Archive for March, 2010

SUPERSIZE ME

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

Some time ago I watched the documentary “Super size me”.  Parts of it were boring, but there were some facts in that movie that cannot be ignored.  I need to say that I thought it was unfair to single out Mc. Donald’s since most fast food chains are alike.  They should have taken a month of eating from the most popular fast food restaurants instead of one.  Even so, based on one chain, what you learn from the movie you can apply to all fast foods. 

The man that the experiment was conducted on was checked out by doctors who put him through testing and he was in good health.  He put himself on a diet of Mc Donald’s for 30 days.  As the days went on his health started to sink to the point that the doctors said if he did not get off of that diet, he was putting his life in danger.  He started suffering from depression, and lack of energy.  The food was affecting his major organs, and his cholesterol jumped high and fast.  At the end of the month he had gained approx. 25 pounds. 

The movie showed how much sugar a person consumes in about a week’s worth of super sized soda drinking.  They showed what I believe was a quart jar and it was almost filled to the top with sugar.  One week’s sodas worth.  It blew me away. 

They showed a school that was for delinquent kids.  In this school, they served only healthy foods to the kids.  The kids changed.  They were calmer, able to think much more clearly.  They were staying out of trouble.   Even before seeing this movie, I am personally convinced that what our kids are consuming is causing trouble for them and all those around.

Many have become accustomed to the drive ups, and their taste buds have been polluted.  The “so called” foods are highly possessed, leaving nothing good.   Parents, when taking your little ones up to the drive thru and getting them fries, think again.  The kids are developing a taste for high sugar, salt, and fried foods.  When my boys were little, I would take them to lunch out to those places, but at the most once a week.  I packed their lunches in grade school. 

In conclusion, fast food, processed foods are not food.  They are items of poison, poisoning your body, mind and emotions.  Experiment on yourself.  Stop eating the poison for a month.  At the end of 30 days, see how you feel.  E-mail me your story, and I will put it in my column.   

 

Laurie Jones

Offering in home personal fitness training/nutritional guidance.

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FITNESS FUN!

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

Keeping fit can be fun!  Just be a little more creative.  Changing your routine is very important so boredom does not set in.  One night I felt like going for a little run but did not want to get into the car and drive to the gym.  All I wanted to do was put my shoes on and go.  The only objective to my GO RIGHT NOW run, well, at least in some peoples’ eyes (like my mother) was that it was a little dark…just a little.  I live in a safe enough neighborhood.  The only danger that I can foresee is the deer coming out and chasing me!  So, I went for a little night time jog.  It did get darker, and there are no street lights where I live.  Just nice homes with porch lights on and some had those awesome soft light torches around their homes…which I became more thankful as the darkness became darker. 

Oh well, it was an adventure.  Adventures keep us feeling alive.  It was so beautiful outside.  The stars and the lighting on the lake.  The aroma of people cooking dinner and wood burning stoves was so nice.  I was a little worried however with possible ruts and holes in the road that I could not see.  Sometimes I did feel like I was kind of lost which added to the adventure!  It got so dark I had to run up to the street sign to see what street I was on! Then there was a concerned man who drove up in his truck and asked me if I was really out jogging or was I in trouble.  (All dressed in black, I probably looked suspicious!)  I told him I was just out for a run which made him bolt thinking I was a wacko! (Thank you anyway, nice man, whoever you are).

Anyway, all this to say that fitness can definitely be fun and adventurous!  Change up your routine and think outside of the box and exercise with adventure in mind!

 

Laurie Jones offering in home personal fitness training

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WORRY….

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

I write so much about physical fitness.  Yet emotional and mental fitness is just as important.  Physical and mental fitness go hand in hand.  If you are physically out of shape, your mental outlook will be down.  If you’re mentally out of shape, physically you will be down.  God has made us a complete being, physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually.  If one part lacks it throws us off center.  We are complex creatures. 

One of the biggest problems with mental fitness is worry.  Think about this.  Have you had one day where a single worry has not passed your mind?  Probably not.  And can we control those little worries that pop into our mind?  No.  But what we can do is choose to control our thoughts. 

When I was 30 years younger I constantly worried.  At that time my biggest worry was money.  I had a baby and my husband was a hard worker.  However, we were poor!  Poor, but still had a home to sleep in, food to eat, car to drive, ect.  (By golly!  Here I was thinking we were poor and yet we were rich!) 

I constantly worried, which would cause me not to sleep and not be a very pleasant person to live with.  I had to make a choice to start changing the way I was thinking.  I started thanking the Lord for every little thing.  It was hard, especially since I did not believe it.  But a miracle happened and I started to believe and truly became thankful.  Worry still was a battle in my life for many years until I really had some heartaches happen to me.  From that point I virtually let go and trusted that whatever happens to me in this life, God is truly in control.  I belong to Him, and nothing passes by Him without His permission.

Worry can cause havoc on your health and well being.  Close your eyes and breathe deep.  Then cast all of your cares onto Him, for He cares for you. (1 Peter 5v7)

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