It is not easy to be creative because you need to settle your mind in many areas. The main one is to sit down and compose your thoughts and find yourself interesting.
There has been a journey that I have taken to espress the journey to health and my ideal image. Since this is about health it is an every day matter of how to get there. Bare the soul and you find the body is resistant just like the weight. Funny that the weight maintains the state it is in because your mental state remains unchanged. I just thought that was crazy. So we move on while we listen to world music hits in iTunes or how about hymns. The shift is subtle and switched from anxious care to being soothed.
As the weeks progress which they have a way of doing, we are faced with the current day. It is 2:16 AM and the house is quiet . There are days that spark a mutual accord with the Word, words and a work of consistency as a pill. The two persons who are coaching me in emails are touching a "can do". I can do this, be consistent with activity. The activity I started again can begin fresh and new again every morning like waking early in the morning and Morning Watch with my husband before breakfast. I started walking early in the morning. For protection I took my shiatsu stick that looks like a walking cane with a really long crooked neck.
We can move our body everyday, it is easy just move around walk instead of sit. While you walk you can talk to your self about yourself in your telephone I experimented with the iPhone on a 20 minute recorded walk of my phone hitting my leg in that rythm of a pace that was not very quick. I thought the headphones had the mic but it was in the phone inside my pocket so I laughed at myself as I listened to the playback of the steps one foot in front of another as I talk to myself in the headphones that do not record my ramblings but I remember it was praying for my family during part of the time and mentioning all the names of those whom the Lord has put in my life. We are not alone even though I feel lonely sometimes.
Reaching out to others has to be one of those really out of body shifts that bring us out of our poor me attitude. I am so grateful to my children who came to visit because they started the framework for a garden in the back yard. So far I have had a wonderful harvest of daily tomatoe volunteers that lend excellent broth and nutrients to our simple meals. I have harvested some dandelion greens and purslaine that will go into a salad today.
Now about that Type 2 Diabetes - here we go.
Chase the insulin, find the source of what will heal the beta cells that make insulin and make it better suited to taking care of the cause of diabetes. This is a very simplified version because there are so many sources of science that you can go to. Some of my favorite places to get that information has been other blogs and podcasts. Underground Wellness with Sean Croxton, Jimmy Moore with Livin La Vida Low Carb, and all the scientists, health practitioners and Medical Doctor guests that they have interviewed. I find listening to these talks and researching the parts that are important to me is more useful than speaking forth the science others have done so well in their publications.
For me the purpose is the journey out of the Diabetes world that seeks to rob me of health and ultimately the wealth of person we are destined to be.
What I mean to do is chase the insulin, the way it became dulled or insensitive to my body to be so inactive that it needs medication to bring blood sugar under control. Insulin is a hormone produced in the pancreas that affects the beginning of digestion of the food we eat. The regulation of insulin in digestion is to take glucose the breakdown of sugars and starches that we eat out of the circulating blood stream into the body cells that need it for running the action of cells all in harmony so that it is used in doing work or storing glucose into fat. The latter is the part we do not want to see in our clothes but more importantly its effect on our circulation, heart disease and all the causes of illness we seek to avoid. The facts I want to share are by making choices with the fingers at the end of my hands will be of foods that bring health deliciously.
Sunday, January 25, 2015
Sunday, January 11, 2015
1.11.15 I have something to say about
I have something to say about the little things we may not notice but it made my life just a little bit easier.
Today I found a Ziplock bag with a tab. It may seem little but it makes the bag so much easier to open, the designer deserves a prize and my gratitude. It must have registered that in opening a resuseable bag you have to find the split slit opening that folding over a seam in half and rubbing together and pinching, flicking and fingernail searching finally greets you with 2 flaps so you can open the bag. Yes the tab a litter longer than the matching side works so well. You may ask what does this have to do with Delicious? So, I have to say the triple ginger, likikoi (passion fruit) glazed gluten free cookie from Mana Foods needed to be stored because it was too big to eat in one sitting.
For all of us who live on Maui this little gem of a store gets more crowded every time we visit. It is a personal treat of an outing because in such a tiny place you will find the organic foods mainstay for our community. You will find innovation at work in every corner. I may not espouse the beliefs that they embrace because I am a lover of Jesus, but there is lots to enjoy without being contrary. You will find cookware, glass jars of every size and function from all over the globe. You will find reusable flatware made with sustainable materials like coconut wooden spoons, cups and the greatest assortment of kitchen gadgets in a 3 foot square area. I got a pan today that I may never see again but someone of the many buyers (who may be so interesting) thoughtfully brought it to my realm - my kitchen where I intend to make some seriously simple but kick-okole food.
