My favorite part of coming home from Kripalu was re-reading my handwritten notes. We all remember the black cardboard with the white pen attached. I have a few pages of white unlined paper from each session. Granted, my notes are useless to anyone except for me – it’s been that way since Elementary School. But, re-reading them really brings me back to the Orchard Room. Placing our shoes outside of the room, finding either a chair in the outer circle or a black pillow seat-back to sit on the floor. Thankfully, the room was cool. We really lucked out with the air conditioning!
Here are just a few excerpts from my notes. These will mean the most to those of you who were at Kripalu with me.
“Don’t eat oxidized Cholesterol.”
“Take 3 deep breaths.”
“Bread – doorstop”
“Michael Pollen – Food Rules”
“Full Fat in small portions always better than Low Fat”
“No more than 5 ingredients on an ingredient list.”
“GRAS – Generally Regarded as Safe”
I’d love for you to share your tidbits of wisdom from your Kripalu notes below. Each one is so important and is a great reminder of all of the information that we learned!
Gosh we learned so much. It is hard for me to incorporate it all successfully. I’m taking a page from Bill Murray in What About Bob – “Baby Steps.” I’m working on reducing sugar and grain.
Here are some of my notes:
• Your genes are only part of the puzzle. You can counteract their effect by
o what you eat,
o how you move and
o how you relate to stress
• Sugar turns the big fluffy LDL into small marbles (I played marbles as kid – good visuals for me)
• FICTION: a calorie is a calorie
• Inflammation is when that well-trained army turns into hoodlums
• Low-fat milk has more sugar than whole milk
• Rice milk is white water
• Your taste buds will adjust in about 3 weeks
I just loved those black pillow-chairs. Trying to figure how to incorporate that feel into my life at work.
I totally do not miss those black pillow-chairs! I am considering going back at the end of the month for two nights for one of the R&R programs! I figured it would be good practice to get back there a few times a year.