Thursday

Hi everyone! It's Thursday, which means tomorrow is Friday! YES. I've had a fine week, nothing too crazy. I've been reading Alicia Silverstone's book, The Kind Diet-it's amazing!! I love it just as much as Crazy, Sexy, Diet by Kris Carr. Truly enlightening! So not only am I reading this fantastic book but I've turned my best friend Stephanie on to CSD! And she ordered the Kind Diet! It's a true miracle because she has several small health problems and i'm just confident this will help! The other exciting part of this blog is that I finally signed up for the Institute of Integrative Nutrition! I'M SO EXCITED. I'm finally taking another to step to get myself off the ground as a personal health coach! I suppose that's all for today. Hoping tomorrow will be fabulous!

Veggie Chat

Good afternoon everyone! Hopefully we can combat the Monday blues! I have been trying to write this blog for over a week and I'm determined to get it in today (yeah definitely published this on Thursday...). As we know all vegetables are amazing but I wanted to let everyone know about some that are extra amazing, at least when fighting (cue scary horror music in background) cancer! Below is a list of cruciferous vegetables, known as such because their flowers have four equally spaced petals in the shape of a cross. But enough about their looks the exciting part is their insides! All vegetables contain micro nutrients and phytochemicals, but these guys also have sulfur containing compounds. (normally when I think of sulfur i think of those terrible smelling yellow nuggets in high school chem class!-but that doesn't apply to these vegetables!) When you blend or chop the vegetables the sulfur compounds to isothiocyanates (ITCs) which are compounds with proven anti-cancer activities. These compounds remove carcinogens, kill cancer cells, and some have anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, or immunologic effects (helps your immune system function better). There is so much more information on these but I figure this will due for now. Let me know if you'd like more! Below is a list of the veggies that are in this category.


List of cruciferous vegetables:
•    Arugula
•    Bok choy
•    Broccoli
•    Broccoli rabe
•    Broccolini
•    Brussels sprouts
•    Cabbage
•    Cauliflower
•    Collards
•    Horseradish
•    Kale
•    Kohlrabi
•    Mache
•    Mustard greens
•    Radish
•    Red cabbage
•    Rutabaga
•    Turnips
•    Turnip greens
•    Watercress

Stop, listen, close your eyes and just breathe.

Well today is tough, I guess a lot of days here are tough. I mean tough is a relative word-compared to so many others I have it quite easy, I really do but it's still a daily struggle to keep myself above water, to not be depressed.  I'm trying to focus on the good but it's very hard since even that is slightly cloudy. I'm trying to figure out how to be a nutrition guru and support myself, should I be a yoga/pilates instructor? A personal trainer? Go for the next 7-10 years (literally) to get another bachelors and masters in Nutrition? Go to this amazing holistic cooking school (but what to do with that and how to pay for it)? Go for another one of these holistic nutrition schools? And if so, which one? How to pay for it? Is it accredited? Do I care? Should I get another job? What about my planned trip to Israel, how's that going to work? So that's where I'm at-not to mention I'm struggling with this economics class I have to take for the second bachelors-which I shouldn't have to, I already did my undergrad!

Anyway those are my rants for the day, that actually helped, to get out all of the negative energy, I'm going to focus on the positive, on the exciting, on the amazing possibilities, NOT on the present (meaning sitting here at a desk, not working where I want to be-helping people), not on how much I dislike certain things in my life, I'm going to focus on the amazing opportunities that are ahead of me! I'm going to push hard to keep it positive today! I'm going to an amazing restaurant with my friend from work Erin who feels the same way about food that I do-so that's fantastic. I am going to be productive at work today; I am going to read some of my economics, tomorrow I'm going to try to come up with questions for the T.A. so he can help me. Everything is going to be great! I haven't figured it all out yet but again only focusing on the positive!-it's just too slippery a slope right now to not do it! Everything will turn out wonderfully I’m confident, and I believe that because I have a good heart, a smart mind and I want to do good in the world. If I project positive energy and light and optimistic thoughts, I will enjoy my journey and what I need to be doing will gravitate towards me. Shine your bright dazzling light and the universe will shine brilliant positive light right back at you.

BELIEVE IN YOURSELF

"Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable."

-Wendy Wasserstein

"If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price."

-Author Unknown

"We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies."

-Roderick Thorp