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It’s not all the lions fault…

Posted in Gripes, Uncategorized on August 16, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Let me make something clear at the top of this post; I am not a very patient person. When patience was being handed out, I was off in either the love of animals or love of yarn queues. I know this about myself and I try to work on it, but in some situations it is the wilderbeast who is causing my impatience who is at fault and not me.

So what started this train of thought and compelled me to post? It was a story on Facebook about a woman whose teenage brother tragically died 10 days before her wedding and what she learnt in the following 15 years. I don’t know who posted it, but in the beginning I found it very touching. Then I thought on the point about patience.

In this point she used the example of going 15 mph in the left lane because you are distracted by your troubles and how we should all have compassion and not honk or give dirty looks. NO. No no no no no no no. If someone is going 15 mph in the fast lane, it is your duty to honk them because they are driving really dangerously. What if the next person is not as patient as you? What if they do something else really dangerous and cause an accident? Then many more people could be having the worst day of their lives. You don’t know what they are going through and maybe we should practice more compassion, but they need to snap out of it for the safety of everyone.

Honestly, it’s not all about you and your story, however tragic and awful. What if the person honking is on the way to see a loved one in peril? What if they are on their way to see the birth of their child? What about their stories?

The other example was about standing in the middle of an aisle at the supermarket for 10 minutes because they are obsorbed in a train of thought. Well in that situation they are not in charge of a 1 ton, fast moving hunk of metal. You can say excuse me, you can be nice.

So maybe the next time someone beeps at you because you are going 15 mph in the left lane, instead of blaming them for being impatient maybe you should raise your hand in apology and think about whether you should be driving given the enormous emotional strain you are under. Maybe you should not blame the lion….

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Diet and Nutrition Aisle

Posted in Diet, Gripes, Uncategorized on June 20, 2016| Leave a Comment »

When I went to get my elimination diet book, I had to face the Diet and Nutrition aisle at Barnes and Noble. OMG, SO DEPRESSING! It took me a long time to dig through all the diet plans that promise you’ll lose 20 lbs in 30 days and find the single book on a diet that has been used by doctors and nutritionists for years to pin point food sensitivities.

Losing weight is about finding a diet you can eat for the rest of your life and moving more.The problem with diets is, if it’s not a plan you can stick too long term, the pounds will come back along with a few more of its little friends.

Under normal circumstances, I walk my dog 4 miles before breakfast and clock up 105,000 steps a week. While there are some exercises I need to add to my routine, I actually do far more exercise than a lot of people who are a “normal” weight.

Now, there are implications if one is heavier, but shouldn’t we be focusing on health first? Eating whole foods, cooking meals at home rather than eating out all the time (yes, I know this is a drag) and moving more instead of being hooked up to electronics? I am guilty of that too, so this is not a judgement, more a comment on how dependent we have become on our devices.

 

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Reasons to be cheerful 1, 2, 3

Posted in Diet, Gripes, Weather on October 23, 2012| Leave a Comment »

  1. Rain!!!! Glorious, glorious rain!
  2. Paleo breakfast cereal
  3. Wholefoods

Two days of rain 🙂 Some of it was pretty heavy too. I love the sound and the smell and the fact that it just isn’t sunny. The downside is the numpties on the roads. The drivers in this area are not good on any day in any weather, but the rain adds an extra dimension to this. You have the morons who slow down to a crawl in the 3rd lane, and the maniacs who continue to tailgate and weave. Both classes are prone to forgetting even the most basic of safety precautions such as turning on their headlights.

Paleo breakfast ceral really doesn’t have any downsides. It’s nomilicious and I know exactly what went into it.

There is a reason wholefoods is called whole paycheque. On the upside, I have found some awesome things that are making this new diet easier, such as sugar made from coconut blossom, unsweetened vanilla almond milk and cultured coconut milk. They also have lots of organic stuff. Now if they could just be a wee it cheaper, I’d be grateful.

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