plants.

I'm trying to eat more plants.  I'm doing to do more of what I preach to patients day in and day out.  I'm trying to up my energy and feel really good.  Of course, I would like to lose a few pounds.  I want to feel strong again.  Like I can take on anything.  I miss that feeling.  I don't like when I feel like I'm too weak to lift something or I get tired carrying heavy groceries up to my studio.  I think plants are going to be a lot of the answer to that for me.  I'm reading a book intermittently, called Eat to Live by a Dr. Fuhrman.  It has a lot of good points in it.  Why do we eat so much crap?  We are meant to eat plants.  We are filling ourselves with processed foods, sugars and too much meat and we wonder why we are obese, diabetic, hyptensive... why cardiovascular disease is the leading killer... why we're tired and grump and surviving off of coffee and redbulls to keep us going.  Not me anymore!  Another good documentary to bring home the point is Forks Over Knives.  Eric and I are going to try to be vegan-leaning vegetarians during the week.  On the weekends, all bets are off, but I usually try to still make healthy choices.  We didn't want to limit ourselves too much though.  It's not about being strict or being "on a diet".  It's just about being conscious about what we are eating and having a healthy lifestyle.  Not to mention, I haven't been this regular in years.  Literally.  Now I just need to get the exercise component back into motion.

feeling the earth beneath my toes

I bought Vibram barefoot shoes about a year ago and love them.  I dislocated my cuboid (supposedly) in a half marathon I did two years ago and my podiatrist said that both of my feet are prone to this happening again.  My thought is that barefoot running -- if done properly, will help strengthen up the muscles and ligaments in my feet and help prevent this in the future.  So far so good, but MAN, does it kill my calves.  I need to remember to ease into it -- it kills me for 3 to 4 days afterwards so that I can barely workout.  It has been a while in general since I've ran, so I just need to remember to go slow.  Which is hard to do when you were wanting to do an olympic-distance triathlon that is only 6 weeks away...  eek.

i like to eat plants.

i feel so much better when i eat healthy.  even if i don't get as good of sleep -- if i've eaten healthy and drank plenty of water, i can make it through the day feeling strong and energized.  something to note and keep in mind.  i'm considering pescatarianism.