Day 12.  Blood/sugar at 5.6, BP 132/82, Ketones 8mml/L. No hunger pains. No visible loss of weight, still on 104kg. This happened before I think . When I went through a 30 day fast there was a period in the beginning when I seem to stop losing weight then it started up again. Vague.

Usually I have a persistent cough which appears to have gone. Noticed last night how much easier it is to get out of the people mover. And I actually ran across the road with ease. Movements generally much slower though.

Why am I doing this?  Not sure.  On the previous fast back in March I was looking for Johnson's fat switch and I thought I might have found it because my weight stabilized for about 3 months then it came rushing back. I had also wanted to see if fasting cured diabetes which it seemed to do, then back it came as the weight returned. So diabetes goes away with weight loss. Duh.

This time it's different. Spiritually I feel like a spent force. I'm not happy. I think maybe I want to see God's face again though without the prerequisite green leaf. Nuh. Forget that. It's too terrifying.

As beautiful as it was, that's about all my fragile conscience will let me remember. There is Nothing more beautiful. Total supreme splendour. The word awe is the best description and it is interesting that it can be written also as awful. Full of awe. I have known the feeling of absolute terror.  Yes. I'd do it again.

On day 10 of my fast. Still not hungry. Amazing stuff this allopurinol.

It's been around about 50 years, so of course it has no patent and is as cheap as chips. Umm, chips.

Blood/sugar 7.6, just about perfect. The old pancreas must be smiling. I am.

Weight still going down. Now at 104 kg by the looks of it --9 kilo gone. Must get some new scales so I can see in grams instead of kilo's. Blood pressure 85/165. Still a bit high supposedly.

Being a 70 year old I can't help noticing how many older men carry a paunch. Usually its called a beer belly but I don't drink and haven't since 1987 and I'm not a big eater of things like chips and pasta though I do like my bread and butter (never enough butter) but even then it not over the top, but I still carry the paunch. (Waist still at 48 inches (122cm).  Now the paunch is all visual. Looking at it from a Darwinian visual it more or less quickly confirms that this male is probably past his breeding cycle and eats well. It also acts as a defense against aggressors. Anyone who carries a lot of weight is usually surprisingly strong. So cumulatively the appearance possibly gives the wearer some higher status within their society. Often my new customers call me 'sir' as if by deference even though I'm wearing a uniform which implies a lower status, that of servant. But alternatively and more to the point it indicates the probability that the carrier has high blood pressure and is suffering from Metabolic Syndrome.

Now MS is weird I think. For years it was known as Syndrome X as no one apparently could understand why it occurred so easily. It is also the fore runner to type 2 diabetes and possible eventual death from heart disease. It appears to be a disease of  the lower income groups who tend towards high carbohydrate meals which means high sugar consumption but I'm sure there is more to MS than that. After all what purpose does it serve? In the Darwinian state everything has a reason if you look hard enough.

Richard Johnson author of a book title 'The Fat Switch' believes that MS is the body preparing for hibernation. Because of the higher consumption of fructose sugar we produce more uric acid which makes us hungry and in turn causes us to store more sugar as fat. Unfortunately the cold weather has yet to arrive so we can't nestle down in our caves and sleep deeply until it becomes warmer so we just keep accumulating more fat until it 'kills' us. Drowsiness is a symptom of diabetes. Diabetes could be the most efficient way to store fat.
But does it really kill us or just put us to sleep?

A UK doctor named Sam Parnia has the moniker 'Dr. Lazarus' for his ability to resurrect fat dead people. As long as they have not been dead more than 6 hours he can usually bring them back intact. How he does it? He uses a modified method first used 50 odd years ago in Canada by a Dr.Conn to re-life children drowned in cold water. How is this possible you must ask? Because they are not dead. They are in a state of extreme hibernation known as the 'Diving Reflex'. The cold water has activated the trigeminal nerves on the face and their highly oxygenated blood is shunted to surround their heart and brain virtually leaving the rest of the body empty. They just need to be warmed up, slowly. Same as SIDS children. So the only way Dr. Sam can bring them back intact is if their heart and brain have been protected. Somehow these 'dead' people have tripped a diving reflex type reaction causing their heart beat to slow down so much that it is imperceptible.

Feeling sleepy again.

Day 7.  Blood/sugar 5.5

Lost 7kg in 7 days. That's amazing. Already it is easier to put on my socks. Ketones high at 8 mmol/L. A lot of fat and fiction burning here.
http://www.allaboutfasting.com/effects-of-fasting-ketosis.html

Had a nice talk to No.6th daughter. She's wonderfully talented and totally without vanity though lot's of insecurity. Typical teenager if it wasn't for the fact she's half Japanese half English with a fairly posh Sydney accent and in Japanese a Tokyo one. And she's tall with it. A real beauty.

