another diet plan

I have learned about the every other day fasting plan. Here is a calorie chart. Here are some foods with their calories to get the diet going starting Monday. Mondays are always for new diets since times past 🙂 I weigh 150 today. If I keep under 500 calories on the odd days of the week, what will that be in one month???

1 medium banana – 105

2 medium tangerine – 94

1 c. pineapple – 82

1 medium apple – 95

1 c. cherries – 87

1 oz raisins – 85

2 dates – 66

1 oz almonds – 164

1 oz. walnuts (14 halves)  – 185

6 celery sticks – 18

6 carrot sticks – 50

1 c. raw cabbage – 22

1 c. cooked cabbage – 65

whole onion – 44

1 avocado – 227

1 c. cherry tomatoes – 30 (or 10 calories each)

1/2 c. black-eyed peas – 100

1/2 c. green peas – 62

1/2 c. black beans – 113

1/2 c. kidney beans – 113

1/2 c. garbanzo beans – 134

2/3 c. corn – 100

2/3 c. mixed veg. – 60

2 c. leafy greens – 20

1/2 c. quinoa – 111

1/2 c. steel cut oats – 85

1/2 c. brown rice, cooked – 109

1 baked potato – 278

1 sweet potato – 162

 

 

bucket toilets

Howdy. I’m excited about log cabins, especially bucket toilets. This article tells all the hows about it.

This picture of us makes me love log cabins. It is at Rock Bridge State Park we were at last month.

I watched Doug and Stacy’s youtube about how to care for the bucket toilet composting system. I know it would work, but we have 3 full bathrooms here and dear hubby is opposed to such a thing as buckets in the bathroom 😦

I can always dream!

The Doug and Stacy video

Blessings!

crafts to sell

Found some good ideas to make for craft sales:

braided headband

dog collar

We are moving ahead with the moving and selling house endeavor. We are scheduled in April to get a sump pump put in basement. We had to clear the whole wall off of workshop things, so quite a bunch of moving stuff around! I painted the wall white so that it looks much better. Some of the cinder blocks had never been painted.

is this for real?

This weather has been a reality check. Is this really happening ? ? ? ? ? We couldn’t get out of our driveway for about 3 days ~ it was ice packed and such a hill ~ impossible! Finally, Scott chopped enough of it away that we could back out of it and slide onto the street safely. We also made it to church this morning.

I was thinking we could put a short asphalt driveway on the front lawn so that we wouldn’t have to rely on the very hilly driveway all the time. When I told Scott my plan, he said, “No, we need to sell this house.”

I am excited, as I’ve been ready to for so long. It’s met our needs these last 26 years, but it’s time to move on, wherever that may be. I can hardly believe it’s really happening.

God is good!

another diet attempt

This time it is the 21 day celery diet.

Drink celery smoothie 3-4 times a week. Take first glass at breakfast with nothing else. Drink the rest an hour before each meal. Smoothie recipe: juice of 1 lemon, 1 stick of celery, 5 leaves of fresh mint, 1 litre of water

Some ideas:

celery, chickpeas, raisins & diced green apple salad

cream of celery & carrots

cod with celery and apple

sliced celery with salmon

cucumber, celery, tomato, dried plum & chicken salad with salsa

celery & pumpkin quiche

hake soup with celery and onion

cream of zuchinni with celery and turkey chunks

chickpeas with leeks and celery

brown rice with celery, raisins, salmon and olives.

CELERY:

3-n-butylphthalide reduces lipoprotein (bad chilesterol)

natural anti-inflammatory

regulates blood pressure

good for liver lose weight easier

fights infection

protects from cancer

It is filling and low in calories

diuretic

optimizes digestion

 

Also eat carrots, fennel, parsley and parsnips

 

Daniel Fast

I didn’t last on the Daniel Fast, but it’s always good even if only 2 days ! Trying to eat veggies first in the mornings ~ to get off to a good start.

I also have The Daniel Plan and other books to read on prayer.

Christmas tree

When I started to put up our artificial tree, there was the middle part missing, so we threw it away and got a Balsam Fir at ACE Hardware. It was so nice having a live tree again.

Daniel 21 day Fast is going well – it’s been 24 hours – yay ~ ! !

kimchi and recipes

I got a daikon radish, so wanted to make Kimchi. However, it is not really necessary to have one, I found out. Here is easy vegan kimchi.

Today was 67 degrees ~ took a nice walk. Tomorrow a cold front moves in; after all it is December 🙂

I decided to start a Daniel Fast tonight ~ 21 days ~ it will be finished by Christmas ~ maybe I will look happier after doing this than in this picture 🙂 Mainly omit bread, dairy, sugar, processed foods, etc. It will be fun and good discipline. Wonder if I can go to 4 swimming classes this week. We will see.

Potatoes, avocado, sunflower, zinnias

Little itty bitty potatoes, a growing avocado in the compost, our only sunflower and beautiful zinnias

cute cradle purse

This cradle/purse looks fun to make – of course you never know how complicated the directions are until you get started, but will give it a try I hope. Other granny square purses are cute too.

20 crochet bag patterns

This says Tel Dan gate – shur (or shar?) tel dan – learning Hebrew is fun