Something

Something does not feel right to me. I have gone without eating meat for three weeks now and it is wreaking havoc with my weight.  OK, maybe just a touch of hyperbole there with the "wreaking havoc" line. What I have noticed since I have started going meatless, is that I am hungry more than before.

My whole approach to eating for the past year+ has been to eat only when hungry and to stop eating when no longer hungry. By doing this religiously, I would fast four or five times a week. Every four or five days I would eat one really nice meal, still not eating too much food, but a really nice meal. My body never had a problem with the fasting because at some level it knew I was not starving it. Since I have started to go meatless, I'm not sure my body is so certain of my intentions anymore. Meat was good enough for us for almost 63 years; so why not now? You would have to ask Ayahuasca that one, or rather, I need to ask her that one the next time I sit with her. 

I think my body has learned that a bean tostada is not quite as satisfying as a ribeye steak, and I eat a lot of bean tostadas.