Intermittent Fasting

Options

Monk Diet: breakfast & lunch only

3 PM Diet: until 3 PM

Daylight Diet: only during daylight

Warrior Diet: dinner only

One Meal a Day

Two Meals a Day (12 hours apart)

Benefits

To remember God.

To cultivate patience. 

To sleep better.

To remember dreams better.

To have time for body to rest and recover.

To free up more time. 

To be fitter. 

To witness fullness and hunger.

To witness pleasure and pain.

To witness polarity.

To have time to communicate and resonate with the Soul.

To practise physical, emotional, and mental discipline and control.

Raw Food Again & Again

Coming back once again to raw.

Always refreshing and always healing.

Perhaps the key is percentage and not perfection.

Warrior Diet

Under eat during the day

• Minimise food consumption to mostly raw fruit and vegetables, soups, and small amounts of light protein foods.
• Exercise regularly during the under eating phase. 

Eat your main meal at late afternoon

• Start with subtle tasting foods and move to more aggressive foods i.e. salad, vegetables and proteins first, then finish with carbohydrates.
• Introduce all tastes, textures, aromas and colours possible in your main meal.
• Stop eating when you feel much more thirsty than hungry.
• Rotate between days of high protein, high fat and high carbohydrates.
  

Excerpt: The Warrior Diet
By: Ori Hofmekler

Eating: Affirmation

Dear Food, you are lovely, and I love you.

Dear Body, you can eat anything, anytime, anywhere
And keep no extra fat.

Dear Body, you can eat anything, anytime, anywhere
So you need not store any extra fat.

I can eat anything, anytime, anywhere
And feel maximum aliveness, clarity, and light.

Food Pyramid

TV and Eating

In your never-ending, nearly obsessive pursuit for the ideal body shape, you never thought much about how your TV watching was very much part of your eating ritual.

Perhaps over the years, you unconsciously related eating and watching TV as one and the same thing. Observe that TV watching and eating is very much alike. One is the consumption of images, sounds, and concepts, and the other is the ingesting of foodstuffs and liquid. None of them is always beneficial or detrimental, but both are processes of making something external into part of us.

The problem is that your awareness tends to be rather one-pointed. That is to say, if you are watching TV and eating at the same time, you can only be totally engage with and aware of one of them at any time. In your case, TV usually got the upper hand. As a result, you would be paying more attention to the TV, and be quite oblivious to the food that you are eating. You would be unaware of its texture, smell, and taste, etc.

The unfortunate thing is that if you are watching TV for two or three hours, you would also be continuously eating for that same duration. It is just a habit that you never questioned. Why you would watch so much TV would be another article for another day.

The funny thing is that you attempted all kinds of diets and exercises, while leaving the TV-eating connection intact. You would force yourself to eat less or follow a very rigid schedule, or do a new kind of exercise, but you would still eat and watch TV at the same time. Of course, as you can guess, the attempts were quite futile.

Without disconnecting the association between TV watching and eating, your attempt for health and fitness would be in vain.

Simple Guidelines on Eating

• Freedom to eat anything, anytime, anywhere, aiming for maximum aliveness, clarity, and light.
• Eat in Peace without TV and other distractions. TV watching and eating should be separated by 10 minutes interval.
• Constant Vision of your body as light and love in perfect and ideal shape, especially when you begin to worry about your body shape.

Freedom and Binges

You have always been puzzled by the uncontrollable binges that are plaguing you to no end. Please understand that your binges are caused by a lack of freedom you placed on yourself. You have never allowed yourself the freedom to eat whatever, whenever, and wherever so that it would be appropriate for your body and the particular condition in which you found yourself.

Such lack of freedom, of course, comes from your sincere but misguided desire to be physically perfect by controlling your diet in all ways conceivable. From this lack of freedom, your mind is constantly fearful of being starved of energy or some particular types of food, be it sweet or oily or otherwise. Hence, your mind is constantly looking for opportunities to stuff itself with all kinds of food, which might be prohibited by you in the next moment. This translates very literally into what you would call the Binges. All binges are caused by a fearful mind weary of scarcity and uncertainty.

As binges caused discomfort and guilt, you immediately force yourself into starvation mode by food type, portion, or by time. So you swing between starvation and binges, and you become the diet yo-yo, which is most detrimental to your well-being.

What is the only way to stop this pointless and desperate cycle? You must allow yourself the freedom to eat whatever, whenever, and wherever, unconditionally. Only in such total freedom and assurance, would your mind disengage from the ever-fearful grasping, and allow your physical body to have a say in what, when, and where to eat. From this lack of freedom, you have totally lost touch with your natural biological need in terms of nutrition, and you have totally lost the ability to listen to your body’s guidance on the diet most suitable to you under different circumstances.

