Week Four: Day 20

What happened to Week three? 

A year from Now you may wish

You had started Today

-Karen Lamb

It happened faster than the Flash.  Despite all my plans, week 3 came and went

without entries on anything.  The pro was I kept to the food journal to the best of my ability. Sunday is a great day to continue with lifestyle change.  Since starting my food journal I realized I haven’t eaten enough fruits and veggies.  I have the starch and proteins only but no growing edibles.  Sunday I added fruit to my meals and snack. There will be no con counter points on this essay.  This week’s plan is to try to change my relationship with food.  It takes up so much time in my life.

First consider the cooking process. Against all known nutrition experts, dinner is the most important meal of my day.   I spend so much time thinking and preparing the meat or the rice.   Vegetables are an afterthought or not cooked at all. This horrible habit is bringing all kinds problems into our lives.  I went plural because I am not just cooking for me, there is a family to include in all my meal plans.  In previous projects, I only thought about what I was eating and changing my lifestyle.  This project I am incorporating as many changes as the fam can take without revolt, trickery and sleight of hand method will be used as much as possible.  This is the new plan, instead of making the meat the main dish, I am thinking the vegetables should be the focus.  It is a method to trick myself to eat more green and growing things.    Another method is to plan breakfast as much as I plan dinner.   I didn’t realize how much time is being spent with food, it is the side effect of being a caregiver.  These are the things to tackle for this week.

The search for wellness and an exercise routine will continue.  One of the many goals of lifestyle change is to become a balanced triangle.  According to someone in the business of lifestyle change, exercise should be an enjoyed activity.  Full disclosure, have not been looking hard enough for a routine.  Since admitted here this too will be analyzed and changed so that the personal life can be improved.  The benefits of exercise are numerous.  There should be essay dedicated to exercise or at least how it should be included into the lifestyle. 

So what will be done in the fourth week? Changing our meals to more prep for veggies and fruits instead of meat and rice and continuing with the food journal work on the health triangle.  Research an exercise routine that will help with the physical triangle.  Find some articles for the mental triangle.   The triangle is part of the wellness/well-being philosophy.  There are all kinds, but for this week I am partial to this one.  See you on Friday.