Chile Chews’ Discretionary Eating Challenge

Chile Chews is having this really cool eating challenge. Like discretionary spending, discretionary eating can also save on your pocketbook as well as your waistline.

“Limiting your discretionary eating is a positive step for your pocketbook, your health, the environment, and social justice. Won’t you join me today?
I’m joining, won’t you?

***EDIT***

Here’s my pledge for the challenge:

CAFE 75%
LITE 75% (more like 90%)
SUGAR 75% (more like 90%)
SOW 100%
BUZZ 75% (more like 90%)
VEG 50%

A blog plug

I just love my friends’, Carey and Don, blogs.  Carey is such a great writer.  So, I’m giving their family blog a little plug here.  (They do have two other blogs that they contribute to and you can find the links to those in their profiles.)

little house in the ghetto

I like lots-o-links

As you can see, I’m back to blogging after quite a hiatus.  I’ve been messing around with my side bars and wondering if all of the links should stay or go.  I’ve decided that I LOVE links!  I love blogs that have lots-o-links.  I’m always looking for new pathways to new information on the net and many of them I find through links on other blogs.  So, the links stay!  I’ve cleaned up a few and condensed them into separate pages on my blog that are linked to in my side bars… i.e. Unschooling Conferences and Unschooling Swag… and I may do a few more clean-ups… but for the most part, I’m done.  I know there’s a lot in my side bars… but that stuff’s important to me and I have a lot to say.

New CD!

I don’t what took this guy so long to ship his CD, but because he’s so cool, I’ll forgive him. Got this in the mail yesterday! WooHoo!

Download at Amazon.com

Another nightly battle

Work was great last night. I wore different shoes, which helped with my foot and leg pain that I’ve been experiencing since the new ad set system has been in place (maybe I haven’t talked about this here… this new system involves a ton more walking, than we are all used to… because of the walking, the extra hours [because we are understaffed], and my extra weight on my tiny feet [70 lbs… gasp… on a size 5 foot], I have been nearly crippled for weeks now. I haven’t been able to walk without constant and sometimes severe pain. It also helped that we got out of work early last night, we haven’t been able to do that for quite some time because of being understaffed. So, I wasn’t on those awful floors for as long.

I got home just a little after midnight. Spent some time with DH , watched Seinfeld, and read a bit more in “Fit For Life.” My nightly battle, again, was within my head… one part of my brain screaming, eat-eat-eat… and the other part screaming, no-breath through it-you don’t have to eat-it’s too late to be eating-you’ll over tax your system if you eat this late at night and right before bed. Ugh! I won the battle again… but damn, it sure sucks! I sure hope one day that the *bad* voices in my head aren’t so loud.

My Yummy Lunch

I thought about trying to fast today… but, that didn’t end up happening… it’s a bad week for fasting anyway, we’re super busy all week long. SO, since I was super hungry, I decided to try my hand at this food combining thing (”Fit For Life” by Harvey and Marilyn Diamond). I didn’t want to take the time to cook meat, so I made a baked potato (via microwave) w/ a little butter instead and had a whole bag of seasoned Asian veggies, lightly steamed. Being that veggies should make up at least 70% of your food intake, the bag was just right. The veggies took up almost 3/4 of my plate. I wish I had taken a picture, like PTF does, maybe next time. My meal was delicious!!!! And I didn’t have any fluids… fluids water-down the digestive juices… I wonder how long I have to wait until I can drink? I’m thirsty.

Nook and Cranny Cleaning

My friend Julie, over at The Clearing, has fallen in-love with her house again and has been cleaning and purging every nook and cranny.  You’ve inspired me, Julie, it’s time for some nook and cranny cleaning myself.  :)  I’m looking to start sewing again and thinking about selling my stuff, so I really must get my stuff organized so that I’m not inefficient.

AND I need to make a honey-do list.  It rained hard here last night and I noticed a discoloration in our living room ceiling shortly there after… our roof is leaking… why?… because Rick lets the tree droppings pile up in the dip in the spot between the top roof and the porch roof and stuff’s been growing in it and obviously breaking down the shingles to the point of leakage.  Needless to say, I’M NOT HAPPY ABOUT HIS LAZINESS!  Ugh.  Why do I feel like this man’s mom sometimes?

My struggle to stay conscious

Some of you may know that for a long time I’ve struggled with food. It has been my *addiction*. It used to be really bad… hording, binging, sneaking food, hiding the evidence (who the hell did I think I was hiding this from… I think I was trying to hide it from myself, actually)… all of that has stopped, but I still struggle with conscious eating. I still notice myself zoning out when food enters my mouth and when that happens, I find myself eating 1 too many portions and it’s like I’m screaming from somewhere deep in my consciousness to put on the breaks before I go for another helping. I also struggle late at night… I believe that because everything slows down at night and my mind and body is no longer focused on the tasks of the day, that the urge to eat fills my brain, so that I’ll have something to fill my time and space.

BUT, I am so very proud of myself. See, I’ve been reading “Fit For Life” by Harvey and Marilyn Diamond. Like most other alternative thinkers concerning eating and medicine, this book promotes natural ways of eating, food combining and a process called “Natural Hygiene.” I won’t get into all of that, you can get the book and read for yourself… but my point is that I didn’t eat late last night like I wanted to. The thoughts running through my head were, “it’s too late to eat, your not really hungry, cleanse or clog.” Yeah, for me. I over-came the urge to eat, when it wasn’t beneficial for me to.

I believe that with continued practice and sometimes raw effort, I can be a conscious eater.

Get a college education… for free

Notice I didn’t say get a college degree… you’ll have to pay for that… but a college level education is out there for everyone and YES you can get it for free.

Technophilia: Get a free college education online

About.com: Directory of free online courses

MIT: Free online course materials

NROC: National Repository of Online Courses

Free-Ed.Net

WannaLearn.com

About.com: About U(niversity)

If you know of any other links, feel free to leave them as a comment to this post. 

Happy Learn Nothing Day!

Those of us over at RCU have already decided that it’s IMPOSSIBLE to go a day without learning anything. Here are some of what we’ve learned already:

I had thought since we didn’t have anything else planned today the
girls might like to go swimming, then I thought they would almost
certainly learn something swimming, so we can’t do that. lol

Would it be okay if I accidentally learned something? Or do we have to actively avoid any and all learning?

Well, I’ve blown it already. My best friend thinks she’s in labor, and I may
get to see a baby being born today! So I could be in for some major
learning. And I’ve already learned TMI about my friend’s body.

I already blew it….open and read the story about the names…learned that parents can be dumber than I thought…so I’ve already learned something today…oh well

Well, I already learned when my DH’s company picnic is going to be, he told me at 6:30 before he left for work. (I forgot about that whole better not get out of bed thing.) Then I forgot I wasn’t supposed to learn anything today and turned on Good Morning America. (Didn’t learn much of any consequence there, LOL) but then I just had to check my email. I learn all of sorts of things in my emails : ) I am not actively trying to learn anything today, but it’s just so hard. The world wants me to know things LOL!

I’ve already learned many things today! The kids are still asleep so they have a sportin’ chance at it.. at least until they wake up. ; )

What did you learn on Learn Nothing Day?