Like starting work on a Monday isn't hard enough. Starting work on a Monday after a 2 and 1/2 week vacation is even worse! Waking up to the alarm clock, re-adjusting my eating schedule for my late lunch, talking/teaching all day...blah! To unwind, I came home and did about 40 minutes of beginners yoga. Great way to end the day I must say. I think I'm getting ready to find a new yoga DVD and branch out. Anybody have old DVDs they want to send :) or where I can get cheap ones to try?
Speaking of trying new things, today was a day of firsts. No oatmeal for breakfast!? What?! I know. Today I had a cup of Nature's Path Optimum Banana Almond cereal with 1/2 a sliced banana, 1/2 cup fresh blueberries, and about a cup of unsweetened vanilla almond breeze. The milk has absolutely no flavor but the breakfast switch was kind of nice and refreshing to break out of routine.
Another first: adding another 200+ calorie snack to my day. My endocrinologist suggested I add another nutritious snack to increase my weight. I told him I would but in truth, it has been sporadic. The days I have another snack I feel guilty and try to compensate for it the next day. No more my friends, I need to step it up. Enter: Kashi honey sesame crackers with a navel orange. Lunch: Spinach salad with 1/2 a chopped gala apple, chicken, hard-boiled egg whites, chopped red bell pepper, chopped celery, and sun-dried tomato basil dressing. Snack #2: Raw cashew with some chopped dates coated in oat flour. Not a fan of the coating but the rest was satisfying. Dinner after yoga: not so new but still good. Baked salmon with sweet potato fries and roasted brussel sprouts on spinach. Dressing was a mix of dijon mustard, red wine vinaigrette, and olive oil. I'm reading this great little book called The Dash that is based on a poem by Linda Ellis. I want to share with you first the poem. I'm thinking that in following blog posts I'll post the mini-lessons as well because we can learn so much about ourselves and our lives.
I read of a man who stood to speak at the funeral of a friend. He referred to the dates on her tombstone from the beginning...to the end.
He noted that first came the date of her birth and spoke of the following date with tears, but he said what mattered most of all was the dash between those years.
For that dash represents all the time that she spent alive on earth and now only those who loved her know what that little line is worth.
For it matters not, how much we own, the cars...the house...the cash. What matters is how we live and love and how we spend our dash.
So think about this long and hard; are there things you'd like to change? For you never know how much time is left that can still be rearranged.
If we could just slow down enough to consider what's true and real and always try to understand the way other people feel.
And be less quick to anger and show appreciation more and love the people in our lives like we've never loved before.
If we treat each other with respect and more often wear a smile...remembering that this special dash might only last a little while.
So when your eulogy is being read with your life's actions to rehash, would you be proud of the things they say about how you spent your dash?
Speaking of trying new things, today was a day of firsts. No oatmeal for breakfast!? What?! I know. Today I had a cup of Nature's Path Optimum Banana Almond cereal with 1/2 a sliced banana, 1/2 cup fresh blueberries, and about a cup of unsweetened vanilla almond breeze. The milk has absolutely no flavor but the breakfast switch was kind of nice and refreshing to break out of routine.
I read of a man who stood to speak at the funeral of a friend. He referred to the dates on her tombstone from the beginning...to the end.
He noted that first came the date of her birth and spoke of the following date with tears, but he said what mattered most of all was the dash between those years.
For that dash represents all the time that she spent alive on earth and now only those who loved her know what that little line is worth.
For it matters not, how much we own, the cars...the house...the cash. What matters is how we live and love and how we spend our dash.
So think about this long and hard; are there things you'd like to change? For you never know how much time is left that can still be rearranged.
If we could just slow down enough to consider what's true and real and always try to understand the way other people feel.
And be less quick to anger and show appreciation more and love the people in our lives like we've never loved before.
If we treat each other with respect and more often wear a smile...remembering that this special dash might only last a little while.
So when your eulogy is being read with your life's actions to rehash, would you be proud of the things they say about how you spent your dash?
Much love,
Yasmin