- Potatoes
- Rice
- Pasta
- Bread
- Donuts
- Ice Cream
- Cheese
- Pastries
Foods My Doctor Thinks I Should Eat Less Of
Category Archives: Health
Surprising Things I’ve Accomplished This Year (specifically given that it’s been a corona-year)
- Checked two new states (North Carolina, Mississippi) off my list
- Missions trip to Haiti
- Three “airports” in one day
- Landing & taking off on a dirt runway
- Attending/walking in a Haitian funeral processional
- Ate goat for the first time
- Iguanas in the wild (in Miami… they chased me away from my lunch)
- Finished unpacking all boxes from moving end of 2019
- Started packing up to move again
- Attended nephew’s high school graduation
- Vacation to San Diego
- Lodging at the fabulous beachfront Tower23
- Riding bicycles to Mission Beach
- Completed “Visual Communications” course through Sophia Learning
- Put more than 10,000 miles on my car
- Ran three trivia nights before the world shut down
- Read 29 books
- Successfully began intermittent fasting (lost 8 pounds and dropped my A1C from 6.1 to 5.4!)
- Watched multiple full series on Hulu and Amazon Prime
- Achieved level 40 and then level 41 on Pokemon Go
- Applied for 66 jobs
- Got hired for exciting new position with city of Clinton, Iowa!
Things You Do NOT Need to Feel Guilty About Right Now
- Feeling depressed or anxious
- Being tired
- Missing the people you used to hang out with
- Seeing the people you used to hang out with
- Clinging to your family
- Not being able to spend time with your family
- Sending your kids to school
- Not sending your kids to school
- Having a cheap face mask
- Having the most expensive face mask that exists
- Not having a job
- Wishing you didn’t have a job
- Loving your job
- Hating work-from-home
- Loving remote work
- Fearing the uncertainty of the future
- Being sad about the world around us
- Being angry about the world around us
- Being closed off from the world around us
- Eating at home
- Eating out
- Picking up food to eat somewhere else
- Going for walks/runs/jogs
- Cocooning at home
- Not being able to concentrate on reading
- Reading more books than ever because you have nothing else to do
- Being unproductive
- Being so productive people around you complain
- Sleeping late
- Not sleeping well
- Doing whatever it is that you need to do to survive or even thrive
I Bought Stuff to Make a Big Salad (but now I want a burger instead)
- Mixed greens & spinach
- Avocado
- Multi-colored bell peppers
- Green onions
- Cashews
- Mandarin oranges (I prefer fruit juice instead of dressing)
- Shredded cheese (multiple flavors)
Cookbooks on my Bookshelf (As proof that at one time in my life I actually did cook on a regular basis.)
- Lickety Split Meals for Health Conscious People on the Go (Seriously the best, go buy it.)
- Oh Deer! The Venison Cookbook for Beginners
- Sunset Wok Cookbook
- Fix-It and Forget-It Cookbook / Feasting with your Slow Cooker
- 4 Ingredient Recipes for 30 Minute Meals
- Three Ingredient Cookbook Volume II
- Fat Free Living Cookbook
- Miserly Meals
- Pampered Chef All the Best
- Low Fat Mexican Recipes
- Betty Crocker Great Pasta
- Food for the body and for the soul
- Treasured Recipes / Far & Near Missionary Fellowship
- Magazine issues: Taste of Home’s Quick Cooking
- Magazine issues: Kraft Food & Family
