What’s ORTHOREXIA? Scroll down…
Why NOT exercise on Mondays? Scroll down further…
I know you want to see my before and after photos first, so here they are:
I am wearing my grandmother's velour set, with elastic band and a very dark blue color. My father sang that night, New Year's Eve, I smiled in his face; but I felt like a large farm animal. Look at my bloated face!
A little over 3 weeks later (1/24/10), after starting the HOT Minky Plan on 1/4/10, my love, took the pictures below:
Side view; muffin top be gone!
And one more…
Frontal view, bye, bye velour ... I can finally fasten my pants again!
Those of you who listened to last week’s HOT Minky show, know that I couldn’t fasten my pants since Halloween. I don’t feel like I was on a ‘diet’. I will continue this plan after the 3 weeks. I wasn’t hungry all the time… BUT when I was a little hungry, I embraced it, ’cause I knew I was in ‘fat-burning mode’. I actually got a thrill feeling those slight signals from my body letting me know that it was almost time for some ‘real food’.
I didn’t feel the need to run the a vending machine, or get a headache, or get nasty because I didn’t eat…That’s crazy!
That’s a person who eats (all carbs, wrong fats) like a bagel and cream cheese and a coffee light & sweet on their way to work around 9:00am, then want to eat their own hand by 11:15 am. They get busy again, and finally get to lunch at 1:30pm…Passed hungry. They only have 28 minutes to eat, they have a salad with no/low-fat dressing, an apple, and a couple of those orange crackers with brown stuff spread inside, that they confuse with peanut butter. They think they ate ‘healthy’.
They ate crap. They ate nothing to satisfy their ‘real hunger’. They are ’starved for nutrients’. But they read every label, counted fat grams, and the package said it was a ‘low-cholesterol’ food …
They have Orthorexia.
According to Michael Pollan in his book, “In Defense of Food…An Eater’s Manifesto”… an orthorexic is a person with an unhealthy obsession with healthy eating.
Unfortunately in an orthorexic’s case; they are so obssesed with with the media and label reading has put into their heads…they ignore the signals from their own body. Would your great grandmother know what ‘Go-gurt’ is? But an orthorexic knows it’s got calcium in it and no fat and some vitamin D in it. How will their child absorb the fat-soluble vitamin D with no fat in the yogurt is not a concern because many othrorexics are ’sheeple’. They walk around with that 200 and under cholesterol on their sleeve thinking that they are”healthy”. Not realizing that it’s inflammation that kills; not total cholesterol. They follow the herd or the pack of the mainstream instead of their own way or pattern. Can they imagine listening to their body’s own wisdom?
Can you?
If you relaxed about food labels, calories, cholesterol, fat grams, exercising 6 days a week… what would happen? I watch this young women jog up and down our street almost everyday and I ask what happens when (not if) she stops. There’s no way she can keep this up for life. Poor soul is destroying her bones and will gain weight as soon as she stops. Her joints will soon remind her that they don’t like what she’s doing and will begin to yell at her. If she ever fell down, could she lift her body weight one time? You know, one full military-style push-up? Probably not.
Want to try enjoying full macro-nutrient meals, exercising strategically and naturally burn fat in your sleep? Here’s what I did today:
- Up at 9:00am, watched Joel Osteen – while doing 1 &1/2 minutes of froggies while still in the bed. (boyfriend up & out of bedroom by now)
Men can’t watch…well, they can…but? - While watching Creflo Dollar, another 1&1/2 minutes of stick squats (standing on floor) …Done with my 3-minutes of exercise for the day.
- At 10:15 am, I had 3 venison sausages that my father made, 2 eggs and a toasted roll, coffee w/ heavy cream, no sugar and 8 ozs. of water.
Oh yes, I always sprinkle freshly ground flax seed on my food. The package I buy of full flax seeds:
Looks like this. Remember to get a $20 grinder (coffee) from Walmart. Sometimes they say linseeds.
