What we eat?

What in the heck can the 600 lbs of dairy that is not cheese or milk be?
How does your diet compare?

I HOPE

I hope

that somebody says "thank you" to you today.

Somebody says "I love you"

Somebody lets you a head in line

Somebody makes you day.

Making progress

Keep making progress.

I am not where I need to be but thank GOD I am not where I use to be.

I am okay and I am on my way.

Just keep making progress.

Choose something to work on and stick with it, stop moving all over the place. Keep progressing through the process.

(watching Joyce this morning)

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How do you document your days?

Do you journal?
If you don't you should think about starting. Keeping a journal gives you a chance to look back and see how far you have come.

Another nice way to journal is to use your camera. Do you carry one with you? Most phones have a camera on board today.
Take photos of your daily travels, your meals, your favorite drink.

Here is a link that helps you have better use of your digital camera.

Are you Listening?

Do you hear what plans are being made for you?

Who guides you?

Are you listening?

Seasons

Where are you in your life, have you changed seasons lately?

As we grow, we change directions in our life many times. These are our seasons.

Just like the seasons of the year, these periods can be long, easy, beautiful, challenging.
Sometimes we allow others to contol the seasons of our lifes.

We need to let God control them and we need to stop trying to please others. They really will not appreciate those deeds you are freely doing for them.

Even when we see no way of not doing them, it is just using you to make their lifes easier.

When we let others control us, especially at the risk of illness or exhaustion, we are doing no one any service.

We must take care of ourselves first, our needs. (not wants) We must also give to others, but not to the degree that they no longer help themselves.

Reflect on which season God has planned for you this year.

Busy Weekends

Well this weekend was the last weekend until the end of August that we have free. We spent yesterday running around the Dayton-Cincinnati area. Stopped at Simply Scrapbooks in Kettering, went to Jungle Jims again, looked for a Hobby Lobby, but Garmin said the closest was 88 miles away. (sometimes Garmin and I really don't get along) But it was a nice togetherness trip.
Next weekend is Nicks wedding, the following weekend Bills brother is having a party in Dayton, then it is time for Homemakers camp.
The following weekend is the crop at the church.
I had plans to get a crop in at my house but I don't see it as working for a weekend. Will think on this and see where it takes us.

Any suggestions?

Blessings

Are you struggling. Do you need to be blessed.

You can have it all. You just need to listen to the needs of others and give, not wants of others needs.

There are lessons to learn in our struggles, until you learn the lesson, the problems will continue.

If you need prayers, pray for others, if you need financial help, give to others, if you need mercy, give mercy and forgive. If you are lonely love someone else.

God's word does not mean to be pushover, but it does mean to follow it and to give.
First you need to take care of YOUR NEEDS.

Then give of yourself and find joy in doing so.

Milk part 2

Part two of the raw milk information.

http://journal.livingfood.us/2010/07/21/the-truth-about-raw-milk-part-2/

Priorities

How do you keep your priorities straight? You need to always straighten them.
Keep organizing and putting your priorites in order.

Two Keys
Put God First
Love other people as you do yourself. Which means you need to take care of your self also. Love yourself but do not be in love with yourself.

Do you want to live the
Low Life
or
Higher Life


If you are missing Joyce Meyer from WTLW Cable channel 3, you can find her on channel at 112 (Family Channel) 6:00 am.

Finding information!

After many months of searching I have found a source for raw milk. Many are not quite sure why I would go down this course. From my point of view, I am trying every which way to find the most nutritious food to consume. I don't drink milk, have not been able to tolerate it since I can remember. I remember my mom saying that even when I was little I was not a milk drinker. Don't like it, makes me feel heavy, cause a stomach ache. Well that has all changed since I found raw milk. I had heard of the health benefits, my main goal was to make nutritious yogurt without the additives, like starch to thicken it. So after getting my first gallon of raw milk, of course I tasted it, and I now drink milk. Not lots, a 6 oz glass a day, but I do drink it.
So the info I found today, showed me I needed to talk to you about milk. Please if you have ever wondered why our health is not what it should be or questioned whether the government or food industry has our best interests at heart, read this article.

http://journal.livingfood.us/2010/07/21/the-truth-about-raw-milk-2/

Happy Pills!

Do you take {Happy Pills}?
As the years have went by do you need to increase them?
How far will you go, how many milligrams will you max out at?
As fortunate as we are to have these mood altering drugs available, do you realize it is not a free ride. They have side effects, you become immune and need to increase dosage.

Have you read the statistics? They work, they elevate you mood, increase you coping abilities.
They work with about 65% success rate, for a while until you need to increase them again.
Or change to a heavy medicine.
Now for the real truth. Excersise works 100% of the time. Once you make it up to walking 1 hour per day everyday. You will have the same or better results. Add in 15 minutes of sunlight or 2000 milligrams of Vit D and you will see a huge difference in your attitude.

