Reminiscent of a 1940's love story....
the verbage captured my imagination.
The brochure had arrived in last week's mail, with the glorious shots of shell-strewn beaches and barefoot lovers walking hand-in-hand, on a wet and sandy beach.
The compelling photo tugged at my heartstrings.
"I want that!" My heart cried out as I made the decision not to toss the direct mail advertising in the trash. No instead I placed it smack dab on the coffee tables mosaic surface.
Monday, May 19, 2008
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
I'm Happier When I Eat Pasta
It's true ... I feel happier and more satisfied nutritionally when I keep pasta in my regular diet.
What is up with this?
Almost every weight loss program I've ever been on has labeled pasta a bad food choice when trying to lose weight.
Trying to get a read on this, I went surfing the internet and was pleased to find the following information from the Canadian Diabetes Association.
"Insulin resistance appears to affect a small percentage of Canadians and is most common among overweight individuals. It is related to a form of diabetes called Type II diabetes.
In an insulin-resistant person, the pancreas produces too much insulin after he or she eats sugars or starches. Additionally, cells in insulin-resistant individuals' bodies may not respond to insulin, causing their blood sugar to stay abnormally high after a meal or a snack. - The reality is that being overweight causes insulin-resistance.
A high-carbohydrate diet does not make an insulin-resistant person overweight, nor does it cause insulin-resistance. - Adopting a high-carbohydrate diet actually enhances insulin function for most people by lowering insulin levels. Carbohydrates are converted to glucose in the body and insulin helps cells utilize glucose for energy."
With a history of diabetes in my family and being at an age where one starts to recognize the potential for declining health - I'm very interested in the research provided by diabetes associations.
So maybe there is a nutritional reason that I feel better after eating a well-prepared dish of pasta. Maybe the pasta is performing an important function in my body.
I'm looking forward to researching this more. I'd also love to hear your thoughts! Please feel free to post relevant comments on this blog!
What is up with this?
Almost every weight loss program I've ever been on has labeled pasta a bad food choice when trying to lose weight.
Trying to get a read on this, I went surfing the internet and was pleased to find the following information from the Canadian Diabetes Association.
"Insulin resistance appears to affect a small percentage of Canadians and is most common among overweight individuals. It is related to a form of diabetes called Type II diabetes.
In an insulin-resistant person, the pancreas produces too much insulin after he or she eats sugars or starches. Additionally, cells in insulin-resistant individuals' bodies may not respond to insulin, causing their blood sugar to stay abnormally high after a meal or a snack. - The reality is that being overweight causes insulin-resistance.
A high-carbohydrate diet does not make an insulin-resistant person overweight, nor does it cause insulin-resistance. - Adopting a high-carbohydrate diet actually enhances insulin function for most people by lowering insulin levels. Carbohydrates are converted to glucose in the body and insulin helps cells utilize glucose for energy."
With a history of diabetes in my family and being at an age where one starts to recognize the potential for declining health - I'm very interested in the research provided by diabetes associations.
So maybe there is a nutritional reason that I feel better after eating a well-prepared dish of pasta. Maybe the pasta is performing an important function in my body.
I'm looking forward to researching this more. I'd also love to hear your thoughts! Please feel free to post relevant comments on this blog!
I've been working on a special menu- a menu designed to help support anyone who is trying to eat right.
While it is a cinch for me to dream up amazing ideas for foods that are unrestricted in fat or calories, it is quite another thing to dream up foods that are low-fat, yet delicious.
Why did God let the things that add depth and richness, be loaded in fat?
I suppose I shouldn't blame him! He did give us an extraordinary garden of fabulous fruits, vegetables and herbs!
Everything we need to live an abundant life was provided in that garden.
Perhaps we should return to a more plant-based diet, a diet free of inferior man-made foods.
If we could eat fruits and vegetables as close to their most natural state, we could probably eliminate much of the obesity and much of the illness in our world today.
While it is a cinch for me to dream up amazing ideas for foods that are unrestricted in fat or calories, it is quite another thing to dream up foods that are low-fat, yet delicious.
Why did God let the things that add depth and richness, be loaded in fat?
I suppose I shouldn't blame him! He did give us an extraordinary garden of fabulous fruits, vegetables and herbs!
Everything we need to live an abundant life was provided in that garden.
Perhaps we should return to a more plant-based diet, a diet free of inferior man-made foods.
If we could eat fruits and vegetables as close to their most natural state, we could probably eliminate much of the obesity and much of the illness in our world today.
Yikes! I finally stepped back on the scale a few minutes ago. Not good! I've gained about 25 pounds since the holidays.
