Old age and fasting
There is a machine in the brain that moves us towards food. Its not hunger. Hunger is pretty obvious, this machine of the brain is more subtle and more powerful. It diminishes the will to continue fasting by lowering your ability to be self determined. I watch for it now. Part of this machine starts by wanting to crunch or chew something. It uses your imagination by imagining food moving down your throat and filling your stomach. My method for conquering this powerful mechanism is to leave my home. This keeps me away from the food in the kitchen. Here though, is my opportunity to conquer this machine. It has taken years of distance from my kitchen to get used to the idea that I must eat. Breaking the habit of always snacking and eating meals is not a habit you can change easily. I was destined for blindness. So I had an incentive to conquer this powerful habit. Wet macular degeneration is a weird disease. It takes away pieces of your sight in the center of your vision ...