I actually picked up the Warrior diet book at the store the other day and it resonated with me. Now I'm not into preaching but only speak from experience and observation. I too have found that since i was a kid, that i could not tolerate any food till late afternoon. And because of all the rhetoric out there would force myself to try breakfast and then felt like crap and feel it actually contributed to my hypoglycemia. Maybe due to my sluggish digestive system and metabolic type, I could not tolerate any food till it was all gone (evident by the fact I would wake up every morning all bloated and tired - probably also at that stage due to adrenal dysfunction, probably from forcing my digestion to overwork the day before by eating those three meals I probably simply put - didn't need. Probably never did! There was a reason i had always felt good till I began forcing myself to eat before the late afternoon, when i was instinctively hungry. If i abstained from eating till the afternoon, I found that the bloating would disappear and food would go down nicely at that time. Unfortunately, it's only recently that I am beginning to listen to my body and realising that I should have listened to my body from the start before causing all the damage to my body. My body was trying to tell me something all along.

Now my father on the other hand, would die if he didn't eat regularly. But then he doesn't suffer fatigue but does have GERD - that's another story, which probably has more to do with the kinds of crap he eats and the AMOUNTS! I truly believe amounts is what is killing us as a society. Not sure there is a period in human history where we've eaten so much before and so much artificial food - energy dense but nutritionally lacking. Also, from what I've seen having traveled quite a bit, is that some third world societies that have a hardy breakfast, including three meals a day are usually rural workers. They need the food to go with their daily continuous hard manual work. Those of us on the other hand, who live in wealthy non physical societies, don't do that amount of manual work all day. But we do need food suited for light manual/physical activity but brain energy dense work that we do. So maybe, my body has caught onto the fact that I ain't going to be out on no field doing work and the amounts i eat throughout the day are simply not being used. Just makes some logical sense to me. Oh and by the way, those same societies who are traditionally rural based societies, in their cities now days I've noticed, as they embrace our high tech, comfy lifestyle of the west, they have also begun to experience what was once alien to them - diabetes, endocrine, digestive issues and asthma. In fact some of them would approach me and ask me "what is this diabetes I have?" They were only ever used to typhoid, cholera but have swapped it for Western modern society diseases.

By the way, indigenous societies i've seen all eat some form of meat but mainly in the form of insects and small game, as big animals are hard to catch and some veges - not much either as it's hard to find except for root veges. But what they don't do, is eat a lot. And unlike farmers, they are not physically doing hard labour all day, so they eat a bit and always seem to have siestas afterwards or go to bed early if it's a night meal. It again makes sense, big meal requires energy by the digestive system. We don't do this in the west.

And i agree, many cultures fast and in fact there is a reason when we are sick that we don't feel hungry. Energy has to go to healing and not digesting. It's the only time i find simple juices and broth included are tolerated in fact I couldn't tolerate a vege juice when i've been sick (cold doesn't seem to go down well when one is sick). But a hot broth, wow my body craves it! Reason probably why in past times, sick people were given chicken soup.

Think we are all different and at different stages of digestive health. For instance when I was feeling great, after a gym work out I would crave only a fresh juice or sushi roll, nothing hot! - body obviously needing "cold" for hydration and cooling body down. Think if you crave something and you feel like crap afterwards, body's telling you something then also.


Think different experiences will resonate with various people out there. No one's physiology is the same.


Thank you for your story Lakshmi7. Really enjoyed reading it.