So I've made the decision to get re-dedicated to this weight loss journey. I've drank more water this morning already than I probably drank in an entire week's time in the past several months.
The water is so critical. It really helps to flush out the toxins.
During my time freelancing as a weight loss counselor, I discovered that the patients who drank liberal amounts of water (at least a minimum of 64 ounces a day), visited the center regularly and kept a true accounting of their daily food intake were the most successful in their quest to lose weight. While those who drank little water, failed to visit the center on a regular basis and did not record a daily food diary ... lost very little weight at all and even in some cases- gained weight.
So much of this is just plain old common sense! It is not all that much different than when we were in school. If we read the assignments, did our homework and put forth a serious effort - we would get good grades. If we blew off the assignments, the homework and the effort - we could pretty much be assured relatively unsatisfactory results.
It is about what is more important to us. It's about just saying " NO "to the short term desires that interfere with allowing us to accomplish the more important long term desires.
We have to decide what is more important to us and to our lives.
We have to be able to intelligently weigh immediate satisfaction over a future goal.
Do we want to see our goal realized? Or do we want to trade off our goal for immediate gratification that could lead to all sorts of health issues? Is that sugar worth the damage it can do to both health and well being?
I write about this because this is my daily challenge. Too many times in my life, I've elected sugar fixes over a greater goal. In the process, I've compromised my health and the dreams that are in my soul.
So once again, I pick myself up and try again to avoid the sugar, to drink the water, to keep the food diary, to make smarter choices concerning what I put in my mouth and to exercise this divine temple that I was entrusted with to partake of a human experience on this planet.
I don't want my experience to be any less than what it was destined for when the Creator decided that I should be created.
So I've made the decision to get re-dedicated to this weight loss journey. I've drank more water this morning already than I probably drank in an entire week's time in the past several months.
The water is so critical. It really helps to flush out the toxins.
During my time freelancing as a weight loss counselor, I discovered that the patients who drank liberal amounts of water (at least a minimum of 64 ounces a day), visited the center regularly and kept a true accounting of their daily food intake were the most successful in their quest to lose weight. While those who drank little water, failed to visit the center on a regular basis and did not record a daily food diary ... lost very little weight at all and even in some cases- gained weight.
So much of this is just plain old common sense! It is not all that much different than when we were in school. If we read the assignments, did our homework and put forth a serious effort - we would get good grades. If we blew off the assignments, the homework and the effort - we could pretty much be assured relatively unsatisfactory results.
It is about what is more important to us. It's about just saying " NO "to the short term desires that interfere with allowing us to accomplish the more important long term desires.
We have to decide what is more important to us and to our lives.
We have to be able to intelligently weigh immediate satisfaction over a future goal.
Do we want to see our goal realized? Or do we want to trade off our goal for immediate gratification that could lead to all sorts of health issues? Is that sugar worth the damage it can do to both health and well being?
I write about this because this is my daily challenge. Too many times in my life, I've elected sugar fixes over a greater goal. In the process, I've compromised my health and the dreams that are in my soul.
So once again, I pick myself up and try again to avoid the sugar, to drink the water, to keep the food diary, to make smarter choices concerning what I put in my mouth and to exercise this divine temple that I was entrusted with to partake of a human experience on this planet.
I don't want my experience to be any less than what it was destined for when the Creator decided that I should be created.
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Is anyone even following this blog? After blogging for some time a blogger begins to wonder... does anyone even care what I have to say? Has anyone tried some of the recipes I posted in the earlier days of this blog?
Diet With Kathi has certainly been on a journey. Unfortunately, I never reached my ultimate goal. Now this is not to say that I won't. Because in time I shall. But the truth is, this dieter got tired of eating the same basic food over and over again.
I missed being able to eat several fresh fruits a day. I missed cooking with olive oil. I missed baked potatoes and I missed my pasta!
There was nothing wrong with the diet... it was an excellent diet. But I'm just not an excellent dieter! My taste buds want more freedom.
Eventually I will return to the weightloss program, but for now I just want to celebrate FLavor once again more than I want to celebrate restriction.
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Diet With Kathi has certainly been on a journey. Unfortunately, I never reached my ultimate goal. Now this is not to say that I won't. Because in time I shall. But the truth is, this dieter got tired of eating the same basic food over and over again.
I missed being able to eat several fresh fruits a day. I missed cooking with olive oil. I missed baked potatoes and I missed my pasta!
There was nothing wrong with the diet... it was an excellent diet. But I'm just not an excellent dieter! My taste buds want more freedom.
Eventually I will return to the weightloss program, but for now I just want to celebrate FLavor once again more than I want to celebrate restriction.
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Thursday, May 08, 2008
Let us not be blind to our differences, nor to the similarities that unite us.
