Gym bag packed, water bottle ready, both shoes found (score!) … When it comes to working out, eating before you go can keep your blood sugar steady. . . . Nutrition tip: Mix protein, healthy fats and a bit of good carbs. And sure, throw in some healthy desserts after (you’ve earned it!). Here are our top picks for what to eat right before a workout.
1. Whole grain toast, peanut or almond butter and banana slices
2. Chicken thighs, rice and steamed vegetables
3. Oatmeal, protein powder and blueberries
4. Scrambled eggs, veggies and avocado
5. Protein smoothie
Month: September 2019
🖋 Writers’ Wisdom: The Place of Stories
“Stories aren’t made of language: they’re made of something else. . . . perhaps they’re made of life.” ~
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom: Born to Write
“I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don’t remember what I did before that. Just loafed, I suppose.” ~
🔤 Grammar Tip: Are Our Ideas 180 or 360 Degrees Opposed?
When you turn 360 degrees you’ve completed a circle and are back where you started. So if you want to describe a position that’s diametrically opposed to another, the expression you want is not “360 degrees away” but “180 degrees away.”
✨ Inspiring Quote: It’s Your Life
“If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.” ~
🍎 Health Hack ~ 1st Step to Losing a Few Pounds
The easiest way to lose weight and improve your health? Ditch the white stuff! Most white foods (bread, rice, pasta, sugar, flour) are primarily made up of refined carbs and empty calories, so cutting them out of your diet is one of the quickest ways to shed pounds and improve your well-being, Dr. Oz says. There are a few exceptions to the rule, including egg whites, cauliflower, and fish, he says. Those are the only white foods you should have on hand.
Source: Shape.com
Today’s Poem ~ Poet
Poet
Walt Whitman
O a new song, a free song,
Flapping, flapping, flapping, flapping, by sounds, by voices clearer,
By the wind’s voice and that of the drum,
By the banner’s voice, and child’s voice, and sea’s voice, and father’s
voice,
Low on the ground and high in the air,
On the ground where father and child stand,
In the upward air where their eyes turn,
Where the banner at daybreak is flapping.Words! book-words! what are you?
Words no more, for hearken and see,
My song is there in the open air—and I must sing,
With the banner and pennant a-flapping.I’ll weave the chord and twine in,
Man’s desire and babe’s desire—I’ll twine them in, I’ll put in life;
I’ll put the bayonet’s flashing point—I’ll let bullets and slugs whizz;
I’ll pour the verse with streams of blood, full of volition, full of joy;
Then loosen, launch forth, to go and compete,
With the banner and pennant a-flapping.
Today’s Smile 😃
Laugh a Little
Did you hear about the mathematician who’s afraid of negative numbers?
He’ll stop at nothing to avoid them.
🔤 Grammar Tip: Shall I?
When is it appropriate to use the word “shall?”
The word shall is used to make offers and suggestions and to ask for advice.
Today’s Poem ~ To His Love
To His Love
Shakespeare
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd,
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimm'd.
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall death brag thou wanderest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest.
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
