OTTER's CalorieKing Blog
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...
I Fit!
Monday, April 28th 2008
. . . in the bus seats, that is. Have noticed on my commuter journeys that I only take up my seat's worth of space. Ooh, how pleasing this change is. Especially as I'm feeling impatient to really drop a size of clothing. It will come. Patience and self-discipline; movement and choices.Also, it was a nice evening when I arrived home. So I tried jumping rope for my exercise. It was hard, but fun. And would have been impossible four months ago.
Baby steps. Or maybe baby jumps.
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Another F-cube...
Saturday, April 26th 2008
An F to the third power - Food-Filled Friday. But what a great day it was. Once a year my employer celebrates staff appreciation week. Each day of the week has some special event or gift. Friday was lunch out, and it was a feast! Salmon, Beef, Rice, pear-walnut-salad, lemonade, and a build-it-yourself ice cream sundae for dessert. I didn't say "no" to anything, I tried to eat in moderation.Last evening, I did something new and unusual. Usual Friday I am too tired to move...