Showing posts with label eating. Show all posts
Showing posts with label eating. Show all posts

Thursday, February 28, 2013

Each Day is New


I am going to live my day to the fullest by enjoying every moment of it as I Mindfully; See, Feel and Touch everything that I experience throughout the day. I already started doing so; watching the cereal fill the bowl & filling my eye of the different textured shapes & colours, and by eating my breakfast so that I explored the taste and texture of each small bite of food which helped slow down my eating. I find that it also keeps me full for a longer period of time helping me lose & maintain my weight. There was much more to my eating schedule that makes me appreciate foods & liquids (especially water) and where it came from and how it was produced.  I will probably go into this in later posts about my opinions about organic/non-gmo/local/fair trade foods and how we need to take care of our water sources.

I am going out this afternoon and will be using my Mindfulness Practice, as I do my travel watching the clouds, trees, people, etc, when on the bus so I can see the beauty and complexity of the world around me.  I will be doing some Art today at a studio that offers many opportunities to do things like pottery, drawing, mixed media & much more but will not decide till I make it there and find out what rooms are available.   I've been drawing a lot lately but want to use my Archival Ink pens to polish things off because I really like the feel and visual concepts it gives to the art piece.  Plus going to the studio today will help my get out of the house and feel less anxious at being stuck inside the house all day.

Before going out I will be cleaning & organizing around the apartment which is one of the least favourite things to do in the day but is something that I have scheduled to do this morning than just get sucked into the internet and not do anything productive and have the mess make me anxious and depressed.  While doing so I am going to play some high beat music and again use every moment to explore my surrounds and have exercise at the same time.  Yes, housework is exercise especially to someone with inflammatory arthritis and brittle diabetes which I will explain in later posts. :)

Have a Great Day!!!!

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Tuesday, February 26, 2013

The best sic doctors anywhere!

This is a good way to learn a little about myself and the goals that I will be setting to improve my mental and physical health.  I have already met a few of these goals and then others I have re-introduce into my daily routine and make them habits once more.  The areas which I have already met is drinking water which is usually done through my water bottle and tea but know there should be some more improvement.  I am pretty close to have rest full sleep with between 8 to 10 hours but I am using medication to help me but hope to cut back to 1/2 a pill and then none by the end of spring.  I have a pretty good diet (following diabetic guidelines) and eating 3 meals a day with two snack periods which includes most of the food groups but lack in veggies most days.

The areas which I'm really lacking in because of anxiety are: sunshine (when we get it in Vancouver) but use a SAD light to help, air (stale inside air does not count) and exercise.  I use to go for walks a lot which helped me with sunshine, fresh air and moderate exercise because I use to go for 1/2hr or more.  I would like to improve my exercise by doing things that is greatly needed like stretching, chair exercises (to help with balance) and go to a community center to use facilities that I can use a stationary bike and go swimming.

I will have to tell you about some of the challenges that I have with seeing some of those great free doctors of mine that will help with my visits to my family doctor and Specialists.  Wish me the best! :)