Don't tell me you don't have time to walk one hour per day. How many hours do you watch tv, if nothing else walk in front of the tv while watching your favorite program.
Of course if you do that you will miss the nature scene while walking outside.

So find away to listen to you body and fix what needs to be fixed, but if you need medicines find out why and if you can improve the symptons so you at least get to take the minimum amoutn not keep adding more and more. Just like welfare medicine is suppose to be there to help you recover not a replacement for good, clean living.

Comparisons

Are you keeping a journal on your food consumption?

Do you notice any correlations between what you eat and how you feel?

Take the time to compare, write it down and adjust your food so you feel the best you can.

If you are consuming some of those comsumable non food items with NO NUTRITION you will have less energy, feel groggy, grumpy and so on.
If you consume good, nutritous, well balanced food items your energy will increase, you will accomplish your goals.

Think about how many items you eat that have nothing to do with fueling your body.

Please make the comparisons and adjust accordingly, you can make a huge difference in how you feel and what you accomplish.

Metabolism

Your metabolism slows down about 5 percent each decade as we age.

How do you increase your metabolism?
Drink green tea, eat hot pepper, eat more often, eat protein, exercises. The studies only prove that these tactics increase your metabolism for about 30 minutes after you do them. After the 3o minutes your metabolism goes back to your normal. So guess if you want to use them and boost your metabolism you need to do them every 30 minutes.

Now one lasting way to boost your metabolism is to build muscle.
Every pound of muscle in our bodies burns 35 calories a day, while each pound of fat burns just 2 calories per day. So as we age we need to concentrate on weight training. We need to build our muscles instead of loosing muscle which we naturally do as we become more sedentary.
So get some hand weights or wrist weights, get on your supportive shoes, walk and pump those arms while doing this. Do some toe lifts and some wall squats. All of these will build your major muscle groups. Last one core. Planks, side planks, or even push ups. Can't do a full push up? Got a set of stairs. Stand at the bottom of you stairs, toes out a couple of inches. Armes where you can comfortably reach. Standing vertically touching steps and push up. When you can do 10 to 15 push ups easily move down a step. Do until you are on the floor. You will beable to do full push ups and have lots of arm, leg, and core muscles.

Protein

So now protein. As mature women we need about 46 grams of protein per day.


1 cup of milk has 8 grams of protein
A 3-ounce piece of meat has about 21 grams of protein
1 cup of dry beans has about 16 grams of protein (This would make 3 to 4 cups cooked)
An 8-ounce container of yogurt has about 11 grams of protein.

To lose weight you need to up the protein. Lower the carbs and fat. That is a fact. Protein helps your muscles rebuild, burns more calories while digesting.

Animal protein also makes your body more acidic, not a good thing. Lays in your intestines and rots.
Vegetable protein found in the good ole USA is genetically altered, (thank Monsanta for that), manufactured and not a good thing.
How can we as a nation screw up our food supply so badly.
Yep it is us, we ignore things unless they are directly effecting us. Now they are causing us problems we just don't understand how. Look at all of the disease we have that foreign societies don't.


Trying to find a good healthy protein is a little hard.


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manufactured and not a good thing.

Birthdays!

We will get back to food, but today a break.

Birthdays! Who would have thought Who would have thought that we would turn in to our parents. Thats what I see as I look at our family and friends who are in similar age groups.
We are our parents. I think we would have been much better off turning into the people our parents feared we would be, but instead we took our cues from them and we turned in to the acceptable, older middle age generation.

This year I vow to be happier with the way things are happening, make lemonade instead of sauerkraut.

Do you realize how much the way you think changes the way you act. How much easier life is when you find the positives.

The older we get the less time we have for being the best we can be, so fix it now, change it now and BE HAPPY, that is my wish for all my friends and family.

Percentages

Okay so we talked about the percentage of fat so now carbs, how many carbs. Atkins says 20 grams, No more Belly says 120, the FDA guidelines say 40 percent, if you follow the pyrimid you will eat more than you expect. If you don't know serving sizes you will eat several hundred calories.

Confusing? That's the plan, confuse the public. Get them to eat, if they eat they will buy, if they overeat they will be unhealthy, then they will need medicines, hospital stays, special foods that cost more.

Try cutting all of your carb snacks out, unless they are from fruit or vegetables.
Eat one serving of carb or starch per meal.

You will be in line then.

About 25 to 30 percent of your calories should come from carbs. The confusion comes in when most fruits have carbs and most vegetables, but they also have lots of good fiber so the carbs don't turn into starch quite so fast.

