9.4.11

Not my picture, but, this is a sunrise in Vancouver.

     My Dad and I got up about 5:30am or to head up to the "Waterfront Skytrain Station." We got there just in time to catch the first Canada line train down to YVR (airport). It is a pretty quick ride about 15 minutes or so once you get on the train. After walking into to the airport with my Dad and saying our see-ya-later's (goodbye makes it sound like you will never see that person again, you know?) I walked over to the Starbucks coffee shop and grabbed a cup before I got back onto the train for the ride back. Now by this time it is about 56 degrees or so, clear blue sky, sun rising; these trains have a windshield on the front side of them so I sat there watching the sun rise over the mountains drinking my Starbucks coffee, life is good.

     Once I got back to my place, the rest of my day was dedicated to finishing all of my assignments, journals, and quiz's. Not much going on kind of a lazy day of work in front of the laptop. 

     My Uncle Richard had recently asked, "Looking back on human evolution, we evolved on a diet of gorging and starvation (fasting). What are the benefits of short term fasting cycles? Can we digest or burn off the toxic, weaker, cells in our body by fasting and therefore improve our health and life span." I choose to write a research paper on this for my "Research Methods" class, which will hopefully be completed before the due date, answering all your questions and mine on the topic. 

     This is one of those topics I have been looking into for some time now and as of yesterday, I had an intermittent fast lasting from 8pm-7pm the next day. I thought this was going to be extremely challenging not eating for a length of time like that but it was not to bad. I found myself having a straight coffee in the morning and then water and tea for the remainder of the fast. At 7pm I ate a meal like I would  normally make and it did not seem to bother me after I spent all that time fasting. Something I noticed throughout my day was I had a very clear mental state until my stomach started to grumble which seemed to disrupt that state, but I would settle back into it again. I definitely will continue to experiment with my intermittent fasting as from the research I have been doing in the school databases containing tons of studies on the subject it seems to be very beneficial for life long health. 

     Now I cannot link any of the articles from the school databases on here but I can link you a little article written by "Mark Sisson," which gives an overview of how intermittent fasting works and the benefits it provides. 

http://www.marksdailyapple.com/fasting/

Cheers,

WipFit