Clean the office...or make Ayurvedic food

Make Ayurvedic food in an effort to avoid the office. ...

Hey. Don't Judge. Deepak said "you need to boil your milk"

and then he said "Ghee is purified butter. it is what you should cook with. so spend at least an hour on your saturday or sunday skimming the crap off the top of it.

God, I love Deepak. Meanwhile, my office has more and more crap piled into it.

But i have clarified butter...and boiled milk.

The boiled milk is actually kind of tasty. and i have been really drinking a lot of it. So Thumbs Up, Deepak!

So far i haven't made anything w/ the ghee (clarified butter...melt butter and skim the crap off the top, then pour the middle layer into a clean bowl leaving the bottom layer of crap in the pan. I read after i did it this way that you can achieve the same effect faster by straining through a cheesecloth).

Tomorrow i'll tell you what it's like to massage yourself w/ Sesame oil prior to showering. ...

the short answer is ...invigorating!! :-)

I like big butts

So there's an old episode of Scrubs, where Turk says to JD, "When a black girl asks 'does my butt look big?' you say 'Hell Ya!'" The reasoning being that in the black community, curves are highly prized...and women go out of their way to accentuate them.

Then there's the rest of us, who lament the size of our legs (there's an old blues song that talks about "Big legs, and a tight skirt") and how our butts stick out (I like big butts and i cannot lie)

Just goes to show you the difference between cultures.

What's my point? hmmm. Take a lesson. All women are pretty. it's just a fact of life...

ok. sleepy now. go say "i'm pretty" to yourself. you'll feel better.

Vacation Day

I took a mental health day...so far, it has been lovely! I'm sure it will improve after my coffee and a massage. I have already walked the child to the baby sitter and am enjoying some morning TV.

It's not this part of the day that I found interesting (I want my day to be as uninteresting as possible!)...I was awake from 3am until 5pm. I had to check my bank accounts because I felt broke (thank God I'm not!). And I read up on Medifast. My coworkers are doing this program. The lady who sits next to me is taking in under 900 calories a day. But she's lost 12 pounds this week.

Please tell me that this isn't a safe program. Somebody? Anybody? Otherwise I'm afraid I'll be sucked in and the money will go into the same toilet that the WW@W one went.

The idea of prepackaged meals and only eating liquid-y items (for the most part) all day every day SUCKS! I researched their website and saw that there are other options...like eating one meal w/lean protein and veggies.

I don't want to fall into the "easy" trap again. My mental state always steers me towards the "but if you pay for it, you'll do it" thoughts. Instead, I sooooo need to get into the "if you commit to it, you'll do it" mentality. At this point I'm painfully fat and am still not ready to have another child (mentally I'm ready; physically I'm afraid it would kill me).

Okay, that was my brain puking on the blog. Maybe I'll sleep better tonight!!! For now, I'm off for my massage.

Happy and food

I've been trying hard to eat only when hungry, and to eat things that are good for me..i wear a blue ring that i've had for years. somehow this ring evokes an emotion in me...one that makes me want to try hard to be as good to myself as possible. So I often stroke the ring and think good thoughts.
Then when i feel the "urge" to eat something that I'm not really hungry for, or that might make me feel tired, sick, or low...i rub the ring again.

Weird i know. but somehow it feels right.

Shoes

Today marks the first time I've ever purchased a shoe specifically for exercising. I typically buy the all-purpose tennis show that I wear on weekends and on the rare occasion that I exercise. Frankly, buying a size 11 shoe at any mall is a huge PIA. I look at boxes vs. style. But I found a nice gray/pink pair. My fav!

* Note to self: return library book soon (The Perfect Weight)...the library will be calling soon. At this rate, I could have purchased the book for less money than I'll need to pay the fine. *

Bringing back POTATOS

As summer is wrapping up, i'm being presented with gifts from my parents' garden, and one of the best of those is home grown Potato's.

I don't know if you noticed, but unless you are eating @ a steak house, potatos aren't around a whole lot anymore.

do not fear this "white" starch. The silly carb fear-mongers lumped it into high glycemic stuff, but whatever. Eat it with the peel, in it's natural form (not as chips :-) and it's extremely good for you.

EAT POTATOs!! :-)

Intentions..walk every day until Hawaii and do some core strengthening every day..bare minimum

will report back...so far 2 days in...we're doin' good ;-)