autophagocytosis

It's odd that I've become such a health nut.  I'm not trying to "eat healthy," just trying to avoid processed foods, breads and pastas. Meat, eggs, dairy.  Beer, coffee, sugar.  Anything without enough nutritional value. Once I learned how much is lost when you strip the bran hull to make white rice, eating brown rice just makes a whole lot more sense. Or sometimes quinoa.

I miss making lasagnas and quiches, but there's a lot that can be done with plants.  The amount of flavor you can get grinding up their seeds can be impressive.  I've gotten into the habit of doing this almost every day.  Well, not grinding my own spices, but cooking myself a big flavorful lunch ..before fasting.

Does it seem I'm getting carried away?  I'd have thought so myself, until reading about autophagy or rice bran or adenosine receptors.  Then it's a no-brainer, and honestly, it's not that difficult.  Changing habits can be difficult, but once I'm in the swing of doing things differently, going back seems unthinkable.  At least until life throws me back one way or another, but maybe that doesn't have to keep happening, right?

Another case in point, my body seems to have adapted well to the regular stress.  I'm no longer limping after class, or even the next day.  Sore an awful lot, but not cripplingly so, anymore.  I wonder if up-regulating autophagy helps with that.  As I understand, it should help with a lot of things.

All these things require thinking ahead in a way I haven't done so much before. They all make little to no difference in the short term.  Eating better feels better, but eating donuts feels pretty good too, so that can seem like a wash.  No, it's more about how eating too many donuts too often will feel after a year.  Five years.  Twenty years.

In theory, eating a donut with some coffee would be fine now and then, but once I'm out of the habit, I almost never get around to it.