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Resound11 Prompt 11: Best Meal

What is the best meal or best food that you have eaten all year? Did you make it? Did you get it at a restaurant? Do your best to describe the food and the experience with us.

How will you resound?

This one is really hard. I had so many good meals while traveling this year. From jerk chicken in the caribbean, to lamb burgers with tzatziki sauce here in Floyd or fire cheese in DC with the ladies. I ate really well this year.

My favorite home cooked meal is this:

 

Cashew chicken! This year I mastered Chinese food. The closest Chinese takeout place in 35 minutes away and one of Josh’s favorite meals happens to be Kung Pao, so I set out to make my own at home. I make some sort of Chinese dish every week and I’m always surprised at how close I get to the real thing. Not only is it very close, it’s a lot better. So much so, that I don’t even like going out for Chinese food anymore because I’m always disappointed. Not to mention, it’s so much better for us. I use less oil and lots of fresh vegetables.

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How to Eat Healthy to Lose Weight



Many people think that if you want to lose weight all you have to do is reduce the amount of food you eat. While this may be true to some extent, it’s more important to remember that the types of foods you eat can make a huge difference in your weight loss program. You have to eat healthy to lose weight. In other words, you must learn how to make healthy food choices to get the right nutrition in the right amounts.

The truth about weight loss is this: you can lose weight only if you burn more calories than you consume. You can do this by eating less, exercising more, or doing both. Health experts recommend a combination of a healthy diet and exercise to lose weight. A good weight loss plan allows you to eat healthy to lose weight.

Make a Lifestyle Change

Many people become overweight as a result of making the wrong food choices. Sad to say, this is because our way of life makes it easier to snack on doughnuts and cookies instead of fresh fruits. The refined carbohydrates in cakes, white bread, cookies, candies and biscuits quickly add pounds to the waistline and belly. The taste buds of the typical American are attuned to fried foods, chips, and junk food. Clearly, a conscious effort must be exerted to get people on the right track when it comes to making healthier food choices.

People who want to lose weight often go on all sorts of diets, hoping that they will eventually find one that will help them shed fat and keep the extra pounds off permanently. It’s time people realize that fad diets do not work for long-term weight loss. You have to make a lifestyle change and learn to eat healthy if you want to lose extra weight and keep it from coming back.

Healthy Food Choices for Weight Loss

People have to eat but making the wrong food choices can lead to obesity or weight problems and illness. If you want to lose weight, eat the following healthy foods:
* Fruits
* Vegetables
* Lean meats
* Fish
* Whole grain cereals
* Nuts and seeds
* Milk products
* Eggs

A healthy diet for weight loss should also include plenty of water.
How to Eat Healthy to Lose Weight

The smartest way to lose weight is to choose healthy foods that you already have in your normal daily diet. Make this the starting point for your new and healthy eating habits. Eating familiar foods helps dispel the idea that you are on a diet. This is very important if you are trying to lose weight because being on a diet implies that it will end some day. When you stop your diet, you may gain back the weight you lost.

By changing your eating habits and learning to eat healthy, you’ll be able to lose weight and keep it off for good. Reduce your consumption of refined carbohydrates and watch what you add to your food. Avoid creamy sauces, high-calorie salad dressings, and deep fried foods. Keep in mind that it’s possible to make healthy food choices even at a fast food restaurant.

  • How to Eat Healthy to Lose Weight


How to Eat Healthy to Lose Weight

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Resound11 Prompt 10: High/Low

Today is a bit of a choose your own adventure: write (paint, draw, photograph, record, etc.) about your best experience this year. If that’s not your cup of joe, write about your worst experience. Feeling chatty? Share both your best and worst moments.

How will you resound?

There are several best moments this year. The best ones were traveling with Josh, taking a real vacation that involved not much more than walking to dinner, traveling to California for the first time, hosting friends at my house, being hosted at other homes and for the whole of the year finding and sharing time with people who just “get” me and vice versa. I find comfort in my relationships with other people.

I wouldn’t say there was a definitive worst moment of the year. Thankfully, for the most part 2011 was smooth sailing. My biggest lesson this year came in a difficult way and that came by giving red flag people the benefit of the doubt repeatedly. I believe (and still do) that most people are good. I like to believe that most people have the best intentions. And then their are others who live purely on the surface. They don’t have relationships with other people, they bring me and everyone else down, they try to fix my life and wave their magic wands so that I can be “better”, they analyze me in a negative way (and most other people), and they get involved in my life and then quickly pull away. They throw stones at how I live my life with my husband.

My lesson is, is that I’m not always crazy and overly sensitive when I have red flag feelings about people, I don’t always have to get involved with these people. I don’t have to give them permission to bring me down. It’s okay to simply say no and move on. There are people who think that my life “isn’t together” because I’m not on the exterior, always a together person. We don’t drive a fancy car because we are waiting for our current car to die, this bothers some people. We didn’t buy the fanciest or most expensive house in town. This means that we are “poor” and our house is “too small” to entertain. My husband doesn’t shave every day and has wild and crazy hair, this means he is “irresponsible and not a real adult”. We don’t have children so we are “selfish”. We work from home and this means we are “unemployed”. Yes, these people exist, and yes, I finally understand what it means to have civil relationships all the while giving them a big “f-you” and moving on.  It feels Awesome, with a capital A.

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