The
Virtual Caterer
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Overcoming the Winter Blahs |
Don't make any New
Year's Resolutions:
- If you resolve to
change something you've been having
trouble sticking with in the past,
you're just setting yourself up for
depression and guilt it it doesn't
work this year either.
Start a personal
"Journal" for 1999
- Buy a ring bound
notebook. Be sure it has a least 26
pages in it.
- Use one page to
explain wo you are, what you do, your
height, weight, hair and eye color,
age and health statistics.
Remember, this is personal and you
don't have to share it)
- Keep the last page
blank so that at the end of the year
you can record any changes that
occurred and to summarize the year.
- Designate two (2)
pages to each month of the year.
- Start the first
page of each month by listing four
(4) tasks you wish to accomplish.
- Use the balance of
the two pages to record events,
thought, fears, news, weather, and
accomplishments.
Nutrition
- Unless, for
specific health reasons, your doctor
has advised you not to, go on a high
protein diet.
- High protein
generates natural blood sugar.
- Blood sugar
generates heat.
- Heat burns off
calories.
- High protein
blood sugar creates more energy
to get things done (burning off
calories).
- High protein
generating internal body heat in
the winter months will make you
more comfortable during cold
weather.
- High protein
creates a feeling of fullness,
cutting down on the desire for
countless snacking.
- The blood sugar
created by the high protein
eventually lessens the desire for
overly sweetened desserts and
drinks.
- Stay away from pork
products for the first sixty (60)
days of a high protein diet.
---For some reason,
pork fat prevents the natural blood
sugar from doing it's intended job.
- For snacking, eat
seeds and nuts. For meals, eat
turkey, turkey-based products,
chicken and fish. Eat only the
leanest beef cooked over an open
flame or grill.
- Eat plenty of
vegetables and fruits.
- Be sure to eat
breakfast within two (2) hours of
waking every day.
- Do not punish
yourself through your diet! Eat
desserts at least once a week (try
half portions).
Health
- Have a complete physical.
- Stay away from sick people.
- If you are traveling by air, use
"Afrin" nasal spray. Use 2
squirts in each nostril before each
take-off. This will prevent a virus
from being pushed into your system
through the nasal passages and lessen
the likelihood of chest and sinus
infractions.
- Drink plenty of water and juices
during winter months. Cold air and
over-heated buildings will dehydrate
throats and noses resulting in colds
and flues.
- Take plenty of walks in the open
air.
- Laugh! Real laughter expands the
lungs, draws in oxygen as well as
creating natural endorphins which
will make you feel better. Laugh
often!
Play Games:
- Play board games or
cards as often as you can. Perhaps
you and your family can start a
weekly game night.
- Studies show that
playing games actually expands the
brain, making the players more alert
and sharper for days afterward.
- Playing games
provides the social contact necessary
for well-being and mental health.
Pamper yourself
- Allow one hour
every day that is yours. Get everyone
in your home to agree that this hour
(make it the same time every day) is
yours and you are not to be
disturbed.
- During your hour,
soak in a hot soothing bath for 30
minutes. While you are soaking, read
10 pages from a book you've always
wanted to read.
- After your bath, moisturize all
over.
- Finally, spend the rest of your
hour lying down with your eyes
closed. Have the room as quiet as
possible. If there are noises or
voices in the house that are
distracting, then play some soothing
music. Or buy a recording of soothing
sounds. But please, no television--no
radio talk show--JUST RELAX.
Be realistic. don't keep looking
back!
- Your body isn't what it was. You
can't do the things you used to. Your
relationships aren't what they used
to be) partner, spouse, children,
co-workers). Stop! Of course they're
not!
- Dress to flatter who you are.
Update your hairdo.
- Be grateful and proud of the
growth in your relationships(s).
There's history between you now. You
have memories together. Tell them
(all of them) that you wouldn't like
to think what your life would have
been like if they hadn't been there.
- Of you can't do what you used to
do, then do something different.
- Stop feeling sorry about the loss
of yesterday. Start planning
something special for tomorrow.
Learn to Dance
Entertain
Organize:
- closet, kitchen cabinets, a desk,
towels, the garage, recipes photos,
tools, socks, books, records, the
refrigerator, a file
cabinet...
Finally:
- Make a list of 12 things
particularly good about yourself.
(You always say thank you; you always
respond to an RSVP; you hove
beautiful hair; etc....).
- Tape your list somewhere private
(Inside a closet door, in a desk
drawer, etc.).
- Look at your list every day...
ENJOY
LIFE! -- LAUGH OFTEN!
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