Stewardship in taking care of our body

In this journey of stewardship in my personal finance,  I begin to apply the principles of stewardship in other areas of my life.  One of them is eating habits.  This came after running 2 marathons in a year.  I was expecting to lose weight - alot of it - but it was just moderate and I have moved into the veteran category.  Hence I search in the opposite direction - the eating portion while running less.

My search started in March while reading a discussion in MCF (Link - Note :  It's a long discussion with many pages of information but I was rewarded with the information and experiences as the context is localised i.e. Singaporean.  Information on Cholesterol can also be found in this discussion ).

The essense of the eating habit is as per the words in the forum:

1) Eliminate sugar (including fruit juices and sports drinks) and all flour
2) Start eating proper fats - Use healthy animal fats to substitute fat calories for carb calories. Drink whole cream or half and half instead of milk.
3) Eliminate grains. No rice, no bread, no noodles, no pasta...
4) Eliminate grain and seed derived oils (cooking oils). Cook with butter, animal fats, or coconut oil.
5) Get daily midday sun or take 4-8000 iu vit D daily
6) Intermittent fasting and infrequent meals (2 meals a day is best)
7) Fruit is just a candy bar from a tree. Stick with berries and avoid watermelon which is pure fructose. Eat in moderation.
8) Eliminate legumes
9) Adjust your 6s and 3s. Pastured (grass fed) dairy and grass fed beef or bison avoids excess O-6 fatty acids and are better than supplementing with 0-3 supplements.
11) Eliminate milk if you are sensitive to it

I started the experiment for a month with the key focus of reduce carbs, reducing sugar and moderately increasing fats.  The experiment did not stop after 1 month as the reducting was gradual with the body adjusting to reduced carbs and yet energised especially after lunch.  For the exercise bit, it's mostly Hi Intensity Intermittent training twice during weekdays with a longer run on the weekends.  (Hey,  got a 'persistent run/hunt of 42km long at the end of the year.)  It's been 7 months since and my weight has dropped abt 9 kg. 




Blessed day!

Related reading:
1.  Discussion topic in MCF
2.  http://www.paleonu.com/get-started/
3.  Mark's daily apple (Primal Blueprint 101)
4.  Eat Fat and Grow slim (1958)

Children Learn What They Live

Interesting piece from Fathering Matters. 

Blessed day to all fathers / parents.

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“Children Learn What They Live” by Dorothy Law Nolte, Ph.D. (1924 – 2005)


If children live with criticism, they learn to condemn.
If children live with hostility, they learn to fight.
If children live with fear, they learn to be apprehensive.
If children live with pity, they learn to feel sorry for themselves.
If children live with ridicule, they learn to feel shy.
If children live with jealousy, they learn to feel envy.
If children live with shame, they learn to feel guilty.
If children live with encouragement, they learn confidence.
If children live with tolerance, they learn patience.
If children live with praise, they learn appreciation.
If children live with acceptance, they learn to love.
If children live with approval, they learn to like themselves.
If children live with recognition, they learn it is good to have a goal.
If children live with sharing, they learn generosity.
If children live with honesty, they learn truthfulness.
If children live with fairness, they learn justice.
If children live with kindness and consideration, they learn respect.
If children live with security, they learn to have faith in themselves and in those about them.
If children live with friendliness, they learn the world is a nice place in which to live.

Long Term or Short Term

Like many issues, we always like to chose the short term goals as the rewards comes quickly.  These few weeks, there are some questions that I had to address to for the long term benefits and those questions are not neccessarily just finances.  Some of them for thoughts:

1.  Spiritual
The passing of Mrs Lee is a reminder of our relationship with our maker on a daily basis.  It also raises deeper thoughts on the legacy that one would pass on when he/she is brought home.

2.  Physical
For the past 6 months, I have been on a low carb, moderate protein and fat experiment.  Details of the experiment can be found here (local) and here.  It's been positive so far.  The transition into VFF is also working quite well and there's plan to run a 20K this few weeks in prepartion for the Stand Chart.

3.  Financial
Since cooling measures imposed by HDB,  steps had been taken to reduce the housing loan significantly that it won't take long before clearing baby step 6. 

Blessed day !


Related posts:
a.  The Seven Baby Steps
b.  Vibram Five Fingers