If you must eat grains buy them whole, grind them yourselves and make the flour into a treat. You won't do this often, takes too much time and effort, so your results will be a treat.

net percentages

So how much of what do we need. We can find any diet to allow us to consume how ever much we want of anything. It is just so amazing at how good we are at deceiving ourselves.

US Dietary Council says we should consume 30% fat, Dean Ornish on his heart healthy diet says we should consume 10%, many low fat diets say we should consume 20% fat, low carb diets say we consume any amount of fat. Before the heart healthy diets started in the 80's we usually consumed 40% fat. Now that fat was good fat, not manufactured fats. It was butter, lard, tallow. It was before King Corn came into play. In those days there was many more deaths from heart disease. But did the low fat decades cure heart disease? NO! We developed procedures to fix heart disease, medicine to stop the progression, little pacmen to eat the plaque in our veins. The plaque is still there more than ever, the heart problems are diagnosed earlier, and then we fix them so we don't die from them. Low fat did not fix our heart disease. Low fat put us on a course of adding more carbs to our diet which in turn made diabetes more prevalent, which in turn made more of us have heart disease at a younger age.

Also the heart healthy oils, corn oil, canola oil, vegetable oil, are bad for you! We eat lots of these oils in lots of processed foods. Also the food fed to our animals which we consume has made beef fatter, pigs leaner, chickens huge, and turkey oh my what has happened to turkey.

So look at the fats your eating, choose wisely. Eat healthy fats but watch how much. Cut out processed foods and you will probably get your fat intake in line with what we actually need.

Balance your food with the needs of your body.

Consumeable componets

So we have explored food rules. How are you doing on figuring out the best for you?

We now need to explore the componets of our foods.

We consume, fat, carbs and proteins.

All of our food items contain one or more of the above.

So starting on the next blog we will explore one of these. We need all three of them to consume a healthy diet. But why and how much and what kinds and how are the food industries confusing us with their ad compaigns.

Remember don't look at front of the package and when you do read the lables, know what are you reading.

Case in point a product I know longer consume and I find on almost every table when eating at someones house.

Cool Whip

So good for you, little calories, small amount or no fat, easy always in the freezer, ready to pull out.
What seems too good to be true. IS! When are you going to get it.

1. It is made from oil, and not very healthy oils. Oils are FAT
2. It is full of sugar or sugar substitutes.
3. It has lots of emulsifiers, (fat replacements) which come from fat which are still 9 calories per gram.
4. The serving size on the label is a fraction of what people normally eat as a serving making the label not reliable at all for nutritional information. So though the calories are low or non existent in this product it is a lie. Because they don't have to count the amount below .5 calories per serving.

Last thought!

Break the rules. Yep once in awhile break the rules.
When you do make it worth it. Don't eat mediocre.
Choose the highest quality, best food you can find.
Choose something you love and eat it slow until you are satisfied. Stop when you feel satisfied. Of course this is not an eat until full item, if you did you would never get full, eat until satisfied. ENJOY!

For example, chips ahoy are a decent chocolate chip cookie, don't settle for decent settle for excellent, choose to eat a warm from the oven, mixed from scratch, homemade chocolate chip cookie, an excellent chocolate chip cookie.

Cook

We are near done with MP book on food, only a couple days left so the ideas are simpler.

Cook.

I know a novelty with all the quick fixes we have available to us. Please stop letting others cook for you.

They are not focused on your health or nutrion, they are out to make money. Period.

Remember heating up in the oven is not cooking. Take the time to make the pizza, coat the chicken, bake the roast, roll the piecrust, slice the apples. It really doesn't take much time if you plan for it and also demand the help of others in your household.

Grow your own.

Food that is. Plant somethings and eat somethings. If you don't have a garden plant in containers. Try one or two items this year and add a new one or two every summer.

Taste the difference in just picked produce. Even a few minutes can make a difference in the taste and nutrition of fruits and vegetables.

And if you know someone who wants to get rid of some concord grapes this year, let me know.
We are no longer consuming high fructose corn syrup products, so making our own jelly is our only option. So looking for grapes to make some jelly.

I also have a great recipe for Hot fudge, but have not came up with one for simple chocolate syrup. So let me know if you have one of those too.

Clean you plate?

Clean your plate, no not anymore.
Actually old fashioned wisdom was: "Leave something for Mr. Manners." This is a phrase once told to children. Another good one was: "Better to go to waste than waist."
Develop self control and leave a bit for the spirits.

Don't clean your plate. Savoir a bite of the decandant dessert and share the rest with the table.

Stop thinking you need to eat it all, stuff your self.
It really is better to not be full, let alone the stuffed way we live our life.

