Sept. 2, 2016 "Dealing with stress through mindful eating": Today I found this article by Bill Howatt in the Globe and Mail:
Many people turn to food when they feel overwhelmed – here are a few tips to help keep your healthy habits on track
Chief research and development officer of work force productivity with Morneau Shepell, Toronto
When you’re stressed, how often do you use food to help you feel better?
Mental health is influenced by how well you perceive you’re interacting within your world.
Those who view all stress as being bad versus a potential opportunity are more at risk for feeling overwhelmed and, in some cases, may use food as a way to feel better.
Those who view all stress as being bad versus a potential opportunity are more at risk for feeling overwhelmed and, in some cases, may use food as a way to feel better.
In 2014, The Globe and Mail and Howatt HR launched the Your Life at Work Survey that’s still live today. It is a tool that you can use to measure your quality of work life. To launch this study, we ran articles on topics that affect mental health, such as food addictions. We included a short risk survey on each topic.
The items for this quick survey were developed using Dr. Robert Coombs’s book Handbook of Addictive Disorders. Here are some findings from our food-addiction survey of 678 participants. The average score was 23 out of 40, which falls in the high-risk category for a potential food addiction.
80 per cent of participants fell in the high-risk category.
14 per cent of participants fell in the moderate-risk category and 6 per cent in the low-risk category. The top four items with the highest score from 0 (no concern) to 4 (serious concern) were:
3/4 craved bread and/or food high in sugar and salt;
2.8/4 noticed food as a source of pleasure;
2.7/4 ate even when they didn’t feel hungry;
and 2.7/4 struggled to control how much they eat.
3/4 craved bread and/or food high in sugar and salt;
2.8/4 noticed food as a source of pleasure;
2.7/4 ate even when they didn’t feel hungry;
and 2.7/4 struggled to control how much they eat.
It appears that most survey participants could relate to the concept of food and stress.
A high score doesn’t mean a person has a food addiction; it indicates food may be a challenge worth exploring in more detail. Typically, an early indication that food is a problem is the lack of ability to control food-intake habits.
As well, higher levels of body fat can put a person at metabolic risk. If food is an issue for you, here are some tips to help you manage this challenge.
Awareness If you’re concerned that you may engage in mindless eating when you’re stressed, take five minutes to complete the food addiction quick survey to assess your risk level for developing or having a food addiction.
As well, you can benchmark your score against the average of others who explored their risk level. Accountability After we become aware that we may be engaging in mindless eating to cope with stress, the next step is to determine how strong the compulsion is to eat.
If you can’t change your habits based on a rational decision to do what’s good for you, this may be a sign that you’re at risk. Only you can decide to take control of your health.
If you need support, that’s fine; there are lots of options to help you control your food intake. Action Moving from mindless to mindful eating starts with focusing on one small decision at a time.
Create a daily food-intake game plan: Define what you need to eat on a typical day. Eating a healthy breakfast, lunch, supper and snack each day makes sense. Preparing meals at home increases the likelihood that you’ll eat healthily.
One option is to sign up with a company that sends meals to your home in a box. The company provides the daily game plan so you don’t have to think about it.
Remove food pressure: Changing food habits for some people feels like all or nothing. For example, “I can’t eat sugar; it’s bad for me.” Mindful eating is being honest with yourself and acknowledging why you’re eating.
Eating cake at your grandfather’s 90th birthday is fine. It’s when you eat cake daily as a way to manage your emotions that it’s harmful.
Mindful eating is about eating for a defined purpose such as long-term health.
Mindful food intake check: Before you put something into your mouth, determine the value of the food for your body. How well would a car run if you put water in the gas tank? Mindful eating means being clear on why you’re eating something and how it can help you before you put it in your mouth.
This can help promote healthy daily micro food decisions. It’s easy to manage one small decision at a time, such as picking vegetables over French fries or drinking water instead of a sugary drink.
Mindful eating is about making a lot of small, good decisions.
Implement daily feedback monitors: Daily feedback keeps us on track and old habits at bay. We can track our daily food micro decisions for each meal and snack we eat in two columns. The first column is yes, good for me, the second column is no, not good for me.
The goal is to train yourself to increase the number of checkmarks in the yes column. You don’t need to be perfect, just aware and honest with yourself – one bite at a time.
Awareness If you’re concerned that you may engage in mindless eating when you’re stressed, take five minutes to complete the food addiction quick survey to assess your risk level for developing or having a food addiction.
As well, you can benchmark your score against the average of others who explored their risk level. Accountability After we become aware that we may be engaging in mindless eating to cope with stress, the next step is to determine how strong the compulsion is to eat.
If you can’t change your habits based on a rational decision to do what’s good for you, this may be a sign that you’re at risk. Only you can decide to take control of your health.
If you need support, that’s fine; there are lots of options to help you control your food intake. Action Moving from mindless to mindful eating starts with focusing on one small decision at a time.
Create a daily food-intake game plan: Define what you need to eat on a typical day. Eating a healthy breakfast, lunch, supper and snack each day makes sense. Preparing meals at home increases the likelihood that you’ll eat healthily.
One option is to sign up with a company that sends meals to your home in a box. The company provides the daily game plan so you don’t have to think about it.
Remove food pressure: Changing food habits for some people feels like all or nothing. For example, “I can’t eat sugar; it’s bad for me.” Mindful eating is being honest with yourself and acknowledging why you’re eating.
Eating cake at your grandfather’s 90th birthday is fine. It’s when you eat cake daily as a way to manage your emotions that it’s harmful.
Mindful eating is about eating for a defined purpose such as long-term health.
