My collaboration with three lovely ladies... and ugly me!

Yes I’m back after a long break...sorry. This is my collaboration with Janiel, Lisa and Candice. We were able to successfully combine our ideas; Janiel has a blog dealing with relationships, Lisa with meal ideas that are fun and Candice with getting fit for Carnival (although I must say I’m not really a Carnival person). The ideas can be used to get fit for any upcoming physical ordeal.

In the video we chatted about what one can do o get fit for that season although I did not think it is enough time from now, November to February to be fit enough unless you are already exercising. They did not agree with me... Guys, be careful when disagreeing with the females! Do it calmly and agreeably, does that make sense? In other words agree to disagree.

 We also talked about certain foods you can combine for a quick boost of energy. Did I hear chocolate in there somewhere? Umm. Listen up - or view up ...

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My collaboration with 'childhood memories' - Sapodilla

Here is another collaboration, this time with Diana aka Sapodilla. Our discussion was along the lines of childhood memories of foods and meals we both would have eaten while growing up. Diana is fun and a pleasure to work with and I think we blended well since she dealt with memories and I, good health. And we know that the further back we think of in the past, most of us did not have as much junk food at our disposal as we do now and since I go back a little further than other in class I have great memories of this.

 She grew up having many fruit trees in her yard and off course if you have been reading my blogs I’m an advocate for having a variety of fruits and vegetables in our diet. She remembers crops like ginger, tipi-tamboo, yam, avocado, corn, pigeon peas, a nine month crop, sorrel, another 9 month-crop, shadow-benny, cucumber and tomatoes.

I also grew up with the experience of a back-yard garden with things like tomatoes, peas, cherries, mangoes, coconuts and lettuce. Some others I can’t remember. It was hard work but it paid off with good health. What we did not plant we got at the market, like ground provision and pumpkin. I also remember going to the country almost every school holiday and drinking ‘cocoa-tea’ (dark chocolate) one of my most favourite food memories. Don’t start salivating now! With all this food talk I just might.

 

What really is breakfast?

First breakfast…

Okay, now for some breakfast ideas. First let’s talk about what breakfast is and what it is for. It has been said that this is the most important meal of the day and that you could miss all the others and not this one, unless you are fasting of course and even then you MUST drink water.

Your breakfast is as the word says, to ‘break (your) fast’ that you had all night long. So it must be nutritious but not too heavy unless you are a labourer or someone who does heavy physical work. You may laugh when I say that I have what looks like lunch to most for breakfast. I would usually have a little brown rice and/or sweet potato or some other provision, not too much though with any kind of peas and some veggies, some cooked, steamed and raw. Yes, sometimes I would also have raw walnuts and/or pumpkin seeds and/or pecans and/or hazel nuts with the mix. Oats goes great with these. Sorry no juice or tea - maybe a little green tea. Check this out for breakfast. The image came from a royalty free site called 123rf.com.

Sounds crazy? You see as it comes to eating for good health, variety is the spice of life as they say, especially with your raw or steamed vegetables. I don’t follow the regular habit or suggestions most have of bread and cereal and milk and eggs and bacon and… no, no, no. That is tradition. If you study what proper nutrition entails you would stay far from these things. They will half, and over time (whole) kill you (my phrase). Most of us know what to eat but we do this out of habit and pay the consequences later; and when the doctor tells us to change our diet we give him 3 or $400 (that you could have given to me!) for almost nothing that you could have done yourself with a little research. I will address the detriments of all those and certain other foods later but one thing I will advise you of now is that anything with preservatives should be avoided like cereal. Oats are okay but make sure they are organic. Preservatives stay in the body unless they are removed but detoxification. Read the labels and see how many unpronounceable ingredients are in that package of… Those are what contribute to cancer or something else, so let’s keep it as natural as possible.

Second breakfast ?

Now I know last time I said that your fruits can be your breakfast but because they digest in an hour or so we tend to feel empty after that (actually feeling empty in your stomach is not the real and only reason why we should eat). I suggest you have what I described earlier as what I call a second breakfast, an hour after the first. I can do that since I work on evenings. Now since most of you who work from 7 or 8 am, I suggest you drink your water as you awake and have your fruits after you get ready which should average a half-an-hour or so, take your time. Get up a little earlier for your health. Please don’t rush off without it. You will see the dividends soon enough, I will tell your some personal stories soon. When you get to work, try to make it early enough so you can eat, sit in the lunch room or somewhere and have your (second) breakfast! And no snacks please at your break, your stomach still has food in it up to 3 or 4 hours. Drink a half glass or less of water, you’ll get used to it eventually.

Well that it for now. Next time God willing we will deal with lunch which would be very similar to your (second) breakfast…


references 

http://www.123rf.com