Fasting Space

Yesterday
I got a comment on one of my short videos.

That video, just about a 22nd clip

where I suggested that there is strength
in the body and that we are not as fragile

as we think, and we can access energy
without constantly consuming all the time.

And it's a core message
that I really believe.

And if you ever didn't like it.

So I wanted to share that comment
with you and it's totally okay.

I love having discussions.

I personally believe
that the world needs more discussions

with people who disagree with each other
in a really thoughtful way.

We don't all have to have the same
perspective and we can learn and grow.

So I'm going to share
the little response,

and then we're going to lean into it
a little bit.

In response to my statement,
we're a little stronger

than we think
if we lean into some fasting space.

This user says, are you a doctor?

Don't give medical advice like this.

If you aren't, you can hurt people.

Okay? Simple fasting.

Okay, to directly answer yes,
I am a doctor.

Thank you.

And no,
we're not giving any medical advice

here on the channel.

Take a look at the video

description for full information.

I do have some attorneys
who help me with that, so I'm feeling

pretty good about Anytime someone says,
oh, you can hurt people, I pay attention.

I pay attention
to every comments on the channel.

But listen, the whole thing I'm
trying to do in medicine as a doctor first

do no harm.

And as I sit down
and I strip my medical practice down

to first principles
and I see a lot of harm happening, okay.

And I say
I need to find a way to help this to stop.

And fasting has been a part of that.

And I am sharing that perspective

in an educational
and informational format.

Okay, so all that out of the way,
the thing I want to lean into and look,

I gave a heart.

Okay.

So and I invited this user in the
CI gave a reply.

Are you here?

Runaway train?

This is who gave us this comment.

If you are here, much love to you.

I gave you a heart. Okay.

I hope you are.

Let's engage.

Let's have a conversation.

Nobody has to agree with anything I say.

But Runaway Train, in my view, is

absolutely the most poetic irony
of a comment

about this specific video, which is saying
we don't have to consume all the time.

We have strength here.

And Runaway Train comes and tells us,

oh, you can't talk like that.

Oh, you can't talk like that, you know?

And it's like, all right.

I think runaway train.

This is what I leaned into yesterday
as I was going through with it.

Runaway train, I think, describes

perfectly our modern food environment
we are living in this

what I describe many times
as a consumption culture.

This is a world that, apart from food,

is is about more and consuming things.

And this is why I've done
talks on minimalism,

which is something that I like,
just bringing elements in.

And then fasting to me
is minimalism for the body.

And so it's like we see the culture in
so many ways

bigger, better, more like all this.

And then in the body, even medicine

itself, for all of its benefits,
pushing people

to eat more and more and more,
which is more frequently, if not more.

This is how we get put into such
a terrible bind in the weight loss space,

because people are saying
you have to keep eating, but

you're also getting hit at the same time
that you have to eat less.

And this is very difficult to do.

To eat more frequently and less total food
puts us in this situation

of eating little bits all the time,

but never as much as we want,
never truly satisfying.

And then it's always running
the digestive system.

It's always firing up hormones
that are telling us it's time to eat.

So we end up hungry all the time,
which is actually a really difficult

and unsatisfying place to be.

So this is what we're doing here
on the channel.

We're told in society.
Oh, you want to be healthy.

You need to eat frequently.

You need to eat at least six times a day
to keep your metabolism humming.

Maybe 7 or 8.

You now have a mini meal
and a mini snack and a mini snack.

And then.

But we're watching the calories
and don't dare push it over 1600.

And so now we're in this spot
eating little micro things.

Okay, to me, this is not a pleasant way
to go through life.

It's not an effective way
to go through life

for many people
if you are trying to lose weight.

And so the thing that I am talking about,
which

I respond to
this commenter, is to say, hey,

there's a different path here,
there is a different way of being.

And if we're really talking
about hurting people like this commenter

said, let's talk a little bit
about how this culture of consumption

is actually hurting people,
because I think it is.

I like describing this for,

yes, it's great for rabbits like that.

I like that it's great for rabbits
and it's great for goats.

I'm going to try to bring us

some more footage of the goats
at the end of the week.

If I can get it.

This is what I want us to think about.

Runaway train.

Okay? Society is a runaway train.

Think about the statistics
and the things that we've gone through

talks of given bringing the statistics

about metabolic dysfunction,
chronic disease and inflammation

and all these things that are upstream
or downstream of it.

And. The consumption, both of processed
foods,

of total consumption, of everything else
that is happening

in this whirlwind of a modern moment
to create this situation.

