine with Aura and IBS, after one too many high fevers. (I survived 109 degrees with no treatment back when I was 13. I was unconscious for a week on the living room couch. Why yes, my parents were a bit dim and quite willing to let me to die, thanks for asking.) I have all the side effects. And I’m resistant to or have serious reactions (some permanent) to every class of medication that might help. The doctor’s experiments were… unpleasant. (The experimental beef blood medicine was really tasty, but did nothing at all.) Some days I can walk. Some days I can talk. Once or twice a week I can do both, and that’s when we get groceries. (Migraines and IBS are related, as both are neurological disorders. The gut has half the neuron count of the brain, and the two communicate constantly. The same medicines are used to treat both.)
But anyways, I tried Atkins back when it was popular. It works. But the desire for bread becomes really strong after a couple of weeks. Weight Watchers also works, because any diet plan that boils down to “eat less, work more” will work if you do it every day. It will work better if you lower your carb intake, of course.
It’s not too great an accomplishment to weigh less now in middle age than I did as a 17 year old Defensive End in high school, for the simple reason that I was one of the biggest kids in my graduating class. Never made it up into the stratosphere, but at 6′ 2″ with a naturally mesomorphic body type and severe barbell jones, I pushed past 230 pounds in senior year and hated it. Never been skinny, and don’t ever expect to be skinny, but 220 suits me. At least for as long as I can still deadlift.
TBC
I can maintain with keto – but can no longer lose. The year that happened was a sad one. Then, a few years later, I discovered fasting . . . .
On the other hand, I’ve never met a fat heroin junkie.
The true hardcore weight loss program:
heroin addiction, AIDS, and a tapeworm.
Well, that is a radical idea!
Losing weight is, though, astonishingly simple to do. As the math shows, simply eat less than what your body burns. Simple as. Unfortunately, it’s a lot more complicated than that. Our bodies aren’t bomb calorimeters, they’re adaptive systems, and the feedback loops change over time. You can see signs of the feedback loops everywhere. I’ve designed electronic control loops for decades, the body’s patterns look like control systems of all kinds.
There are books about this. IIRC, “Good Calories, Bad Calories” has content on this, and I know for sure Dr. Fung’s “The Obesity Code” covers it. Dr. Fung constantly pounds on the idea that fasting isn’t just cutting calories because our responses to fasting are so different than the responses to cutting calories. I don’t want to hog space here, but generally people who lose massive amounts of weight by “eat less, move more” depress their BMR and gain back that weight, or most of it. What was that show some years ago, “The Biggest Loser”, where people were coached brutally and cut their calories? A followup study showed their BMRs were still screwed up five or six years later.
Is fasting the ultimate long term solution? I’ll try to tell you before I bite the big one. Keto and routinely fasting (mostly alternate day fasts for three days/week, and some three continuous day fasts) got me down 65 pounds, about 25 % of my peak weight, back from about April ’15 to July ’16. I found several years ago, that during maintenance, my weight would start to climb. Slowly, like a pound a month (which is hard as mother**** to see in raw data) and doing one 40ish hour fast a week helped that.
Oh, I agree I glossed over LOTS about food composition, etc. I figured the fasting was a big enough bite, and would encourage anyone thinking about it to research Fung, etc.
The fasts (for me) allow a reset that has been wonderful in taking down the scale numbers. As to BMR, yeah, I think mine has been screwed up since high school (or before).
An ex-gf once told me about a conspiracy theory amongst women: brides intentionally make bridesmaids outfits look ridiculous so that the bride looks better in comparison. Much of feminism can be explained as an extension of this. Basically, it’s women trying to convince other women to do things that make them less competitive in the man market. “Healthy at any size!”
“Being loudly opinionated is good!”
“Get a career and tell men you don’t want children!”
“It’s empowering to get lots of tattoos and cover your face in shrapnel!”
Compare to Steve Sailer’s law of female journalism:
“The most heartfelt articles by female journalists tend to be demands that social values be overturned in order that, Come the Revolution, the journalist herself will be considered hotter-looking.”
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I’ve found working out in a pool is great for saving those knee joints. Running in a pool works different muscles in different ways, and I’m always exhausted long before my knees start using their veto power. If a joint starts acting up, I stop exercising immediately. Not going to make that mistake again.
Ha! I hadn’t heard Sailer’s Law (that one). It’s hilarious!
Yup – I pushed a knee too hard last year. Still twinging at me.
The trouble with fasting is that our cave-man bodies think that there is a famine, and adapt our metabolism to the lower intake of calories. They become more efficient at processing them, then when we resume normal eating patterns, the body stores up lots of fat in preparation for the next famine. Instead of fasting, just cut the carbs, and try to make the carbs that you do consume, the good kind that don’t cause your blood sugar to spike. We have used the 40-30-30 plan with great success. It’s really just a flavor of Atkins.
Yup – fat is the ultimate solution of the body for on-board storage, although I’m pretty sure the processing capabilities don’t change all that much . . . .
