My foot has been hurting for the last 8 or 9 months. It seems like I have plantar fasciitis but we're not sure because I haven't been to a docotr because I don't have health insurance.
I LOOOOOOVE doing zumba and I am so happy that I was given the opportunity to teach boot camp (and now I'm even going to get certified, AFAA) but my foot keeps bothering me and having it hurt takes the fun out of exercising and makes me not want to work harder in fear of further hurting myself...
So today paguei o dizimo (generoso) e a oferta de jejum($300) e pedi uma bencao do Br. Ritchie.
Notes from the blessing:
-be disciplined about how much sleep you get and also about what food you eat
-eat food high in antioxidants like blueberries and other berries
-you have been like a 'savior' to your family and Father is very pleased and will continue blessing youfor it
-keep putting your role as a wife and as a mother as a priority
-a prayer of faith will bring you blessings. Keep praying, have faith and Father will hear your blessings and answer them
-reading the scriptures (regularly) will help bring happiness to your life, and so will attending the Temple - in other words- exercising is not the only way for you to feel uplifted- read your scriptures
-testify to the children in your nursery
-share the gospel while you are in Portugal, and be an example so people can actually see the light of Christ in you and know that the gospel brings you happiness - people in Portugal will be able to see a difference in you
-Father loves you
I love my Savior Jesus Christ, and my Father in Heaven. I know that Father will help me recover my health. I have faith.
Ninhas
Sunday, July 31, 2011
Saturday, July 23, 2011
My little boy
For Mother's Day I got a little poem and my boy's hand-print. I like the poem so much that I want to share it here:"SOmetimes you get discouraged
Because I am so small,
And always leave my fingerprints
On furniture and walls
But every day I'm growing -
I'll be grown up some day,
And all those tiny handprints
Will surely fade away.
So here's a little handprint
Just so you can recall
Exactly how my fingers looked
When I was very small."
May 2011
I love my little Tiago so so much. He does know how to push my buttons though. Sometimes I get impatient and even upset at him. He bites, scratches, screams, is defiant, doesn't take long naps : ), he has destroyed a few books, and broken a few other things (including our entertainment center door, and one of my necklaces). Tiago is very strong willed and enjoys doing what HE likes doing... So, at times I get frustrated. I'm not sure how to discipline him and help him understand that he needs to listen to what I say. I know that I don't want to spank him, and I certainly don't want to yell at him either - I have lost it a few times and yelled at my children and I felt the Spirit immediately living our home.
So this poem is a good reminder that he will grow up and his little hands won't always be little. Again, I love Tiago so so much. Tiago sometimes looks at me with a certain smile that makes me feel like he's almost 'flirting' with me. He likes giving really tight hugs - that melt my heart, and he and Gabi are the happiest little children I know. They giggle and laugh ALL the time.
If I get hurt or if one of them hurts me (ex. bites me) they immediately ask: You OK? You OK?
Anyway, I thanks Heavenly Father everyday for "giving" me such beautiful children. They are a ginormous blessing in my life.
Gabi and Tiago - I will always love you, and I will always be your Mama - no matter what you do, or what happens in life.
com amor
Ninhas
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
cheese IS addictive!!! and so is sugar and meat and chocolate!!!
http://www.vegsource.com/news/2010/01/chocolate-cheese-meat-sugar-physically-addictive-foods.html video of a really cool talk!!!!!!!!
Casein and Cheese More Addictive Than Chocolate?
So here is an excerpt from an article in the Orlando Sentinel July 13 2003:
Of all the potentially addicting foods, cheese may be the most complex. In research studies using vegan and vegetarian diets to control cholesterol or reduce body weight, most participants soon forget the lure of ice cream, sour cream, and even burgers and chicken. But for many people, the taste for cheese lingers on and on. Yes, 70 percent of its calories may come from waist-augmenting fat, and, ounce for ounce, it may harbor more cholesterol than a steak. But that cheese habit is tough to break. Why is cheese so addicting? Certainly not because of its aroma, which is perilously close to old socks. The first hint of a biochemical explanation came in 1981, when scientists at Wellcome Research Laboratories in Research Triangle Park, N.C., found a substance in dairy products that looked remarkably like morphine. After a complex series of tests, they determined that, surprisingly enough, it actually was morphine. By a fluke of nature, the enzymes that produce opiates are not confined to poppies -- they also hide inside cows' livers. So traces of morphine can pass into the animal's bloodstream and end up in milk and milk products. The amounts are far too small to explain cheese's appeal. But nonetheless, the discovery led scientists on their search for opiate compounds in dairy products.
