healthy food and not so healthy food.
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gfrancieTonight we will finally watch the last episode of "Sex and the City" then I will be able to find out why so many people on livejournal are deeply satisfied like they had a good meal.
Grocery shopping is always an interesting task. I read some study awhile back that people often end up buying five plus things that they did not have on their list. Often those things tend to be on the unhealthful side of food. I can understand how that can happen. I am proud of myself for not falling into that today. There are moments when it is really difficult. You want to buy RC Cola, some barbecue chips, some hot pockets and maybe toaster strudels. I am learning discipline.
The only extra thing I bought that was not on my list were the apples. Sometimes I when I am shopping by myself I make myself go down the cookies/chips aisle just to remind myself that I don't need to buy that.
Is isn't as if I am on a diet. I am too lazy to do that kind of thing. It is a matter of trying to eat better for the sake of my health.
Of course it doesn't help that I began to think about the deep-fried mushrooms at Kid Valley. Oh how I lust after those. I do partake of that once in a great while.
I am reading some books on food and the approach I have decided to take is finding the foods that taste really really fucking good and finding all the health benefits to them. It is much less depressing then reading about foods that are going to kill you. There is that group that has their press conference every year telling you how awful pizza and chinese food is for you but it doesn't really help people. It merely makes them depressed and then they go and eat twice as many helpings because most people use food as to comfort themselves.
So on the topic of healthful food that is also really tasty I offer you a few items.
blueberries are some of the best things in the world for you. It seems half a cup of blue berries has just as many antioxidants as five servings of many other fruits and vegetables. It helps in the anti-aging process, is a useful anti-inflammatory (great if you have arthritis or other chronic pain) and this is really helpful for both women and men it helps in the fight against heart disease.
Mind you, if you eat a lot it might turn your teeth a tad green but hey that is alright.
watermelon it seems is a good source of folic acid (something all women need, even if they don't have children) and vitamin A. How hip is that. Plus it raises the SPF of your skin.
While studies have shown that chocolate is good for you, it depends on what you are eating. Milk chocolate hasn't much effect but dark chocolate is the one that shows many health benefits. So one should look for chocolate that has atleast 60 percent cacao beans.
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Tomorrow is Fat Tuesday so eat all the meat you can. Then it is Ash Wednesday. Fishsticks and fasting for all.
I remember one Friday during lent when my Mother and I went to dinner and a movie. We had a seafood burritos which we admit was not exactly in keeping with the spirit of lent. It is a much more somber period of the Catholic calendar. I sometimes think what drives some people away from the church is a childhood filled with limp fishsticks and boxed macaroni and cheese on Fridays. heh
Sometimes on a Friday night during Lent when I was a teenager we would watch Letterman and around 11:45 at night we would start cooking steaks. It wasn't like we were not able to eat meat any other time but somehow the feeling of knowing you can't eat it for twenty four hours drives a Catholic insane. So my family would cook up steaks, watch Letterman and often small children would be up and make their way into the living room to watch television and steal bites of steak.
I know my poor Mother will probably end up playing for Easter Vigil Mass. Often known as the Boston Marathon of masses where people often die but make it to the end on pure adrenalin. It is an act of the will to make it through that. Eight million readings, so many gospels readings you begin to be delusional and that is just the first third of the service. Eleven years later you come out and you aren't exactly clear what happened to you. I think I will stick with Easter Sunday mass. Pretty hats, lot's of flowers and a cheerful message. Kind of like a garden tea. heh
I need to think of something to give up for lent. I jokingly told Andrew I was giving up sex. He looked mighty worried for a moment and said, "well can I still have sex?"
Grocery shopping is always an interesting task. I read some study awhile back that people often end up buying five plus things that they did not have on their list. Often those things tend to be on the unhealthful side of food. I can understand how that can happen. I am proud of myself for not falling into that today. There are moments when it is really difficult. You want to buy RC Cola, some barbecue chips, some hot pockets and maybe toaster strudels. I am learning discipline.
The only extra thing I bought that was not on my list were the apples. Sometimes I when I am shopping by myself I make myself go down the cookies/chips aisle just to remind myself that I don't need to buy that.
Is isn't as if I am on a diet. I am too lazy to do that kind of thing. It is a matter of trying to eat better for the sake of my health.
Of course it doesn't help that I began to think about the deep-fried mushrooms at Kid Valley. Oh how I lust after those. I do partake of that once in a great while.
I am reading some books on food and the approach I have decided to take is finding the foods that taste really really fucking good and finding all the health benefits to them. It is much less depressing then reading about foods that are going to kill you. There is that group that has their press conference every year telling you how awful pizza and chinese food is for you but it doesn't really help people. It merely makes them depressed and then they go and eat twice as many helpings because most people use food as to comfort themselves.
So on the topic of healthful food that is also really tasty I offer you a few items.
blueberries are some of the best things in the world for you. It seems half a cup of blue berries has just as many antioxidants as five servings of many other fruits and vegetables. It helps in the anti-aging process, is a useful anti-inflammatory (great if you have arthritis or other chronic pain) and this is really helpful for both women and men it helps in the fight against heart disease.
Mind you, if you eat a lot it might turn your teeth a tad green but hey that is alright.
watermelon it seems is a good source of folic acid (something all women need, even if they don't have children) and vitamin A. How hip is that. Plus it raises the SPF of your skin.
While studies have shown that chocolate is good for you, it depends on what you are eating. Milk chocolate hasn't much effect but dark chocolate is the one that shows many health benefits. So one should look for chocolate that has atleast 60 percent cacao beans.
.....
Tomorrow is Fat Tuesday so eat all the meat you can. Then it is Ash Wednesday. Fishsticks and fasting for all.
I remember one Friday during lent when my Mother and I went to dinner and a movie. We had a seafood burritos which we admit was not exactly in keeping with the spirit of lent. It is a much more somber period of the Catholic calendar. I sometimes think what drives some people away from the church is a childhood filled with limp fishsticks and boxed macaroni and cheese on Fridays. heh
Sometimes on a Friday night during Lent when I was a teenager we would watch Letterman and around 11:45 at night we would start cooking steaks. It wasn't like we were not able to eat meat any other time but somehow the feeling of knowing you can't eat it for twenty four hours drives a Catholic insane. So my family would cook up steaks, watch Letterman and often small children would be up and make their way into the living room to watch television and steal bites of steak.
I know my poor Mother will probably end up playing for Easter Vigil Mass. Often known as the Boston Marathon of masses where people often die but make it to the end on pure adrenalin. It is an act of the will to make it through that. Eight million readings, so many gospels readings you begin to be delusional and that is just the first third of the service. Eleven years later you come out and you aren't exactly clear what happened to you. I think I will stick with Easter Sunday mass. Pretty hats, lot's of flowers and a cheerful message. Kind of like a garden tea. heh
I need to think of something to give up for lent. I jokingly told Andrew I was giving up sex. He looked mighty worried for a moment and said, "well can I still have sex?"
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Date: 2004-02-23 06:33 pm (UTC)So when did you quit IRC and what prompted it?
Instead of giving up soda, why not try and reduce it. That way you can feel like you are doing something good but can get your fix.
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Date: 2004-02-24 10:56 am (UTC)We are all entitled to our opinions.