How To Eat When You Don’t Have Much To Eat
Last week I went to meditation retreat camp for 11 days, in the place we only allowed to have proper mean during lunch. (Breakfast and dinner was just fruit juice or fruit)
Some of you may think that, that’s not the big deal, just eat more during lunch to cover dinner portion. That wasn’t the case, because even I ate twice of what I usually eat during lunch time, I still feel hungry during dinner time. (The crunching feeling of stomach always comes on time; you can try this out for yourself). Moreover, I felt so tired and sleepy in the afternoon.
I found the way out.
It’s not about what I eat, or how much I eat. It’s more about how I eat. The secret is in sliver and teeth.
The tip is chew very finely; chew more than you usually do. How much more? Total about 50 times per mouthful.
Why? Because sliver in your month is an enzyme that break down flour molecule to sugar and mouth produce this type of enzyme much more than stomach do.
The second reason is when the food got broken down to very fine, very small pieces. As a result, the contact surface area is increased tremendously and allow enzyme in stomach to work at higher efficiency. Do you know that 40% of your body energy went away with digestion system? With this fined food, your body uses less energy to digest them.
What’s the result? I can survive with one meal a day (less than 30 mouthful of food) not hungry at all; no feeling tired in the afternoon, feeling light and relaxes.
I later found that some of Buddhist Monk also practices this because they have to abstain from eating after 12noon time.
Amen!
Heavy hearts are truly of a burden.
Keep up with what you’re doing, true confidence comes from within and not from without
We can’t let people be the measure of our success. Keep going.
It is unfortunate that one of the main side effects of a broken spirit, is to become negative and critical. When someone criticizes, especially needlessly, it is simply a cry for attention. Nothing more, nothing less. Great post. I have a good one on forgiveness.
You might enjoy it.
http://www.pd4free.com/2008/06/30/the-power-of-forgiveness/
Alvin, I don’t remember where I read this but “success breeds jealousy”. This is a fact of life, isn’t? I look at every great work and I find attached to it who I call the “what if”, “yes but”, “maybe if”, “so what?”, “that is easy, I can do it”, “are you stupid/serious?” PEOPLE. You can tell they not only have a heavily distorted map of the world but a great generalization skill. Keep up the great writing, Alvin.
Alvin, why not play with the “I’m an ass. You’re an ass. So what’s the problem?” approach, as hilariously outlined in the late Anthony De Mello’s book, Awareness?
A lot of pompous asses become well, just asses, once the pomp and circumstance covers are removed.
I hadn’t thought of it that way Mark, but that is pretty hilarious