Greetings, friends!

This is my 3rd and final introduction post. I'm still shocked by the amazing response I got for my first two posts, so thank you all for your support, and I hope this one doesn't disappoint!

The thing that I'd say that makes me different from most other people, are my eating habits. Not so much about what I eat, but more about when I eat. And for the last four years and still going, it's like this:

I never eat breakfast,
I never eat before 2pm,
I drink coffee every morning,
when I eat, I have a quadruple portion of everything,
I've been eating only once a day, at late evening, since April this year.

While I try to eat as little processed foods as possible, keep it raw and organic and eat little to no meat, every now and then, there comes a time when I get carried away. Heavily. Ordering pizzas and hamburgers every night for weeks.

But as much carried away as I get, I never go across the things I said earlier.

A quick recap: I pretty much eat whatever I want, but I eat only once a day, never before 2pm.

If it's a healthy, vegan meal, good. I'll wake up fresh and satisfied.
If it's an unhealthy, greasy hamburger, good. I'll go to bed satisfied.

(yes this is tonight's)

Not saying that I'll go to bed unsatisfied if I don't eat a hamburger, I'm saying that different foods have different effects on my body.

And food is meant to feed us. It's not even supposed to taste good. It's meant to fuel our body.

But more importantly, our body is meant to use this fuel as efficiently as it can. You eat for a purpose. You eat to grow. Not in terms of size(well, for some maybe), but in terms of efficiency.

And how do we make our bodies more efficient? How's it even measured?

To put in less, and get out more.

Which basically, in this context, translates to:

To eat less and have more energy.

I know this sounds hard to digest, but there's a whole science behind it(it's called intermittent fasting btw), about how fasting boosts your HGH(human growth hormone) and insulin sensitivity in ways nothing else can(hormones are serious business, think about steroids).

Fasting also puts your body into a state of fat burning mode, called ketosis. That's when your body runs out of sugar(glucose) and starts using fat for energy(ketone bodies). And since our liver can store only about a 100 grams of sugar(glycogen) and our muscles about 400, even the skinniest of them all probably has more stored fat than stored sugar.

If only we could reach for stored fat when we feel like shit.

But seriously, we can. We're not supposed to feel like shit. Not ever. We should feel way more energetic and way less food dependent.

But it seems to me everyone is all about breakfast and veggie smoothies. People want to crucify me after telling them to spend most of their day without food and all the yada-yada above.

I get it. I've been there.

But I've reprogrammed my body for the better. I can literally be on my feet all day long without even thinking about food. In fact, I finish most of my days with a workout session, before finally cooking my meal. And besides having more energy than ever before, I also have way more time not having to eat every 3 hours.

And these are only the most obvious benefits of intermittent fasting. I'll cover the less obvious ones in the upcoming posts. I'll also cover the do's and dont's of intermittent fasting, based on my past 4-year experience.

This brings us to the end of my(final) introduction post. I hope the rice wasn't too boring.

PS: It's STILL raining here in Izola, Slovenia. And the weather has cooled down a bit TOO much. But there's always something, right?