And they found them. Opiates hide inside casein, the main dairy protein. As casein molecules are digested, they break apart to release tiny opiate molecules, called casomorphins. One of these compounds has about one-tenth the opiate strength of morphine. The especially addicting power of cheese may be due to the fact that the process of cheese-making removes water,lactose and whey proteins so that casein is concentrated. Scientists are now trying to tease out whether these opiate molecules work strictly within the digestive tract or whether they pass into the bloodstream and reach the brain directly.
(some paragraphs about chocolate addiction snipped)
The cheese industry is miles ahead of them, having gone to great lengths to identify people who are most vulnerable to addiction. It dubs them "cheese cravers," and tracks their age, educational level and other demographics so as to target them with marketing strategies that are tough to ignore. With a $200 million annual research and marketing budget, the dairy industry is not content to have you just sprinkling a little mozzarella on your salad. It is looking for those Americans who will eat it straight out of the package, whatever the cost to their waistlines or cholesterol levels.
At a "Cheese Forum" held Dec. 5, 2000, Dick Cooper, the vice president of Cheese Marketing for Dairy Management Inc., laid out the industry's scheme for identifying potential addicts and keeping them hooked. In his slide presentation, which was released to our organization under the Freedom of Information Act, he asked the question, "What do we want our marketing program to do?" and then gave the answer: "Trigger the cheese craving." He described how, in a partnership with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the dairy industry launched Wendy's Cheddar Lover's Bacon Cheeseburger, which single-handedly pushed 2.25 million pounds of cheese during the promotion period. That works out to 380 tons of fat and 1.2 tons of pure cholesterol in the cheese alone. A similar promotion with Pizza Hut launched the "Ultimate Cheese Pizza," which added an entire pound of cheese to a single pizza and sold five million pounds of it during a six-week promotion in 2000. The presentation concluded with a cartoon of a playground slide with a large spider web woven to trap children as they reached the bottom. The caption had one spider saying to another, "If we pull this off, we'll eat like kings."
Cheese Has a Little Known Secret: Consumers Beware
by J.M.K on Feb 02, 2008 with 21 Comments
Most never know that they are addicted; people figure that they just like it. It is deeply disturbing to a cheese loving consumer that there are small amounts of addictive opiates involved in one of America’s favorite foods.
According to an article in 2003, Dr. Neal Barnard authored a book about the cravings of food that many of us face. His book is titled Breaking the Food Seduction: The Hidden Reasons Behind Food Cravings and Seven Steps to End them Naturally. He concluded that cheese is particularly addictive because it has small amounts of morphine that is produced from the cow’s liver. Additionally, other foods like sugar and chocolate are addictive to consumers.Possibly, the addictive morphine that is created in the cow when digesting has led to increased weight issues. As a society, we must consider that the large quantities and availability is greater than ever in history. Therefore, it is likely to have an impact on the obesity rates for those that become addicted.
In the past, it was taught that cheese was a substitute for meat. Now, most people eat them together and they taste great. This could be too much for our bodies to consume long term. More research is truly needed because something as common as cheese could be harmful. Hopefully, more manufacturers will become aware of the hidden potential dangers in the product as well. So far, there have not been any serious complications following cheese consumption, but for how long?
Sharing this kind of information is important to those that are struggling with weight in particular. It could be that most people are addicted to eating cheese products and obesity is not the individual’s fault. Good exercise and a balanced healthy diet should offset any addiction, while cheese may still be part of the eating regimen. To view the actual article, check here. Also, typing a simple search will show other information as well.
Friday, June 24, 2011
I'm still studying the issue of vegetarianism/veganism
So, I found a mormon vegetarian facebook page and I'm a member of it now. It's awesome to see so many people that share the same beliefs as I sharing also the same dietary way of thinking. But there's this one guy that writes on that facebook page every now and then that seems to just want to put down the idea of vegetarianism and to cause contention. He tries to write in an intellectual, politically correct way but it's clear that his intentions are merely to ridicule the mormon vegetarians in that group.
I believe that we are all entitled to personal revelation and that one's diet can fall under that category. I don't make anyone feel inferior or wrong about eating meat, and all I ask is that others give me the same type of respect.
