No meats at all in the next 24 hours. This is a getting ready for the vegan fast. You can have dairy and eggs but no meat during this fast. Now this is trivial for me since this is my typical food I eat during the weekdays. However, the series is for everyone. Some of [...]
No milk, cheese, yogurt and such for the next 24 hours.This fast is quite easy for me, but may be difficult for others. I remember eating huge amount of wonderful cheeses of different varieties whenever visiting France. In fact if I remember, one single “provance” in France has more than five hundred and fifty different [...]
And no, if you are thinking about what I’m thinking: “Let’s take our minds out of the gutter!”
Actually I’m writing about fasts and other tests of will power.
When I was a teenager and I went to a British boarding school, I had a freind who used to offer us sweets. It was very kind [...]
When I was eleven I went from Iran to England to continue my education. I went to boarding school in Seaford Sussex. I had a guardian who looked after us (my sisters and me) when my parents were in Iran.
My father tended to be anxious when going to catch a train or airplane. He always [...]
For a year now I have been working on various online marketing projects and each time there’s a glimmer of hope and things look bright and it looks as if there’s light at the end of the tunnel, something goes wrong – often because of a mistake that I have made as I’m learning and [...]
Strategy not to gain weight
When you go to the restaurant remember the pretty pictures on the menu are designed to tempt you to those high calorie larger portion – larger profit foods. The chances are that when you go to the restaurant you are hungry which is the worst time to select your food.
So decide [...]
A TV fast?
This means no TV of any kind including any DVDs or movies on TV for the next twenty four hours. In my gym they have TV in front of us, I have to think how I can go to the gym and not watch TV. Perhaps I need not to go the gym. [...]
This an old post which had been totally lost but I just managed to find it. So here goes – salt fast :
For the next 24 hours do not consume any salt which is not in a natural food. So that means do not add any salt to any food and check the contents of [...]
Mindful eating is being present when you eat and doing nothing else while you eat – appreciate the food and taste it fully that’s ro say -
When you eat, eat
I always eat when I eat – that’s nonsense. That’s not what I meant. I meant only eat and do not do other things – other [...]
