Chocolate for Breakfast

It's been one of those weeks..............and its only Monday morning.

Problems started last Thursday. I just want to go back to bed and hope that everything will get better or the problems will just go away. Is that a bad way to deal with stuff???

I should just get myself moving and go forward........ but I have a hard time dealing with the health problems of my Dad, and all of the other normal stuff of life.

Ate a few pieces of chocolate, but it just upset my stomach. I have been eating a fairly healthy diet lately, and I guess my body is not used to eating junk food.

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Found a nice RV on the internet, called and talked to a salesman, its in Florida. It's so far away, but I am very tempted to go there and get it. It's a 2008, less than 8,000 miles and because of an unusual floorplan (but a floorplan that I actually like) its way below NADA retail value.

Would you buy an RV that only has one sink, not a seperate kitchen and bathroom sink? Would have to use the same sink when brushing teeth or when washing dishes, etc. I don't plan on cooking in the RV, I eat mostly fruits and veges, and will eat cooked food when eating out.  Don't want to stink up the RV with the smell of cooked foods. Although I am not a strict vegetarian, I do lean more towards a vege diet.  It has the place to add an additonal sink if I felt it was necessary in the future. Former owners choose to have more counter space and did not cut out hole for kitchen sink.

Healthy Eating, Part 2

When I was feeling sick last week, I vowed to start taking better care of myself. On that same day, I started a new blog to record my weight, exercise and diet.  Since I read too much and do a lot of research, I am also including bits of info on the other blog that I discover about health.
I didn't want to include all of the diet stuff on this blog, as most of you won't have an interest in it.

I'm not real computer savvy on how to put a link "here". So if you look at "my profile", the other blog is there.

I have to find natural ways to reduce my blood pressure, it is borderline right now.  If I can't reduce it, I will have to start taking medication.  I do not want to take medication.
I starting gaining weight when we bought a 2nd car and moved to the suburbs, no sidewalks, not too many places to walk.  But, it wasn't enough to cause any medical problems, just made me buy larger size jeans.     I know that exercise is the key, and I prefer walking or hiking, but am stuck inside most of the winter.

In August of 2004, I did the 60 mile charity walk for Susan B. Komen Breast Cancer Research.  I know I have the ability to workout and do training. I had to do a lot of training and exercising to be ready to do that walk. I had made a committment to finish the walk, and didn't want to back down from the challenge.

As I look back, it seems that shortly after that walk, things started going downhill.
I was taking care of many people (family and clients) and not thinking about myself.

Really, when I think back, it's like ...Why did I do that??? I feel like I lost some years.
Time to make that committment to ME.

Healthy Eating

I let myself get away from good healthy eating habits, and I think that is why I have not been feeling well. My resistance was low, and I have been spending alot of time in doctors offices with my Dad, around too many sick people and too many germs.

I am going to start today to get back to  healthy "green" eating. Mostly vegetarian with occasional meat. Avoiding bread, pasta and sugar.  I started eating "green" about 5 years ago, but when I get frustrated or tired or I'm rushing around, I go back to grabbing anything that does not need to be prepared.

I have read about "green smoothies" and enjoy making and drinking them. I have been lazy about it, they are not that difficult, a few minutes to wash and chop the ingredients.  Today, I checked out some websites and copied down a dozen recipes for green smoothies and will make one tonite (instead of eating bagels and canned soup and pudding).  It's no fun cooking for one person, but I think I can spend a few minutes to make something fresh and healthy. I want to avoid all processed foods.

A few minutes of work to improve my health is a good deal.

I don't want to spend the next 30 or 40 years visiting 7 different doctors and taking a dozen or more prescriptions like most of the seniors that I know. Nutrition is the only way I know to counteract this. I think all of the processed foods created in the 50's have created all of the health problems of today.

I don't want to sound preachy, but I have spent many, many years driving family and friends to many doctors appointments, and none of their health has been improved by the prescriptions.

Most of us know that we should eat better, but are tempted by all of the "fake foods" around us. I fell off the wagon, but I am getting back on a healthy eating plan starting right now.