One of the members of that facebook group wrote the following regarding the comments by that one brother who seems to want nothing but contention:
I don't think vegetarian/veganism requires doctrinal basis to be one's choice. While one might say that the scriptures encourage a certain dietary balance, at no point is it succinctly encouraged or forbidden to eat meat. Personal choice and conviction must sometimes remain exactly that, -personal-. I would not be ashamed to stand in front of God and defend my choice to abstain from eating His beautiful creations. In my view, we will be required to account for the status in which return our stewardship (i.e. the Earth and its inhabitants) to Him and how responsibly, compassionately, wisely we used it. I think there will be a lot to answer for.
I don't see it as prudent, or useful, to go further dividing ourselves against one another over whether we can doctrinally defend our choices as vegetarians or not. I don't think there's much point. If you're ashamed of your choices, perhaps you chose wrongly. On the other hand, if you're comfortable with it, what others think and how they act really won't matter. When it comes right down to it, I don't care that we're (my son and I) are the only vegetarians in our ward. Vegetarianism is not mainstream in our culture, why would it/should it be in any sub-section whether secular or religious?
I agree with her.
I found these quotes on a blog (http://www.jordanriveryoga.com/What_We_Eat_Matters.html)
Many volumes have been written on this subject, and it is too broad to do justice to in one column, so let me just make a few points and let you, the reader, investigate further on your own if you wish.
* It requires 5000 gallons of water to produce one pound of beef for human consumption, but only 25 gallons of water to produce one pound of wheat. (You save more water by skipping four quarter-pounders than you do by not showering for an entire year.)
* 260 million acres in the US have been set aside to grow grain--to feed livestock animals. (We'd have plenty of farmland in the world if it were used to grow crops for people.)
* The Framingham Heart Study found that vegetarians have the lowest coronary rates in the population, and 40% of the average cancer rate. (Other studies have found that vegans have the lowest diabetes rate as well.)
* If you are concerned about global warming, a 2006 United Nations report found that the meat industry produces more greenhouse gases than all the SUVs, trucks, cars, planes, and ships in the world combined. (Eating 1 lb. of meat is roughly equivalent to driving a SUV 40 miles.)
* Many dairy cows in the US are fed Bovine Growth Hormone to increase milk production. (It has been banned in Canada and Europe because of human health concerns.) With the increased milk production comes increased incidences of mastitis, for which those same dairy cows are regularly fed antibiotics. Both the BGH and the antibiotics are in the beef, veal, and dairy products sold in stores.
And none of this addresses the animal cruelty issues.
The statistics above were obtained from GoVeg.com. Other sources of information are:
The China Study by T. Colin Campbell, 2006.
The Kind Diet by Alicia Silverstone, 2009.
Eat To Live by Dr. Joel Fuhrman, 2005
There Is a Cure for Diabetes by Gabriel Cousens, 2008
drfuhrman.com
greensmoothiegirl.com
fruitsandveggiesmorematters.org
earthsave.org
I believe that we are all entitled to personal revelation and that one's diet can fall under that category. I don't make anyone feel inferior or wrong about eating meat, and all I ask is that others give me the same type of respect.
One of the members of that facebook group wrote the following regarding the comments by that one brother who seems to want nothing but contention:
I don't think vegetarian/veganism requires doctrinal basis to be one's choice. While one might say that the scriptures encourage a certain dietary balance, at no point is it succinctly encouraged or forbidden to eat meat. Personal choice and conviction must sometimes remain exactly that, -personal-. I would not be ashamed to stand in front of God and defend my choice to abstain from eating His beautiful creations. In my view, we will be required to account for the status in which return our stewardship (i.e. the Earth and its inhabitants) to Him and how responsibly, compassionately, wisely we used it. I think there will be a lot to answer for.
I don't see it as prudent, or useful, to go further dividing ourselves against one another over whether we can doctrinally defend our choices as vegetarians or not. I don't think there's much point. If you're ashamed of your choices, perhaps you chose wrongly. On the other hand, if you're comfortable with it, what others think and how they act really won't matter. When it comes right down to it, I don't care that we're (my son and I) are the only vegetarians in our ward. Vegetarianism is not mainstream in our culture, why would it/should it be in any sub-section whether secular or religious?
I agree with her.
I found these quotes on a blog (http://www.jordanriveryoga.com/What_We_Eat_Matters.html)
Many volumes have been written on this subject, and it is too broad to do justice to in one column, so let me just make a few points and let you, the reader, investigate further on your own if you wish.
