This morning it is a beautiful day in Whites Creek, Tennessee. The Humidity is low and the breeze is mild and the sky's are blue. I am at my desk wrapping up Sunday's messages and reading over my sunday school lesson. We have an appointment later with a decorator to finalize our project with the kitchen and dinning room. Everything gets installed next week. Granite, appliances, sink, faucets, pendent lighting, dinning room chandelier, the rest of the painting. We will be so glad to get into those rooms again. It has not really been long only about five or six weeks or so. And it has worked out pretty well all things considering. It is indeed going to be a comfortable space.
Once we can get back into the kitchen I will be able to get back to the discipline of eating like I am suppose to be eating. Although, I have managed pretty well in the restaurants. Fish is my main stay meal, asparagus, roasted veggies without the potatoes please, leafy green salad hold the feta thank you. Toss in all the veggies and perhaps a little grilled chicken of some chilled salmon. Water with lemon keep it coming. Also park as far from the door of the restaurant as possible and enjoy the walk. This is the drill and it works. I have learned that a great meal needs just a few key ingredients. A nice piece of grilled chicken of fish. Not grilled to death thank you. Nice and juicy and well seasoned. A goodly portion of asparagus, or green beens or roasted veggies with some herbs fresh herbs if possible. A leafy salad with a Mediterranean flare. A little balsamic vinegar and some really good olive oil. If there is a good variety of greens in the bowl you don't need much else. Perhaps a few walnuts, a couple of strawberries sliced or mandarin slices, a slice or three of avocado, dash of sea salt and call it a salad. There you have it, protein, veggies, a cold glass of water and lemon and someone to share it with. I call it dinner.
What I am doing is not a diet so I have been told. It is more of a life style. I must admit I really do feel better. I had my reservations about ceasing to use diary products, sugar, and light colored carbs, and sugar substitutes. But I have to say it works. 40 lbs and almost two waist sizes later I believe I am the better for it. I have more energy, my joints and muscles do not ache. I am more alert at work and best of all I am not starving to death. I might add that this works well for me because I really to enjoy vegetables. I have just had to learn how to eat them. In the south we tend to cook our vegetables to death and call it "Southern cooking." I am learning that there are powerful tools contained in a vegetable and when you don't destroy it with cooking it will work for you. So my helpers have taught me to eat as many vegetables as I can, to eat them raw when possible. And if I just have to cook them then either, steam them, or roast them / grill them. Boiling is like a very low priority although I can boil them however boiling leaches all the good stuff out of them if you boil them to long. And cooking them until they literally fall apart is not recommended.
I have to borrow a forbidden word from the above paragraph, "boiled," my program down to three letters. E. S. E. If I rearranged the letters certainly it would spell S. E. E. And this program is something good for everyone to S.E.E. But I arranged the letters I think in the order of priority recommend. E. -- Eat. You must eat. Folks who want to lose weight make the colossal mistake of fasting or not eating. Rational, "If I eat I over eat." "If I eat I will gain weight." That simply is not true. If we eat we boost our metabolism and our bodies begin to employ the food we eat to nourish us and to burn fat. So the first "E," is eat. To quote my helper and I will call him a mentor "You cannot over eat a vegetable. So EAT. (All caps means I am talking very loud!) The "S," -- Stands for sleep. Adequate sleep I am learning contributes to weight loss. I don't currently have this part of the equation down like I need to. It is a work in progress. I am sleeping fine I just get to the bed later than I want to. I bet you guessed what the final "E," stands for and you would be correct if you said "Exercise." The beauty of the exercise is that the plan is not trying to turn anyone into an Olympic athlete. In this plan exercise means moving. Get moving. Thirty minutes a day. Walk. It is best done out of doors. Fresh air and sunshine are important. So walk, out of doors. No big exercise plan. For the working person take the stairs instead of the elevator. Park your car as far away from the entrance as possible and walk. If you think about a persons average day to day coming and going if we planned it we could easily get in thirty minutes of so through the course of our average day.
Well this is a sketch of what I am up to in the healthy living department. I would love any questions or feed back you care to share. Have a great Saturday. Bob
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