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.  

Marginally Unsettling Fail or You are what you eat

Yesterday was supposed to be a food tracking day.  I failed at doing that task and I don’t think I will be able to do that today either.  I have no excuse for not completing the task except that I didn't pick up a pen or attempt to type anything yesterday, until the wee hours of the night.  When composing these illustrious words.  Did I say before that I was a writer?

Food tracking, Food Diaries and Food Logs, I haven’t decided which term sounds better, are

important because it allows people like myself to see in writing what we are eating.  According to Kristin Kirkpatrick M.S., R.D., L.D., a Manager of Wellness Nutrition Services of Cleveland Clinic Wellness Institute, it helps us portion out our food and think before we snack and eat.  That is a paraphrase.  I don’t plan to do an official citing for this entry.  I got this from briefly looking at an article on Huffingpost.com.  Look it up if you need to. 

Evidencemag.com also gives us nine reasons why food tracking it great for weight loss and healthier living but I won’t go into it either.  Using the information is more work than I want to do today.  In the future I will put more effort in crafting these entries.  I have to do more efficient research on wellness and lifestyle change.  

Coming up with effective practices to attain a healthier lifestyle is more work than I imagined.  These words may seem pessimistic but I really don’t know how else to describe what I am doing.   The horrifying and nagging fact and to quote the Barenaked Ladies, who are all men and Canadian, “It has all been done before”.  This will be my continued whine and rant for the next 100 days.   There is a large number of website blogs that focus on and chronicle the healthier lifestyle change and weight loss journey of so many people.  They have been way more successful with their website blogs and goals than I have been.  I am a little overwhelmed with my attempt since I have yet to reach my goal.  Crafting and entertaining, sometimes education and enlightening post is work not often appreciated.  Because I want all my post to end with a positive optimistic note.  I will type that it will get better in time and I will not give up.  I don’t plan to.  However I believe I will rant and rage about it until I get the desired result. 

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