- At 3:30pm started to feel the hunger signals. Made nachos with raw, full fat cheese and jalepenos and stone-ground tortillas, of course, with fresh salsa. I had a fresh Bloody Mary (with fresh tomatoes, celery, carrots, a little horseradish and lemon and oh yeah, vodka) to toast the JETS game. I use my Montel Healthmaster for this and my other raw dishes.
- At 7:30 pm, I made a Lousiana creole shrimp pizza and a salad. 3 meals a day, no snacking. Satisfied, no stress and NO EXERCISING ON MONDAY! (Which is tomorrow. But bootcamp on Tuesday.) No more eating till tomorrow morning.
Why not exercise on Mondays? Mondays are “Heart Attack” day. Even before I heard the research; I felt in my gut that it was true. Statistically, there is a 25% increase of having a heart attack on Mondays. My mom did; so did newsman Tim Russert. Both after very enjoyable weekends and then exercising that following Monday. Coincidence? I don’t think so.
After a stressful weekend (even if it was enjoyable; it was still stressful). You’re starting the week (a new). Just thinking a ‘new’ week is stressful. The food you ate over the weekend and probably the drink you had, has worn out your GI system. Your heart, skeletal muscles, and GI systems are tired. Give them a rest. They need rest…NOT a “60-minute cardio confessional” because you feel guilty.
On the HOT Minky Plan; we DO NOT exercise on Mondays…period. I now look forward to Mondays! 
You can do it too. The HOT Minky Plan. www.hotminky.com Listen to the HOT Minky Show for more about orthorexia. Are you an orthorexic?
Call in:
623104# access code
9-9:30PM EST
Monday, 1/25/10 and every Monday
Tags: mondays, orthorexia
It’s Dr. Martin Luther King Day and I still have my (live) Christmas tree up. So we’re having a MLK Christmas over here. I also haven’t done my dishes for 4 days:
Where do you start? At the beginning. Kinda like exercise, right?
It just seems so overwhelming. How can you have a ‘balanced’ diet, exercise, schedule, fun time, work time, when you have a double sink full of dishes and still have your (live) Christmas up on Martin Luther King day?
So is it really about ‘balance’?
Or is it about being “O.K.” with being out of balance?
I like the latter, the 2nd answer. The stress of worrying about being in ‘balance’ will cause you more harm that not being in ’so-called balance’.
It’s almost gotten to the point that when I hear people say, “It’s all about balance…”, I want to balance out the toilet water in the toilet bowl with vomit. Are balanced? Are you stressed out about not being balanced?
I want to thank K.K. (a minkysexybootcamper) for sending me the following link about how butt & thigh fat may protect you against certain diseases… like bony butt disease? That was a joke. It’s actually good information and good news that having curves are healthy and beautiful. Click the link below to read and watch:
http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=9539619
Week 3, HOT Minky Plan: I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the ’stick squats’ that I have been doing them in the morning for 1-minute. (BEFORE I eat anything). We will be doing them during the bootcamp.
Oh, I started using my slow cooker. I made a yummy beef stew! Dinner for 4 for under $2.oo each! Not including the wine. “Set it and forget it”…like that guy said in the infomercial! Since the bootcamp starts this week, I’ll surely work out more; therefore eat more. Remember…No exercise on Monday and to sprinkle your freshly ground flax seeds on your food!
(Have you noticed “The Doctors” mentioned about ‘no exercise on Mondays’ on their show today! Are their research teams going to the Minky Way blog for their content?
Sign up today for Minky’s Sexy Boot camp! Click below for schedule and fee.
The TIMER is BACK!
The fat loss circuit-training at the the bootcamp includes:
- 12-min. kickboxing routine (done as a group)
- Manual treadmill (15-45 second intervals) (7 min.) + Stick squats 10-35 reps (3 min.)= 10 min
- TRX suspension exercises (awesome ab work) = 12 min.
