Why do I blog?

On the way home after the meeting today, I asked myself why I keep going, and why I blog. The answer came. Someone needs to stand up and screen at those government twits and other assorted deaf  dumb, and blind, it is those exorphins that I now find out are being added to food because they cause an increase in consumption. Yah, yah, being added.

Get this now. Get exorphins out of our (your) diet, and the craving to eat goes away, or greatly reduces.

Banexorphin ... sounds like an organization dedicated to the removal of exorphin from the human food chain. 

is food addiction real?

Is food addiction real? Certainly, there is something like food addiction, and it goes away in about three days after we give up all those foods that we are "addicted" to. But some of those foods are hard to define, and I have struggled years, either unwilling to accept or not identifying the foods, partly due to believing some of the diet advice.

But once I identified and accepted that I could not consume specific foods, the hunger went away. So why am I now still doing the OA thing? Well, I recognize, that what I see as the solution may not last, and then there is the social aspects of the program. But the message I want to carry is one of abandon all exorphins and acellular carbohydrates, and learn what those are and what it is all about.

Or is all just chemical

exorphins

Exo ( exogenous ) + endorphins ( endogenous moprphins ):
exorphins are the brain's opiates that's found in food, outside the body -- mainly in gluten-rich wheat and dairy-products. They contain opioid peptides-influencing endorphin-receptors. These peptides are physically addictive, causing dependence, asthma, obesity, apathy, ignorance and numbness. 
'Zombie food', is food high in exorphins that are responisble for food addiction and compulsive eating.

To OA or not to OA

I am struggling with the question. It seams that this whole food issue may be just chemical. Once we realize that, and stop ingesting those exorphins and acellular carbohydrates, what becomes the point?

There is a social component to the program, and a attitude adjustment component, and a gratitude, carry the message component, but the OA program does not allow us to express a clear statement as to the actual cause of the problem. Now what, when I want to screen, it is those damn exorphins. Stop ingesting them, and the problem reduces to a just do it every day situation.

At this time, I have concluded that the compulsion to eat that I feel is largely the result ingestion of exorphins. Duh. Now, where do I go from hear?  

Chemical or Psycological

Are addiction / cravings / compulsions chemical or psychological? A few days ago, I thought they were both. Today I am not sure. Butter at nearly every meal. LCHF things butter is an ideal fat. And the "compulsion" to eat was always there. When there was no butter, during my weight loss phase, the compulsions were much less. Now the concept of butter addiction has come to my mind, and early results indicate butter may be the driving force behind the cravings/compulsions.

I will test myself for a while with no butter, and see if there is a difference.

Atheist Faith

Today, on step two, something came clear to me. As an atheist, I believe in good orderly direction to govern my life. Prayer is more like a mediation, not a blank mind, but to the breath, and then to the problem of the hour, when I loose concentration, back to the breath and then to the problem. But I degress

Faith is my topic, and as I am a compulsive person, today, now, the compulsion is on recovery. What the next hour will bring is something else. Back to what does faith mean to a atheist. Faithful means to keep on following a principal, without wavering. Much as I committed to be "faithful" to wifee, I now make a commitment to not consume sugar, grains, manufactured editable products and omega 6 rich oils.

The next level of commitment, which I struggle with is a commitment to three moderate meals per day.   I am a compulsive person, without a doubt. Some of the time, I am compulsive working or doing something. All or very little, full speed or idle, just like a small outboard motor. Chicken or feathers.

A spiritual awaking is a personality change sufficient to bring about an end to the problem. It may be just a recognition of the problem and a work around the problem, not necessarily a removal of the problem.


I have a compulsion to deal with along with all the other shit. Oh well, life goes on.

Hunger

When did we, the human population decide that it was wrong to be hungry?

Have we always thought it, or is this just a recent development?

Being slightly hungry before ever meal would mean about the right intake of food. That can be learned, and become normal to be hungry for a while before eating.

No God, just good orderly direction

Comment to Jess in my mind:

Your search is just beginning in the right direction. Many more concepts yet to come. Your title from a few days ago really applies ("Oh, The Places You’ll Go!").  Note that religions are not logical and many do not even understand there own history.

Places you will go Burning Man http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ahv_1IS7SiE 

Sorry, but I may get preachy.

Religion had purpose when the average life span was short. It was a quick way of teaching right from wrong, to get the young started out right, when the elders knew they were not likely to be around long. All that has changed. Now we need to understand the cause, the why, and much more. Our world has changed so dramatically. When I left high school, the job I have done for the last 30 years did not exist in this area. Now it is essentially being replaced by the computer programs.

Fueling our brains is critical. We humans are a two fuel organism, glucose from carbohydrates or keytones from fat. We can make the little bit of glucose we need from proteins. My brain on keytones works so much better, clear, and no cravings. The compulsion is still there, but the cravings are gone. For a frequent dose of food education, I suggest Jimmy Moore's contacts http://livinlavidalowcarb.com/blog/ although some of them are questionable, there is a lot of information mixed in.  Volek and Phinney are worth a listen. So is Tarman. http://www.marksdailyapple.com is also good information but foodie. So much good information and so much crap about food on the net. Ketonic diet is the key for me.

On the spiritual side, I read Buddhism, for a while and mediated in several different styles for a bit. Micheal Browns, the presence process clarified all that. It is process. Eckhart Tolle, Now, and clarified much of my current beliefs, which I expect to keep changing.

The world remains 3/4 nuts, and the dysfunctional remain dysfunctional. Government looks out for government, and the economy, big business, and the medical community, not the people. We are on our own, to find our own way any way we can. Government is losing control now, thanks to the internet. The information gatekeepers are being bypassed. We are on the leading edge of the next revolution where people are free to think, write and explore new ideas, but we still need to make a living.

Tolle, in one of his youtube things, states that he thinks the there is a new level of evolution coming, a new awareness. I thing it has always been here, but only with time and awareness, and the willingness to explore spirituality-concepts-ideas-philosophy-personality, the non real world, but the mind drives the real world, so this is the part that drives the real world, drive us.

I think studying and writing about these spiritual concepts, at a human level, is a wonderful pursuit. Too many of the current authors start "down the rabbit hole" and get lost in their accumulation of knowledge, to be effective for those just starting the search. "Ah, but the things we will see", so glorious and grotesque, the wonders and frights, real and surreal, imaginary and physical.  I digress.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahv_1IS7SiE