My take on Health and Weight Loss.

Losing weight is simply a matter of repeated self control but complete different from being healthy. Essentially any type of carbohydrates simple or complex will turn into fat if you don't spend the energy. Meats put a hamper on your system because it makes your body work to digest. Fruits and Vegetables are wonderful because they are full of water and vitamins. A lot of citris fruits help the immune system with vitamin C. A lot of berries help with B vitamins that help convert proteins into energy. Eating fruits and vegetables (lightly steamed or raw) is actually like digesting water at the same time. The more water you have in your cells the more efficient your body will be. So essentially its about eating water not drinking water. Complex carbohydrates which are basically whole grains, take the body a little longer to digest so they dont hamper the body and the energy can be used throughout the day as it takes it's long digestive process. To ensure the energies will be used, we need to eat fruits and vegetables to help us digest water and turn protein into energy, eat complex carbs for energy throughout the day and protein for relatively instantish energy. Exercise is important because if you don't lose your muscle it degrades like everything else. Strong people are generally healthier because their body can handle more bullshit because there is more water in muscle than in fat. The more water are in cells the more efficient your body will function.

Losing weight is basically portion control. Eat until you are a little less then full. When you are full your body struggles to process everything in you. The less you eat the more your stomach will shrink to normal size requiring less food. Eat 5-6 meals every 3 hours if you can. I'm talking about maybe one third of the portions you eat before you get full. Think of it as putting a little more fuel as you travel from Los Angeles to Las Vegas. Keep feeding the engine. Don't eat three hours before you go to bed because your body will be trying to process food during your resting period. You won't get enough rest because your body is focused on digesting and you don't burn enough carbs/fat while you sleep so the current food you just ate will turn into fat. Eat vegetarian once in a while. The vegetarian nation is growing. There are a lot more options with chains like Whole Foods opening. There are some ethnic foods like Thai or Vietnamese that almost always have vegetarian options. Vegetarian and Non-Vegetarian food in restaurants cost about the same.

Friendship

Lately my tolerance for bullshit has dropped.  I decided to make a good list of the people who consistently show a dedication to being nice to people.  This includes daily habit of trying their best not to step on anyone's toes, contributing to humankind, making the best effort to be centered and people that have not crossed me.  At the moment, there are 21 people on this list.  I've decided I'm a very judgemental person and even some of my closest friends may not be on this list.  In retrospect, these people are so awesome, I will make my best effort to hang out with them to learn something.  Don't get me wrong, just because you aren't on this list does not mean you are on the shit list.  You are most likely neutral.  Some of you might think wow what an arrogant thing to do ranking friends.  Well, I dont give a flying fuck.  Love me or hate me I think I am a decent human being that has decent friends.   Tolerance for bullshit is hard.  I'm tired of getting stepped on.  I'm tired of being nice to people who do not care about anyone but themselves.  I'm not the greatest human being but I do try to be nice.  People who think about themselves too much is why people cheat (instant gratification), is why some wars start ( I want their land for money), and its why our planet is dying (global warming).

Sad

Well, I've gone the other direction from Naturalistic Simplicity.  I'm disappointed yet hopeful to get my life back on track.  I have been under the weather in the month of December/January.  This has made me overindulge as a compensation to my sufferings,  I ate a lot more.  I bought a lot of unnecessary things.

At this time being in this uncomfortable state, my body in an attempt to maintain balance has gone to the flight or fight mode.  Apparently it has decided to fight.  It was either be more reactive/defensive(fight) or ignore everything (flight/isolation).  I was more judgemental, more reactive to stoopid people, and often times jump through conclusions because I was looking after the id.  I also made the conscious effort to spend more time with my parents which made me more reactive because my dad's logic is illogical and my mom just doesn't think before she speaks.  So over all it has been a volatile time for me.

I've also learned a few lessons along the way.  One is that I've been wasting time on some friendships that turned out to be very one-sided.  Although I have very little close friends that I care about with all of my heart.  It's time to lessen the efforts with some people who are my "friends".  The other thing I'm trying to do is to judge people for their contribution to society instead of my impression of them.  Some people are naturally aggressive but they do great things for the world.  It's important to overlook some personal dysfunction if it is for the greater good.  I need to to get back to simple eating with whole foods, organics, and fruits to help my cells retain water.  I also need to spend less time with family to regain a grasp of my "ego-less" state.   Slower eating and less indulgence in food and materialism is needed.

I'm sorry if I had offended anyone during this time.  I realize that this is hard for me to overcome because this reactive nature has been pounded in by my parents since I was a kid.  However, because I am aware of this it can only get better from here.  I know what I have to focus on.  On the plus side, this fight mode made me a work machine.  I've been maintaining better long term focus at work and playing longer at a high level in sports.