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Top 30 Worst Foods Restaurant Foods You Must Avoid and...How to Make Better Choices

Oh my...after being on the road for over 25 days last month and by the end of it all feeling like what we call "food-ed out" {the state we are in when we are forced to eat food prepared out of our home ;} I am really glad that we made an effort to make better choices when we ordered off the menus.  I just found this list today and HAD TO share it with you and basically re-post it here on my blog so that I have it close at hand at all times.  All of these items are loaded with so much fat, sugar, and sodium that eating any of the foods in this article on a daily basis could destroy all of our hard work and best intentions of eating healthy. 

1. Worst Meal in America

Carl’s Jr. Six Dollar Guacamole Bacon Burger with Medium Natural Cut Fries and 32-oz Coke

1,810 calories - 92 g fat (29.5 g saturated, 2 g trans) - 3,450 mg sodium

Of all the gut-growing, heart-threatening, life-shortening burgers in the drive-thru world, there is none whose damage to your general well-being is as potentially catastrophic as this. A bit of perspective is in order: This meal has the caloric equivalent of 9 Krispy Kreme Original Glazed doughnuts, the saturated fat equivalent of 30 strips of bacon, and the salt equivalent of 10 large orders of McDonald’s French fries!

My One Word: Habits

Many bloggers, from all over the world, pick one word to set the tone for the year in lieu of making resolutions and there is even a website dedicated to this practice: My One Word. 

“My One Word” is an experiment designed to move you beyond the past and look ahead. The challenge is simple: lose the long list of changes you want to make this year and instead pick ONE WORD. This process provides clarity by taking all of your big plans for life change and narrowing them down into a single thing. One word focuses on your character and creates a vision for your future. So, we invite you to join us and pick one word in 2011 (click here to learn how)!

In the past I have been tempted to try this approach but never really looked into the process of selecting My One Word.  However, this year I wanted to give it a try because I have already found myself drawn to the word "habits".  I want to break any bad habits thay I may have and incorporate more good habits ;)  Like when I recently posted about how the habit of having a positive attitude helps me perform my daily chores, or how the habit of balancing my bank statements on a monthly basis Works-for-Me, and then I talk about how I want to make it a daily habit of incorporating these Super Foods this year into our diet.

WFMW: Daily Chores...JUST DO IT!

IDLE HANDS ARE THE DEVIL'S TOOLS..."Idleness is the root of mischief". This maxim has been traced back to Chaucer's 'Tale of Melibee' (c. 1386).   

Well...we have all heard this quote, or similar words...especially when we were growing up and our mothers found things for us to do if she found us laying around the house.  Even on Saturday mornings when we tried to watch cartoons past noon!  Very quickly, we'd find something to do OUTSIDE ;)

The older I get, the more I get it...JUST DO IT!  How about you? 

No matter what life situation you find yourself in...whoa is me, I'm having a pity party...the cycle of perpetucal complaining, where you ARE the victim...or in gossip circles, where you are Ms.Right...I could go on but I know that you get it ;)  I find that if you just walk away and do something...anything...you always feel better about yourself and where you are in life.

Earlier this month Melissa from The Inspired Room blogspot touched on this subject with her post titled: Jump Start Your Day with a Simple 5 Minute Routine.  She sums it up very nicely when she says, :

"By sticking to my routine, I feel like my morning has officially begun and I am more productive the rest of the day."

The Top Ten Superfoods

How to incorporate them into your daily life this year!

Do you all get as overwhelmed as I do with what to eat and what not to eat...especially this time of year when the market and news are flooded with information because everyone makes it their New Year Resolution to get healthy? 

Well last week after watching all of David Wolfe's videos of The Longevity Now Conference I was really inspired with all that he had to share...even more so than when I first saw him in the movie, Food Matters.  So off I went to the bookstore to find more information on Raw Foods and I found David's book, Superfoods.  It is a goldmine of information and anyone who wants to live longer should have this book as a reference book in their home ;) 

 

 

But more importantly it really helps you understand WHAT superfoods are; WHY they will improve your health;  WHERE you can find them; and finally, WHEN and HOW TO include them in your daily diet.  Following you will find the top ten products that David discusses in his book and he also includes some "honorable mentions" but for now I'm only concentrating of the top ten ;)