99trumpets

Just thought you all might be interested to know that this is the ancestral mammalian setup. In fact, in embryological development, all human female mammals still, today, start out with two separate 2 "tubes" (each "tube" = vagina + cervix + uterus + Fallopian tube/oviduct), one on the left and one on the right. In most mammal species today the 2 tubes fuse from the bottom up during development. Mammals that have large litters of young end up with a single vagina and a partially fused uterus that still has two "horns", (bicornuate uterus), one on the left and one on the right, to accommodate large litters of young. Species that tend to have 1 large offspring at a time (elephant, horse, human) typically fuse the 2 uteri fully to make just 1 big uterus. Marsupials do not do as much "fusing" in general, and often retain 2 separate vaginas as adults.

So the OP just has an old-fashioned setup. And every woman out there had this arrangement at one point in their lives, when they were itty bitty embryos.

She's still got the usual 1 hypothalamus, 1 pituitary, and the usual 2 ovaries. That's all she needs for a normal menstrual cycle. The uteri will cycle in sync with each other.

I did something different from the OP but it also boiled down to 2yrs of being a nomad, and I had the same experience if the "reentry" to normal life being the hardest part. One reason's financial - you need some minimum $ to come up with first & last mo's rent and to buy normal household stuff and a set of decent clothes for getting a job. I remember feeling my most poor AFTER being a nomad because any scrap of money that I had, had to go to buy a set of sheets or a frying pan or a decent pair of pants or whatever.

You also can run into these weird bureaucratic snags about having a huge gap in your recent history - no landlord referrals, no clear state of residency, big weird gap in your job history. Bureaucracies absolutely freak out at the concept of no fixed address. I remember being run in circles about trying to get a driver's license in Oregon (some issue about having no clear state of residency for the previous two years, and a gap in car insurance).

And then there's a huge sense of letdown: the adventure is over, now you're just another broke wage slave, and nobody really cares about the amazing things that happened to you. It can be really depressing.

I really like this way of formulating it. Fundamentally the carbs-bad camp is proposing that diet composition affects calories out. (affects metabolic rate).

It could also be that diet composition affects probability of additional calories in (via hunger pangs / lack of satiety, sometimes reputed to be a more severe problem on high carb diets).

I'm female and did the same thing starting at age 39 and continuing on and off till age 47. It's probably only feasible if you don't have dependent kids. For money, it can cost surprisingly little to travel the world if you make smart use of frequent-flier credit cards (= free airplane tickets!), make a lot of friends who you can stay with occasionally, and go to a country with a low cost of living. If you have some savings you can live for a full year or two. To make it sustainable long-term most of us need some income, though; I ended up with a combo of a seasonal job that I could pick up for a few months out of the year (I did college teaching for 1 semester per year), along with some kind of portable job you can do from a laptop (I did textbook editing), and frequently I volunteer in exchange for free housing somewhere interesting (sea turtle nesting surveys, bird studies in Alaska).

Also it's best if you jettison all stuff at home, including apt/house, so that you are not paying any rent, mortgage or storage fees and basically do not have any financial anchors. Then your expenses are really just food plus occasional housing costs, plus maybe health insurance.

I'm currently parked at a "real" job for socking away some retirement money, but plan to return to nomadism in about 3 years. Once you've had a taste of freedom it's hard to give it up.