This is a journal to help me learn LC tactics and to record LC success as 2007 draws to an end and 2008 looms large and hopeful ahead of me.
Wish me luck! Luck?
Ah, luck is the residue of design.
Found that in a fortune cookie, ages ago.
Fits into the LC mantra about how failing to plan is planning to fail. So my plans start out each day with a hot slosh of WPP+cocoa+espresso+VCO so that I start off feeling like a LC success. Yay, me!
Wish me luck! Luck?
Ah, luck is the residue of design.
Found that in a fortune cookie, ages ago.
Fits into the LC mantra about how failing to plan is planning to fail. So my plans start out each day with a hot slosh of WPP+cocoa+espresso+VCO so that I start off feeling like a LC success. Yay, me!
Summing up things, adding up what counts
Posted 12-22-2007 at 12:33 AM by Zer
Updated 12-22-2007 at 02:59 AM by Zer (Adding citations on WASHOKU)
Updated 12-22-2007 at 02:59 AM by Zer (Adding citations on WASHOKU)
Year's end calls for some summation, just as day's end is often a time for adding up a score for how successful a day has been. Calories, carbs, cash - all tallies that I keep a running score on.
I am learning that it is more profitable for me to focus on strong points than on weak points. I've got a lot of weak points. It's harder for me to dig out the strong points as I am summing up a day.
Some days I wish I could give myself gold stars for the carbs I've dodged - or cut short without a full-out dive into some crinkly bag of empty carbs left lying about for me to sample. Sigh. I am learning that a bad-choice bite is not the end of hope for a LC day. I can stop. Spit out.
Anyone else remember when WW suggested a surgical mask to help stop tasting food as one cooks? I do. It works. Food hits the mask, not the mouth!
One of my new behaviors is to eat seated with a plate - a small plate - of food in front of me. I'm working on creating a colorful palette of brillant vegie carbs on a plate. It's not easy, after a lifetime of being a one-dish person.
Variety. That's the key to satisfaction.
Five colors, five tastebud 'hits', five textures.
Try to aim at creating THAT on a small plate for a LC meal. It's an Asian attitude on eating for satisfaction.
Ah, here's more info on WASHOKU, a mindful way of thinking about food:
More work for me, to adjust my one-dish thinking, to take more time fixing and planning. Sometimes all I can do is three textures, three tastebud variations, three textures. Sigh. But...it's a start.
As I add up my efforts at day's end, near a year's end, I can see that I am making great strides - in very small steps - at changing my approach to food. I am so grateful for Atkins and for those who support LC learning.
Oh, I'm still falling far short of my 135g of protein a day. I can see why my muscles are not pulling their full weight. I've got to punch up my protein. Maybe break it up as I do my water intake, so that midday is a checkpoint, to see if I am near a halfway point for my goal.
Adding things up.
2007 has added a lot to my LC tools. Now it's up to me to USE more of those tools each day.
I hope your day's end tally is as rewarding as mine is, when I work on identifying how many ways I am improving over those carby years.
With a good day under my belt, I anticipate a very good year ahead. 2008 is MY year to be a LC success, one day at a time, one bite at a time. Oh, this is exciting. Ciao for now!
I am learning that it is more profitable for me to focus on strong points than on weak points. I've got a lot of weak points. It's harder for me to dig out the strong points as I am summing up a day.
Some days I wish I could give myself gold stars for the carbs I've dodged - or cut short without a full-out dive into some crinkly bag of empty carbs left lying about for me to sample. Sigh. I am learning that a bad-choice bite is not the end of hope for a LC day. I can stop. Spit out.
Anyone else remember when WW suggested a surgical mask to help stop tasting food as one cooks? I do. It works. Food hits the mask, not the mouth!
One of my new behaviors is to eat seated with a plate - a small plate - of food in front of me. I'm working on creating a colorful palette of brillant vegie carbs on a plate. It's not easy, after a lifetime of being a one-dish person.
Variety. That's the key to satisfaction.
Five colors, five tastebud 'hits', five textures.
Try to aim at creating THAT on a small plate for a LC meal. It's an Asian attitude on eating for satisfaction.
Quote:
Chinese classify all flavors into five categories: sour, sweet, bitter, pungent and salty. Each of the five flavors corresponds to an element ...
http://www.asianresearch.org/articles/1219.html
http://www.asianresearch.org/articles/1219.html
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... "washoku...five principles that describe how to achieve nutritional balance and aesthetic harmony at mealtime."