- Cord resistance exercises (for upper body) (8 min.) + perfect pushup (4 min.) =12 min.
- Rowing (Predator Panting Cardio, PPC) (7 min.) + the “Wave” (3 min.) = 10 min.
- 15-minute Pilates and cool down/stretch exercises (done as a group)
You will skip one of the stations, (#2-#5), everytime you come. Even though there are actually 4 individual workout stations, you will only have to do 3 of the stations, so the whole bootcamp routine is 1 hour total.
Begins tomorrow, Tuesday, January 19th. Sign up and more information at:
www.minkysexybootcamp.com
I’m gonna have great results after my week 3 of the HOT Minky Plan! MUFFIN TOP, no more! For more information click here:
www.hotminky.com
Also listen in to “The HOT Minky Show” tonite, (Yes on MLK Day!) for “Not-Your-Ordinary” health information.
The show is tonite: 1/18/10, and every Monday night at 9:00pm-9:30pm EST.
Call in and listen: (760) 569-9000
Access code: 623104#
Recordings posted on this blog! (Check ‘em out!)
Remember to
Keep It Real…Food,
Minky
www.TheMinkyWay.com/sq
Tags: balanced, bootcamp, butt, stick squats, thigh fat
Can you imagine repetitive cardio exercise actually harming your heart and causing osteoporosis?
Here’s last Monday night’s (1/11/10) HotMinky Show recording:
HOTminkypl.week2.cardioharm
Here’s the full interview done by Dr. Brickey at Ageless Lifestyles Radio. He interview Debra Corbo, Physical Therapist and Doug Splittgerber, Professional Trainer:
http://agelesslifestyles.com/category/alignment-resistance-training/ (just click on the arrow to listen)
I have been doing the recommended stick squats from the above PT’s. I do 25 every morning as soon as I get up before I eat or drink anything. These squats are fantastic! If you come to www.MinkySexyBootCamp.com you will experience them. They don’t hurt my knees!
Finally the best for last… try these yummy almond flour pancakes. (Courtesy of the healthy gourmet.com)
Amazing Pancakes
Time To Table: 15 minutes Serves: 4
Excellent Source of: Magnesium, Protein, Vitamin E, Riboflavin Good Source of: Calcium, Fiber, Iron, Selenium, Zinc Ingredients
- 3 large organic, omega-3 eggs (pasture-raised is best!)
- 1 cup almond flour*
- 1 tsp. organic vanilla extract
- 1/2 tsp. organic vanilla extract
- 2 tsp. coconut oil
Preparation
Add all ingredients to a medium mixing bowl. Mix with a fork or whisk until smooth. Heat a safe, non-stick skillet over medium heat. Spray with organic cooking spray or grease with a ½ tsp coconut oil. Pour batter into pan to make pancakes (silver dollar-sized work best). Cook about 1 minute per side; flip. Continue making batches and adding oil as needed.
Nutrition Information per Serving 285 calories, 24 g fat, 13 g monounsaturated fat, 2.5 g saturated fat, 5 g polyunsaturated fat, 159 mg cholesterol, 53 mg sodium. 9 carbohydrates, 2 g sugars, 5 g fiber, 12 g protein
* Almond flour is available by Bob’s Red Mill. Look for it online or at your local health food store. Alternatively, you may grind almonds to a fine meal, using a Magic Bullet, Vita-Mix blender or food processor.
I will be recording live, The HOT Minky Show, on Martin Luther King day, Monday, 1/18/10.
9-9:30pm EST
(760) 569-9000 Call in number
Access code: 623104#
Summation of second week of the HOT Minky Plan, and 3 meals per day, and 3 minutes of exercise per day…except no exercise on Mondays. 
Keep It Real…Food,
Minky
www.theminkyway.com/sq
www.theminkyway.com
minky@theminkyway.com
(732) 361-6779 home office
Tags: cardio harms, PT, stick squats
On the HOT Minky Show I will be utilizing my new toys that I got for Christmas and I will be starting on 1/4/10, the Hot Minky Plan! I am looking for ladies to try the plan with me for 3 weeks. FREE coaching on rhythmic eating and strategic exercising on the HOT Minky Show.
