But one of the things our bellies and our hunger and our energy level can count on is eating. Lynn often says that I eat by the clock, not by hunger, and she is right. Now we are into our 7th month of fasting, semi-fasting or sneaking food on two non-consecutive days of the week. Mark Mattson, Johns Hopkins University, did a YouTube video on the benefits of 5:2 eating, with 2 days of restricted calories and 5 days of pigging out, no, I mean, normal eating. Depending on when and how you measure, I have lost five or so pounds and Lynn has lost more.
As usual, she is a good girl and I am a bad boy. I can point to various sources that say I wasn't overweight and that I am ok now. So, I have ways of semi-justifying eating this and that during the day while she virtuously starves herself. She needs to starve herself so that I will continue to pursue her and grab her and kiss her on account of her figure. My voice and intellect are sufficient to keep her interested in me so I don't have to starve. Lucky, huh?
This business of not cooking or setting the table, of acting more like a gorilla in the jungle where I just eat a handful of cashews and a banana and a cheese stick and a pear and a glass of milk plays havoc with my sense of regular eating, with my awareness of what I have eaten. It seems to increase my sensitivity to food so that a single lettuce leaf clearly modifies my hunger and a stalk of celery is high eating. But it gives me a greater sense of abandon and carelessness so that a cookie is more attractive and a square of chocolate gets selected instead of a radish. If you see me all tubbed up, it's not my fault. Research did it.
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