The Day After.....

After drowning my frustrations in cookie crumbs I feel......like I could eat some more cookies! But I need to get back on track, let go of the emotional drama and not allow my feelings to dictate my mood and my food!.....until next time, and there will be a next time and maybe I will deal with it more successfully than with this particular episode, although the cookies were quite delicious! We all need to be understanding of ourselves, I am not going to beat myself up for slipping in a really BIG way, I won't tell you just how many cookies I ate!! But it is in the past as is the emotional drama, I'm letting go and MOVING ON :-) After all, we can't live a deprived life, I am just shooting the the healthy life and occasionally that does include some of my favorite things....like cookies!

Whole Foods

Whole foods information found at the following link: http://www.whfoods.com/foodstoc.php

Excellent information!

Words for the Day

Esoteric - intended for or understood by only a few


Irascible - prone to outbursts of temper, easily angered

Cookies For Dinner

I know, you are thinking cookies for dinner?! YES! There are those days when you just need to embrace the unhealthy bad choices and rejoice! It could have been worse! I could have eaten pizza and then cookies, but instead I skipped the pizza (not that there was any pizza, but just go with me here) and just had more room for more cookies....as much as we try to be good and eat the right foods all the time it just isn't going to happen and my inner dialogue has been duck taped shut by my id who just wants what she wants and she wants MORE COOKIES! It has been one of those days and if you read my earlier blog you know where I have been emotionally and this type of distress is best relieved by large quantities of sugar and flour combinations such as found in cookies! My favorite monster is the Cookie Monster and I have apparently been abducted from the inside out and my belly is now plump and full of peanut butter chocolate chip cookies and I feel fine about all of this! Milk anyone?!

How Much Protein Do I Need?

Great information from the Weider Nutrition Site:
http://www.weider.ca/category/proteinpowders.htm#proteinrequirements

Daily Protein Requirements: How Much Protein Do You Need?
For those who are physically active, research has shown that between 1-1.5g of protein per pound of body weight is optimal. However, the amount of protein you need will vary depending on certain factors, such as weight, activity level, health and age.
The chart below gives approximate daily protein intake suggestioin for your weight and activity level...Check their site to see the chart!~

Did I Sign up for THIS?!

Ever feel blindsided by someone or something that comes so far out of left field that the speed and force almost knocks you down?! Your immediate response is not a calm, relaxed, mature, intelligent or classy one but instead you just feel like spitting, kicking and screaming??!! Yeah, I have had them and it doesn't feel good....really gets you off track and it can wreck your day or your week depending on how long you let it drive you around...I am trying really hard to get back into the drivers seat and eject my feelings that are trying to emote me off the road and down into the ditch...your inner dialogue just keeps repeating, "how dare they" and "are you kidding me?!" and "what the #*@#!!!"...... I don't care how you rationalize with yourself, how educated you are, your age, how mature you are, there are times when we just feel like a baby fit is coming on and we want to stamp our feet, pull our hair,cuss and scream and let it all hang out...but then I think WHY?! I realize that none of these things are going to change the individual or the situation that has created this emotional response inside of me and only I can help myself get free from my own tangled emotions, which I sometimes HATE FEELING! How ANNOYING is it to FEEL ANNOYED?! Like a train wreck happening that you just can't stop and now you need to sift through the wreckage to make some sense of all this...I just want to be able to calmly walk away and buy a new train!! I don't think I signed up for THIS!!! Life really knows how to WOW me sometimes...and sometimes its a super sucky WOW! OK, SERENITY NOW!

Words for the Day

Perfidious - deliberately treacherous; dishonest

Obdurate - hardened against influence or feeling; intractable