Bread making

Hello together ;)

I just read some aritcles and thought I drop some lines here. As I wrote in the last post I'm quite busy getting in shape. One thing that I haven't figured out jet is the nutrition part. Your probably irritated by that but it's the truth. I don't know which of the many opinions is the one that suits for me and my lifestyle. I already tried a lot but I'm still not lean and my passion for chocolate is slowing down the overall progress.
I tried to go low carb but it love pasta, bread, and ohh cake, and cookies and,.......
Speaking of bread, I recently found a great ted talk about bread I'd like to share:



:) I especially love the relation between bread and beer. For the upcoming week I'll try to eat as clean as possible until Saturday and then I'll celebrate my cheat day and eat as much chocolate as I want to.

Get Off Your Arse and Lose Weight

This book is completely different from all the books I ever read. It is written in a straight talking way and the none-sense free approach is an alleviation  to my frayed nerves. 

There are just too many people believing that one day a miracle will happen and all their issues in live will be solved at once.

So the big question is: why are we the way we are? When it comes to weight and health Steve Miller's answer is because we are lazy lard asses who are not eating what we should and who do not exercise as much as we should.

I really appreciated the way he tackles people who have an excuse for everything. Everybody knows one or more of these people who act that way. Here's a question to think about: can you stand them? Have you ever been inspired by one of these whiners?

Here are my top 5 excuses and I always have to focus on something else to stay the polite person I want to be:

1. I am too busy to exercise - really? That's hard to believe the proper way to express what these people have in mind is "I'm too comfortable with everything and I really don't want to change that because I know that that could be tough. I also might be forced to admit that the way I lived was not a healthy one."
2. I have this and that condition (fill in what ever organ you like) - okay that excludes you from a healthy lifestyle? I don't think so. I know people who are really sick and they are capable of maintaining a decent diet and recreational activities although they are challenged. So think again.
3. Eating X once in a while is okay because I don't do it regularly. - Right but consider all the X's you can possibly think about.  Many people have way too many of them and altogether they consume at least one of the X candidates per day.
4. First I have to solve ... (fill in whatever you want, the ones I like most are medical conditions, jobs, and other assignment) - The problem is that new things to be solved will bubble up as soon as you solved the existing one. That will prevent you from achieving your goals even before you started. If that's your favorite excuse, I'm really sorry for you.
5. I rather enjoy food than eating salad all day. - I'm speechless. Yeah, go ahead, do whatever you want and leave me alone.

The saying I particularly like is: "If you do not perform in any part of your life as you want to, there is something you don't know yet."

Although the essentials of the book are not very new to me, the way it was written helped me to ban even the smallest excuses I have regarding my eating habits and exercises. I'll try some ideas from the book and combine them with other knowledge I recently gained.

Thank you Steve for broadening my view.

There will be no advice from me today. Enjoy life, as it is, if you like the way it is. If you enjoy excuses and nourishing new ones, feel free to do so but don't ask me to except them :)

Take Care

Christina

It's all about the food

Food as an essential part of live is a matter of everyone. Some people take their nutrition as serous as others follow a religion. I personally do not belong to the extremely religious crowd but I do take my nutrition seriously. That's why I stopped eating meat and try to stick to a kind of food combining nutrition theory. Today I bend the rules a bit and we had a traditional bavarian meal:

It's a salad made out of bread dumpling, some veggies, and an oil and vinegar dressing. Yummy I love bavarian food.

Tomorrow morning I will stick to the diet by eating fruits I've already prepared:

Talking about nutrition is as complicated as talking about the recent politic developments in Germany. Everybody seems to know a little bit but everybody want's to make the big decisions. I once got the advice not to eat salad in the evening because I would not pass the intestine as it would during the day. Ever since I figured out that this is a religious question I listen to all advices and make up my mind later.

So whatever you are following as a nutrition plan, keep going if you feel good by doing so. In case you figure out that you don't like to follow that specific one don't bother there are more than 600 so called healthy ones just waiting to be tested out ;).

Or in other words: Life is now. Press play!