What's your non-food guilty pleasure?
Okay, so being a mom and wife and working and commuting means that I don't get a lot of time to myself. This leads me to neglect being good to myself and wait too long to give myself a break, which leads me to make bad food choices and eat emotionally, and thus begins the downward spiral. So, I'm trying lately to carve out some time for myself and to do little things along the way that renew me.
With that in mind I'm trying to find non-food related things that just make me feel good. Things that always make me smile. So, I'm wondering what all of us do to renew ourselves that might not be the coolest things, or things you'd want to put on a t-shirt or bumper sticker.
I'll go first. My #1 non-food guilty pleasure is Old time gospel music a la "On the Wings of a Snow White Dove", "Angel Band" and "I'll Fly Away". A pleasure because I'm a southern girl who minored in folklore and I just love that stuff. Plus I love to sing and it's just so much fun to sing. Guilty because I'm a total humanist. I mean a religion-is-the-opiate-of-the- masses non-believer. (No offense to believers. I used to be one.) In the interest of setting the right example for the kids, I try to limit the religious music to the times when I'm by myself like in the car or shower.
So, your turn GI2MR. What's your non-food guilty pleasure?
With that in mind I'm trying to find non-food related things that just make me feel good. Things that always make me smile. So, I'm wondering what all of us do to renew ourselves that might not be the coolest things, or things you'd want to put on a t-shirt or bumper sticker.
I'll go first. My #1 non-food guilty pleasure is Old time gospel music a la "On the Wings of a Snow White Dove", "Angel Band" and "I'll Fly Away". A pleasure because I'm a southern girl who minored in folklore and I just love that stuff. Plus I love to sing and it's just so much fun to sing. Guilty because I'm a total humanist. I mean a religion-is-the-opiate-of-the- masses non-believer. (No offense to believers. I used to be one.) In the interest of setting the right example for the kids, I try to limit the religious music to the times when I'm by myself like in the car or shower.
So, your turn GI2MR. What's your non-food guilty pleasure?
Tags: guilty, introduction, non-food, pleasure, renew, reward
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Permalink Reply by Marte on -
I normaly don't watch tv, but I love to watch Gillian McKeith poking big tummies and throwing nasty stuff out of peoples fridge! :D
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Permalink Reply by Rawstrength on -
Getting a foot massage. Taking a nice bath. Nature walks/hikes. Dancing to music. Rubbing coconut oil all over my body. Watching David Wolfe on youtube.
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Permalink Reply by Mica on -
Really loud drum n base music coming out of my iPod while I run on a treadmill in the gym sometimes is my only escape all week......haha my poor ears......would love to go running on the beach but no creche there....:(
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Permalink Reply by Erin on -
I definitely have some guilty pleasure tv that I like- certain PBS Mystery! shows like Foyle's War and Miss Marple (Agatha Christie is a big guilty pleasure). That almost makes me a little old lady, except that I also love Gossip Girl ( know- totla trash!!), Lost and I think Arrested Development is the most hilarious and clever show of all time.
I've also come to love listening to books on cd on car trips- I esp. like Harry Potter.
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Permalink Reply by micki on -
I don't have any "guilty" pleasures, I don't believe in being guilty for doing things that uplift me and make me feel connected and good as long as I don't hurt anyone in the process. I too, use to be "religious" but now consider my spiritual journey a personal one.
That being said here are some of the things that make me soar on wings:
1. Walking half an hour before sunrise and watching the sun come up.
2. Meditation
3. Hiking in the back country (I used to live in the Eastern Sierras near the John Muir Trail)
4. Feeling the wind in my face, and going to the coast.
5. A nice sauna followed by a brisk invigorating shower.
6. Knitting socks or a hat or kufi for a friend.
7. Laying in a hammock in the shade on a quiet afternoon.
8. Listening to the birds when they wake up in the pre-dawn hours.
9. Soaking my feet after a long hike in a running mountain stream.
10. Singing and playing musical instruments in gratitude.
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Permalink Reply by Raw Artist, Alice Mason on -
Buying things on ebay.
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Permalink Reply by kayell on -
Stargate (and I'm really really irked about the scheduled new 90210 in space version that's replacing Atlantis)
Star Trek
Farscape
X-files
Firefly
BSG
Torchwood
Dr. Who
....and so on. You get the picture.
and Civilization....
New Wave music
some girls just never grow up.
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Permalink Reply by micki on
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Ahh, yes! I love sci-fi (the non-horror kind)!
There's also Babylon 5, and yes, I admit it...I'm a "Lost" fan.
I don't watch tv, (except for Lost) but dvd's of sci fi shows are great!
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Permalink Reply by cricketine on -
I take hot hot hot showers waaaaayyy longer than I should. It's wasteful, yes I know but it's a guilty pleasure of mine.
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Permalink Reply by Didi on -
It's always something with water for me too...but I guess, when you stay in the tub for 3 hours it's not really a waste anymore...it's well used.
And really big at the moment, Internet and chatting or writing with people.
And more and more often doing those two things together!
My poor laptop, but I'm careful..
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Permalink Reply by Karam Khan on -
Getting lost in a jazz groove while listening to jazzy stuff.
hearing the beach boys or any sort of bossa nova music. this alone gives me such an incredible high I cannot put into words.
Finding a book to read that I never want to end.
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Permalink Reply by Rawstrength on
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Oh yes!!!! I love a good book more than almost anything.
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this is exactly right and also in terms of ridding the body of candida too Foxyman..:)
yup 25+ over here Mariam
never liked it..tried it around 5 years ago,blah...
im just trying stevia and find it excellent...
food allergy,changed your washing liquid/powder,shower soap,body lotion??
it would be hilarious...poor Rama would be totally bushed then ha ha
ha ha its not the pits though lol...;)
I didn't ask her. I just thought it was both the nicest yet strangest compliment a girl has ever paid me.
that's better than mouth I've tasted before. Ha, anything specific in a health food store, charles???
is that good or bad?
One girl told me I taste like a health food store.
oh I love you guys
I was out all day and just came home to read all this lovely advice and I appreciate it so so very much, thank you everyone for your help. I'm on it with the ginger, cinnamon, garlic, honey water and sleeping :) blessings to you all
it does. taste like it too. i can testify
this must have been where i got my idea for one of my music videos.
oh Im not sure I ever saw you there
Yes I think I taste good.
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