Chapter 6 - Nutrition and hunger

Hunger is the motivation for movement in nature. If there were no hunger, there would be almost no movement of mammals and insects. All living organisms need nutrition. Plants draw inorganic substances through their roots, which they transform into organic substances consumed by insects and mammals. Then each one enters a cycle of life and death, killing to feed itself or dying to become food and giving energy back to the earth to be reborn and to play this game over again in an infinite cycle.

Man, with the help of reason, has the advantage that he can detach himself from this chain and then look at what is happening, achieving an out-of-body experience.

Let us follow the rules of a rational man and ask questions. The main question is: why should I eat? Answer: because it is necessary for survival. Without food in 20-30 days the body gives up and dies by consuming itself. I understood the message so I answer with another question: if I need to eat then how much should I eat? We consult a nutrition guide and see that for a human body of so many kilograms of weight and so many centimeters of height we need so many proteins, so many carbohydrates and so many fats along with vitamins and minerals. We take out a few superfoods rich in everything that is required and which cover everything that is written in the nutrition guide as necessary and we notice that there is a small pile of food left on the plate. The first thought that will come to your mind will be: so where is the food? Like half a plate will not fill a stomach. If you think that the next meal will be the next day you start to doubt everything and everyone. So you take up the nutritional guide again and read it again. You do another check and notice a detail – so many proteins, so many carbohydrates, so many fats depending on what activity you do and the guide's calculation is for an average activity. You stop wondering what average activity means but you quickly get over it with 2-3 lists of actions in your mind. You get to the problem again – the plate is more likely to be empty than full. That's all and the calculation is correct. It's probably like that but we'd better stop with the nonsense and order a pizza. We'll think about these dilemmas next week. Does it sound familiar?

My dears, food is the body's fuel. The more you increase the quality, the better it works. The more you exceed the quantity, the worse it will work because it is forced to store what it doesn't use. And storage means extra kilos.

There are several important aspects to nutrition. The first is the preparation of the body. If you think about food, your body is already preparing for the reception of food. The more time you spend thinking about food, the more you will develop a greater and unnecessary intake. On the other hand if you don't think about food you will have too small intake. So neither too little is good nor too much. An important regulator here is physical activity that modern man avoids. In fact, if you eat, you should carry out a physical activity. How it works: the body, following physical activity, will ask you for food. This is how the regulation goes from the mental plane to the necessary plane requested by the body.

The second aspect is related to rational choice and the rule exception rule that we have discussed before. Applying rule exception rule implies that you create exceptions so often until you create a new rule from the exceptions. You will erode the new rule with exceptions over time until you create a new rule from the exceptions. In our case, it is good to keep the exception within the framework of unhealthy food and the rule to be healthy eating. That is, 8 days out of 10 to eat healthily, with lots of vegetables and fruits and only on two days to allow yourself excesses. It is possible that now you have an inverse relationship because you keep postponing doing something in this sense.

You still have to choose rationally what to eat and how much to eat. Very likely you have not monitored the nutritional details and very likely layers upon layers of fat are deposited in certain areas of your body. This is achieved over time, over years and represents erosion, slowing down and ultimately diseases. If your body is sick, you will focus on healing it. Your evolution as an organism will fall into darkness until the problem is solved.

And you will try to solve diseases with a few pills. Of course, the doctor knows what he is doing. And old time when morality guided a man's actions is gone. Imagine going to the doctor and asking him: how can I stop paying you? (the equivalent of asking how can I cure myself of this disease so that I don't see you again). It's clear that he will be happy and say that you have nothing, this will resolve itself. Or rather, he will rub his hands, he will establish complete sets of tests for you, an initial set of pills that he will later adjust according to the results of the tests. I don't know why the image resembles that of the person who approves a lifetime installment system for you. …

Maybe you don't know, but any pill does both good and bad to the body. Their medical approval is based on the concept that good is greater than bad. The truth is that you enter a circuit. In a circuit created by a mostly corrupt medical system.

Why to eat, how much to eat, when to eat – I won't mention when because the internet is full of advice.

A rational person will observe themselves. They will write down on a sheet how many times they think about food, they will analyze what they eat and how much they eat. They will establish rules such as the 3 meals a day, without snacks in between, and they will establish a menu that does not burden them unnecessarily but gives them strength.

After establishing all this, the rational person will realize that food addiction is actually related to energy hunger. They do not think about the food itself but about its taste that gives them energy, satisfaction and soothing substances. I cannot deny that eating is an energy-generating activity. But is a limited energy generator. Human energy is replenished in many channels and this is a fairly limited channel. The energy generated is correlated with both the expectation and the effort made to obtain the food benefit.

