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So much happening and this is my “go slow” month. There are signs in the stars that say I need to do things more mindfully this month, and things inside my own body and brain tell me that, too.
For example: I mistakenly double-dosed myself with hormones for a couple of weeks and my mind has been jumping around like a wild monkey through constantly moving hoops. My body, the body I love but mindlessly abused for so long, has been feeling the pain as I age and continue to carry extra belly fat.
Feeling desperate, I decided to spring clean from the inside out. I’m reading “How to Live for Life: The End of Dieting” by Joel Fuhrman, M.D. and beginning to change the way I eat. I had no trouble becoming a vegetarian, and I’m hoping this next step will come naturally, too, scooping out those stubborn pounds.
Also I’m making a point of getting more exercise, including my beloved yoga. But I need cardio, need to get the blood pumping, and that means walking. I walked outside today, it’s sunny and warm, hooray! but yesterday I was so into other things I took a short break to run up and down my stairs until I was panting.
Exercise helps brain chemistry, as does daily meditation despite the monkeys, also focusing on positive feelings and letting the sad things go. Eating the right foods help clean up brain chemistry as well. It’s a two-for-one. That mind/body connection.
I’ve needed to make some changes in my diet, permanent changes, for a very long time. My strong, sweet body took me a long way without complaint even as I filled it with toxins. But now it complains. Regularly. So I have to do this. I want to do this. And for the first time in a very long time, I feel like I CAN do this, with a bit of mindful attention.
And now I must sweep the front porch before Linda arrives.
Cynthia Harrison 
My eating habits went downhill when I moved cross country, but I’ve been getting back on track little by little. Spring tends to do that to a person. I’ve been jogging for almost three years now, but that too, slacked more than it should have. It’s all just a matter of sticking with what works and not hurrying it along too much, just like writing most days 🙂
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Hi Jeri! It is just like writing…I’d never thought about that before. And today I am getting into writing mode again.
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It’s time. I can feel it, too. I don’t know that I’m eating better but I am eating less. That’s as good a place to start as any.
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Sharon, this book is blowing my mind. I can only digest (sorry can never resist a pun) about 5 pages a day. When I wanted to start changing my diet, I went forward to the recipes, which look pretty normal, before I shopped. Some of the things he says are shocking, like that if you are eating the standard American diet, and you are of normal weight, then you are probably an alcoholic, or a smoker, or very sick with cancer or some other un diagnosed disease. So he’s a bit out there!
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