Extreme KETO (Carbs under 80g a day) and daily exercise. It helps with the thought processes when you have a realistic BMI (Body Mass Index).
The lumbering hambeasts and buffet mongers won’t last five minutes when the Great Leap Zimbabwe goes full South Africa.
Mastering of appetites so that they don’t master you.
After supper the kitchen is closed, you can have a supplement gummy for a midnight snack.
Now available in Co-Q-10, Vitamin D and C.
I had best luck under 40 grams. Fasting (after glycogen is depleted) is just ketosis with fewer steps . . .
I think JW, i might be the one who turned you on to Fung.
I still fast too. Just to feel good.
It’s friday 18:56 central.
Haven’t eaten since tuesday morning.
Feel great. Mental acuity and energy are astounding.
Keep on keeping on Maestro.
We enjoy your words.
My wife (and sweetheart – it’s fortunate that they’re the same person…) tried fasting and doctor supervised severe caloric intake (to mostly just proteins) several times to loose weight, but always gains it all back, and then some – in spite of them drilling into her that this is a lifestyle change. It generally works – but she’s not fun to be around, because she’s perpetually HANGRY when she doesn’t eat to satiation. I wish I could get her to just eat either Carnivore or Extreme Keto – so she’s not jonesing for calories, as she’s currently way overweight and taking insulin as a TypeII diabetic. Unfortunately, Carnivore works – but she’s of the opinion that’s too expensive to do, because carbs are cheap. (unfortunately, many poisons are cheap – but that doesn’t mean they should be a dietary choice!).
I think that might be the case. Yup – mental clarity (after about 48 hours) is fantastic.
Much of America went on regular fasts, from 1929-1945, many of them for a lot longer than 5 days. No small number, for the entire rest of their lives.
I foresee a similar diet plan coming our way in the very near future, and for the exact same reasons.
I have read that the overall health of Americans was measurably improved by those calorie-restricted days of the 1930-1940s, too.
Yes, Aesop, nothing like Socialism for weight loss (aside from the “some animals are MORE Equal than others” Leadership).
Great Depressions and Gov.com ordering farmers to plow under fields and dairymen to dump their milk production “To keep Prices Up”? SEEMS to act just like Socialism, maybe? Could quibble about what “ism” but if it walks like a Duck…
Calories in vs calories out is the issue. That and eating healthy foods, baked potatoes skin and all vs French fries for example.
My Grandparents worked a large truck garden in Golden CO while Grandpa worked at Coors Brewery. They ate very Carb Heavy meals, potatoes, bread and pasta showed up every day. Until late in their lives when the truck garden was replaced with the Town House and fast food (for the Grandchildren) they were of healthy weight.
Keto is nice until the feed suppliers to your Pork and such is Coitus interruptus by meddling by self-proclaimed Intellects like AOC.
Plant potatoes, the hungry belly you feed most likely will be yours and your family.
I think you’re right, so why wait?
I do know of (through stories) many families where calories were very, very scarce. Wasting food around Grandma McWilder was not a thing to be caught doing. Ever.
I’ve been doing 18/6 for a few years now, my own version of leangains. I found I mostly lost visceral fat, I think I need more cardio to trim the rest
Yeah, I have to up the ante to lose. And it’s going fairly well. In the past, though, I found not all fasts were alike, and sometimes I just had to ditch. Not this round (yet).
My favorite breakfast is a bowl of oatmeal (rich in zinc, among other things), with raisins (copper) and various nuts. It’s sort of a hot muesli, until I stir in a teaspoon of bacon grease. No sugar. It’s delicious and filling. A banana on the side provides potassium.
That sounds . . . amazing. Especially right now.
When I was 21 and weighed 450 lbs I ended up fasting for a week unintentionally. Life happens sometimes. Afterward, my stomach had shrunk enough that I was only eating about 2/3 what I previously ate. I lost 100 lbs in 15 months.
I weighed around 330 when I graduated high school. My 50 year reunion is this year. I weigh 180. If I were to show up, I seriously doubt than anyone would recognize me (lost most of my hair too).
I only eat two meals a day since I retired. I only ate 2 meals on my days off when I was working. I am diabetic and balance my oral medications and caloric intake fairly well. Yes, I do have to allow for some foods having a higher or lower glycemic index. I have IBS, so sometimes I go a day or two without eating in order to get back on track.
I sure miss the days when I could eat just about anything without upsetting my digestive system. Sometimes getting older really stinks.
Yup. I don’t have a lot of restrictions when I do eat, but (as you note) the stomach puts the brakes on portions pretty quickly.
Technically, if you eat only 1 meal a day, it IS breakfast because it’s the meal with which you break your fast.
Well said!!!! And technically correct, which is the best kind!!!!
Don’t like to nitpick, but chickens are not vegetarian by choice.
You are 100% correct. Heck, around here they keep ticks and other creepy-crawly things down.