Wednesday, September 16, 2015

#1511, Wednesday, September 16: A funny thing about gratitude

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Post 1511, Day 259 of 2015
- 1,720 days since I started this blog -

Daily Comment

I write often, or mention often, being grateful.

Gratitude has become an important, central, essential, habitual, defining idea to me.

I am grateful for so much, not the least (in fact, maybe the most) because I am alive to express it, and grateful for being live. As my friend Darren said to me yesterday, "Any day you're vertical you should be grateful."

Amen.

Being grateful straightens out my mind. It is impossible to be angry and grateful at the same time. It is all I need to remember - to be grateful - when I'm otherwise in a bad mood.

I believe that being grateful feeds my overall optimism - and vice versa. Same for my consistent happiness and good spirits. I'm grateful for both, and that makes me happier and puts me in a better mood.

Being grateful is a decision I make, as is being happy. Neither comes from external circumstances. Both, though, affect external circumstances.

Funny how that works.


Food and Diet Section



Today's Weight:                   206.0 lbs
Previous Weight (9/15):           207.0 lbs
Day Net Loss/Gain:                - 1.0 lbs

Diet Comment
Got away with it: Even a little ice cream can't slow me down.

Food Log
Breakfast
Protein shake with almond-coconut milk, kefir, kale, extra-large organic egg, whey powder (36g protein), hemp seeds, hemp protein (7g protein), raw organic cacao powder, chia gel, moringa leaf powder, cinnamon, celery and stevia-inulin blend.

Lunch
Salmon salad (Wild Alaska pink salmon, celery, mayonnaise) on baby kale, baby spinach, chard and cole slaw mix.
Dinner 
Quinoa, lentils, onions, peppers and ground beef. I took a picture but it looked awful, which it was definitely not, so I didn't use it. Also, a Quest bar.

Snack 
A Quest bar.

Liquid Intake
   Espressos: 2Coffee: 20 oz.;  Water: 64+ oz. A shot of Jameson's, neat, in a rocks glass.


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