Fast Isn’t Just His Speed
There’s one more lesson we learned about how the staff helps keep the birds of prey from getting fat: one day a week, the birds fast. They simply don’t feed them anything other than what may make a mistake and crawl into their cages—which are the size of a living room.
Fasting. What a concept! It’s a gimmick that’s being taught a variety of ways in weight loss programs and books. Maybe to trick the metabolism. Maybe to stay in ketosis. Baloney.
Fasting reflects what happens to the birds of prey when they live in the wild. There are days when they don’t catch anything, or they don’t find carrion. On those days, they don’t eat.
That used to happen to us as well when we didn’t catch animals or the crops failed. When all you have to do is drive to the supermarket or the drive-thru and buy whatever you want to eat, forced hunger doesn’t happen any more. We have to decide to do it. It’s no gimmick; it mimics real life.
I hope this look at what we learned at the Center for Birds of Prey was informative. There’s a lot more I covered in this month’s Conference Call; you can still listen by becoming an Insider. Check it out.
What are you prepared to do today?