The transition from Delicious for Delicious has to do with taking the traditional foods we have learned to love because of our culture and transferring it to a delicious health promoting food. It all starts with fresh ingredients. I took a hot dog recipe and made it kick okole!
2 hot dogs or smoked sausage that are non nitrite
2 to 4 heads of baby bok choi cabbage
1 tsp Ghee - clarified butter or coconut oil
1 tsp good quality oyster sauce
In my new pretty green ceramic coated cast iron pan, I diagonally cut the doggies, sautéed in ghee and when browned threw in the cleaned whole leaves of the bock choi. Add a small amount of water to the stir fry to get the cabbage steamed not burned and a dollop of oyster sauce to finish off till the cabbage is tender crisp.
Serve on the table in the pretty green pan with kim chee side dishes. We had quinoa spinach salad, some left over thai noodle salad and asian hot chili slaw.
From grocery bag to completed lunch, less than half an hour. There were lots of green leafy vegetables a few carbs from the quinoa and noodles but then there was that triple ginger cookie I mentioned at the start. Awue! No worries it is all good because when you make a choice, make it with fervor or vigor or gusto or I own it!
Have a great week, I will have more to say next time... Type II Diabetes and what it means to me.
Today I found a Ziplock bag with a tab. It may seem little but it makes the bag so much easier to open, the designer deserves a prize and my gratitude. It must have registered that in opening a resuseable bag you have to find the split slit opening that folding over a seam in half and rubbing together and pinching, flicking and fingernail searching finally greets you with 2 flaps so you can open the bag. Yes the tab a litter longer than the matching side works so well. You may ask what does this have to do with Delicious? So, I have to say the triple ginger, likikoi (passion fruit) glazed gluten free cookie from Mana Foods needed to be stored because it was too big to eat in one sitting.
For all of us who live on Maui this little gem of a store gets more crowded every time we visit. It is a personal treat of an outing because in such a tiny place you will find the organic foods mainstay for our community. You will find innovation at work in every corner. I may not espouse the beliefs that they embrace because I am a lover of Jesus, but there is lots to enjoy without being contrary. You will find cookware, glass jars of every size and function from all over the globe. You will find reusable flatware made with sustainable materials like coconut wooden spoons, cups and the greatest assortment of kitchen gadgets in a 3 foot square area. I got a pan today that I may never see again but someone of the many buyers (who may be so interesting) thoughtfully brought it to my realm - my kitchen where I intend to make some seriously simple but kick-okole food.
The transition from Delicious for Delicious has to do with taking the traditional foods we have learned to love because of our culture and transferring it to a delicious health promoting food. It all starts with fresh ingredients. I took a hot dog recipe and made it kick okole!
2 hot dogs or smoked sausage that are non nitrite
2 to 4 heads of baby bok choi cabbage
1 tsp Ghee - clarified butter or coconut oil
1 tsp good quality oyster sauce
In my new pretty green ceramic coated cast iron pan, I diagonally cut the doggies, sautéed in ghee and when browned threw in the cleaned whole leaves of the bock choi. Add a small amount of water to the stir fry to get the cabbage steamed not burned and a dollop of oyster sauce to finish off till the cabbage is tender crisp.
Serve on the table in the pretty green pan with kim chee side dishes. We had quinoa spinach salad, some left over thai noodle salad and asian hot chili slaw.
From grocery bag to completed lunch, less than half an hour. There were lots of green leafy vegetables a few carbs from the quinoa and noodles but then there was that triple ginger cookie I mentioned at the start. Awue! No worries it is all good because when you make a choice, make it with fervor or vigor or gusto or I own it!
Have a great week, I will have more to say next time... Type II Diabetes and what it means to me.
Friday, January 2, 2015
The First Day for the First Year
This is the first day of the year 2015 and my first entry for my musings - absorbed in thought. Jess says this is not a word used or understood but I like it. Jess is my dear husband for 34 years and we have shared some moments that are interesting and infuriating. These have accumulated to the years of our shared lives because we have Christ and the Church in common.
