When I tell people I fast for 22 hours a day (OMAD - One Meal A Day), the usual reaction is concern. "Aren't you starving yourself?" I have to correct the terminology. Starvation is a state of extreme, prolonged, and severe deficiency in caloric energy intake. Fasting is the strategic absence of food to force the body to switch fuel sources. But the benefits go far beyond burning fat. The real magic - and the reason I don't have quite as much loose skin as a man who lost a significant amount of weight should - is a biological process called Autophagy . Literally translated from Greek, it means "Self-Eating." The "Busy Kitchen" Metaphor Imagine a busy restaurant kitchen. If the restaurant is open 24 hours a day (grazing/snacking), the staff is constantly cooking and serving. They never have time to deep clean the grease traps, repair the broken stove, or take out the trash. The kitchen eventually becomes filthy and inefficient. When you stop eati...
Nearly twenty years ago, I started a blog called The Path is Too Deep, a geeky reference to a rare computer error message. A great deal of life has happened since then, a life I would like to share. So, here again, are some random bits of unfiltered Chris.