And So runaway train society
say, is society

not flowing in a healthy direction?

Like we can just say that in broad,
broad strokes we have technology.

We have things that can help us to cope

with the fact
that we're having trouble in the body.

We see things aren't optimal.

This is just what we're trying to do.

We're trying to be very thoughtful,

move in a direction and say,
how do we optimize health?

How do we change something or change
very difficult.

So we're sitting here in this space,
and the moment we come into a space,

we're saying, it seems like this
train is on the wrong way track.

You know, it's like that Soul Asylum song.

I was just singing Runaway Train
as I was singing this.

Do you remember that one?

Wrong-Way on a one way track?

This is sometimes how I think of society.

Like, seems like we should be
getting somewhere, but somehow

neither here nor there, right?

Do you ever feel like that
in a dietary space?

It's like we're doing a diet.

We're doing a thing
as we're not getting anywhere.

It's like,
hey, like, let's just settle into it.

It's a difficult space, right?

This is what I'm trying to do.
We don't sugarcoat anything.

I try not to anyway.

Say any dietary path.

It has challenges.

Fasting space, to me,
is another tool in our toolkit,

and we want to put all of the tools

together
to help us walk forward in a thoughtful

and powerful way, sustainably, over time,
so that we can

build build it over time

into something that is serving us
and helping us in a good way.

So here I put out one statement
on the internet and you know, that says,

hey, we actually have strength in the body
and like, let's try to unlock it.

And then I say, this is the irony.

Runaway Train is telling us
that is no good.

You can't do that. Okay.

But just think about it this way.

Random guy on the internet says consider
not eating for a little bit, okay?

You see people questioning
if you're a doctor or not.

They don't know.

I mean, they're just, you know, doom
scrolling on a feed or something.

Let me know.

Dear train,
if you are here, what your mindset is.

But you know, nobody asking if you're
a doctor, if you're pushing ultra

processed food on people 24 over seven,
this is the this is the greatest irony.

This is why I just couldn't believe it.

I just I laughed, not laughing at you.

I gave you a heart.

Okay?

But I'm just laughing at the irony.

Runaway train panicking.

Someone is saying, oh, emergency brake!

Look, if you are on a runaway train, okay?

If your society is on a runaway train,
you're looking to get off.

Do you remember some Mission
Impossible movie?

Tom Cruise is stuck on that train.

How do you get off? It's
going 100 miles an hour.

It's like somebody killed the break.

It's like what you need is a brake, right?

We got to slow this train down a bit
if we want to jump off.

This is hard to do. Right?

And so in this analogy, to me, fasting
is like the emergency brake

going to slow this train down
so that we can step off

what I wrote in the description
and say, I'm stepping off the train.

Right.

And I've had so much benefit in my life.

I've been sharing fasting perspectives
with people,

you know, when did this start?

2015 or something like that.

So 11 years or so now.

I've seen so much benefit from it.

I've never seen
I've not seen anything like it.

I'll just say
I haven't seen anything like it.

There's nothing else, not exercise,
which I love.

I'm a huge exerciser.

Look at the videos.
I talk all about exercise.

I do okay, but I have not seen exercise
be the type of thing where I tell people,

hey, do you know,
why don't you go get a gym membership

and start exercising
and like, things really change, you know?

But I tell people, hey,
you might think about gently,

like, let's work on it as I tell people,
talk with your medical team.

But I like I see people start
leaning into a fasting space.

I see people being able to stop taking
medications of many different kinds.

I did the talk the other day
on digestive health and acid reflux.

Amazingly counterintuitively,
to what we often think.

We think of eating food to soak up acid,
but it can actually keep stimulating

our acid production.

And fasting helps so much with acid reflux
and so many digestive problems.

I tell people, hey,
you might open up some fasting space.

We see blood pressure go down.

Not for everybody and not instantly.

Okay, see, this is just the reality.

And then as a process to jumpstart
the metabolism,

get some energy flowing, start the process
unlocking body fat.

I just I haven't seen anything like it.

Runaway train says no no no no
I don't know.

You know
somebody just scrolling in on a feed okay.

Who sees the things they stop eating?

Who knows what this person is?

Maybe they have struggled
with an eating disorder.

Okay. This is
this is what comes to my mind.

Someone who has struggled with anorexia,

which is just a horrible
situation to be in.

I have an article.

Anybody in that situation coming through
is probably not listening.

You know, they're probably not listening.

They've clicked off okay, which is fine.

It's totally fine.