Treats

There is nothing wrong with special occasion foods, if everyday is not a special occasion.

Get it.

It use to take alot of effort to make special foods, so we ate them occasionally. Now we can pick up any speciality food at a market or resturant and have special foods everyday. Not good.

Save your treats for special occasions. Limits. Just another way we want it now, and feel entitled to consume way too much.

Restore you sense of occasion.

Maybe it would help if you would only eat special foods on days beginning with S.

Concentrate!

When eating your meals, concentrate on the plate, the texture, the color, the smells, the flavor.

You can do this the best way by eating at a table. Don't let distration take away from your pleasure of eating.

Yes eating should be pleasurable. Not hurried, not while doing something else.

Concentrate and enjoy!

Snacks

If you must snack (eat between meals) choose to consume unprocessed plant foods.

What a concept! Most of our snack foods, (since the mid 80's) have come with high amounts of fat, salt and sugar added.

If you limit your snacks to fruits, vegetables and or nuts, you can save about 500 calories a day compared to consuming prepared snack foods.

You do remember the difference between a snack and a treat right?

Snack (a small amount of food to help you make it to the next meal when you need to add more nutrients to your body) on whole foods, good for you foods, with nutrition. To keep your blood sugar level, to help with energy and to control hunger.

Treats a consumable food or food like substance that we reward ourselves with occasionally.

4 to 6 weeks

Do you realize you can live for 4 to 6 weeks with out food?
Even with diabetes or other health problems it will take over a week to succumb to no eating.
Water is a different story. Only a week or so with out consuming liquids.
Stop thinking you need to stop and get something to eat. Sure it is fun to eat out, treat your self occasionally. Keep it to an occasional treat, resturant food is not healthy. Even the best is only mediocre as nutrition goes.

So think about how much money the fast food and snack food industry is making by feeding you the junk they get you to purchase.

How often do you pick up chips or candy at the gas station? (of couse if you are eating Lays brand it is paying my kids salary so that is okay: )

Have you looked at the nutrional panel on these foods.



The purpose is to make money. They do it by getting you to buy and eat more. They use mind games in their advertising, they add ingredients to make you hungry. You have internet, look it up.

It is fact that they want your dollars. They don't want your health.
Get healthy!

Your car

Make a determination that you will not eat in your car. You really will not starve if you wait to Better yet don't stop and pick up food to eat at home, FIX a meal when you return home.
Stock your fridge with cooked chicken breasts, some salad and some of those neat new little buns. (don't eat them so don't remember what they are called). Or any whole grain bread or crackers. What about canned tuna? It is very easy to grab good food when you return home. Even a good quality lunch meat is better than the fast food market.
Fix a plate, set at the table and enjoy your MEAL.

Eat Meals!

Sounds ridiculous doesn't it.
How many snacks did you have today? How many were treats instead of snacks?

Eat meals. Whether you are on a 3 meal a day plan or a 5 or 6 meal a day plan. Eat meals.
Divide your needed calories between whatever you decide.
Stop munching and snacking.
Make them nutritional. Stop playing that you will starve if you skip a meal. Don't believe that you need to keep eating to maintain you metabolism. It is all hype with a quarter teaspoon of science.


Stop letting someone else determine your hunger.

Sleep and walk

After lunch sleep awhile, after supper walk a mile.

Seconds

Serve a proper portion of food at meals and then don't go back for seconds.

If you portion you foods, eat a balanced meal, you really don't need seconds, if you wait a few minutes you will realize you really are not hungry.

Your brain is because it is so good, do you know you could have it again at your next meal, or cook it again next week or next month. We have the availability to food, almost at will now adays.
We don't have to wait until the food comes into season, like we did as children, or even eat ground beef for 5 days out of 7. With chicken being that special treat on Sunday's Dinner.
Chicken only became cheap in the last 20 to 30 years, we don't stretch are proteins anymore.

So think about it you don't need to finish that pot up, you can store it, freeze it eat it later.

Cool the seconds.

Diet Soda

Don't be fooled by diet soda and drinks. Two recent large-scaled studies show people who regularly drink diet soda were 40% more likely to be obese and at a high risk for metabolic syndrome.

Learn to drink water, not flavored water, WATER! Save your sweetened drinks for a treat.

Cut them down to once a day. Do it gradually. But cut down.

Portion Contol

Buy new plates and cups. Smaller one. The bigger the portion the more we eat. So use smaller utensils and control your portions.

Does anyone really need the 32 oz soft drinks. Full of salt, sugar, or sugar substitutes. Change to water.

Take Your Time

How long does it take to prepare your meal?

Take your time eating it, chew, savor, enjoy. Take as much time enjoying your meal that it took to prepare it.