To hear more about it call:
(712) 432-0180, tomorrow night, Monday, 1/4/10
Access code: 623104#
from 9-9:30pm EST
I will discuss the suggestions for the 3-week plan; not rules. One of the ’suggestions’ is to NOT exercise on Mondays! Call in to find out why!
Visit www.HotMinky.com for more information and for sample meal plan.
It has been a family tradition every New Year’s Day to have chitterlings and maws. (Some of you know what I mean). My Father spent 4 hours cleaning and cooking for what started out as 4 lbs. of raw chitterlings, of course, once cleaned and cooked only enough for 2. Me and him. No one else will eat them. My father was so excited about singing on New Year’s Eve, he forgot to turn the pot off on the stove. When he returned home from a lovely, festive evening of libations and song… he entered into a smoked-filled kitchen and charred chitterlings & maws. I know what you’re thinking…it could have been worse. Can you imaging him telling the firemen that the cause of the house fire was chitterlings on the stove! They were inedible.
Well this year, it was NOT to be a tradition continued. 
If you thought chitterlings had a “smell” to them…try smelling burnt chitterlings…
This water added after the burnt ones underneath were smoldering. The picture just doesn't give the "smell" any justice.
I hope to hear from you tomorrow. Monday, 1/4/10.
I’ll have more food in the house soon. My son is going back to college already!
He took me to see Avatar today. We enjoyed it. Spending time with those you love…
I had a grand Christmas and holiday season.
Keep It Real…Food,
Minky
www.theminkyway.com/sq
Minky@theminkyway.com
(732) 361-6779 home office
Wow what a wonderful Christmas I had! (Ladies, did you get your heart rate monitors???)
I know Christmas time is NOT about what you get…It’s about what you already have … BUT
…I got some great new toys! I got a new I-pod, a GPS and I got a new digital camera you’re about to see the pictures…
Then, my love of my life, hooked me up with a studio-like set-up for a ‘radio-station’! Check out my photo below
Those of you with dirty minds… are just like me…
That gray rod close to my mouth is a microphone. I will hear you all very clearly through my headphones!
I'm official! Minky's live on the air!
I also got a digital recorder.
Oh, speaking of recordings, here’s last Monday’s (12/21/09) bio-circadian nutrition teletalk recording on Leptin & your fat gain:
In the future, you will still call in on the same number, but the recording will be so much more clear. I will be renaming my show.
“The HOT Minky Show” … If you want a hot body call this fitness nurse; if you want a fat body, don’t.
(712) 432-0180 phone number, Monday night, 12/28/09, 9pm-9:30pm EST
access code: 623104#
I feel so professional with all this fancy equipment! I’ll be a recording fool! LOOK for all of the following in the New Year:
- The HOT Minky Plan (discussed on the 12/28/09 call)
-3 weeks, 3 meals, 3 minutes of exercise - Bio-circadian nutritional rhythm, less stress while eating
- Vitamins A, S, T, R, O, P needed daily
- 3 meals a day (Nurses TID Diet) No snacking!
- The power of Leptin, eat/exercise to support it or be doomed to fighting your creeping weight issues as you get older!
- Exercising for short on an empty stomach
- And NO exercising on Mondays!
- Importance of freshly ground flax seed and protein at every meal
- Special guests on ‘not-your-ordinary’ health, fitness and wellness topics
- And much, much more
Does anybody know how long it takes egg nog to wear off? I’ve exercised a minute everyday in the am so far. But I still feel the egg nog. Exercising one minute in the morning, on an empty stomach, will do wonders for your ‘natural fat burning’ system!
Great topics in January 2010. Please call in at 9:00pm EST, this Monday, 12/28, for the new topics and ask me anything you want about New Year’s Resolutions and hear about the HOT Minky plan.