Fasting is not for everybody.

Certainly not.

It's not for anybody who is underweight,
malnourished, not for anybody

who simply doesn't want to do it.

Okay.

It's an open, voluntary process.

But I have an article simple fasting.

If you scroll through the articles

down there, a thoughtful
discussion of disordered eating.

And I think one of the big things
that has happened in medicine,

because medical providers,
especially nutritionists,

have a lot of training in dealing
with eating disorders of various kinds

and dealing with anorexia,
especially very, very challenging

that we've basically taken the framework

that helps someone with anorexia,
someone with anorexia.

You need to help them
eat like they need to eat.

Advice like this six, seven, eight times
okay, you got to build the body up, okay?

But it's like we've taken the advice
for this situation

and we've pushed it on to everybody.

And this is the thing,
there is not a one size

fits all dietary or nutrition plan
for every person on the planet.

There is such a wide variation
of people and experiences

from someone you know
with a severe eating disorder

who's very malnourished
and to the very other end of the spectrum.

And when we're focused on somewhere
on the other side of the equation,

someone who would like to reduce
the total energy

in the system, giving people advice
that is meant for people

who are malnourished is just
this is how we get on the runaway train.

And so say
we want to pull the emergency brake

and get off,
say maybe not eating so frequently.

Start to open up some space.

This is very reasonable.

Far from being something irresponsible
like the comment says,

like it is actually entirely rational,
logical, reasonable, thoughtful.

Consider it to do.

That's what I say.

Yeah,
this is the thing I was trying to say.

Where are the people who are panicking

when somebody is pushing processed
food on people all the time?

Somebody think of all the commercials
we got who could even imagine the number?

Millions of commercials every day
broadcasting.

People eat the chips, drink the beer
by the candy, do the things.

Nobody going.

Are you a doctor? Are you?

No doctor going to be telling people
to eat stuff like that?

I think, you know, everybody knows.

Okay.

But like so no doctor, no people popping.

Are you a doctor giving nutrition advice
on your commercials?

But, like, one person pops up, say,
maybe we don't need to do that.

Dangerous. Oh, man.

Oh, I'm having fun with it.

All right.

Where are the warning labels? Yeah.

You know, that's that's interesting.

It's just coming into my mind.

You know, we've got warning

labels on the cigarettes,
which is fine and that's great.

And say, well,
that took decades and sort of things.

And people get well, this maybe isn't
the best thing to be doing.

What is causing more dis health
and dysfunction in society today?

Is it the cigarettes or is it processed
food and and all of this stuff?

And where should the warning label
rarely be?

You know, I'm. I really appreciate that.

But instead of warning labels we just get
it pushed and pushed and pushed.

The thing that is so amazing is,
is, you know, we got Honey Nut Cheerios.

Okay, go to the store and look at Honey
Nut Cheerios.

You got a big heart on it.

With heart healthy and approved
by the American Heart Association.

It's all processed

carbs and sugar and stuff, and it's like,
oh, because it's whole wheat or whatever,

you know, it's like, okay,
but you can't put a broccoli,

you can't put a heart on the broccoli
and say that that is,

you know, approved, you know,
or your grass fed beef or whatever it is.

I think, you know, things that are
healthy can get vilified even,

and things that are not really actually

healthy process stuff
gets supported and proved approved.

This is the runaway train in action.

Got to be very thoughtful
and conscientious to to look at this.

And then and then all of that is
even before you say, what if we just said

no to all of it for a little while
and let the body decompress?

Like that's the real break for sure.

So, I mean, I just look,
I put a couple notes for me to think about

as we are thinking about this point
runaway train.

Here we are.

And it's like, how do we move forward?

How do we think about it?

One of the points I made was just
to think about, like the deep history.

You know,
I was thinking about this in the talk

I did the other day, our little session
where I was talking about my hike

and just walking these ancient trails

through North Carolina and thinking,
where did these trails come from?

Like, you could not go cross
country in this place

very far, very long
without some kind of trail.

And somebody
presumably is the first one to do it.

But these have been built,
I think, over thousands of years.

I would just think that Daniel Boone
is out there following

indigenous pathways and trying
to, you know, find his way.

Was he really hacking through it
with a machete?

I don't know, but when we get
into the deep history of people,

where has there been a culture
where it is just normal to say,

oh, don't eat meals, eat
many little bits and snacks all the time?

Like this is just not really a pattern.

If you are an anthropologist
or sociologist of some kind

and you want to dispute
that, let's have a discussion.

