HealthiaCynthia

Never too Late to Start those New Year’s Resolutions!

Filed under: Health & Wellness, Rebounder Health, Bouncing, Detox Programs by healthiacynthia on January 10, 2008 5:43 pm

snowy treeWell, here we are at the beginning of another year.  I must apologize for not being very prolific with my blogs… well, obviously, if you are reading this at all, you are reading it for the first time, since no one waits around with baited breath for me to do my daily entries.

Anyhow, this is more or less the beginning of another year.  A Leap Year, as it happens.  Remember that way we had of determining how many days in a particular month when we were children (all you children of the 50s and 60s I mean):

Thirty days hath September, April, June and November,

 All the rest have thirty-one,

Saving February alone,

Which hath 28, and 29 each Leap Year

Or something like that.  Close enough.

Last night we debated the effectiveness of New Year's Resolutions in my Toastmasters' Club.  It was a lot of fun and got me thinking about those commendable commitments earnestly again.  Why didn't I make any earlier this year, I wondered to myself?

So, today I decided I would pick a few and go with them.  I'll blog about them here so you can hold me accountable as well.

HEALTH AND NUTRITION:

Because of the nature of this particular blog, it is important for me to focus on my health. hahaha.  I am entering a 21-Day Challenge on-line starting on the 14th (Monday) to see if I can turn some of my more odious habits around.  Here is my positive reframe of those three habits:

  1. I will go to bed before 11 p.m. at night.  (This will be tough since I lose track of time when I am on the Internet and it seems like I do my best thinking at night– yeah, right!)
  2. I will rebound for 20 minutes daily (I was doing this until quite recently and am now lucky if I rebound for 2 minutes daily)
  3. I will stop eating after 8 p.m. at night.  (This particularly pernicious habit of evening grazing has just creeped in– or more recently, slouched in– to my life)

Those are the three areas that I will be focusing on changing to over the next 21 days (well, starting Monday).  I also have longer range goals and ambitions for the year, but I think I'll just stop here for today.

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A Juicier HealthiaCynthia!

Filed under: Health & Wellness, Detox Programs by healthiacynthia on June 13, 2006 2:58 pm

For a long while I have been blogging at a couple of sites, first at modblog, which no longer exists, and then at blogger, using the Healthia Cynthia subdomain… but my resident webmaster suggested that it would be less complicated (and less frustrating re the general poor service these days) if I "came home" to my own domain, so to speak. So, here I am. And there you are– welcome! Today we are waiting, with no small level of excitement, for a new juicer. I got it on ebay, and it turns out that rather than being hundreds of air miles away in the US, it is just 'down the road', on Vancouver Island, in Nanaimo… wow– that is a real bonus for anyone who shops Ebay! In my desire to regain my youthful health and vigor, I already have two electronic gadgets for processing fruits and veggies on my kitchen counter– a somewhat elderly Braun processor and a Vitamix that I inherited from my parents. Before the move, I had a Champion Juicer that ran his last race and died in the moving truck (I free-cycled him to someone who thought he could be revived). Now I have this new very cutting-edge (or so my resident webmaster-health coach tells me) Juicer that runs at a lower speed (doesn't heat up and destroy all the nutrients in the juice, which I guess the sweaty old Champion did?) and has ceramic blades or rotors or something. And it can juice wheatgrass– that was the main thrill. When we attended a recent raw food potluck, Courtenay's local juice bar cum raw food and health emporium, Zen Zero, provided the most refreshing and tasty little shots of wheatgrass juice. So, apparently we have a fresh crop of kamut in our backyard and wheatgrass flats started. I've been doing some makeshift juices in my other food processors, but they turn out to be more like soup, so packed with fibre are they… tasty, but not as satisfying as the less fibre-some juicer juices. Dr. Ben Kim, my favourite health e-newsletter guru, said in one of his blogs that both the juice and the soupier stuff have their benefits. The less fibred juice is much more quickly absorbed and processed by the body (so, be careful about the glycemic levels of what you drink– take it easy on drinking the juice of five oranges or an entire watermelon or a bunch of carrots and a beet, for example). The more soupy, fibre-heavy 'juice' made with complete fruits or vegetables, is going to take longer to process and will be more filling. While the higher fibre drink is very healthy for most of us, it can be hell for anyone with a bowel disorder like Crohn's or IBS. Drink the juiced juice, and it's not a bad idea to pour it through a sieve to take out any floating fibre if you have a concern. I have a couple of juicing books by Cherie Calbom that I am looking forward to resurrecting when my juicer arrives (today I hope!!). One of the books is Juicing for Life: A Guide to the Health Benefits of Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Juicing. My husband just came back from the mailbox and said that there was a notice for a parcel. YAY!!

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