New Year...New Thoughts

I recently read this sentence: Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans. It’s so true. All the beautiful things that we encounter or experience are things that happen purely by chance. You may have had a list to go to the grocery store, but you probably didn’t plan on meeting your spouse there. But it may have happened. You may have accepted a certain job to get you through university but never expected that job to change the way you look at life and change your career path. It’s beautiful how random our lives can be and how we never notice.

Happy New Year everyone. I am not someone who makes new year’s resolutions. I don’t think that if I need to make an improvement in my life, I need to wait for a certain time of the year to make that change. Perhaps for some people it acts as a motivation and so it works. To keep the good things in life and to let beautiful coincidences in my life to continue, I will not plan changes in my life at a certain time.

An example is my diet. I have made a huge change in my diet. I made this change probably since the last week of November or so. I didn’t want to wait till after Christmas to make the change because then I am telling myself I am not strong enough to make the healthy change. My diet now consists of this:

Breakfast: 1 cup bran cereal, 1 cup non-dairy milk (almond or soy milk), a handful of dried cranberries. I also sometimes add a small amount of yummier cereal so my body doesn’t wonder about the bran too much.

Mid-morning Snack: A banana or container of grapes

Lunch: Box of pre-prepared salad, some dried cranberries, a small amount of sliced almonds, some protein on the side (could be small pieces of chicken or shrimp fried up on pan with some spices). Sometimes I will also have a pita bread. I buy the greek pitas and brush a small amount of olive oil and garlic on them and sprinkle a small amount of salt.

Afternoon snack: An apple, or something equivalent

Supper: Same as lunch

And that’s what I eat all day. I do let myself indulge when I feel a strong urge. Haven’t given anything up but have dramatically reduced the amount of beef, grease and rice i eat.

Figured I’d share this with people. And remember, if you think you need to make a change, make it now. It’s as good  a time as any.