We had a blast, sorry if you guys missed it, but now you don't have to. I'll get the 2nd one up, too.

I know it's been quiet in here lately, and a lot of that was my fault. Saul and I were hosting our usual board game meetings in cafes around Cancun, but the other day we got invited to this new place, a hostel in the Hotel Zone. I've had some great memories in hostels and with people I've met in them around the world, and especially while backpacking southeast Asia. They were sometimes $1 US dollar per night in Vietnam. Things were going fine, his friend gave us a tour of the place, and we settled on having the games night in the lobby where the most traffic would come through. Sure enough, with an initing pile of hundreds of dollars worth of board games stacked high on a table at the entrance, they started wandering in: a tourist from Chile, a man from the Czech Republic, and eventually an energetic Chinese psychologist who ironically started off the conversation by telling us all about his problems. He said he was passing through just for a night or two and then on his way to Cuba. As the games progressed, he said, "Hey, I know, let's go to Coco Bongo!" It had been a dream of mine to go for the last 3 and a half years. But it's ungodly expensive! So it just wasn't in the budget. He said, "Ahh, come on, I'm going to get a table, it's $300 and I'm paying it anyway, but if I add someone they'll let you in for $30 bucks." I thought, hmm, that's not bad, even with a Mexican local discount it's still more than that. Maybe.. As the others weren't budging, he kept badgering us, "Okay, what if I just pay for you to come? I only booked a hostel instead of a hotel because I was hoping to meet some friends and go on adventures since I don't have much time left here." So we agreed. We met the Chinese psychologist down in the lobby, and took off. He insisted on tacos before the show, and said he knew the best taco place in town. We both laughed, what does a Chinese man know about Mexican tacos? Enough apparently, those were the best tacos I've ever had in my life. I don't eat that crap, but what's the point in being obsessed with health if a couple of times a year you can't celebrate being alive. Not jumping headlong off the wagon, but merely partaking in a few bites for the comraderie.

Please look again at the time of our 2nd Group Live Chat. I used a different time zone converted, and it was off by two hours. Gurr. I've fixed our meeting time. Please check if you can come based on the new time. 😫🙏I'm so sorry about that. It's Cancun time 8am(Chicago Central time) this Thursday. https://meet.google.com/kvd-ztca-usc

Mark's just begun his 8th week on the protocol, and is probably in the 45-50 pound loss range. I've been doing this for years, But while I Believe it.... I don't even believe it. @Mark Townsend , you blow my mind. Every time we chat for our checkins, or you share your soul with a gutwrenchingly-beautiful and story here in the group, no matter who has shouted at you, thrown away your groceries, bullied you at work, chased you out of supermarkets, the thousands of miles on the road, the Zero sleep, the family resistance at first(surely you've convinced them by now that we're not crazy), in spite of all this you're still fighting away. I see an Entirely New Man. You're like a butterfly, emerged as someone you deserved to be all along, just needed that nudge. Not that hopeless guy, in pain, who could barely breathe before whom I wouldn't have trusted with a loaded knife... 😆 You look like a backlit television screen, glowing from the inside. Look at the life in your eyes! I couldn't be more proud of you if I tried. What Do You Think He Should Do Next?

I know more than one extreme coffee addict, they'll pull up all the latest "coffee-industry-funded research" proving how great it is for you. Don't get me wrong, if you want to justify something you enjoy by pretending coffee is good for you, you don't have to. You're an adult. You can do whatever you want. But if you're overweight, and struggling with your health, and constant sugar cravings, and you can't get your blood sugar down, drinking the world's #1 consumed psychoactive drug in the world probably isn't making any of your problems better. Once you're healthy, you've reached your health and weight goals and you've gotten toxins and inflammation down as low as humanly possible in this toxic world, then have a cup or two a month. But not 7-8 a day. Let it be something you truly enjoy... not a drug you're using because you're broken. https://youtu.be/qb6pIFtvbao