Tasty Tuesday (what's in my bowl)

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That skillet up there contains the most ridiculously stupid ingredients that were so easy to put together I don’t even remember doing it (and it was just an hour ago).

It’s just some cauliflower, broth, sausage, and a bit of cheese. I had intended to add a couple of other things but then forgot. It was pretty good anyway and it took less than a minute to put together in the skillet.

It’s a big rally cry in the book Half My Size with the Ridiculously Big Skillet: Keep it simple, always be ready, and practice so that you can whip it up in minutes. That’s the type of meal that competes with the drive-through and helps you through bad days ahead.

It’s a key strategy for weight loss, but also for the more complex weight maintenance.

We’ll talk in tomorrow’s live video about why maintenance is about 900 times harder than weight loss. I will offer a few key strategies for you. It’s a topic we will explore all summer in the Deep Den.

Brain Fodder

Just as a quick update on my brain injury recovery, I took up the guitar! The photo below is of Anna Sul showing me some chords back some weeks back.

I love the project because it most definitely taxes my cognition, learning the finger movements and actually trying to sound like something. It also connects me with my Arkansas roots and my family I rediscovered there a few years back. It turns out I am related to famous folk musicians who even have their fiddles archived in museums.

Surely I can do this!

Not only is the guitar challenging my cognition, it is helping me SLOW DOWN. I have high adrenal hormones since the injury and simply need to work on taking it easy. The guitar almost forces you to slow down.

It’s a structure that is helping me.

Look around for an activity you can pick up that will take you in the direction you need to go. Even slowing down (as with the guitar) can help in weight loss goals: We do tend to lose more when we are more calm and not embracing the stress and fast pace.

What’s In My Cup

In trying to slow down a bit, I cut way back on coffee last summer and have worked these months not slipping back to my gallon-guzzling coffee ways. I am settling into a new normal of two cups of tea-like drinks a day. I have simply needed to be mindful of my caffeine intake, but I am also interested in getting more brain-building nutrition out of these beverages than simply flavor and an energy boost.

I have gotten picky now that I am down to two modest cups and rebuilding my brain.

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That’s it!

I appreciate you.

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