Losing your thyroid does affect you. You lose the abilty to call on your body to

Losing your thyroid does affect you. You lose the abilty to call on your body to produce energy for you. And so you absolutely must eat. I find that as long as I have ‘nibbles’ I can work indefinitely. But in the work I’m doing now, I’m back to restaurants, and it’s making me fat, and ocillate between full and hungry.

Being an endurance-thinker, is not that different in many ways from being an endurance athlete.

I know far too many writers who do it with caffeine and cigarettes. But it’s better with water, sleep, food, and walking (oxygenation).