We were talking about life and death. She has a deep fear of death whilst celebrating her topsy turvy life every day. It's funny that George R R Martin wrote about the God of many faces which by definition encompasses the gods of all religions while one group in his adventure recognized the God of death as the only God. I twice saw God's face many years ago. It was reflected in the bright night clouds above Ultimo and of course he winked at me. He was so huge I could see many of the people that he was made of  and surprisingly they were all staring down at me. Very scary. Totally awe full. Wonderful stuff marijuana. Can't handle it any more.

He is the best example of the total being greater than the sum of its parts, our God of many faces. And the wink showed me He's alive.

"Not today". A direct command to that God to stay away, which by implication means the utterer has power exceeding the God. I want my daughter to understand that she is God. I am God. Even my computer is God and we all exist because we are unequal. If we were all equal we would disappear back into the Nothing. Inequality is supreme. And we can all change things within our sphere of unequal influence as long as any opposing force is less unequal than ours.

Day 6. One seventh of my trip into the waist land. A 48 inch waist land.

Day 5, Thursday.  Feeling a bit lethargic today. Blood/sugar at 5.7

Haven't really thought about food. Weight still the same. No stool for the last 2 days. Must flush myself out over the weekend otherwise my breath will smell like dead rat.

Reread Lachlan Murdochs appeal to Australians to wake up to the control freaks called the Australian government, past and present. As a Brit cum Australian, same as Murdoch, I often wonder about the Australians general lack of a sense of indignation (?) at the authorities behaviour to the general population which seems more of an overall reliance that the government will always do the right thing because after all we are all mates and 'she'll be right'. Murdoch reminds us of the previous governments proposal of a  "government-appointed body to oversee all of the media, the “Public Interest Media Advocate” or PIMA."  This was an obvious attempt to control the Murdoch empire using the UK phone hacking scandal as a buttress. This was also a close call for Aussie press freedom.

He ended up saying "Censorship should be resisted in all its insidious forms." This warmed my heart because I have also written in the tome 'What is the Primary Fundamental Right?,   

"Under the Primary Fundamental Right all censorship is illegal including the prohibition against racial, religious, political, scientific, gender or sexual vilification. The right to vilify is a fundamental freedom and its loss a red alert indicator of approaching Totalitarianism. Defamation redress should still exist."

4th day of fast.  Lost 4 kg already, mainly water I suppose though I am drinking a fair bit. Ketones high as expected. Glucose/blood 8.4.
Taking 300 mg of allopurinol 3 times a day. Seems to take away the hunger. Gave me gout in my left big toe for the last 2 days. Fine now.

I just donated $50 to Wikipedia after I was reading about ketones. Good stuff. I remember years ago arguing with Jim Wales via email about one of his editors who kept deleting or altering the Maunder Minimum entry because it was damning for the AGW, the Anthropogenic Global Warming hypothesis and to me it pretty much proves that the Sun is the source of all power on this wonderful planet.

I think there is a relationship between Climate Change and the Rite of Passage. In World War One the lads went off hoping to return home as hero's and all the attendant luxuries that could produce.  Young people today don't have that opportunity but they do have the chance to argue against the War on the Environment which allows them to feel that they are fighting the evil ones such as myself and often winning. It's good that they fight but now political correctness is dictating the battle so they cannot win in the long run. All PC is flawed and only employed when logic is winning.

I wish they'd put as much effort into fighting against the greatest attack on human freedom, the War on Drugs as they do when fighting for Koala's rights.

2nd day of fast. Weight still 113kg. Blood sugar level 8.1 down from 9.8  from day one. Progress. How sweet, but not too sweet.

I dislike the word anarchy. So misleading. That's interesting, anarchy is misleading. So with anarchy there are no leaders. Umm.

Individualism. Love Individualism. No leaders in Individualism. Is Individualism anarchy? Is anarchy Individualism?

Would it be possible to live in a society that didn't have leaders? Possibly not. Our penchant for directions will always lead to the need for a director. Or would it? How about everyone being a director of themselves? The way the world's economy is going we will be forced back into Individualism it seems, very soon.

Back to the innate Primary Fundamental Right. My Body. My Business.




I, with my self ordained power as God, elect everyone to be the leader of the world. Then it's neither a majority or minority decision. No rules either.

We must all be in charge which is only fair as we are all equally God, along with the rest of the Universe. Probably the only thing we can all be equal in. We can't be equal in sexes. We can't be equal in looks and money and location. We can't be equal in anything except Nothing. And everything comes out of the mighty Nothing unequal. Possibly that's why the Universe can exist. Only Nothing is equal, the rest is open slather.

Who trusted God was love indeed
And love Creation's final law
Tho' Nature, red in tooth and claw

Everything is God interacting with God constantly making new inequalities.

Blessed are the really unequal for they have inherited sweet F A just as it should be in a totally unequal Universe. Therefore blame yourself if you are not happy with your lot.

I'm heaps happy. I'm just God interacting with God.

Good night God.