Tag: health
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Travel for Solar Return: Month Four and the Work of Stewardship
Month Four didn’t erupt. It matured: stewardship, housecleaning, and two charts learning to cooperate.
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Hidden Injuries
When I was a kid, my parents would take me to visit various great aunts and uncles. We would sit on their front porches in rocking chairs for hours on a Sunday afternoon while they reminisced about old family stories. They ranged in age anywhere from their early 70s to their early 90s, and invariably…
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Whey Protein and Insomnia
Generally defined as the inability to fall asleep and/or remain asleep, insomnia is estimated to affect nearly half of all people living in the U.S. Commonly cited reasons for insomnia include: Age (older individuals are more prone to experiencing insomnia) Stress and anxiety Medical conditions that cause chronic pain Sleep apnea Side effects of medications…
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The Leptin Reset: Week 6 Results – the Big Ass Breakfast Sweats It
Another big ass breakfast: Grilled salmon. This dish is about 10 ounces of salmon. Normally I grill 20-30 ounces of salmon at one time on my Foreman grill, then bag the other 1-2 portions for my next big ass breakfasts. This meal will typically “hold” me for 7-8 hours, with no hunger, no cravings, no…
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The Leptin Reset: Week 4 Results, or Can Insomnia Make You Fat?
My big ass breakfast was about 10 ounces of grilled salmon, and I wasn’t the least big hungry until around 3:30. Meal #2 of the day, late in the afternoon and shown here was 2 5-ounce organic beef patties, grilled, with sautéed veggies–sweet onions and mushrooms with herbs. This big ass supper comprised the rest…
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The Leptin Reset: Week 3 Results, or Can Work Make You Fat?
(My apologies if you’ve been waiting for Week 3. I’m past Week 4 now but my computer is still in the shop, so I’m test-driving a Mac tonight.) After I nearly lost my focus on the Leptin Reset in Week 2, due entirely to an emotional stress, Week 3 smoothed out nicely. The bottom-line for…
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Anchoring in Success: Interim Goals for Weight Loss, Nutrition, and Health
Sometimes I happen upon a blog post written but never posted, or it is still in the queue from long ago. This one is from last September. My best friend and I are working together on a three-month health and fitness project. We have separate goals and separate ways of getting there–sometimes very different ways…
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The Leptin Reset: Week 2 Results, or Can a Broken Heart Make You Fat?
Picture to the left: Week 2 on the Leptin Reset (http://jackkruse.com/my-leptin-prescription/) and it’s failure, failure, failure. Nothing could lift this mood…except what started it. I ended Week 2 of the Leptin Reset, my health project for July and perhaps August, by gaining back 1 of the 2 pounds I’d lost in the first week. Truthfully,…
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Lorna’s Weekly Link Love
Starting today, I’ll be giving a little weekly “link love” here at The Spiritual Eclectic blog for mind-body-spirit subjects as well as a link round-up for book and history lovers over at The Secret Lives of Librarians blog. This week’s most interesting Mind-Body-Spirit links: I always thought I wouldn’t have to worry about hormones until…
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The Power of Gluten: Why Gluten-Free Will NEVER be a Fad Diet to Me
Before I headed out in May to walk the Camino de Santiago in Spain as part of a spiritual pilgrimage, I had been off wheat gluten for close to a year, though I was noticing some weight gain in specific places after adding corn gluten to my diet about 3 times a week. Without wheat…
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Health: Renew Life’s Total Body Rapid Cleanse Review and Tips, Day 1 of 7
Okay, I promise this review isn’t about poop! Hmmm, maybe a little, but that’s just one of the results some people look for when they “do a cleanse.” Since I write quite a bit about health products as part of my mind-body-spirit news and this is the first time I’ve tried one of these quickie…
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How Can You Be Positive When Everyone Around You Is Negative? (A Lesson from the Biggest Loser)
How can you be positive when it seems there’s so much negativity and so many negative people around you? It all depends on your focus. Eleven seasons of The Biggest Loser had passed before I saw my first episode. I’d heard of it, here and there, from friends at work, but I’d never watched it.…