Example: you buy a bag of chips and eat it or you think about a bag of chips for a few hours, go to a store 1 hour away to buy the bag of chips then come back and try to enjoy it by eating slowly. The achievement of a plan, of a goal, the effort made and crowned with success and of course the enjoyment of victory. That's the difference between between cooking your food or ordering it. Coming prepared or making an effort to achieve it.

I chose this topic because a rational mind can develop a healthy mind in a healthy body. If you don't take care of your body, the mind will be affected too.

Let's get back to nutrition. Your training will ask you for information about what each product contains, what it does in the body and how it helps you. I encourage you to learn, to gather information, to compare information, to compare sources. There is plenty of room for improvement, you can learn from anywhere and from anyone as long as you check the information and it is correct. Another little trick for mind control is to avoid making final conclusions. This mistake is very widespread. In itself it is not wrong but it becomes wrong. It is not wrong if this is the conclusion to the data received at a given time. It becomes wrong after a period of time when you re-evaluate with new data added. However, if you have definitively established that this is how it is, you will reject the new data and you will find yourself at some point with an erroneous conclusion that will influence your decision-making. Problems arise when you have applied "this is how it is" everywhere and your mind is full of erroneous reasoning, partially or completely.

I leave you to analyze your actions and the justifications that underlie your actions, because it requires patience, there are questions that need to be found, there are negative and positive evaluations.

We return to nutrition and hunger. Nutrition is actually the main cause of diseases, especially after a certain period of time, which translates to after a certain age. I'm not trying to scare you, but I don't want to minimize the impact either. Are you maybe over 40 and already formulating in the way: well, in my youth I had a different strength? Then it's only your fault. You managed to lose your strength and power from your youth. On the contrary, instead of being mature, with years of experience that generate greater strength and overflowing energy, you can't even say that you still have what you had in your youth. A lot of the blame lies with the wrong nutrition for years. You didn't care what you ate, only that it was tasty. And you still do the same thing. You continue to give yourself pampering and food rewards without doing anything to deserve them. If you put effort into achieving them, you could say that you deserve. The good news is that you have a fabulous body and you can still correct the mistakes. Learn about nutrition, learn and fill the information gap. Then apply. Little by little, stage by stage, so as not to cause shocks of adaptation. Give your body time to change. Understand that you have modified it over the years, so don't expect to transform yourself for the better overnight. Time, patience, perseverance, information, that's the mix you need to apply and the results will appear. You, on the other hand, will have a goal, you will push hard and you will suffer to achieve it. But suffering will give you greater confidence in yourself, in what you can do. With time, you will understand that impossible means it has not yet been solved. Still. That untreatable means that the cure has not yet been found. Still. You will understand that you are light and energy and you control matter and you can grow, you can become stronger physically and mentally.

A small systematization of the most important questions:

1. How much do I eat – we are talking about quantity and no matter what you eat, the quantity matters. The first step is a calculation in grams. How many total grams of food at a meal. Rough calculation of grams and gradual reduction of the portion to achieve the objective.

2. When I eat – maintain the calculation of grams and organize meals in the morning as early as possible, then lunch around 12-1 pm and dinner at 7 pm maximum. This way you give your body time to digest. It is mandatory at this stage to eliminate any snacks between meals. A normal digestion lasts 6-8 hours so you don't have to worry about what happens if you don't nibble anything. (we exclude people who have certain diseases that involve a constant diet)

3. What I eat – here you have to study what each food contains, start avoiding fats and carbohydrates, look for products that fit, focus on vegetables, avoid cooking by frying. – rare exceptions so that they do not become the rule. This step is very important as an informational input because you will learn and you must learn about your nutrition.

4. Why I eat – perhaps it should be called the superior step in which you will analyze whether you eat for the pleasure of eating or for the energy it will give you. It is a positive thing even if incomplete. Positive because you will understand the role of nutrition. Incomplete because you do not have to give up the pleasure of food that becomes a source of energy. As an example, think of a wooden cabin in the forest, covered in snowdrifts and inside a wood fire burns in the stove. You are sitting in front of the fireplace with your feet towards the fire to feel the warmth and with a mug of aromatic drink next to you. Add to this idyllic image the smell of a baked pie being prepared in the cottage kitchen. Does the image change for the better? It helps you a lot to create a system of positive memories if you develop the memory of smell and taste. To have memories of smells and tastes in fact.

Do not forget that the development of the sense of smell is a sense processed at a rational level in the central lobe. The only sense that is processed there. ….