This new year we again refocus, resolve, and re-whatever else to get us in a good frame of mind to really live well by loving God more and loving others better. We will look again at our family mission statement and aim to live it out better than we did last year. This week the changes really started shaping up, nothing too major, certain restrictions on computer use (blog reading, blog posting), restrictions on TV watching (we don't watch much anyway), study more language, exercise more, etc. You know the routine. These 'restrictions' or 'parameters' have really been freeing not restrictive, and we have already been more productive and well rested, yes those two can go together.
The biggest change will be our diet. We have dappled with becoming vegetarian before (after not feeling great about our eating habits and after reading Eat To Live). We have done lower cholesterol, lower sodium diets, and we have been half-successful (read: failed). Now we are aiming to go to a whole foods plant based diet, for the long haul. I will post more about what this means later, but it will be a process, a slower move into it, until I study up on how to get all the nutrients we need from food that is not meat or dairy (except for Sophia who will still do some dairy). In our context we cannot go completely meatless, but at home we can. So, the search is on for whole grains...quite hard here. We will let you know how it goes. For great reasons why to do this read: The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss, and Long-Term Health. (thanks Karyn for the intro to this that just solidified all our previous inklings to go this route)
Our theme this year could be summed up in one word: health: spiritual health (deeper study and application of the Word), Marriage health (deeper study of one another and how to serve each other better), family health (deeper study and application of how to balance family life), and body health (just discussed). Here is to a healthy 2010! Bless you in yours!