The NEW number is (712) 432-0180 Access code: 623104#
I will be on a blog talk radio show this Thursday, 12/31 New Year’s Eve at 12 noon. It’s a show hosted by my friend & colleague, former model, (she looks great at sixty-something) Nancy Bruning, President of Nancercize. www.nancercize.com/sq OR www.nancercize.com
Details to follow. Look for e-mail this week.
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Here’s some of my Christmas photos:
Pogo before egg nog...
Why do we do this to our dogs…shirt NOT my idea…
Pogo after egg nog...No, he's not dead.
Cooking for 5 men is great. They are very appreciative of everything you give them. My father helped me in the kitchen:
Never mind his face; it's the knife that's important! He's cutting up hearts, livers and other assorted giblets for his gravy. It classifies as a separate food group by itself.
By accident we got the ‘perfect’ Christmas tree. Since we didn’t put it up until Christmas Eve and after the snow storm; I was sure my son & I got the scraps of trees that were left behind …but when we opened it up from the netting …it was so perfect we almost didn’t decorate it:
Nice and slim. You can't really see the perfection of the branches and the needles. No trimming needed. All the needles are going in an upward motion. I'm told it's a Frasier fir. Great. I'm keeping it up til Valentine's day ...to get my money's worth.
And finally…I had to give Santa a workout…
Santa's actually doing leg lifts. I've got him doing crunches too. This toy is really funny. I'll show you bootcampers on Tuesday when you come for your own workout!
Complimentary Bootcamp on 12/29. All times available, 9:30am, 6:00pm and 7:30pm. Only available to those already signed up. You know who you are!
New Bootcamp for all, begins 1/19/2010. Go to www.minkysexybootcamp.com to sign up NOW! Only 4 women per time frame!
Thank you all for all of your support this past year. You make my work fun and worth while!
Keep It Real…Food,
Minky
www.theminkyway.com/sq
minky@theminkyway.com
(732) 361-6779 home office
Hi all,
If you missed the recording last Monday, 12/14/09, the bio-circadian nutrition teletalk on “Banking Holiday Calories and Intuitive Mindful Eating”, by the great Debra Dobies, here it is here:
Enjoy! Please leave a comment.
Leptin is the topic next week. Are you having trouble losing weight? Could you be leptin resistant? Discover how to become more leptin sensitive next Monday, 12/21/09. 9:00-9:30pm EST, (712) 432-0180, access code 623104#
Keep It Real…Food,
Minky
New Bootcamp Starting January 19th. Go To www.MinkySexyBootCamp.com for more information. Get YOUR YEAR in GEAR!
Minky Way coaching available in January too.
www.theminkyway.com/sq
Minky@theminkyway.com
(732) 361-6779 home office
Tags: banking calories, holiday eating
I normally say NO exercise on Mondays. But if you’re able to do the below activities. Then Mondays for this…is allowed.
This was a question I got from a caller on last Monday’s Bio-Circadiant’s nutrition tele-talk. It’s was asked at the end of the talk. I discussed how exercising/physical activity immediately after a stressful moment helps to train your brain to want to be thin; not be fat. She asked about counting sex as exercise?…
You can listen to it here:
exerciseforstress.12.07.09.web
According to Fitness magazine.com here are the Sex Positions That Double as Exercise:
Missionary
In a way, the missionary position is the physical equivalent of the old “I’m busy washing my hair” excuse — it’s the brush-off used when you’re lazy, tired, or just not that interested. But despite being one of the most passive contortions for a woman, man-on-top can still provide a pretty good workout.
“It depends on how enthusiastic you are about it, but missionary can be great for the core muscles,” says Stacy Berman, a New York City-based certified fitness trainer and founder of Stacy’s Boot Camp. “If your partner is thrusting toward you, you want to have an equal and opposite thrust back, and that requires a lot of core strength. It actually will start burning.”