There are far too many comments made in this world that offer no value or hope to the human condition. Why do people say things that are hurtful to others?
The comments made that pertain to the overweight are uncalled for as are the derogatory coments made in reference to any human struggle.
Struggles with sugar addictions are not really all that different than struggles with other addictions. Is one more acceptable than another?
Everyone of them presents a detour of sorts, keeping the addicted from being able to fully experience their true purpose in life.
The similarity that we share is that we all, regardless of who we are or what our station in life might be, have been placed on this planet with a divinely appointed purpose. The difference is the beautiful uniqueness of each life's purpose. The combination is what makes this world the most extraordinary mosaic.... and the kind words are the light that shines through and illuminates the human mosaic, making sense of what would otherwise be a dark, lost and hurting world.
Won't you let your words - be words of light? drug rehab
There are far too many comments made in this world that offer no value or hope to the human condition. Why do people say things that are hurtful to others?
The comments made that pertain to the overweight are uncalled for as are the derogatory coments made in reference to any human struggle.
Struggles with sugar addictions are not really all that different than struggles with other addictions. Is one more acceptable than another?
Everyone of them presents a detour of sorts, keeping the addicted from being able to fully experience their true purpose in life.
The similarity that we share is that we all, regardless of who we are or what our station in life might be, have been placed on this planet with a divinely appointed purpose. The difference is the beautiful uniqueness of each life's purpose. The combination is what makes this world the most extraordinary mosaic.... and the kind words are the light that shines through and illuminates the human mosaic, making sense of what would otherwise be a dark, lost and hurting world.
Won't you let your words - be words of light? drug rehab
Sunday, May 04, 2008
I will go to my deathbed praising God that I was born in a country that values freedom of speech.
As a blogger spinning out my quirky creatives, I often realize just how blessed we are in this nation.
In other places, freedom to say what one desires is not a possibility. Sometimes people are even killed for speaking their mind. How utterly unthinkable and how utterly barbaric!
Sometimes though, even in this nation, people are afraid to say things that need to be said and to stand up to the tyranny of the times.
No, it shouldn't be this way! We should all feel confident to speak out against injustice.
Recently, I heard a disturbing tidbit about some regulations that could be coming down the pike for bloggers in an attempt to rein in what a person can post on a blog. But since I don't know the full story, I will suspend judgement for the time being until I can make an intelligent and well-balanced commentary. Won't you do the same? espresso machines
As a blogger spinning out my quirky creatives, I often realize just how blessed we are in this nation.
In other places, freedom to say what one desires is not a possibility. Sometimes people are even killed for speaking their mind. How utterly unthinkable and how utterly barbaric!
Sometimes though, even in this nation, people are afraid to say things that need to be said and to stand up to the tyranny of the times.
No, it shouldn't be this way! We should all feel confident to speak out against injustice.
Recently, I heard a disturbing tidbit about some regulations that could be coming down the pike for bloggers in an attempt to rein in what a person can post on a blog. But since I don't know the full story, I will suspend judgement for the time being until I can make an intelligent and well-balanced commentary. Won't you do the same? espresso machines
It is encouraging to see that Florida will soon be offering affordable health insurance options for the state's millions of uninsured adults.
Will this really make a difference and will it give Florida residents a policy that has some real coverage?
I've had some "affordable insurance" in the past and to be honest it didn't give me diddly squat! When I needed it to cover me, it didn't. So in essence my hard earned money went to line the coffers of the insurance company and the pockets of the slick salesman who promised the world and gave me - - - -.
So I wonder what sorts of regulations will be enforced to protect Florida's citizens from being ripped off by unscrupulous insurance vendors.
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Will this really make a difference and will it give Florida residents a policy that has some real coverage?
I've had some "affordable insurance" in the past and to be honest it didn't give me diddly squat! When I needed it to cover me, it didn't. So in essence my hard earned money went to line the coffers of the insurance company and the pockets of the slick salesman who promised the world and gave me - - - -.
So I wonder what sorts of regulations will be enforced to protect Florida's citizens from being ripped off by unscrupulous insurance vendors.
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Yes! Yes! Yes! Now that my trusty ole' pc is zipping along once again... I would be delighted to take on some I-Strategy work!
I am still in the market for a new computer ... but hopefully I'll be able to hang on a couple more months.
There are always far too many places for my income to go and never quite enough of the green stuff to cover all the bases. You would think that by living in a bank, I would have an endless cash supply. Ha Ha Ha! I wish! Perhaps that is why I splurge on the calorie budget!
But I truly suspect that all of this is a-changing as I turn the corner for a prosperous new season.
