Thanksgiving and Turkey Soup

Hope everyone had an enjoyable Thanksgiving.

And now the left-overs. At our house it's been turkey soup and turkey salad. Fortnately we found a small turkey this year so the left-overs are minimal.

I must say I went bizerk on pecan pie and made the mistake of buying a big one at Costco. That along with the carrot cake I made led to some emotional eating. Of course I made the carrot cake with a combination for millet and dark rye flour and used honey instead of sugar.

Fortunately the carrot cake was a big hit with the family and I ended up eating very little of it. I minimized the impact of emotional eating with the pecan pie by reducing it to mainly pecans and threw away the gouie part along with most of the pie crust.

So effectively I offset my emotional eating by sticking to two moderate meals each day plus a helping of pie and or cake.

Then yesterday, after my son and I dealt with all the fallen leaves, I went jogging to balance out my week. The cork track I ususally jog on was not accessible so I went to a nearby park instead.

Much to my chagrin I made it only a mile before my legs began to complain.

Lately, one knee has been somewhat swollen--nothing like it has swollen months ago. It's condition is greatly improved since I now use a combination of enzymes and vitamin C to deal with the swelling. The best enzymes are Vitalzyme--just google the name to find suppliers. I generally take two to three capsules mornings and night to eliminate swelling and should it start to swell, I increase to 4 or 5 capsules morning and evening and within a few days everything is normal. So the discomfort I noticed jogging could have been from the slightly swollen knee or maybe it was from the extra sugar in the pecan pie that is usually absent from my diet.

Foods that Appear Healthy but Aren't

Losing weight and controlling emotional eating is enough of a challenge, choosing healthy foods should be easy, but there are some deceiving foods and drinks.

You would think that vitamin water would be a "no brainer" as a healthy choice, right? Not really. Read the label and you'll find that they contain sugar and the listing is usually per serving and each bottle may contain two or three servings.

Why not simply take a great multivitamin such as the Complete Nutritional System available in all health food stores--it's the best you can take. They recommend three tablets per day and even if you took just one per day you'll be doing better than if you take any other vitamin or drink the vitamin water.

If you're looking to boost your water which is a great idea (one that I use daily) I recommend boosting it with minerals by using a product called Xooma. Xooma is added to your daily supply of drinking water and provides you with all the minerals you need for the day. The advantage is that the minerals are completely bioavailable in ionic form.

More jogging to Lose Weight

Wow, it's been almost a week since my last post and a lot has happened since my last post. I'll start with the latest. I went jogging again. If you read my last post you'd think I'm a glutton for punishment as opposed to a glutton for food. Yes the first time I went jogging last week (well it was the first time in about a year of so) it was totally exhausting, but I made it a mile. And while I still don't think exercise is necessary to lose weight or control emotional eating, it is very important for many other reasons. But you have to find the exercise that's right for you. For instance walking doesn't do it for me, but jogging on a cork track (easy on my joints) does work.

Today, the first quarter mile was much better than last week and I went on to go a mile and a half--a half mile further than last week. And what's most interesting is that all the minor pains I felt last week were gone. I probably could have made it two miles but I decided that an extra half mile was sufficient--no need to be a fanatic. I feel that if I can jog a mile and a half to two miles a week, I'll stay in great physical shape.

Now was it the jogging I did last week that improved my legs and joints or was it the glutathione I started taking about ten days ago? Glutathione as I understand it is produced naturally in our cells but it's production can diminish with age. Ironically it's the substance that keeps us young and without it we age faster. Can it help you conquer emotional eating? Maybe if much of what you eat is your physical condition. For instance, my mother is 84 yrs old and I've been identifying with her pains. I shouldn't be feeling these pains for another twenty of so years--certainly a good reason to emotionally eat. But rather than be stuck in "I have an eating problem" I am open to doing new things and old things to improve my physical condition and forget about emotional eating.

So was it the jogging or the glutathione that has made a big change in how I feel physically? I think both have made a significant contribution and I'm unwilling to stop either one to find out.