Patti Britton, author of The Art of Sex Coaching and immediate past president of the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists, agrees that you’ll definitely be feeling it in your abs. “You can strengthen your core by focusing on pelvic lifting using your core, not your lower back. That’s where women tend to get stuck — they tend to rely on their lower back to give them propulsion.” (The risk of which isn’t a joke, either. Worst-case scenario, you could throw out your back or sustain some other injury — not exactly a bedroom turn-on.)
Missionary position can also provide a good butt workout. “The more she does buttock squeezes, the more she could accentuate her riding toward him to give herself a good glute workout,” Britton says.
Doggy-Style
Like with the missionary position, penetration-from-behind sex engages the woman’s core because she has to stabilize herself on all fours, says Berman. You’ll also be working your quadriceps and glutes to help brace yourself against the impact.
However, you can use a modified position to get a good arm workout, too. Rather than having your hands flat on the bed, “if the woman has her hands on a wall in front of her and sort of uses her upper body to help thrust, that would be a good shoulder and upper body workout,” Berman says.
Cowgirl
With a standard cowgirl position, (woman on top) the lower part of the woman’s legs are braced on the bed or floor, which will engage her butt and core.
“Much like riding a horse, she’s going to flex her lower abs and pelvic muscles,” says Yvonne K. Fulbright, a certified sex educator and author of Touch Me There! “Pressing into the man’s abs and sides with her quads or calves can engage those muscles as well.”
Modifying the cowgirl position can work additional muscle groups. “To make it even more intense, she can come up onto her feet, almost like a squat over him. That’s all butt, legs, and hips,” says Berman. “If she gets up onto her feet and leans onto her hands, she’ll also have to use her upper body to balance.”
The next one is the best for exercise. So I put the photo in. It’s called the BRIDGE:
By far, WORKS the MOST MUSCLES for the female!
Bridge
With the bridge, the woman is facing upward, using all four limbs to hold her body weight off the bed. All our sex experts agree: this pose is not for the weak. Or, as Britton puts it: “Oh, God, she better be yoga-ing five days a week or training as a gymnast.”
“This is a highly advanced position,” Britton says. “She needs to stabilize herself so as he’s thrusting in and out, she doesn’t crash.”
Even if you pile a tower of pillows under your back to help support your weight (which Britton recommends), you’ll still definitely be working your buttocks and inner-thigh muscles, says Fulbright. “This is going to work all of it — her biceps, triceps, abs, glutes, quads, calves. Unless she’s really strong, she shouldn’t expect to hold this position for long.”
Adds Berman, “If you’re going from cowgirl to this position, your butt will start burning after five minutes.”
If you have any questions…refer to the whole article HERE.
I think I would skip the heart rate monitor…not too attractive. Just focus on the burn of your muscles. Have Fun! [Oh and skip the chandelier too...you have to listen to the recording ]
Keep It Real…Food,
Minky
Next Bio-Circadian Nutrition Tele-talk is Monday, 12/14/09
9:00-9:30pm EST-
Topic, “Feeling Broke for decadent food for the holidays?” Deb Dobies, RD & Holistic Health Nutritionist, will discuss how to Bank calories between dinners and holiday parties! Prepare your holiday survival questions!
New Number! (712) 432-0180
Same access code: 623104#
Check your e-mail for reminders!
I just threw away 2 avocados and I almost cried. They were over $4.00. I do my majority of shopping at ALDI. Of course you don’t have to buy all of your groceries at ALDI. I have to have my ‘So Delicious’ coconut milk that’s only sold at 2 stores near me, (not ALDI), and I go elsewhere and buy other things too. But this week I only had a $50.00 bill.
Here’s my Aldi grocery list:
Great place to get your 'staples' thet you need for your kitchen...CHEAP!
