Healing IBS/colitis, mental symptoms, or other gut problems, may need a special diet to heal; some of the diets may also help with weight loss and improving general health.
Thanks for the interesting book references and sharing your experience and thoughts. After having been vegan for 4 years I started with Dr Amen-Ras vegan supplemented OMAD diet (which automatically turns into a keto diet after fasting for the first part of the day) for a year and it has been very transformative so to say. It has definitely been beneficial for my health, mainly because it features a daily workout which has allowed me to get in the best shape of my life. It has been challenging for me mentally since it has revealed many unhealthy thought patterns and emotions about myseld the current state of the world (basically being inadvertently poisoned with strange xenobiotic substances embedded in something as vital and healing as food can be. Utter hopelessness about all the social insanity. And the realization of being dependent mentally from eating various times a day for gratificatory purposes. I had to find a new meaning in life to fill in the hours without eating. I definitely got into the disoredered binge eating territory for a few weeks during the transition to the OMAD style eating but it has been a big lesson for me). I have also passed many hard months of social rejection even in my own family because I refuse to eat like "normal" people do, i.e. mainly a lot of junk food, and it obviously becomes unconfortamble for everyone if someone (in that case I) shows up and challenges the status quo by action not so much by words. And I don't even want to discuss or judge if this or that is good or bad, but such situations have just been inherently weird. Now I just prefer to eat alone and do my own stuff.
Eating really is a hugely complex and fundamental aspect of human existence, which we share with all other organisms. It is about survival, life, well-being... In the end everyone has their own story and challenges to deal with in life.
Very welcome. I couldn't eat only one meal a day. I get moody and yes, binge eating can happen for me, if I am feeling too restricted. Social pressure can be tough. Good luck to you.
Thanks for the interesting book references and sharing your experience and thoughts. After having been vegan for 4 years I started with Dr Amen-Ras vegan supplemented OMAD diet (which automatically turns into a keto diet after fasting for the first part of the day) for a year and it has been very transformative so to say. It has definitely been beneficial for my health, mainly because it features a daily workout which has allowed me to get in the best shape of my life. It has been challenging for me mentally since it has revealed many unhealthy thought patterns and emotions about myseld the current state of the world (basically being inadvertently poisoned with strange xenobiotic substances embedded in something as vital and healing as food can be. Utter hopelessness about all the social insanity. And the realization of being dependent mentally from eating various times a day for gratificatory purposes. I had to find a new meaning in life to fill in the hours without eating. I definitely got into the disoredered binge eating territory for a few weeks during the transition to the OMAD style eating but it has been a big lesson for me). I have also passed many hard months of social rejection even in my own family because I refuse to eat like "normal" people do, i.e. mainly a lot of junk food, and it obviously becomes unconfortamble for everyone if someone (in that case I) shows up and challenges the status quo by action not so much by words. And I don't even want to discuss or judge if this or that is good or bad, but such situations have just been inherently weird. Now I just prefer to eat alone and do my own stuff.
Eating really is a hugely complex and fundamental aspect of human existence, which we share with all other organisms. It is about survival, life, well-being... In the end everyone has their own story and challenges to deal with in life.
Very welcome. I couldn't eat only one meal a day. I get moody and yes, binge eating can happen for me, if I am feeling too restricted. Social pressure can be tough. Good luck to you.