Changes

Wow! I can't believe I haven't blogged in about 2 months. We have been on vacation. That's all I can say. We had a great trip to Colorado and New Mexico--I'll try to post some pictures later. I have also been trying to make some changes in my life involving a better diet and more exercise. While in Colorado, I came across this book. It's called Ultra Metabolism. I had been wanting to make some dietary changes this summer and this book seemed interesting. I loved the suggestions he made and how he important a good diet is for your overall health, and not just for your weight. Then, when I got home I found out that I have high blood sugar, so it gave me extra incentive to work on my diet and exercise. Since then I have cut out sugar and wheat products from my diet. I am in the detox phase right now. I can re-introduce small amounts of those things later, but so far it hasn't been as hard as I thought it would be. I had a few headaches the first few days, but since then I have had good energy, and have felt pretty good.

I also started doing an exercise program called cross-fit with a few girls from church. It has also been good. The workouts are short, but intense and at first I was unable to complete them. After a few weeks, I am able to complete them with no problem. Right now I am also reading Anticancer: A new way of life, which is also a great book. As most of you know, I am a cancer survivor of more than 10 years. This book makes it clear that diet and lifestyle choices do have an effect on cancer in prevention and keeping cancer in remission longer. I had not heard this information clearly stated this way before. Both of these books confirm the choices I have been making this summer and encourage me to keep going.

A typical day's food for me will look like this:
Breakfast: Banana, blueberry and soy milk shake with flax seeds
Snack: Almonds and fruit
Lunch: Cannelini bean salad, fruit
Snack: Veggies with hummus
Dinner: Fish or Chicken with vegetables and wild rice or quinoa

I feel really lucky that we have access to so much cheap, good quality produce in California. There are so many different kinds of fruit that I don't really miss desserts that much.