OTTER's May 2008 CalorieKing Blog
Final Reflections (CKU CH. 12)
Sunday, May 11th 2008
Tool needed: How do you feel having almost completed CKU? What have you learned and achieved? What are you proud of? What do you feel disappointed about?Visit your Blog and reflect on these questions or any thoughts and feelings about completing CKU and where you're at with weight control in general.
I feel glad -- glad to have made it this far. Glad to find I have internal resources to see that the journey to fitness and healthier weight is not a struggle with misery. Glad to ...
Back on track!
Saturday, May 10th 2008
Down in weight this week. What a relief. Printing the diaries and reviewing my week, it is easy to see: Though my real calories are higher than my goal, my exercising average and calorie average usually puts me 100 to 150 calories lower than target each day.What I learned: I was HUNGRY a lot this week. I need to have fruit and other healthful, modest calorie food options readily available. Otherwise I eat empty calories chocolate, or popcorn.
I relied too much on diet sweeten...
thoughts on story, thoughts on faith...
Tuesday, May 6th 2008
Miriam is right, of course. How it is lived is the best example of faith.Yet I find myself hungry for story, and hungry to share story. Reading in the David James Duncan book, I come across this:
". . . I'm just a storyteller, not a pundit. I like Bary Lopez's borrowed Inuktitut definition of the story teller as isumataq. The isumataq is 'the person who creates the atmospher in which wisdom reveals itself.' The person who uses words to try to stuff you full of wisdom has...
Putting words to the God experience...
Saturday, May 3rd 2008
I have two God books concurrently on loan from my library.Conversations With God by Neale Donald Walsch I picked up because I like the DVD created from the same story. The DVD depiction felt moving, and seemed to mirror my own strange journey to a life of faith. But reading the book feels trite, the words wrong, the journey a "miss" and just some bourgeois's idea of how to have a god experience in the material world.
Also reading My Story As Told By Water by David Ja...
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