My diet is so great in that I mean that my body's ability to provide bio feedback is greatly enhanced. One continuous improvement after another! So I thought more about my breathing frustrations and came to one realization: if my hypothesis of digestion is the cause of my breathing difficulty then some meals I must be improperly food combining and/or some complex salads with 6 or 7 ingredients like I've had previously would make my stomach feel upset or knotted up while simpler salads would not make my feel this way (I've been doing 3 ingredients for 2 weeks so far) because they are so easy on the body. For the past 6 months I know I've been carefully food combining so I know that is not the case. The knots I felt in my stomach seemed to occur no matter if I had a simple salad with 3 ingredients or one with 7 or 8 I always felt the same. Last day in the gym I got to thinking: so sometimes I feel I cannot get a deep enough breath and I'm running out of oxygen which is a horrible feeling to have. When I get a deeper breath I usually have to crouch down or hang like on a pull up rack to get that full breath. I began to think: maybe I'm breathing all wrong then at work day before yesterday and yesterday I watched a lot of YouTube and did quite a bit of searching. I came to realize that I am a "Mouthbreather" not that I'm stupid as the name can imply. I never realized after all of these years that this was a major problem. So to get full breath which was overbreathing and all in my head I had to breathe so deeply to get a breath I was unlikely to ever get. Interestingly, I only began to do this practice about 10 months ago when I initially began raw vegan 80 10 10 with lots of mistakes and screw ups for the first few months. Ive learned to breathe through my nose only at all times other than when exercising, eating, or talking. So with a meditative focus on breathing through nose I haven't in over a day tried to breathe too heavily through mouth so the soreness I felt under right rib I'm convinced was my lungs crying out from me overstressing them now that soreness is no more. The knot in stomach I think was just the messages I kept telling myself about my digestion still trying to straighten itself out. Next step I messaged a couple of breathing coaches to learn how to breathe because I've been a chronic mouthbreather my entire life and always thought that whether I breathe through mouth or nose it doesn't matter. I still have a lot to learn about breathing but I do understand that mouthbreathing can be very unhealthy. The science is interesting saying that mouthbreathers can cause dental issues (disrupts the mouths ph balance), respiratory problems, changes in fascial structure - a longer face with mouthbreathing, nostrils can become constricted because of non use so to expand have to be used more often, reduces nitric oxide production which affects cardiovascular and brain health, and more (i found good blog post on this subject for anyone that wants to learn more: https://feno.co/blogs/news/the-hidden-dangers-of-mouth-breathing-a-scientific-deep-dive?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=21919780221&gbraid=0AAAAA9WBXt4QGiCKf94X_MPI2FPTr5HLt&gclid=CjwKCAjwiezABhBZEiwAEbTPGKSbWinxgbdZAYruQ5-gza66l2KzYg35gEUJzOI8NdXroYw28StPQxoCLqQQAvD_BwE

Lovely to meet in person and loved this conversation. Enjoy https://youtu.be/7EmRWs2iZZw?si=YHJATFBoF3e762tY

I'm officially a Certified 80/10/10 Level One Coach! Now comes the fun part of starting to setup business, socials, course/program setup, and more.

I'm happy to report that in a little over 4 months being RV 80/10/10 I got down to 189lbs. I'm still 11 point something percent body fat, so goal is to get to what Dr. Graham says in his book is athletic which is 3%-9% body fat. I'm not sure how low I have to go in weight and while I am doing weightlifting I'm doing little just as schedule permits with low weight but targeting all areas of body. I'm 41 and am going to be in the best shape I've ever been, not saying I'll be doing 19 minute 5k runs like high school but at this point I certainly won't rule it out.

Hi All I wanted to share a short video of some of the produce I grew and sold to the local grocery shop in my town. I moved here at the end of January and started a small no - till regenerative farm. I've been selling organically grown produce to the store and some neighbors and a Mexican food truck. It feels good to provide high quality produce for people to enjoy. I love hearing feedback about how they enjoyed it!