Days 331-333 - Habits for Health

I've just been analyzing what I've learned through practicing The Lord's Table these 333 days. Six of the more obvious are:

1. Feeling dissatisfied and uneasy if the day starts rushed and either The Lord's Table or exercise get pushed aside until noon or later.
2. Recognizing healthy food faster (and unhealthy - label reading is speed reading now)
3. Noticing the refrigerator is more filled with color! Grandkids were looking for corn (I hardly eat it anymore as it is a grain not a vegetable and corn does not break-down/digest at all). Anyway, the only yellow veggie was Zucchini...everything else was green or red. That's a very good sign.
4. Noticing that many people around us are getting colds and flu symptoms. We are not. Processed foods - esp. refined carbs and sugar hinder the immune system. Encouraging to know eating right affects more than the waistline and keeps one healthier, longer.
5. I can stop eating when I am full even if there is more on the plate or in the serving dish.
6. I used to have trouble getting 3 glasses of water down - now it is a habit to drink a glassful first thing in the morning, before and during each meal, and one in the evening. A refreshing habit.

I guess habit is the key word for me on every one of the above reasons - repeating the action day after day and week after week has created new healthy habits. It works.

Here are two more habits that improves health:

Psalm 64:10     Be glad, good people! Fly to GOD!
        Good-hearted people, make praise your habit.

Prov. 4:20-22    My son, give attention to my words;
    Incline your ear to my sayings. Do not let them depart from your sight;
    Keep them in the midst of your heart.  For they are life to those who find them,
    And health to their whole body.

 Food:  Cod browned in coconut oil

 Salad topped with Pear, Apple, Toasted Almonds and Mango dressing

Cod again, this time topped with Tri-Color Vegetable salsa - onion, sweet peppers, zucchini  and side of Baked Apples and Pears with fresh blueberries.

Chicken and Rice below - Rice cooked in broth and saffron, then stir fried with greens, carrots flat-leaf parsley and red pepper. Fresh chunky applesauce as a side.