Be an inspiration

You NEVER know when someone may be inspired by something you do or say, or don't say...  Be true to yourself and your spirit and always follow your heart to do good all around you...

My heart is warm because I was told today that I inspired someone...

I got a hug from Jesse today!

Jesse from season 11 of the Biggest Loser was in my office today taking a CE class... I got a hug from him!

He kept coming into my office today and watching me walk on my treadmill at my Trekdesk...  We started talking a bunch about health and fitness and how God works in mysterious ways - for our paths to cross and for him to meet me...  This just warms my heart...

I love sharing what I am learning on my journey & what has worked for me. We are all different & different things work for each of us...  What I have said has worked for me before, doesn't work anymore... I think it is all my changing body and it needing change...  Which goes to say that just because something has worked for someone else, doesn't always mean it will work for you... It is about not being afraid to make a change and experiment and see what works for YOU!

Beans and curves

In the process of reading the Eat to Live book, I am learning about the benefits of eating more beans in my diet... I bought several types at Winco to try out cooking on my own (with Mikey's help)... Got pinto, navy and kidney beans...

Today I soaked the pinto beans all day while I was at work and then Mike cooked them for me...  I tried them after they were cooked and they were pretty bland, but I decided to make them into refried beans...  By simply adding taco seasoning, mashing them up a bit and then using the mixer to smooth them out some more - they came out really good... And instead of eating canned refried beans, I know EXACTLY what is in these beans...

Why, you ask, do you have curves in the title too?  Well the last 10 lbs I have lost has made some curves show up on my sides... And that is exciting to me!  To SEE the difference emerging and changes in my body... Sooo exciting!

1000 miles!

Today I passed the the 1000 mile mark of walking at my trekdesk!  That is such an accomplishment in my book considering I walked a total of 620 miles in all of 2011...  Not sure I will make it to my goal of 1250 for the year with the change in workload I have at work - but I can sure try!

A new way of thinking

My coworker that I talk with a lot about nutrition and ways to find new, better ways to live healthier found this food pyramid to go along with the Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead video...

It is really a good guideline for me to strive towards.  Not sure about the once weekly on poultry and eggs though... As I really like chicken for lean protein to eat.

Thought I would share it on here...

I am really, really interested in trying this way of living...

It will be an adjustment, but I am game if it leads to a healthier me...

Which lead me to looking up how to cook beans...

I will let you know how my first try goes at doing this...

Still thinking and researching...

Found the above diagrams today on the web & found them to be very interesting... A good way to look at things and think about it...

If I can continue to juice a few times a day, and eat a sensible snack and dinner (salad with protein), perhaps I can continue on the cleansing and have an easier time when it is time for maintenance and avoid the rebound...

Right now I find it much easier to just juice than make ANY decisions about what to eat...  And I don't find myself craving anything - which is really strange to me... Sometimes I will go to reach for something out of habit, but I have been stopping myself and asking if I really want that, or if I am just absentmindedly grabbing for it...  Most of the time it is the latter of the two.

I hope to put that into practice at my office this week as well, as I know there will still be a large candy dish in there that I have resisted so far, and I want to keep that resolve up especially when I am stressed.

One day at a time, still thinking about how to go forward and what path will work best for me over my lifetime.

Random thoughts

Found this today on Facebook - it is a good reminder...

The above picture helps me remember that it isn't about the number on the scale, it's about FEELING and BEING healthier...  I am trying to get there...  One step at a time...

When I posted the quote that Not eating was easy and it's the eating that is hard, I didn't realize that coming off the juice fast would totally prove that statement to me...

I continue to be at a loss of what I should eat... I have gone from a diet that I was eating balanced carbs/proteins/fats at each meal, to having 100% fruits and veggies (mostly in juice form) to trying to go back to eating more solids things...

Before heading off to Chuck E Cheese's for one of the kid's birthday parties last night I decided to try to get some protein in - toasted a can of tuna with a few olives and grated cheese melted over it - a tuna melt minus a shell of any sort... About an hour later my stomach decided that was NOT what it wanted to eat at all...  Man was it mad (it didn't even get that mad the whole time I was on juice fast!)

So now I am back in my brain thinking that just juicing for two meals a day would be the easiest and have a little bit of this and that throughout the day as well so I am not totally excluding myself from everything else in the world...  Then have a salad with a chicken breast on it (if my stomach can tolerate a chicken breast - I have yet to try) for dinner with the family and an apple and almond butter with it for an evening snack... I think it sounds like a plan - assuming my stomach will tolerate the chicken...

That keeps me in the realm of continuing going to the grocery store every few days to get the veggies I need for my juicing - but hey - if I can do a mixture of juicing and sensible eating and get continued health results, it sounds great to me!