The lesson I received today from Lucy-Ann Prideaux demonstrates why I so like DailyBread. The title of today’s article is Key Nutrients involved in health and energy production.   In Day 113, like so many others, Lucy-Ann gives a great in depth explanation of the vital role good foods play in our health and well-being.  For so many years of bad diets I have looked at food as numbers:  calories, carbohydrates, ounces.  Lucy-Ann brings the picture back in focus and reminds us of the complex make-up of the food on our plates and explains how these components work together to fuel our daily activities. All my life I was told “you need to take your vitamins.”
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Today in Lucy Prideaux’s lessons I was instructed to visualize and draw the steps to increasing my metabolism.  I am no artist but I’ll give it a shot any way. The instructions say to picture a flame (your metabolism) buring in your stomach and surround it with the five steps you need to keep it burning strongly. They are:

• Balanced meals
• Avoid carbohydrates
• Avoid large meals
• Exercise before breakfast
• Resistance training (my wording)
• I added a sixth item…a reminder to SLOW down and enjoy my food

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You know that moment when the picture goes from a incomprehensible blur to crystal clear?  Day 43 in Lucy-Ann’s 365 day program says it is a recap so I obviously should have read this fact before but today the words suddenly became clear and made sense. Lucy writes: