I pay attention to details. Details at work, details at home and, for sure, details of my health, my nutrition and my wellness. And certainly details about lunch. For me, lunch can be the most important meal of the day. That is why, when I am able, I pack my lunch 5 days a week. And that is why the lunch is a salad. When I bring my salad to work I ensure that my highly-charged day has a 20 minute interlude of flavor and health. This is no small thing if you work in the type of office like I do where a positive, relaxing interlude is very rare. A delicious, healthy salad 5 times a week (at least) means that about 25% of my food intake is good and good for me. And that is hard to do with my bumper-to-bumper schedule.
So, with that in mind, here is my basic lunch plan for a typical work week. With lots of details included!
Note from Mona: Before I begin let me implant one word in your mind. Hold this word in your mind you will be open to what follows: MODERATION. Now on to the business at hand …
As I’ve said here before, I try to walk a spiritual path on my journey through this life. Life is rich in joy and bliss, pain and sorrow. How divine! So why do I sometimes find myself hungry, angry, lonely, tired, staring at my laptop 3 AM and eating Blue Bell Groom’s Cake ice cream out of the carton? The answer is painfully obvious. The irony is also painfully obvious.
I am obsessed with maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Heck, the whole purpose of TheHungrySingle.com is to help single adults who live alone to make healthy food choices. How you define healthy is up to you. I use a broad definition that includes a wide variety of quality food choices. Sometimes the variety leads to conflict. Which brings me to a real guilty pleasure – not to mention comfort in times of trial – ice cream.
As part of my decision to pay attention to my health and wellness, I try to start my day with some quiet time for meditation and reflection; just a few minutes of reading and thought with my cup of hot tea. If my schedule permits I try a light work-out with a combination of stretching and mat Pilates that seems to hit the right note to begin another busy day (again just a few minutes – enough to get my body and mind in balance).
For a look at a quintessential Girls Night Out palaver – with a delicious flashback included - take a look at this from “Sex and the City” on YouTube … what a hoot!
For me, knowledge brings comfort. With all the demands that living alone can place on a busy person like myself, it is frequently a challenge to find and use information that can help me in my journey to better health. Like a lot of people in the 21st century, I have come to rely on the Internet as the most prominent source for getting health information.
The Hungry Single is one of those sources. As a resource for single adults living alone who want to eat and live well, we want to help everyone who lands on this site to learn more about eating and feeling better.
Editor's Note: "Bachelor Cooking Secrets Revealed" is the first in a series. It’s hard to be a confirmed bachelor. It is difficult to maintain a healthy, active lifestyle. It is difficult to go out (or entertain at home) and be able to eat right most of the time. It’s enough to make one very frustrated. But, then, I just remember that I am mostly successful at eating well, staying healthy and I still have my hair. So, what the hey! Life is grand! But at what cost? Maintaining liberty requires eternal vigilance. Maintaining a good eating regimen requires open-minded thinking, new habits, a bag of tricks and - most importantly - rules. So here’s , the first look at some of the Lone Wolf’s rules. Some of my tricks – and other secrets of bachelor cooking – will be revealed in a later installment.
You may have noticed by now that I am a Southwest kind of guy. That is due in no small part to the fact that I am from Texas. I grew up with Tex-Mex, Texas and Southern cuisine as well. But over the years I have really come to enjoy Southwest cuisine. Geography is only fanning the flames of my Southwestern palate. I currently reside in the Valley-of-the-Surface-of-the-Sun or, as most people know it, Phoenix, Arizona. So there is no escaping Southwest cuisine here (nor will you find a truly authentic Tex-Mex restaurant here -- but that’s a whole ‘nother story).
I pay attention to details. Details at work, details at home and, for sure, details of my health, my nutrition and my wellness. And certainly details about lunch. For me, lunch can be the most important meal of the day. That is why, when I am able, I pack my lunch 5 days a week. And that is why the lunch is a salad. When I bring my salad to work I ensure that my highly-charged day has a 20 minute interlude of flavor and health. This is no small thing if you work in the type of office like I do where a positive, relaxing interlude is very rare. A delicious, healthy salad 5 times a week (at least) means that about 25% of my food intake is good and good for me. And that is hard to do with my bumper-to-bumper schedule.
rich in joy and bliss, pain and sorrow. How divine! So why do I sometimes find myself hungry, angry, lonely, tired, staring at my laptop 3 AM and eating Blue Bell Groom’s Cake ice cream out of the carton? The answer is painfully obvious. The irony is also painfully obvious.
As part of my decision to pay attention to my health and wellness, I try to start my day with some quiet time for meditation and reflection; just a few minutes of reading and thought with my cup of hot tea. If my schedule permits I try a light work-out with a combination of stretching and mat Pilates that seems to hit the right note to begin another busy day (again just a few minutes – enough to get my body and mind in balance).
You may have noticed by now that I am a Southwest kind of guy. That is due in no small part to the fact that I am from Texas. I grew up with Tex-Mex, Texas and Southern cuisine as well. But over the years I have really come to enjoy Southwest cuisine. Geography is only fanning the flames of my Southwestern palate. I currently reside in the Valley-of-the-Surface-of-the-Sun or, as most people know it, Phoenix, Arizona. So there is no escaping Southwest cuisine here (nor will you find a truly authentic Tex-Mex restaurant here -- but that’s a whole ‘nother story).