* It requires 5000 gallons of water to produce one pound of beef for human consumption, but only 25 gallons of water to produce one pound of wheat. (You save more water by skipping four quarter-pounders than you do by not showering for an entire year.)
* 260 million acres in the US have been set aside to grow grain--to feed livestock animals. (We'd have plenty of farmland in the world if it were used to grow crops for people.)
* The Framingham Heart Study found that vegetarians have the lowest coronary rates in the population, and 40% of the average cancer rate. (Other studies have found that vegans have the lowest diabetes rate as well.)
* If you are concerned about global warming, a 2006 United Nations report found that the meat industry produces more greenhouse gases than all the SUVs, trucks, cars, planes, and ships in the world combined. (Eating 1 lb. of meat is roughly equivalent to driving a SUV 40 miles.)
* Many dairy cows in the US are fed Bovine Growth Hormone to increase milk production. (It has been banned in Canada and Europe because of human health concerns.) With the increased milk production comes increased incidences of mastitis, for which those same dairy cows are regularly fed antibiotics. Both the BGH and the antibiotics are in the beef, veal, and dairy products sold in stores.
And none of this addresses the animal cruelty issues.
The statistics above were obtained from GoVeg.com. Other sources of information are:
The China Study by T. Colin Campbell, 2006.
The Kind Diet by Alicia Silverstone, 2009.
Eat To Live by Dr. Joel Fuhrman, 2005
There Is a Cure for Diabetes by Gabriel Cousens, 2008
drfuhrman.com
greensmoothiegirl.com
fruitsandveggiesmorematters.org
earthsave.org
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
just random
You can eat something bad and beat yourself up and then soothe yourself for that with some more bad foods. Or you can eat something bad and then do something good to balance it out, like drinking a glass of water and doing 20 minutes of exercise. As humans we can't be perfect all the time. But at the end of the day, if you've done yourself more good than harm, you can maintain your balance and keep on riding in the direction you want to go in!
Thursday, May 26, 2011
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Tuesday, March 1, 2011
just when you think all is well...
The day started well, I said a prayer with Jay before he left for school, I read a lot from "The worth of a soul" (which, by the way, is an incredible book that I would recommend reading). I said a long, heartfelt prayer where I asked Father to help me have the Spirit during the day and to help me specifically with motherhood - a part of my life where many times I feel like I lack talent... Things were going OK, and then, in a split second I lost it and yelled at my children - making them cry.
Is it Satan? Is he trying to ruin my day that had such a nice beginning?
Well, I better do something about it and not let him carry on with his plans.
It's a good thing that kids are so forgiving, they are already playing with each other and giggling (oh the innocence and joy of childhood). I'm going to take them to the park. This day can still be a great day : )
Is it Satan? Is he trying to ruin my day that had such a nice beginning?
Well, I better do something about it and not let him carry on with his plans.
It's a good thing that kids are so forgiving, they are already playing with each other and giggling (oh the innocence and joy of childhood). I'm going to take them to the park. This day can still be a great day : )
Friday, February 18, 2011
feeling a little blue
Hey, I'm not sure why I'm feeling like this today... but, yeah, it's one of those days...
actually, instead of blogging I'm gonna read my scriptures for a little bit : ) I think that will help me : )
actually, instead of blogging I'm gonna read my scriptures for a little bit : ) I think that will help me : )
Friday, February 4, 2011
my day
My experience with eating mostly raw foods is going well. I have been craving cooked food. Nothing unhealthy, just stuff like rice, or something else heated. It's cold and no matter how much fruit I have in my kitchen I still feel like eating worm things, not cold vegetables. I've been making sure that my breakfast is something healthy (today it was the juice of 3 small oranges, 3 celery stems and one cucumber - all organic). But then for lunch I had rice. I feel like Heavenly Father is pleased with my diet. He knows that I want to be healthy, and that I desire the energy to play with my children and to exercise.
I've been watching some mormon messages (short videos on the net) and I've been uplifted by them.
I also did what Barbara asked me to do - study the BM first thing in the day. This is good. I read 2 Nephi 4 and felt the Spirit teaching me. I love my Father in Heaven and His Son - Jesus Christ.
I've been watching some mormon messages (short videos on the net) and I've been uplifted by them.
I also did what Barbara asked me to do - study the BM first thing in the day. This is good. I read 2 Nephi 4 and felt the Spirit teaching me. I love my Father in Heaven and His Son - Jesus Christ.