More about this exciting week in my next post. If you're looking for a source for glutathione email Elizabeth at ewilson@wisdirect.com and she'll get you a free sample supply for a few days to see for yourself. Mention my name, Richard Kuhns.

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Jogging to Lose Weight and End Emotional Eating

Yesterday I went jogging. It was the first time in about a year. I had been jogging regularly for many years on a weekly basis and then I stepped off a stool and tore a ligament in my ankle.

The ankle specialist told me that I needed an operation but since I was over 60 he didn't recommend it and simply thought I should get used to the idea of no more jogging.

After all the swelling and pain in the ankle subsided about eight months ago, I'd on occasion try a short run on the ankle and it didn't feel good at all. I thought that maybe the doctor was right--no more jogging.

But lately I noticed my ankle feeling better and my knee on the other leg feeling somewhat painful. I've come to a conclusion (right or wrong) that I need to jog to keep my knees in good shape so yesterday was my maiden day.

I was amazed as to how "out of shape" I had become and I believe my blood pressure is probably telling me a similar story. It' s always been around 120 over 70 tops. Lately in just the last year the diastolic (the lower number) has crept up to 80.

I like to jog at my local high school track--it's cork--and the first quarter mile was really difficult. My knees and ankles had minor pains but I was really huffing and puffing.

I remembered the first time I ever jogged over fifteen years ago when I only was able to make it a half mile and thought that if I even made it a quarter mile it would be ok.

Fortunately the minor pains in my ankle and knees didn't escalate and I found a rhythm and finished a mile--certainly no speed record. Before my ankle injury I usually jogged two miles each week. It's amazing how I took that for granted all those years.

Will I go jogging next week? Don't know yet. Today my ankle is complaining some. I have to see how it recovers, but I feel I will be jogging again in the next few weeks.

It's amazing how good I feel after I jog--totally energized and completely disinterested in food.

But do you need to exercise to lose weight or deal with emotional eating? Not really. But for may other reasons, it's beneficial to exercise.

Little by Little to Lose Weight

Inch by inch life's a cinch. Yard by yard, life is hard. Author unknown

How true is this rhyme? Certainly it's easier and more productive to deal with emotional eating and lose a few pounds a week than it is to crash diet and try to lose ten pounds per week. Basically, expectations can destroy success.

But I find it more effective to focus on getting rid of the weight--make it a project.
It's to acknowledge what you have been really eating, and go to a level of "I have stopped eating (whatever it was). For me this is to eat two moderate meals per day and nothing after dinner. I can drop about a half pound or so a day with this approach. Of course, using self hypnosis helps me get to that point a lot faster.

Then I can go back to normal eating--desert after dinner. Why can I do that? You could too! If you're over weight up to 50 pounds and your body weight has been constant for a period of time, then you can lose all the weight and go back to eating just as you are right now.

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Overcoming Failure to Lose Weight

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again more intelligently--Henry Ford

Someone also said you can only fail when you refuse to learn from your mistakes. The point is that when we miss our mark or target, we can take another shot. Unfortunately, when it comes to losing weight many go into despair instead of simply looking at it as an opportunity to do it differently. And that may be because we often don't know what we are doing. I mean if we think we have an eating or a food problem or a weight problem then we keep trying to do it the same nonproductive way. And strangely that's the definition of insanity--doing the same thing the same way expecting different results. But when we stop looking at it as a weight problem or a food problem, or a weight problem and look at it as an emotional stress related problem, then we will be tackling the real problem instead of a lie.



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Re Liting Your Candle to Lose Weight

Sometimes our candle goes out, but is blown into flame by an encounter with another human being.~Albert Schweitzer

How true is this? You can be in despair, depressed, and over weight and if you're open to possibilities, you can encounter someone who will cause your candle to light. Some people find this in religion, others in special people that they meet or even in books that they read.

And it doesn't have to be someone who is better off health or wealth wise than you are.

It goes back to the last quote which is about dancing in the rain. If you're not
"dancing in the rain" you may never meet that person.

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