So I guess we are gearing up for the long haul by getting healthy and happy.

Every doctor in the land has their own brand of health advice.  Much of it, I am convinced, bad. The studies are mostly bad and all contradict each other.

I have my own views on health.  But in this post, I am just going to tell you what I know from my own experience.  It may not apply to you.  I am not going to tell you everything I do or believe, because some of it I believe works but the effects are not obvious enough to be sure.

I will say that feeling healthy is  much better than not.

I get congested if I drink a lot of milk.

If you clear sugar out of your diet for awhile, normal foods taste much sweeter and high-sugar foods taste bad.

Saturated fats make me feel full and taste wonderful.  Butter and tallow and coconut oil.  Tallow is actually pretty easy to make your own.

I get depressed easily if I haven’t worked out in a few days and haven’t been eating well.

If you clear vegetable oils and processed foods out of your diet for awhile, you don’t crave them, they seem unappetizing when you do think about them, and you feel a bit ill when you do.

It is a lot easier to keep eating and eating starchy foods than it is meat.  It is also easy to gorge on cheese for some reason.   I personally also find it easy to gorge on fruit.

The more variety of food you have on hand or at a meal, the more you will eat.

Beef and lamb are delicious.

You can eat so many tomatoes from your garden that you will give yourself diarrhea and indigestion that takes several weeks to clear up.  This shouldn’t concern you, we are talking literally a dozen of tomatoes a day and sometimes much more for several weeks.  A huge salad every day that consists of a huge bowl of tomato slices with a little olive oil and tuna sprinkled on, that kind of thing.

Fasting is easy once you adapt to it.  I started out skipping breakfasts, then just one meal a day for a week.  That week was hard, I felt like I had a mild flu.  Now I can go two or three days without much problem.  It’s a flexible and easy weight loss plan.  Once you get adapted to fasting, if you really eat too much you feel really full for a long time and its easy to just skip your next planned meal or two until you don’t feel stuffed.  For me its easy to maintain weight doing fasting without paying any attention to what I am eating.  But if I want to lose weight I have to regularly do 36-48 hour fasts or I have to do something to limit how much I eat at my one meal a day–only certain types of food, or counting calories.  If you love salt like me, drink some salty water while you are fasting–otherwise you might get faint.  If you are having difficulty adjusting, have some butter or some other kind of saturated fat.  An herbal tea with some cream or something.

Chewing gum helps your appearance for both men and women.  (Except for the part where you are actually doing the chewing, you look like a cow then).

If you are really eating a lot at a meal and still feel hungry, it helps to pause 30 minutes.  Most of the time, after 30 minutes you feel stuffed, the signal just hadn’t caught up to your brain.

An X3-style heavy resistance band program works about as well for me as weightlifting does and it takes less time, is portable, and doesn’t require a gym membership.  However, don’t buy the actual X3 product unless you are well off and willing to pay for convenience.  You can make your own without too much trouble.  The X3-style program has also given major improvements in a hurt shoulder and a lower back pain, whereas actual physical therapy hadn’t worked as well, and neither had the bro-science Diesel Crew Shoulder Rehab protocol.

Sunlight is amazing.  Consistent with modesty, try to occasionally get out with plenty of bared skin, the more the better.  I more or less sunbathe now.  I can feel myself cheering up as I do it.  For men–I am going to try to be delicate–ah, full-body exposure has noticeable results with respect to vigor.  I have had a couple of colds where I laid out in the sun for awhile and they cleared right up.  Anecdotally some people report drastically moderating their Corona symptoms this way and one of  my colds may in fact have been Corona.

Since I cut out processed foods and vegetable oils and most sugar and started getting sun, my frequent coughs, bronchitises, long lingering bronchitises, and yearly walking pneumonia have disappeared.

A King Athletic stability disk is high quality.  Planks using it and sitting on it sometimes during the day if you happen to have a desk job really help your posture throughout the day and seem to have also helped with the lower back pain.

Diet sodas don’t seem to trigger my appetite, but they can give you gas.

You can find yourself craving homemade sauerkraut.

Mackerel and sardines are a bit of an acquired taste.  But if you mash them up with a tablespoon or two of apple cider vinegar, they neither taste fishy nor vinegary–they taste delicious.  If you get the kind that is in brine, the oily brine tastes wonderful when you are fasting and doesn’t seem to interrupt the fast.  Whether or not mackerel and sardines seem appealing to you is a good gauge if you are really hungry or not.

Nasal strips at night can really help.

If you are overweight, have another go at it with the right attitude.  The body is the temple.  Glorify him.

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