- 100% berry juice
- premium bacon
- whole wheat penne pasta
- boneless chicken thighs (frozen)
- shredded mozzarella
- shredded colby cheese
- Italian-style diced tomatoes (3 cans, Priano brand)
- red baking potatoes (bag)
- sweet potatoes (bag)
- bottled water (not flavored)
- granny smith apples (4 @ .39 each)
- spring salad mix (bag)
- fresh spinach (bag)
- unsalted butter (stick)
- evaporated milk (2 cans)
- toffee crunch milk chocolate bars (2…It’s the first thing you see in the store)
- saltines
- eggs (2 dozen)
- yellow/red peppers
- vine tomatoes (GMO, but it’s hard to avoid sometimes)
- celery
- turkey chili w/beans (Fit & Active brand)
- lentil soup (Chef’s Cupboard, Hearty Classics)
- tomato sauce (4 cans, Happy Harvest, on sale)
- chicken broth (Fit & Active)
- instant rice (I CANNOT cook rice…at all)
- scalloped potatoes (I know, full of chemicals…I have chemicals once in a while for times sake)
- Alfredo sauce (Priano brand)
- toilet paper
- paper towels (2-pack)
Total: $49.87 With a little over $.53 to spare. ( I got .13 cents change + 2 dimes and a penny in my change purse) Plus I got my quarter back when I returned the cart. If you notice on my list, I tried my best to replace the ‘whole foods’ and readily used pantry items in my kitchen. I already still have frozen halibut, tuna and scallops from Target a few weeks ago. FYI – ALDI has on sale right now, a small grinder that you can use for your flax seed. Remember don’t buy your flax seeds already ground because the omega 3’s will be already rancid. They (the flax seeds) should be freshly ground. I sprinkle them on pizza.
How are you doing with your 1-minute of exercise in your pajamas as soon as you get up in the morning? (pee pee first) Remember to always move BEFORE you eat! Leave a comment below. Any ALDI recommendations?
The best exercise for handling stress and therefore fat loss (time to exercise and type of exercise) this Monday’s Bio-Circadian Nutrition Tele-talk topic:
12/7/09 – Monday
9:00-9:30pm EST
(616) 347-8300 – phone number
623104# – access code
Keep It Real…Food,
Minky
www.theminkyway.com/sq
minky@theminkyway.com
It’s the day after Thanksgiving. I didn’t really over do it ( I had small portions)…but my organs are tired. You know what I mean? What I did eat was very heavy, a lot of heavy cream, butter, potatoes (white & sweet) and lots of protein. Too much protein. Isn’t protein hard to digest? That’s why I think my organs are tired. I also did a killer I mean awesome ab work out Thanksgiving morning. You bootcampers are in for a real treat come Tuesday!
This yoga pose is good for digestion & is extremely helpful to me when I feel "organ-tired"
As I lay in this above position I think about all the books around me. My goodness. I literally got rid of 50 books at last year’s nursing convention. I’ve somehow collected that many more. But the titles are more ‘real’ to my beliefs than those others. Here’s a sample of what I’m looking at while lying here on my back with my knees into my chest:
The No-Grain Diet, Outsmarting Your Female Fat Cell, Eat Fat Lose Fat, The Zone, The Rosedale Diet, How to Lose Weight Without Dieting, Dr. Phil’s Weightloss Solution, The Schwarzbein Principle (which I highly recommend), Nourishing Traditions (actually a great cookbook), QUIT digging your grave with your knife & fork, The Syndrome X Diet, The Liver-Cleansing Diet, Eat Fat Look Thin Diet, The Slow Down Diet, The Younger Thinner You Plan, Skinny Bitch, The Carbohydrates Addict’s Diet, French Women Don’t Get Fat, The Fat Resistance Diet, The Gabriel Method, The Leptin Diet, The Paleo Diet, 21 Days to a healthy heart, Healthy For Life, The Doctor’s Heart Cure, The Body Shaping Diet, What your doctor doesn’t know about nutritional medicine may be killing you, Outsmarting The Mid-life Fat Cell, Does This Clutter Make My Butt Look Fat? and Oprah’s Debt Diet. I could fix that last book problem if I didn’t buy so many diet books, right?
