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February 4th, 2010 No comments

For the whole day I’ve been thinking about what to write for on my blog today. I promised myself to write a post today, so I have to do it. It’s hard to write something when creativity is low, and normally this would mean I would skip the day.

The whole thing about waiting for creativity is that it doesn’t come with regular waves. Sometimes it takes days before it happened by itself and I feel creative again.

But the same thing as with any other wave is that it doesn’t take a lot to create a big wave. A small wrinkle in the water is sometimes enough to start a big wave. Just like this post; After one sentence I didn’t have to think anymore about what to write. It just came by itself.

This applies to a lot of stuff. Just take a small step, just get in the car, just do 5 minutes of work, etc, etc. It’s that first step that counts. The moment you start something you’re more likely to finish it. Starting something is the most difficult part of it.

I’m glad I started writing the first sentence of this post today. Finishing was easy!

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4 Weeks Without Bread

February 1st, 2010 No comments

Interesting new year already! After so many years I’m still learning new stuff about myself. Just the way it should be.

Last year I did a lot of experiments with nutrition to see where my slow metabolism came from. And in the coming 4 weeks I’m going to prove to myself that it’s all in the grains, or in my case, the bread I eat.

During the Paleo Diet of last year it became already clear that it’s not about the calories, but what kind of food I eat. As soon as I cut back on the grains, the kilo’s literally flew off. But problem was that I didn’t only take it with one variable, I changed my whole way of eating.

So this time the only variable I will change is that I won’t eat bread anymore (which I normally took at breakfast, lunch and sometimes a late evening snack).

Curious where this will take me! For the rest I will stick to the same 4 eating moments per day, concentrating on getting some extra proteins by eating enough eggs, fish and chicken, but keeping  it the same and real as normally. Oh yeah, the soda light is standard nowadays. I can’t remember the last time I drank normal soda, so that’s a good thing now that I’m accustomed to it.

Good-bye mr. Bread!

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