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!
LC Assets/Liabilities
Posted 01-19-2008 at 12:48 PM by Zer
Watching an infomercial one day, it dawned on me that a LC life might be viewed according to its ASSETS (habits that profit us even when one is not doing much) and LIABILITIES (that drain or steal assets), just as the concept of assets and liabilities is laid out plain by Richard Kiyosaki in a financial reprogramming book/course: Rich Dad, Poor Dad. Radical notion, first time it hit me!
Yes, when I'm on track, all the world is full of LC insights, glimpses (of what might be) and thrilling epiphanies. Some days are full of great LC visions and awareness of possibilities that form and dissipate and re-form, just as puffy white clouds seem to create creatures in a summer sky.
Wealth is having a steady stream of profitable LC ideas from one's LC assets, ASSETS like a support list of LCFriends full of ideas on how to keep one's LC life fresh and exciting! Wow!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Dad,_Poor_Dad
Yes, when I'm on track, all the world is full of LC insights, glimpses (of what might be) and thrilling epiphanies. Some days are full of great LC visions and awareness of possibilities that form and dissipate and re-form, just as puffy white clouds seem to create creatures in a summer sky.
Wealth is having a steady stream of profitable LC ideas from one's LC assets, ASSETS like a support list of LCFriends full of ideas on how to keep one's LC life fresh and exciting! Wow!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Dad,_Poor_Dad
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LC friends are definitely an ASSET (earns profit or credits without me doing much) as I can dip into a wealth of info by reading at a LC site to find out what inspires others to hang in there day after day in spite of life's vagaries, upsets, challenges and temptations. Yay for LCFriends!
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Updated 01-25-2008 at 11:30 AM by Zer |
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LIABILITIES? That would be faux-friends who argue about the value of LC/Atkins or who offer things that I am trying to avoid eating. Do we have to move away from old associates who ate with us as we got fat? Can we keep our associations as we change our focus from living to eat - to eating to live a healthier life by avoiding white food (sugar, flour, starchy vegies) and going for a colorful palette of brilliant vegies on a smaller plate as we work at mindful eating, better habits and all the tools that make for a successful LC lifestyle? I wonder how many of our old list of acquaintances and family can shift gears and let us increase our health.
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Another LC LIABILITY is my willingness to be led astray by anyone offering "just a taste" of this or that, as if I am capable of "just a taste" of a carby thing without being swept away by lust. Lust? Yes, as in "a craving, appetite, or great desire for" anything. Lust for life? That's good. Might be a good angle for strengthening a LC goal, to think of it as a lust for life, for health - the only true wealth!
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Oh, while I'm criticizing myself, here's a quote on criticism that tickles me:
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Honest criticism is hard to take,
particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger. ~Franklin P. Jones (1853-1935) American satirist, businessman; President, CEO of American Management Association Quote:
An atheist is one who hopes the Lord will do nothing to disturb his disbelief. ~Franklin P Jones, slandering atheists as secretly believing but outwardly denying, thus contributing to the stigma against atheists by painting us as being fundamentally dishonest (quoted from Kerrie DeGood's Atheism Quotation Page)
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Updated 01-25-2008 at 08:45 PM by Zer (Coding...argh!) |
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The incredible edible egg just has to be one of the greatest ASSETS for any LC program! Are you one who dodges yolks as does this writer?
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When i am making egg salad, I use 2 eggs minus 1 yolk. ditto with scrambled eggs or an omelet. you won't miss the second yolk tastewise, or appearance wise.
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Egg yolks are indeed full of cholesterol. Like most cholesterol-rich foods, they are jam-packed full of important nutrients. In fact, the slew of nutrients in an egg yolk is so comprehensive that a few a day would offer better insurance than a multi-vitamin. Most importantly, the yolk contains most of the nutrients in an egg.
Egg whites, on the other hand, contain far fewer nutrients. The only thing that could justify their consumption is their attachment to their companion yolk. The Incredible, Edible Egg Yolk Quote:
* To produce one egg, it takes a hen 24-26 hours, and to do so, she requires 5 oz. of food and 10 oz. of water. Thirty minutes later she starts all over again.
* Eggs contain the highest quality protein you can buy. Egg protein has just the right mix of essential amino acids needed by humans to build tissues. In addition, eggs have thirteen essential vitamins and minerals * Eggs contain the highest quality food protein known. It is second only to mother's milk for human nutrition. * Egg yolk is the major source of the egg's vitamins and minerals. * A large egg contains only 75 calories and 5 grams of fat. * Egg yolks are one of the few foods that naturally contain Vitamin D. ENC - Egg Nutrition Center |
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Talk about ASSETS: See Jezzie's thread on complaining!Jezzie's thread "On the subject of complaining" has some nifty quotes, well worth pondering. See http://www.lowcarbfriends.com/bbs/go...mplaining.html
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On a thread discussing pros/cons of journaling one's food, I described the tracking process that seems to work for me. As it works, I regard it as an ASSET (producing positive results); a tracking process that is too cumbersome is a LIABILITY (not worth the effort, sucks energy from me). This is what works for me. Might (or might not) work for others. Just know that it helps me to relax and enjoy life.
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I'm curious how the rest of you feel about journaling your food intake. I've tried it and right now I'm not doing it. I have mixed feelings if writing down everything I eat (or plan to eat) is right for me. Part of me likes the honesty and control, but another part worries about becoming too food-focused. And obsessive or guilty if I slip. What have been your experiences with journaling your food? Good, bad? Ugly? Thanks in advance!
In other words, I'm recording any and all the things that help me keep track of what goes in, what comes out (part of my ACTIVITY log) and what I'm doing that contributes to a positive result. I keep a clipboard handy so that I can scribble events as they happen, sometimes I include a note on protein grams or on carbs, even calories (once in a while). A food diary has to work for you, has to contribute to your daily effort to be mindful of what goes in, what goes on (like emotional flaps that make one crave) and what goes out. What I like about my yellow-tablet log is that I do not have to remember a lot about what SUPPLEMENT, what FOOD, or what ACTIVITY goes on. I can get on with living. Anything of note is scribbled on the food diary. I can look back and see what went on the week before a good weight loss shows up. I figure that's probably a reasonable time lapse for a weight change: a week. Anyway, this works for me. Because it works, I shall probably do it until I reach my goal weight. I've got LOTS of yellow tablets. Might as well use 'em for something. All the remnants of tablets from school and from jobs I had! |
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Water is definitely an ASSET that rewards anyone who drinks enough to hydrate all the organs that work well in a healthy body.
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Maia Appleby explains "Why Drinking Water Really is the Key to Weight Loss": The potion for losing that excess body fat is all around you. It covers two thirds of the planet. If you eat right and exercise at the intensity, frequency and duration proper for you, but still can't get rid of a little paunch here and there, you're probably just not drinking enough water....
...the liver... converts stored fat to energy. The liver has other functions, but this is one of its main jobs.... another of the liver's duties is to pick up the slack for the kidneys, which need plenty of water to work properly. If the kidneys are water-deprived, the liver has to do their work along with its own, lowering its total productivity. It then can't metabolize fat as quickly or efficiently as it could when the kidneys were pulling their own weight. If you allow this to happen, not only are you being unfair to your liver, but you're also setting yourself up to store fat.... http://inch-aweigh.com/water.html |
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