But I'm going to take it as pretty
well established that human beings

just not eating very frequently
all the time.

My study of physiology
and my experience working with

thousands of people
on eating for two decades now

is just tells me that the human body does
very well eating meals.

And the amazing thing
is that our patterns of when we get

hungry can come to conform to times
when we voluntarily choose to be eating.

And this is how we take something
that is difficult.

I never say that fasting isn't difficult,
and we bring it into a state

that can be manageable and under control,
and ultimately

can help us to flow forward
in an easier fashion.

This is my total result.

This is what I experience
when I get out of a groove of fasting.

I got to like, do the work to dial back
into it because body gets the picture.

Oh, we're not doing that now.

Now we're eating more frequently

and those than we feel
the physiological effects of that.

And then I say, oh,
then we want to switch back in.

This is
tell me if this is your experience.

Do you feel that you kind of got to shift
gears to get into the fasting space?

But as you train it, as you do it, the

as you practice that shift,
then you have more experience with it.

Has this been your experience
that it's like, oh yeah, we're

going through this is that day
to where we kind of diving into it,

got to like re form the foundation,

build out those pathways.

So then they then it starts to flow,
then it starts to flow.

Fasting flow state. This is what I want.

Whatever your fasting pattern is,
if you're trying to get down to two

meals a day, this is two meals

a day is what I consider
really kind of a baseline for fasting.

There is a little bit of gray area

in medical literature
about how do people define fasting.

I think that is a point of contention
that could really use a lot of thought.

Some people say, well,
fasting is just time restricted eating,

and if we get three meals in still within
a window, then we say that's fasting.

And then that brings us into this space
where.

You say, can we can we call it fasting
if we're not eating less calories?

I'm writing a talk on this right now.

It's a very interesting space,

but just for our purposes,
what I say two meals a day,

get it in a window, like a brunch,
lunch and dinner, something like that.

That's kind of fasting.

This seems to be much more
like what people have done historically.

Maybe have a meal, maybe have another one.

And so that's just something to get into.

And we think about Runaway Train.

We think about culture
and where it's going.

Look into the deep history of people.

We take a certain way of being a certain
culture and we say, oh, is this normal?

But then we look back and it can help us
get a little bit of a cultural critique.

It's like, is this really normal?

Hey, thanks for sharing this perspective.

And this is totally fine.

Lately I feel better eating 8 a.m.

and 6 p.m.

and time in between is fasting.

And so this is a totally cool pattern.

It's just fine.

You're getting shorter, total fasting
space, but you're getting fasting space.

You know, in between each of these things.

And if that is working for you and you're
having good results and feeling good,

it can be a really wonderful
way, a way to do it.

Your body can get in a groove with that.

I have had people who really like that,
and so that can be a for a season,

or it could be long term and it's just
if there there's no rules I like

I like that session
we did no rules for weight losses,

just things that serve us
and things that don't.

And so a big thing
that I'm trying to bring in for people

okay, can we just absorb some concepts

into our life,
the fasting space in a way that helps us.

And so two meals, apart
from any specific time restriction,

is bringing less
total calories into the system, more total

fasting space, like from that breakfast
out toward that dinner meal.

And so that can be a beautiful way
to do it.

Absolutely can.

Another note I put on here
just to think about in this context,

is how society can guilt
trip people into eating.

And this is something, you know,
we could open up a fair and honest dialog,

you know, where we say on the other side,
if there are a whole groups

of people who are, we could imagine
I've never experienced this.

But like fasting, people as they are
is they they they make

someone feel bad for eating like, well,
we wouldn't want to do that.

And it's like on the other side
though, what happens much more commonly

is the fact that in a consumption culture
like this, someone even suggests

not eating.

They're getting guilt trip
or shamed into eating or pressured

like you're in a group
other people are eating.

It's very hard not to.

So if we look at the ways,
you know, we're all on our own path.

And part of this conformity
culture has been like, well,

everybody has to eat all the time.

And so to step out from that,
that's why I wore this shirt.

It's probably can't read.

It just says dare to be different.

And it's got one little white tree
in the forest of dark trees.

Okay. So it's like, dare to be different.

You try to be different people
in a conformist society,

so they're going to kind of guilt
trip you.

Have you ever felt that?
Have you felt something like that?

Or it might just be some like internally
we can do it to ourselves

because we feel like, well,
we don't want to be different.

Everybody is doing something.

So it can be very hard to stay on a path.

Every time you even talk about it,
you get a runaway train coming,

hammering you and just saying like, oh,
you can't do that, you know?

