Conscious Savings

A habit is a choice made normal.

There is no better or worse “protein”. It’s a commonly used word with little understanding, protein is like a house with bricks  of “amino acids“. There are 9 “essential amino acids” that you cannot synthesize from raw ingredients and must be consumed. Any form of protein that has all 9 is termed to be a “complete protein” the great trick is that you can consume 100+ grams of protein daily and still be deficient if you have been consuming incomplete protein. This is unlikely to happen with any variety in your diet, though can happen if your staples consist of foods that come in bags and boxes.

Many plant proteins come up lower in 1 or more essential aminos unless combined ex: beans & rice. There are ongoing debates about whether these foods should be combined in the same meal or not, etc…

If you are a vegetarian or considering trying the option then please do some homework about nutrition, eating meat is simple, your almost guaranteed to have 70%+ usable protein, plenty of B vitamins from the bacteria that lived with them, and more oil soluble vitamins to help maintain your health. The downsides come in the form of other factors that cause you harm.

Diet is a tricky thing, there is more going on with health than being fat or thin, calorie in, calorie out. Perhaps in years to come someone will find a unified theory, though with such genetic diversity within our species and lots of money to be made from pushing a new fad we are unlikely to see a 1 size fits all approach to optimal health anytime soon.

There is no such thing as food that is good for you, only that which is less bad.

That was told to me by a very wise man some years ago, my research suggested that it is true. Everything you consume causes an immune response short of glacial water. So please do your own research, no-one cares about your health more than you (I hope).

1: came from friends, don’t dumb anything down — explain in a way that can be understood with the current vocabulary but don’t ever dumb something down thinking that it will help a child understand. Rather than using baby talk, or referring to a storm as “god playing bowling” or other such nonsense that seems harmless, explain what is really happening in the world. If the idea is too complex then ask if they understand and have them explain what you said. If you’ve never given kids a chance to be smart they may surprise you.

2: came from the book Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell — in a study of over 100 families of various social backgrounds in an attempt to identify styles of parenting there were found to be essentially 2 with a strong divide between families that were considered rich and families that were considered poor. Rich families had parents and children often engaging together with children encouraged and exposed to different activities (gymnastics, drawing, instrument lessons, sports, etc…), enabling them to  begin to develop skill(s). Poor families had parents and children participating in most things separately. Parents might be watching TV while children were told to play outside.

Rich famiies had children that grew up with developed skill. Poor families grew up with children that had greater imagination.

There is generally a balance between extremes, though the kernels relate volumes of value.

What lessons have you stumbled across, by accident or on purpose? Please share in the comments below.

breathe in to a count of 5
hold to a count of 6
breathe out to a count of 6

repeat 5+ times

will activate your Vagus nerve which closes down production of adrenaline and forces your body to begin relaxing

also works in counts of 2, 2, 3 for a total time invested of  35 seconds

or any variation your comfortable with

New legislation is currently being passed around the hill with the intent of preventing online piracy of copyrighted material.

Like many pieces of legislation it has surely been crafted with the greatest of ideals and goals. Currently there are 2 versions.

1. Expand the jurisdiction for domain seizure – meaning a web-site could be taken down for hosting or linking to copyrighted material.
2. Implement Deep Bit Monitoring – meaning EVERYTHING you access on the web will be monitored and scanned for potential copyright material.

“Cutting off funding or access to only the illegal part of the site while leaving the rest of the site intact promotes legitimate expression.”

It’s your fault.
If you want to change something.
No matter what happened, no matter how, why anything, accept that it is your fault.

Until you are responsible how can you change it?

Nagging and screaming may work for children some of the time, but who wants to be at the mercy of someone else to be responsible your own life?

Once you have accepted reponsibility, then you can begin to figure out how things ended up the way they did and change circumstances accordingly. Whether it is a change in attitude, tonality, word choice, physical action, diet, or one of thousands of other factors, you have the ability to change your own circumstances.

But not until you accept.

It’s your fault!

Yesterday I started to feel myself coming down with a cold so I decided to kick it out quick with a fast. At the end of the day I decided why not keep it going for a few days and turn this into a deep cleanse.

My juice fast recipe for the day:

• Carrot
• Apple
• Celery

I tend to use this juice fast recipe as a base since when combined properly it forms a complete protein and allows for extending fasting. The proper mix is 2 parts carrot : 2 parts celery : 1 part apple. If you are not an experience juicer then I don’t recommend jumping right into that mix as the saltiness of the celery is a bit much to handle. That said if you add some celery to your fresh pressed carrot and apple juice then you will be gaining some complete proteins and allow your body to maintain it self while your cleanse.

My method is fairly simple, I ran 3 pounds of carrots, 2 pounds of apples and 2 pounds of celery through a Champion Juicer to make roughly 3 quarts of juice. I will drink this throughout the day along with water and store bought not-from-concentrate Orange Juice anytime that I feel hungry.

Having my juice pre-pressed this way makes it much easier to avoid the temptation to indulge and break my fasting since all I have to do is pour a glass rather than go through the process of making juice each time I feel hungry. Aiding
The orange juice being is also there to aid in my will power in case I seek something sweeter, being pasteurized it contains significantly less nutrients than my what I pressed this morning though it does make for a nice change.

Find a quiet space, and imagine a room where there are 2 chairs and invite yourself 5 years from now to join you and have a conversation, ask any questions that you are unsure of and observe the differences between yourself now and the projection
then dismiss your future self, switch chairs and chat with yourself 5 years ago

inspired a great number of internal shifts without any other effort, been encouraging to realize that I have all the knowhow to accomplish most anything I want, just a matter of applying myself – largely through (re)building habits

How about you? What habits would make a difference between where you are now and where you see yourself in 5 years?
While logically working on the biggest change the great fulcrum that will change everything is tempting it can easily become a distraction to prevent you from getting started on making changes. If you don’t have a clear answer then pick 1 thing and get started, after a few days (5 seems to be the critical number) momentum will start to carry you forward.

– Thank you Steve Pavlina for the inspiration of the technique

PS. Yes this is grammatically terrible, this is a 1st draft which is a habit I will continue for several posts at least as I develop the habit of writing to this blog more often.

Diabetes: not fun, used to have hypoglycemic crashes somewhat regularly before learning to manage

watch your fat vs carb intake, higher blood fat levels cause sugar/carbs to stay in your blood stream creating the conditions for a crash – biggest thing I’ve learned is scheduling, when eating a fatty meal try to stay light for a few hours sticking with water and low glycemic index foods (apples are a particular favorite)

can share more if interested, learned how to cure diabetes when I went raw and haven’t had an issue since

So what do you think? Have I gone over the deep end thinking that cancer is a curable dis-ease?