quick check-in

 was tired today---need to get some sleep and up my serotonin :) Felt slightly homesick a few times but it's not a big deal. I have no home anyway, the only key I have anymore is a bike lock key.

Some more notes from Alive with Gabriel:

---recommends a breakfast with that weird mixture mentioned before, biggest meal at lunch (10-2), and a small dinner (juice, soup, etc), then fast til morning and you'll be hungry for breakfast.

---don't need high-tech, like blending. It oxidizes and electromagnetically scrambles it. We can move away from technology. It's also a subtle form of gluttony since you can eat more

---he's not against fruit for healthy people and has some himself every morning

---exercise, breath, chew to up serotonin--the basics are best

---recommends periodic fasting, 1 wk 2x/yr (I'm not sure what he means for this--the fasts are conducted here are green juice fasts, with no fruit in the juice, 3x/day. Maybe he considers this fasting since it's below the 10og of CHO [40 kcal] needed to stop ketosis from happening. He does green juice instead of water because most people don't have sufficient nutrient reserves, in his opinion. So maybe he means water or green juice fast for this).

---chewing ups serotonin. Chewing gum as well [explains my chewing gum behavior--I use gum with xylitol].

---during a fast you lose 5 times as much weight as you do when you eat less. Fasting is a special state, when you eat less your body thinks your starving and goes into conservation mode. That's why people don't lose huge amts of waste when they go on juice feasts, liquid diets. (Of course you may get a good cleansing still). SO, skipping breakfast puts you into conservation mode and breakfast is recommended.

I also read the book "Raw Spirit" by Matt Monarch--he is very enthusiastic but seems a little obsessed with his diet and purity, it was kind of a turn-off. He is big into juice and colonics. He went from 100% SAD to 100% raw overnight. That takes a certain personality, to be so into extremes. When he heard about meditating, he would be up all night trying to meditate. Not really sure what the point of that was... anyway, I am feeling very bloated and stuffed (maybe detox, plus too many fatty foods here getting stuck) so I am having a colonic tomorrow and we'll see how it goes. Worst case, I wasted some money (it's not very risky and I can take probiotics afterwards to reestablish microorganisms).