Now these are just the ‘diet books’ that I have on the shelves in my bedroom. I didn’t even include all the e-books, periodicals, newsletters or articles. Or even my daily 7 weeks of blogging on the Nurses’ TID Diet.
The books in my home office (not my bedroom) are more on fitness and nutrition/digestion and food psychology coaching.
As I lay in the above position I say to myself…”I need to get my ‘Year in Gear’. This is out of control”. Part of my problem with buying a new diet book, plan or program is I want to start off the New Year with a new shiny diet book. Many times I don’t even follow the diet but I want to know what every one else is doing so, I’ll at least read it. I’m getting up now. But it is a comfortable position.
Fitness is helping me get my “Year in Gear”
I know that for me, at least, that exercise is the constant that has to remain in my life if I want to enjoy eating and moving. I want to enjoy my family and friends and have the strength and energy to serve those who want my help. To do this, I have to become embodied. The quickest way to embodiment is to exercise. Exercise touches every part of you – body, mind & spirit.
Getting your Year in Gear
This does not have to begin with the “New Year”. But it’s a nice place to start. This year no new diet books. No cleaning out my pantry (It has actually been cleaned before, so there’s really not too much crap in it), no avoiding special occasions, no eating by the clock, no running to the scales (I never weigh myself), no eating low-fat, fake sugar foods. What I will do is say yes to exercising daily. Some days harder than others. Yes to using a heart rate monitor when I exercise hard. Yes to a tape measure. Yes to eating in a rhythm that my brain and body can live with forever. For me that’s 3 meals a day. No snacks. Sometimes I eat only 2 meals a day. When I eat a snack food, I eat it with my meal. Sure there are days when I snack in between, but it’s more an exception than a rule for me.
Breakfast: to have or to have not?
I want to discuss this rhythm of 3 or 2 meals a day, just coffee for breakfast, eating a late breakfast, etc. Call in to my Bio-Circadian Nutrition Tele-talks to hear more.
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Now, I’m off to have my homemade butternut squash soup and green tea.
Till then,
Keep It Real…Food,
Minky
www.TheMinkyWay.com/sq
It’s all over the t.v., books, lectures…eat frequently.
To keep your blood sugars stable. I just can’t undertand this!
You are constantly making insulin when you ‘graze’ all day long.
What do animals look like who graze all day long? …
If you eat all day long and don't exercise could this happen to you?
Cows. Cows graze all day long. Deer eat and move.
Insulin is the fat-storing hormone. Everytime to eat something, you make insulin.
You ‘halt’ your body’s abililty to burn fat immediately.
Unless you’re Michael Phelps, there’s no reason for you to ’snack’ all day long.
One of my favorite endocrinologists always said, “You shouldn’t snack, it doesn’t give the pancreas a rest”.
This leads to an ‘insulin-only’ system. Our body is meant to utilize insulin AND glucagon.
Gluca – what?
Glucagon…our natural fat-burner. The other hormone produced by the pancreas that raises blood sugar by asking the liver to release stored glycogen for energy and for the brain. When you constantly eat you never utilize glucagon…your body’s natural fat burner.
You have to be a little hungry to utilize the insulin-glucagon system as it’s intended. You have to eat 3 full macro-nutrient and have a healthy liver.
You may lose weight eating 6 ‘mini-meals’ a day because your total calorie count is low…but you can’t sustain it because it’s not natural to graze all day long. Where do you think 8 am, 1 pm and 6pm (breakfast, lunch & dinner) came from?
Besides who wants to think about food every 2 hours? Is it realistic?
Find out more on Monday night’s Teleconference call: Bio-circadian Nutrition
Phone Number: (616) 347-8300
Access code: 623104#
9:00am – 9:30pm EST
Keep It Real…Food,
Minky
www.TheMinkyWay.com/sq