Sounds a lot like how I went through the spectrum of diets. I could enjoy a debate on some things once you really put your paper out or your system / thoughts. I think for the most part most people employ a lot of what you are referring to with the instinctive eating. I definitely do but to be honest you and I both know what it leads too after a while. Here we are sitting here about 5% higher in bodyfat than we want to be.
I was going to ask you if you had been diagnosed with ADHD because I was sure you had it. One of the major signs of adult ADHD is lots of research and planning and not a lot of executingunless extremely motivated. It is an all or nothing situation for us. Then we drop, or replan / tweak it because we always research and see new things we want to try. We can be some of the most knowledgeable people that just execute inconsistently.
I have learned a lot recently about my ADHD through this site they explain tons of things I never knew that explained a lot to me about my behavior. Has some resources to help also but so far I have been researching not executing... as one would expect. If someone wants me to plan their program I can knock it out of the park but executing mine for myself I can only do for short stints but I will say that even instinctive and loose IF is easy to keep yourself in an acceptable range for most people.
I'll be honest, I'm a capitalist.
I'm currently building a a home in an overseas country and one day I need to retire there. The problem is earning money in an overseas country where I'm going is next to Impossible unless you want to make pennies a day... well dollars a day.
I need to create something that people can get value from where I can also support my family in the years to come.
Being in sales, I know a north Korea strike or impeachment would mess my money up badly, and I need to diversify.
That's one of the reasons why I became motivated to do the website that I'm building.
I'm sure you've seen the different intermittent fasting sites, you have Leangains ripped body, then you have people that don't have websites but just sell books like eat stop eat.
To me it seems like there's two different ends of the spectrum with intermittent fasting.
On one side you have the bodybuilding Bros who want to get super lean and ripped and still eat their Pop-Tarts.
On the other side you have people that are really obese and just need a way to be able to get out of that trap as fast as they can.
These have been addressed with two separate types of diets of course. You have Leangains on one end, and things like the fast diet on the other side which I think is the same thing as the 5-2 diet
The problem is that both of those things cause neuroses in some people. Both can be hard to adhere to for different reasons.
And then you have people that get older in life and need to be less focused on the nutrition but still want to get very lean.
Or you have people that don't like completely not eating for 2 days of the week it just doesn't work for them and they still are very overweight and needs to lose weight.
So what I'm kind of working with is just a way to bridge that Gap.
Give people real results and help them out.
I say that I'm a capitalist because I'm building a website around this. I want to create hundreds of articles. A book even in time.
Zig Ziglar said it best. If we help enough people get what they want in life we can have anything we want in life.
Anyways, I've been building websites for years and have done it for clients you've paid me a lot more money that I'm ever going to make with this in the first few months.
But that isn't really the point, the point is to help people out who feel like they need to help. To give people some hope that former fat guys can get thinner and stay leaner for a long time.
Now for the ADHD stuff.
I'm a huge proponent of believing that diet is a huge part of what makes us who we are. I'm also not a scientific Luddite so I never argue that scientific evidence doesn't show that chemical imbalance is exist.
I've tried ADHD medication, and it didn't do anything except for what it would do in a normal person which was Jack them up like an amphetamine.
With that, I find that meditating and focusing has helped me a great deal.
I took a leap of faith and I purchased a set of audio tracks With a money-back guarantee of course that claims to help me with Law of Attraction principles.
The craziest thing is that maybe it's psychosomatic but I do believe they're absolutely working.
There's something to be said about tones that balance the left and right hemispheres of the brain, at since I quit caffeine my ADHD Tendencies have gone down so much it's crazy.
I'll definitely check out the site because I'm always looking to learn new things about psychology and myself.
I highly suggest Anthony Robbins although some people immediately disregard him he is great at thinking and learning about the psyche.