Come .... won't you join us for the journey? Orovo
I am still in the market for a new computer ... but hopefully I'll be able to hang on a couple more months.
There are always far too many places for my income to go and never quite enough of the green stuff to cover all the bases. You would think that by living in a bank, I would have an endless cash supply. Ha Ha Ha! I wish! Perhaps that is why I splurge on the calorie budget!
But I truly suspect that all of this is a-changing as I turn the corner for a prosperous new season.
Come .... won't you join us for the journey? Orovo
Yippity Do Da!
Yippity Day... My, Oh My What A Beautiful Day!
For the first time in many weeks, I'm completing my queu of assignments on time before pay day!
My computer had been presenting one issue after another, creating a long annoying string of unacceptable, yet unavoidable excuses.
No completed assignments... no money! Not a pretty picture! Why, it is enough to cause one to break out in an anxiety rash! acne treatments
Yippity Day... My, Oh My What A Beautiful Day!
For the first time in many weeks, I'm completing my queu of assignments on time before pay day!
My computer had been presenting one issue after another, creating a long annoying string of unacceptable, yet unavoidable excuses.
No completed assignments... no money! Not a pretty picture! Why, it is enough to cause one to break out in an anxiety rash! acne treatments
I don't feel like buying any lingerie right now!
I suppose if I had simply said, "NO" to the desserts today, my tummy wouldn't be feeling so bulgy!
What is my problem? I have such an ongoing weakness for all things rich, chocolate and decadently sinful!
Somehow I have got to get my will aligned with the savvier parts of my brain!
I suppose if I had simply said, "NO" to the desserts today, my tummy wouldn't be feeling so bulgy!
What is my problem? I have such an ongoing weakness for all things rich, chocolate and decadently sinful!
Somehow I have got to get my will aligned with the savvier parts of my brain!
When you live the European way, above the shop or behind the shop, in the urban quadrant of the city, as I do ... it is not unreasonable to miss the pleasures of the garden.
My present garden is limited to a postage-stamp sized plot of soil, just barely large enough to hold a tree in one square and a rose bush in another.
Yard work takes a good fifteen minutes every now and then, to pull a handful of weeds or clip the dead heads off the rose bush. Sweeping in front of the store could easily become a daily chore, as the Florida winds seem to deposit a good dusting of sand and soot to my curb. We are not all that close to the beach... why then is there always such a collection of sand to sweep away?
Is this the result of beach erosion? Do the winds deposit sand inland this far? I never imagined they could, but then I'm always finding out all sorts of things are possible that I previously didn't think were possible.
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My present garden is limited to a postage-stamp sized plot of soil, just barely large enough to hold a tree in one square and a rose bush in another.
Yard work takes a good fifteen minutes every now and then, to pull a handful of weeds or clip the dead heads off the rose bush. Sweeping in front of the store could easily become a daily chore, as the Florida winds seem to deposit a good dusting of sand and soot to my curb. We are not all that close to the beach... why then is there always such a collection of sand to sweep away?
Is this the result of beach erosion? Do the winds deposit sand inland this far? I never imagined they could, but then I'm always finding out all sorts of things are possible that I previously didn't think were possible.
teak patio furniture
I'm getting ready to go for a walk. Just need to drink up my zipp fizz, first.
Today's walk should be especially entertaining. I'm taking a different route than usual for reasons perhaps I'll share at a later date.
Let me just say my change in route has something to do with a new friend :)
New friends are a great thing, especially if a new friendship can include fitness in the mix!
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Today's walk should be especially entertaining. I'm taking a different route than usual for reasons perhaps I'll share at a later date.
Let me just say my change in route has something to do with a new friend :)
New friends are a great thing, especially if a new friendship can include fitness in the mix!
life insurance rates
Thursday, May 01, 2008
Well I don't need a magnifying glass to see that I've put on a few pounds.
Why is it that diets only work up to a point?
A suppose the real answer is that THE DIETERS ONLY WORK UP TO A POINT until we get bored or burned out with the deprivation and then go back to our old patterns.
The reality is that we need to truly want one result over the other. So we need to move beyond the immediate gratification that comes with taking our short-lived pleasure today and casting our sights further down the road to the long-life pleasures of tomorrow.
Why can't we just have our cake and eat it too?
Why is it that diets only work up to a point?
A suppose the real answer is that THE DIETERS ONLY WORK UP TO A POINT until we get bored or burned out with the deprivation and then go back to our old patterns.
The reality is that we need to truly want one result over the other. So we need to move beyond the immediate gratification that comes with taking our short-lived pleasure today and casting our sights further down the road to the long-life pleasures of tomorrow.
Why can't we just have our cake and eat it too?
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