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Eat When You’re Hungry
That’s the healthiest way
I’ve been intermittent fasting since I was a kid, before it was known as intermittent fasting and became the hip and healthy thing to do.
I simply would eat when I was hungry, and not when it was “time” to eat…for breakfast, lunch or dinner.
I never had breakfast before arriving in class at school, and while everyone else in my family drank orange juice, I would insist upon grape juice.
I somehow inherently knew the benefits of drinking grape juice, before the world discovered the benefits of one of its main ingredients: resveratrol.
Although much choice for grape juice probably had more to do with drinking it because Pebbles Flintstones was pushing grape juice on TV’s The Flintstones.
Either way, I would never eat anything called “baloney,” with any drink.
It never smelled right, and it definitely never sounded right.
Any form of sliced coconut used to make me gag, and I always chose chocolate milk over white milk when the snack cart came by during class in grammar school.
By the time I reached high-school, I insisted that my Mom make me only a tuna fish sandwich — with premium brand Bumble Bee albacore tuna. And I would settle for nothing less for my entire four years of…