Getting rid of pride and guilt as a parent
I read this article in the deseret news online (http://www.mormontimes.com/article/19600/Getting-rid-of-pride-and-guilt?s_cid=newsline )
We were visiting a little ward in rural Idaho, and the Sunday School lesson happened to be on parenting. We sat quietly and anonymously and listened.
There was another visitor there, kind of a sophisticated city slicker who seemed to have all the answers. He also seemed to have perfect kids because he prefaced each comment he made with something like, "Well, the way I communicate with my son, the student body president ..." or "The way I handled that with my daughter, the valedictorian ..."
If it had just been a couple of times, it would have been fine, but about the sixth time he gave his perfect, pat answer about his perfect kids, you could almost hear the groans about this self-righteous guy who seemed to have no problems.
Then, just after the first bell, a small, quiet-voiced farmer raised his hand, got called on, stood up and turned to face the big bragger. "Excuse me," he said with a high-pitched country twang, "but God must notta thought much of you as a parent, sendin' ya all them easy kids."
There were some soft giggles from every direction and an almost audible murmur of agreement among the class members. We gave each other's hand a little squeeze and both mumbled, "Amen!" No offense was taken, but we all knew exactly what that good man was saying.
Knowing what we know about our children's pre-existence, about the eternity they have already spent becoming who they are, we had better not take too much credit for who they are. As LDS parents, most of us recognize that we have much less to do with who our kids are than their own growth and development over their past parts of eternity. So we had better not feel too much pride for their gifts and goodness.
And for the same reason, we had better not feel too much guilt for their imperfections and problems.
Because that courageous little farmer could have also said, in another situation to another parent, "God musta thought quite a bit of you as a parent, sendin' ya that difficult kid."
When we see other parents struggling with serious behavioral problems, instead of judging them as poor parents, perhaps we should respect them for how hard they are trying and for the fact that they were selected by some divine process to be worthy of very difficult parenting challenges.
Part of eternal perspective parenting — and a big part of looking for spiritual solutions — is remembering and understanding that we didn't create our children; that they come as who they are from a Father who entrusts us with stewardship for them. We do our best to help our children grow and develop in ways that are uniquely right for them, and we seek God's help.
Thus, we try not to judge other parents or ourselves. We replace pride with gratitude when a child does something well or shows promise in some way, and we replace guilt with perspective and added love when a child falls short or makes a mistake.
We were visiting a little ward in rural Idaho, and the Sunday School lesson happened to be on parenting. We sat quietly and anonymously and listened.
There was another visitor there, kind of a sophisticated city slicker who seemed to have all the answers. He also seemed to have perfect kids because he prefaced each comment he made with something like, "Well, the way I communicate with my son, the student body president ..." or "The way I handled that with my daughter, the valedictorian ..."
If it had just been a couple of times, it would have been fine, but about the sixth time he gave his perfect, pat answer about his perfect kids, you could almost hear the groans about this self-righteous guy who seemed to have no problems.
Then, just after the first bell, a small, quiet-voiced farmer raised his hand, got called on, stood up and turned to face the big bragger. "Excuse me," he said with a high-pitched country twang, "but God must notta thought much of you as a parent, sendin' ya all them easy kids."
There were some soft giggles from every direction and an almost audible murmur of agreement among the class members. We gave each other's hand a little squeeze and both mumbled, "Amen!" No offense was taken, but we all knew exactly what that good man was saying.
Knowing what we know about our children's pre-existence, about the eternity they have already spent becoming who they are, we had better not take too much credit for who they are. As LDS parents, most of us recognize that we have much less to do with who our kids are than their own growth and development over their past parts of eternity. So we had better not feel too much pride for their gifts and goodness.
And for the same reason, we had better not feel too much guilt for their imperfections and problems.
Because that courageous little farmer could have also said, in another situation to another parent, "God musta thought quite a bit of you as a parent, sendin' ya that difficult kid."
When we see other parents struggling with serious behavioral problems, instead of judging them as poor parents, perhaps we should respect them for how hard they are trying and for the fact that they were selected by some divine process to be worthy of very difficult parenting challenges.
Part of eternal perspective parenting — and a big part of looking for spiritual solutions — is remembering and understanding that we didn't create our children; that they come as who they are from a Father who entrusts us with stewardship for them. We do our best to help our children grow and develop in ways that are uniquely right for them, and we seek God's help.
Thus, we try not to judge other parents or ourselves. We replace pride with gratitude when a child does something well or shows promise in some way, and we replace guilt with perspective and added love when a child falls short or makes a mistake.
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