Those are two great health points that you brought up.
To the first point.... I have read/heard about intermittent fasting. I forget from who? Maybe Dr. Rhonda Patrick...? But, anyway they were saying that certain healing processes in the body only occur 14 hours after your last meal. So, I have been practicing eating dinner at say 8pm and not eating again until noon the next day. Sometimes later around 2pm. I think we have been taught to eat breakfast, lunch and dinner everyday, but this is only a recent practice. Because we are always in a state of being fed our bodies cannot perform certain maintenance and cleaning tasks. I have noticed that I am no longer hungry when I wake up and without eating in the morning I have more energy. I think eating breakfast was just a habit.
And to your second point.... I think sugar is the worst! I have mostly given it up.
I notice the same lately, I am not hungry at all in the morning. The first thing I eat is most of the time between 13.00 & 14.00. The only bad habits I have difficulties with are that I some times have dinner at 21.00 and go to sleep at 2.00
But I will get there some day :)
Another thing I try to do when I wake up is drink 3 big glasses of water in less then 5 minutes and then wait at least 45 minutes before you put something else inside your body, according to studies this is really good to help the cleaning process, later in the day I try to do it again 2 times so I have my 2l of water a day.
I must say this feels really good.
I am also interested in learning more about the intermittend fasting and also the ketogenic diet sounds interesting (living on fats) those are subjects I definitely plan to explore further :)
Here is what I know about intermittent fasting. You basically have two options.
Also, during the fasting part you can consume water, tea or coffee. Just no calories.
Ketogenic diet is hard. You have to be super careful what you eat. So many foods have carbs that it is easy to go out of ketosis. I also wonder about the negative affects of high protein diets on the kidneys.
Ah nice that is the info I needed thanks a lot, I will try to do this regularly :)
Yeah I thought so it would be hard. The intermittent fasting is probably an easier choice. Did you use markdown in this message? :)