+CHANGEs

I'd like to start listing positive changes I've been making. Like TCOY [TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF], I hope to now incorporate +CHANGE. These are important changes I've made on my path to better nutrition--many of them thanks to my friend and mentor, Rachael. TCOY actions are just that; but +CHANGEs are ways I have changed my thinking in the big picture and, I hope, for the long run.

I caught the bad cold that went from Punch to Dan. Big mug of tea by my side, scratchy throat, tired.

Talk to you tomorrow.

TCOY

1. Kept appt for routine bloodwork. I kept putting it off and/or making a date and forgetting.
2. Ate vegs.

+CHANGEs

• Dan was picking up Chinese food for our family to share for dinner after 8 p.m.--one tofu and broccoli entree, which came with a small brown rice, and one mu shu shrimp entree. I told him not to get an extra large rice or an order of steamed broccoli--the place charges a lot for those. I made a pot of rice and steamed some broccoli with baby carrots--and then proceeded to add more vegs to my plate.
• There's been a big stir recently about "pot-banging chocolate chip cookies," which are huge and look amazing. You freeze the dough rounds before baking and lift and lower the cookie sheet in the oven to flatten the cookies and make shattered cracks around the edges. I was about to order the author's book [Vanilla Bean something] on amazon and then a voice said, "You can make the cookies if you want. The recipe is online." I have so many dessert books already.....it's an addiction. The big +CHANGE is not just hearing the voice--because I have heard her before--but heeding the message. Exactly how many sweets will it take to take my life?