The purpose of this blog is to take what I have learned and taught to a permanent place because now that I have crossed over to the 60 year and older crowd there are a lot of things to share.
When I think of the past day the end of 2014 and the beginning of 2015 it has come down to choices that I have made.
Choices for living:
Christ first.
Family and work.
Work that mattered.
Who is Mary today and how did she get here?
What I did to feed myself and made it fun.
What I did to my environment to change it for the better.
Will I continue to share my household thoughts.
Every blog that I found interesting has some things in common. You got to meet a person. There is the hidden part that peeks out between the lines and laugh at the experiences of life. You get to encourage a loved one and find discipline in the small things. You get to own the stories that unfold from a tapestry of interwoven lives.
Not all blogs have food but we all have to eat. This is when you come to terms with what are our real choices. Our choices come at the end of our fingertips. What is in our members or body parts have a memory really of what our food choices are and what portions you would take in.
Our members be it fingers and legs that take us to the kitchen have a memory of what is coming down the pipe. There is science in all this because our physiology has been described in a very detailed way by the ancient writings like the bible and modern writings like my overstuffed email box.
I think I will start short because I get bored easily and a long page of stuff tends to moving on to other things...quickly. If I do anything, it will be to choose wisely, move my body more and keep in touch with how it feels.
We enjoy leftovers because it started as ingredients of high quality thoughtfully prepared and then redefined as a new dish at our next meal. We try to eat everything we buy so we have an overstuffed freezer with bits of chopped vegetables, jars of vinegared garlic and bone broths. These are the main beginnings of new things to start meals for the next time. I like to start a meal and be sitting at the table within one hour because I come home from work and am ready to leave that part of my day real fast. In this way I create my own fast food and have no need for restaurants that are disappointing at most and scientifically engineered to get me down a black hole of salt, sugar, fat and cheap.
Enjoy a tiny taste of good eating by having this salad meal.
Salad Greens: kale, baby spinach, 1 cucumber cut to cubes or rounds
Protein: choose one or more of the following
wild caught canned salmon
tuna canned in pure olive oil
wild caught sardines in pure olive oil
good bacon crumbled
nuts and seeds like pumpkin, sunflower, macadamia, pine nuts, etc.
Dress
The purpose of this blog is to take what I have learned and taught to a permanent place because now that I have crossed over to the 60 year and older crowd there are a lot of things to share.
When I think of the past day the end of 2014 and the beginning of 2015 it has come down to choices that I have made.
Choices for living:
Christ first.
Family and work.
Work that mattered.
Who is Mary today and how did she get here?
What I did to feed myself and made it fun.
What I did to my environment to change it for the better.
Will I continue to share my household thoughts.
Every blog that I found interesting has some things in common. You got to meet a person. There is the hidden part that peeks out between the lines and laugh at the experiences of life. You get to encourage a loved one and find discipline in the small things. You get to own the stories that unfold from a tapestry of interwoven lives.
Not all blogs have food but we all have to eat. This is when you come to terms with what are our real choices. Our choices come at the end of our fingertips. What is in our members or body parts have a memory really of what our food choices are and what portions you would take in.
Our members be it fingers and legs that take us to the kitchen have a memory of what is coming down the pipe. There is science in all this because our physiology has been described in a very detailed way by the ancient writings like the bible and modern writings like my overstuffed email box.
I think I will start short because I get bored easily and a long page of stuff tends to moving on to other things...quickly. If I do anything, it will be to choose wisely, move my body more and keep in touch with how it feels.
We enjoy leftovers because it started as ingredients of high quality thoughtfully prepared and then redefined as a new dish at our next meal. We try to eat everything we buy so we have an overstuffed freezer with bits of chopped vegetables, jars of vinegared garlic and bone broths. These are the main beginnings of new things to start meals for the next time. I like to start a meal and be sitting at the table within one hour because I come home from work and am ready to leave that part of my day real fast. In this way I create my own fast food and have no need for restaurants that are disappointing at most and scientifically engineered to get me down a black hole of salt, sugar, fat and cheap.
Enjoy a tiny taste of good eating by having this salad meal.
Salad Greens: kale, baby spinach, 1 cucumber cut to cubes or rounds
Protein: choose one or more of the following
wild caught canned salmon
tuna canned in pure olive oil
wild caught sardines in pure olive oil
good bacon crumbled
nuts and seeds like pumpkin, sunflower, macadamia, pine nuts, etc.
Dress
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