So this is the type of thing
that I have experienced

that people are up against
when they try to practice fasting.

Like someone comes in for a consult
and you say like, oh, like,

look at the physiology,
look at what's happening in the body, body

saving energy for us.

Say use it like these things
that people say, it kind of makes sense.

But then it's like, okay, go home
and then the partner is not on board.

And then it's like very, very difficult.

Like that's a scenario
that is very, very common.

I love it.
You know, some people apologize.

They, they, they,
they bring their partner to a consult.

They say,
oh well we're getting a two for one.

I say is beautiful
because it's really like the same thing,

like we're trying to get everybody

on the same page as the way to walk
forward gets over some of these barriers

where people feel peer pressure
and things to do it.

I wrote a note.

Just think about the metabolic space
and stopping the train.

Like think about what is happening.

Like just when stopping the flow of energy
coming in like, let's

I would love I would love for docs,
endocrinologists, nutritionists.

I want people in here that I'll bring you
on the show, even like you disagree.

Let's just talk about it.

Just isn't it interesting
just to think physiologically?

We are giving people advice all the time.

Got to keep the train running.

Okay, I'll just picturing train cars
full of food is always coming in.

You say this is the best advice
that the system has.

Just never give it space to stop.

Like, does this make sense?

You know,
like what happens when the train stops?

Like, oh,
all of a sudden energy is not flowing in.

All of a sudden you can see, right,
the insulin level will drop, right.

The blood sugar can come down.

Aren't these positive?

So positive.

Stop the train and good
things are happening.

Gives a chance to shut the acid
pumps down a bit.

You know, it's very positive.

Like we've looked at some of the papers.

We can look at a lot more,

say oh, and we open up
fasting space, blood pressure better.

Isn't that a clue?

You know, I think it's a clue.

Think about,
like a busy restaurant in a kitchen.

What if the orders never stopped?

What if it's 24 over seven? Like,
how crazy would it be?

Wouldn't the dishes pile up?

Like, wouldn't the workers get burned out?

Doesn't doesn't it need a break?

There is another thought I had.

Like, aren't there many places in life?

Maybe not everywhere.

Don't most things in life need space?

Need a break? Need balance?

Had says if you stop long enough
in a fasting space,

you can quiet the noise,
the established noise.

Listen to your own body.

Yes. Oh my gosh. Yes.

How interesting is that?

Do we have that space in our society?

Does anybody even want to do it?

Of course people do want to do it,
but a lot of people wanting to sell us

products and ways to do it
and fasting is a sort of thing.

That you can't sell that's free.

This means totally accessible.

This is why I'm so excited about it,
you know, because so accessible.

No. You say
there's a barrier to entry of fasting.

So if you go feeling hungry, like, yes,
fasting is bringing

you're going to start fasting.

You say, can we take away
hunger from the experience?

No, not really, but we can use it
to diminish the experience over time

and gain strength
both both physically in the body

and mentally in the mind,
and helping us to build a strong

and powerful mindset
and help us to have a relationship

with food where we are in control of it
and it is not in control of us like that.

That is what I want from fasting, to

use it as a tool to get into that place,
to get leverage over it.

Remember a lever?

Use that analogy.

The longer it is, the more leverage.

Think of our fasting space
as we open up space from food.

That's like getting leverage
over the food you're telling you see,

you are not in control of me.

See, I don't need you.

Every moment
they were getting leverage over it.

We're putting it in its place.

Quiet. The noise of the train.

Yeah, I love that.

Do you see? Like, do you have food noise?

Do you experience that?

That's a phrase
people use a lot of food noise.

It's like cravings, the desire to eat.

You know, all these things.

How do you quiet a food noise? Okay.

How do you quiet the sound of a train?

Well, it's like move away from the tracks.

It tracks way over here now and train.

Not so loud anymore.

See, that's fasting space.

Love that analogy. Here.

I wrote a note.

The sane alternative

comments are suggesting
that this is like, irrational.

Baseless, like the implication say,
oh, dangerous like crazy thing to do.

Stop eating. Are you kidding?

I was like, well, when we just start
to look at what is happening here.

Somebody from that frame of mind.

Runaway
train says fasting is a deprivation. Okay?

That's culture. That's part of the noise.

Okay, I got to tell you,
I shared the the picture fasting hike

sitting on top of the mountain,
looking out over 100,000, whatever it is,

you know, square miles or acres
or whatever it is, you know,

and just feeling about the best
I've ever felt, you know,

in my life, you know, and fasting
is a part of that, part of that.

