In my last post, "Inflated with Emotion" , I wrote about the hard, physical reality of fat cells—how they are "built," how they shrink but don't disappear, and why this makes my health journey a lifelong "management protocol." Today, I want to talk about the invisible side of that equation: the powerful, hormonal operating system that controls those balloons. For decades, my body felt like a broken machine. I was living inside a rollercoaster of stress and grief, and my primary coping mechanism was emotional eating. I would gain weight, and then, no matter how hard I tried to diet, my body would fight me tooth and nail. It felt like a failure of willpower, but I've learned it was actually a failure of a specific, broken feedback loop. My "fuel gauge" was broken. That fuel gauge is a master hormone called Leptin , and my clean keto lifestyle is, at its core, a systematic protocol designed to fix it. Part 1: The "Fuel Gauge" (H...
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.