velvetknuckles

I am never full. My vagus nerve must not work properly. I can comfortably drink a gallon of water in one hour. I can eat a whole pizza and still be hungry. I feel like I can swallow a bus. "Eat until you're 'hara hachi bu'," a girlfriend once told me. Translated from Japanese, this literally means "eat until you're 80 percent full". People of the Japanese island of Okinawa, who are among the oldest and healthiest people on the Earth, have perfected this practice over generations. Okinawans eat 10 to 40 percent fewer calories than Americans. They eat until they feel mostly full, and then wait 20 minutes. Okinawans feel satisfied after following the hara hachi bu, even though they eat less. So I should swallow a pickup truck.

That girlfriend was full of shit.

Not only am I never full I crave for food. A lot of it. After I mentioned my affliction to my doctor she told me to satiate my craving by drinking water instead of eating. That's how I know I can drink a gallon of water in an hour. People who know me are awed at the amount I can drink. To keep from weighing 300 pounds, when I have immense hunger I drink water. All the time. All day & night. San Pellegrino too. I bought 6 one liter bottles yesterday and drank them in two days. In fact last night in a six hour period I drank 3 bottles of San Pellegrino, a half a bottle of blueberry vodka mixed with a liter of limeade plus a liter of water before I went to bed. My stomach was distended like a gorilla.

I read an article about Joey Chestnut who is a world champion competitive eater who ate 66 hot dogs with buns in 12 minutes. He also ate 47 grilled cheese sandwiches in 10 minutes. He said to train for these events he stretches his stomach by drinking large quantities of water. That means by trying to cure my emptiness I have created a bigger void in which to fill.

Hmmmsounds like life...by the way ... what happens when you use your head as a defense weapon...



P.S. --- God bless those who are stuck in the Armageddon in the Southwest of California...