You know,

I still would have felt great
if I had had breakfast

and I hiked
and looked out over a beautiful view.

But I would just tell you
the fasting made it better, not worse.

You know, that's the reality for me.

Fasting is like a bonus.
That's what I say.

Help, help things.

It's not everything,
but it's a good thing.

And to have something that is good,
that can help

access energy in the body,
that can make it easier.

Okay, this is the thing.

I don't say fasting is easy,
but it can become easier.

It can become a thing that,
in our big picture of our life, can help

our experience moving toward weight
loss and metabolic health to be easier.

Just think of it from a perspective.

How many people going to the gym
and loading up

with sports drinks and breakfast
ahead of time is like, okay,

you're trying to burn off
some extra weight off the frame.

You load up with all this extra energy,
you've got to burn through all that energy

that you just loaded in there before
you're starting to get to the purpose

that you're actually doing.

So you want to take some pressure

off your situation and make it easier,
you say, is fast and easy.

No, not as a blanket statement,

but as you practice it
and you get used to it, you see.

Oh, well,
it's it's meaning less total work to do.

So that's easier.
There's a place to start.

It's like, do you ever get on a treadmill

and you're running on a treadmill
and watching like the calorie thing?

And it's like, I've been going and going.

I was like, well, I got to 200 calories.

So like there's like the bagel
and cream cheese and the thing, you know,

it's like it's like, well,
what if we just took that away?

All of a sudden we've burned through that
without having to do all that work,

you know?

And so it's like,
where do we want to put the work in,

you know,
where is the highest leverage point?

We're talking about fast and giving space
to give leverage over food.

So it's like

if we have a limited amount of effort,
like where do we want to put that effort?

It's like we can put 100% of the energy
into the exercise.

Okay.

But if we don't pay mind
like to the eating and it's like we got to

like really be dialing in huge
amounts, we're going to have to ramp

that up to 1000 calories on the treadmill,
literally.

Okay.

But it's like, what if we balanced out

some of that effort
over into some fasting, say

if fasting is difficult, okay, treadmill
difficult, fast and difficult.

It's like, let's just bring in some of
this to take the pressure off that one.

I like that the sane alternative,
that's what I wrote.

The way I approach it, thoughtful,
peaceful

approach to it, not forced.

So Runaway Train,
I think say things in this society,

very forced, very much pressure.

We call it hustle culture.

We say everything
intense, everything going.

And so I think maybe somebody
from that frame of mind

look at a fasting space and say, well,

we have to go 100 miles an hour at it,
which means fasting a long time.

And isn't that.

Something I don't want to do?

But what I'm saying is, like,
we can approach it

very softly, gently, thoughtfully.

Not like a runaway train.

We're not trading one runaway train
for another one.

We're getting off the runaway train
and then doing some walking.

That's what I say.

I love that session
before I went on a hike,

say walk off the weights,
I told the story about a gentleman

who just became a big time
Walker opened up fasting space,

and walking space gently leaned into it
and moving toward health.

It's like the opposite of a runaway train,
the opposite of hustle culture.

Something very, very thoughtful.

Something that can be empowering.

You know, like, say,
I'm taking charge of this situation here.

I'm saying,
no, I'm setting a boundary here.

And I'm saying

these are the terms that we eat
and these are the times that we're not

that is healthy.

Like, think of all the times in life
that setting boundaries is like

the right answer, isn't it?
Usually the right answer.

It's like we got to define the edge here,

put things in their right place.

Just something I wrote,
something to think about for the day.

When was the last time
you felt pressured into eating?

When you didn't really want to,
you know, good to eat.

Like I said, I tell good stories about
when I eat like I was.

I was going to be doing an honored dinner
and we found a Carolina barbecue.

So we stopped it for lunch.

And, you know, then I shifted it
and it's it's all good.

But like, I chose to do that, you know,
I wanted to do that.

It was great,
you know, but like, when is it time?

And think about are there

times it's like, oh, I don't think
I would really want to do that.

Okay. But do you feel pressured?

Is that the runaway train in action
like hard was saying.

Is that the noise and can we use this

thinking to help us
just get a little space from it?

And does that help our life? You know?

I hope these thoughts are helpful.
Thinking.

Really appreciate the comment
from Runaway Train.

If you are coming through
and watching this, say hi in the comments.

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Share your honest reflections.

You don't have to agree.

All perspectives. Welcome.

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I hope you have a beautiful day
and I will look forward

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Be well everybody!