FIVE PRINCIPLES: In short, each meal should feature five colors, five flavors, five cooking techniques and engage all five senses. The fifth principle, based in Buddhist practices, urges cook and diner to be mindful of the work that went into the meal, to be grateful, to put aside ill feelings, to eat for spiritual as well as physical well-being.
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/ar...607190302.html
FIVE PRINCIPLES: In short, each meal should feature five colors, five flavors, five cooking techniques and engage all five senses. The fifth principle, based in Buddhist practices, urges cook and diner to be mindful of the work that went into the meal, to be grateful, to put aside ill feelings, to eat for spiritual as well as physical well-being.
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/ar...607190302.html
As I add up my efforts at day's end, near a year's end, I can see that I am making great strides - in very small steps - at changing my approach to food. I am so grateful for Atkins and for those who support LC learning.
Oh, I'm still falling far short of my 135g of protein a day. I can see why my muscles are not pulling their full weight. I've got to punch up my protein. Maybe break it up as I do my water intake, so that midday is a checkpoint, to see if I am near a halfway point for my goal.
Adding things up.
2007 has added a lot to my LC tools. Now it's up to me to USE more of those tools each day.
I hope your day's end tally is as rewarding as mine is, when I work on identifying how many ways I am improving over those carby years.
With a good day under my belt, I anticipate a very good year ahead. 2008 is MY year to be a LC success, one day at a time, one bite at a time. Oh, this is exciting. Ciao for now!
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As I reflect today on what counts in life, I am thinking of a man who labored long and hard and who got shot for his efforts. But he gave his best and is remembered for that.
Honest Abe's b'day today. I'm toasting that doleful man with a hot slosh. Had mine at 6am and am feeling the 40g of protein nourishing all my cells. Lincoln's favorite poem? Abe Lincoln's Poetry has it, with these lines that strike home with me: Quote:
Yea, hope and despondency, pleasure and pain,
Are mingled together in sunshine and rain: And the smile and the tear, the song and the dirge, Still follow each other like surge upon surge. From William Knox's "Why Should the Spirit of Mortal Be Proud?" Lincoln's most famous writing is probably the Gettysburg Address, text at The Avalon Project : Gettysburg Address - such a powerful work! Abraham Lincoln freed slaves, signing the Emancipation Proclamation that was not popular and that may have set in motion his assassination. Just as Lincoln freed slaves from bondage, I am freeing myself from the bondage of being a slave to my appetite, a slave to my Feast Beast! Yay, ME! Yay, Dr.Atkins!!! Yay, Abraham Lincoln, too! Hope you have a great LC day. Give Lincoln a thought. |
 
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What counts is how often we pick ourself up and push on! This is a good lesson for me, as I suffer wrenching failure after failure in my wishy-washy LC effort to learn what my body needs and what is toxic for my body, my brain, my soul. I am not always patient with my own learning curve that is nose-bleed steep and often challenging to me.
Lincoln's list of failures are for me a reminder that success is often the result of starting over and over again. What do you think? See http://showcase.netins.net/web/creat...n/failures.htm and http://www.doesgodexist.org/JanFeb04...nAFailure.html for a list of the failures that Lincoln survived before he became one of the most inspirational Presidents of all. Feeling a little shaky? Having a setback? Need inspiration? See http://www.rjgeib.com/thoughts/frien...-failures.html |
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As I peer forward into a life that I intend to be a lot lighter on my feet/joints, I am pretty sure that I shall not settle for a lot of what I was grateful for as a fat and lonely person. I think I shall ask for - expect, demand - more from those I associate with, as I now believe that I *DESERVE* to be treated well. That feeling comes from me learning to treat myself well. Interesting, huh? The better I feel about *ME*, the higher my standard is for accepting what is offered by others. I suspect I shall actually get a better quality of behavior from family and friends who have given me short shrift, seeing me short-shrift myself by getting out of shape, having a car that is not kept in as-new condition, etc. We all do that, I suspect, as we assess what effort to put forth for this or that situation. I'd like to be a woman that men see as worthy of rising as I approach, opening doors for and all the delicious courtesies offered by men who are inspired by a woman who makes their life better. I've seen it in a man who used to treat me with a higher level of courtesy than I have ever experienced, then sort of let it slide as I revealed I was not accustomed to that sort of thing. I do not know how to manage girly things like letting a man do doors and chairs and all the great guy things that happen when a man and woman are playing the guy-girl game in a way that makes life more fun. Flirting? Sort of. Fun!!!
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