It is now time to free yourself. You have always wanted freedom, but you never gave yourself any freedom to eat. Let this be the first freedom you give yourself, and there will be many more hereafter.

Freedom and Control

Whenever you have forgotten about your freedom to eat anything, anytime, anywhere, you invariably slip into insecurity and fear without your slightest knowing. As a result, you begin the hide and seek with food again, not knowing when to stop, and constantly wanting more, stomach stretched beyond capacity, but mind starved as forever.

Why is this so? Why is the mind unable to hear the utterance of the body? Why does it constantly want more?

It is because the mind is fearful that it might not be able to have anything the next moment. You must always remind yourself, “I am free to eat anything, anytime, anywhere.” Let this thought live deeply in your mind, and live there forever, so that the mind will cease controlling pointlessly, and allow your body the freedom to respond appropriately.

Purpose of Eating

You have never really thought about the purpose of your eating, and you have frequently used food and eating as means to stimulate, numb, distract, and binge. To you, eating occasionally serves the purpose of physical nourishment, but mostly for the purpose of unenlightenment. Your regularly aimless eating had made you restless most of the time.

Without clear and well-defined purpose, your activity will bring you equally chaotic result at the end. Your purpose for eating should be positive, upward and forward looking.

Remember that you do not eat in different ways to be thin or full, but you eat in the right way so that you will feel maximum aliveness, clarity, and light. Observe your body and be aware. If your body and mind do not feel maximum aliveness, clarity, and light from your eating activity, then take a timeout, so that you can feel your center again and return to your sense of aliveness, clarity, and light.

Then when the time is right, try again.

Eating: Books that Help

One Bowl: A Guide to Eating for Body and Spirit
By: Don Gerrard

Think Yourself Thin
By: Dr. Frank J. Bruno

Think Yourself Thin
By: Debbie Johnson

Fight No More

Your physical body is not different from any other situations or relationships in this world. It can be healed with the power of love. When you think of your body as sick or unsightly, you are in fact judging it and sending it the negative image of your mind. When you devise various ways to fix your body, you are in fact avoiding the real problem, which is the imperfection in your sight. As a result, your relationship with your body could only be described as tiresome at best and at worst a battle, with you condemning it, and it rebelling against you by giving you exactly the opposite of what you want.

You easily forgive others and even some unthinkable circumstances in life, but you consistently failed to give up the habit of harshly judging and criticizing your own physical body. Loving-kindness is only true and lasting when it flows everywhere, without and within. If you can only be kind to others and are unable to be kind to yourself, then such imbalance must be addressed lest you fall heavily to the ground from the fatigue of fighting with yourself.

How can you be kind and loving to your own physical body? The same way when you acknowledge that all other people and events are LOVE in disguise, you must acknowledge that your physical body is also LOVE in actuality.

Say to your body, “Love is Who You Are.”

Especially to the blemishes on your face, the white hairs on your head, the fat on your waist, the discomfort at your back, and the countless other dissatisfaction that you have cursed and fought against ever since you were born, say to them, “Love is Who You Are.” This struggle with your very own physical body must end this moment, for you do have loftier goals awaits your visits and blessings.

When you say to your physical body, “Love is Who You Are”, you are in fact giving it the space and reason to be wholly itself again, functioning perfectly, without your constant interference. When you say to your physical body, “Love is Who You Are”, you are in fact acknowledging the Oneness in you, which sees no distinction between the physical and the spiritual. When you say to your physical body, “Love is Who You Are”, you are acknowledging your own Divinity from head to toes, and this can only be a genuine relief to you finally, after such long fight and struggle.

“Love is Who You Are”, not just spiritually, not just emotionally, but totally and unconditionally, and that, includes your physical body as well. Be at peace with your physical body today and now. Fight no more with it due to ignorance mostly your own. Now you know better, please act accordingly.

Grant your body the Love that you have denied it for so long, yet easily granted to a stranger, and release both you and your body from the fruitless fight and struggle forever. Say to your body, “Love is Who You Are”, and see it reflects the Truth in your eyes. Say to any parts of your body that seem troubling to you, “Love is Who You Are”, and hear their songs of joy. See your body for the Love that it truly is and restore your Vision back to Perfection.

Let go of the fight with the food you eat. There is no need to curse it for making you fat and ill. Say to the food you are about to eat, “Love is Who You Are.” Say to the water you are about to drink, “Love is Who You Are.” Then see them sparkle and shine with the light and energy of LOVE, awaiting your communion and loving exchange. In this way, the eating experience is truly “From Love with Love To Love”.

From now on, for every mouthful that you take, remember the food for the Love that it truly is. Every mouthful is Love meeting Love for the first time and Love reuniting with Love once again.

Anything done without Love is pale and wrong, and anything Love did not do must be done one more time, by Love. Anything not seen as Love or in Love must be seen yet again, until Perfect Vision is achieved and you would see wrongly no more.