Mindful food intake check: Before you put something into your mouth, determine the value of the food for your body. How well would a car run if you put water in the gas tank? Mindful eating means being clear on why you’re eating something and how it can help you before you put it in your mouth.
This can help promote healthy daily micro food decisions. It’s easy to manage one small decision at a time, such as picking vegetables over French fries or drinking water instead of a sugary drink.
Mindful eating is about making a lot of small, good decisions.
Implement daily feedback monitors: Daily feedback keeps us on track and old habits at bay. We can track our daily food micro decisions for each meal and snack we eat in two columns. The first column is yes, good for me, the second column is no, not good for me.
The goal is to train yourself to increase the number of checkmarks in the yes column. You don’t need to be perfect, just aware and honest with yourself – one bite at a time.
This is part of a series looking at micro skills – changes that employees can make to improve their health and life at work and at home, and employers can make to improve the workplace.
The Globe and Mail and Morneau Shepell have created the Employee Recommended Workplace Award to honour companies that put the health and well-being of their employees first. Read about the 2017 winners of the award at tgam.ca/ workplaceaward.
My opinion: I like this article because it's about mindful eating. I don't eat when I'm watching TV or on the internet. I am concentrating on the food and notice when I'm full.
Sept. 15, 2017 "Create your own happiness at work and play": Today I found this article by Bill Howatt in the Globe and Mail:
On a scale of one (low) to 10 (high), how happy are you on a typical day?
Martin Seligman, a world expert in positive psychology, suggested that happy people demonstrated themselves as being satisfied, upbeat and with good temperament. His research found that happiness has three dimensions: pleasant, good and meaningful life.
In 2014, The Globe and Howatt HR launched the Your Life at Work Survey that's still online today and is a tool that measures individuals' quality of work life. To launch this study, we ran articles on topics such happiness that predicted a person's mental health. We included a short risk survey on several topics.
For the happiness survey, there were 1,239 participants. Here are some of the findings from this survey:
-The average score was 20 out of 30, which falls in the "You're OK – But OK is not happy" range. Happiness requires intention and outcomes around the three dimensions that Mr. Seligman suggested.
- 31 per cent of respondents fell in the "Above" range;
33 per cent in the "You're happy" range;
and 36 per cent fell in "Sorry – You're not happy."
33 per cent in the "You're happy" range;
and 36 per cent fell in "Sorry – You're not happy."
- The top three items with the highest score from 1 to 5 were:
3.5/5 "I am a happy person";
3.4/5 "I get up every day with a purpose";
3.3/5 "Overall, my life is what I want it to be."
3.5/5 "I am a happy person";
3.4/5 "I get up every day with a purpose";
3.3/5 "Overall, my life is what I want it to be."
This survey is meant to educate, not diagnose, to help bring awareness to our role in our own happiness and indicate that it's not passive. It's dynamic, meaning we play an important role in creating our own happiness and well-being.
Awareness
Leading a happy life requires awareness of what you're doing daily that promotes a mental state of well-being and contentment. To find out your happiness baseline, complete the Happiness IQ Quick Survey. You can then compare your score to the above benchmarks.
Accountability
Research suggests that happiness is a set of skills we can learn through practice. Fifty per cent is genetic, 10 per cent is based on the environment; and 40 per cent is a result of what we do.
One key takeaway from research is that our happiness is impacted much more by our daily actions than our environment.
Waiting around for circumstances or for others to make you happy may be a disappointing proposition.
It appears that each of us has the capability to positively impact our own happiness by our decisions and actions.
Waiting around for circumstances or for others to make you happy may be a disappointing proposition.
It appears that each of us has the capability to positively impact our own happiness by our decisions and actions.
However, if we don't have the knowledge or skills, we can feel trapped and hopeless. The good news is that there's ample positive psychology research to suggest that people can get off the treadmill of life and learn the skills to discover and add more happiness to their lives.
Action
Happiness has a positive impact on our mental health and overall well-being, both psychologically and physically. Happy people increase their opportunity to live longer, healthier lives.
Positive relationship count – Being around people who are safe, positive and care about you unconditionally supports your happiness.
We may not be able to pick our parents, siblings or family; however, we can pick the people we want to socialize with and be our life partners.
Outside of your family, how many people in your life positively impact you? Research suggests that people who have one or more close friends are on average happier because these relationships allow for self-disclosure and play a role in unloading stress.
The key point is that we can pay attention to how the relationships in our life are supporting our happiness. Adding one positive relationship to your life can have a major impact on your happiness.
We may not be able to pick our parents, siblings or family; however, we can pick the people we want to socialize with and be our life partners.
Outside of your family, how many people in your life positively impact you? Research suggests that people who have one or more close friends are on average happier because these relationships allow for self-disclosure and play a role in unloading stress.
The key point is that we can pay attention to how the relationships in our life are supporting our happiness. Adding one positive relationship to your life can have a major impact on your happiness.
Connection with community – Life moves fast and many of us can get caught in a cycle of moving from A to B. A is work and B is home. Fitting in much more can seem impossible because of the mental objections we create, such as time, energy and motivation.
Life moves fast and if we're not as happy as we want to be there's value in slowing down and evaluating your sense of connection to your community.
Research found that people who felt they were positively connected and interacted with their neighbourhood social networks had a significant impact on quality of life and well-being.
Life moves fast and if we're not as happy as we want to be there's value in slowing down and evaluating your sense of connection to your community.
Research found that people who felt they were positively connected and interacted with their neighbourhood social networks had a significant impact on quality of life and well-being.
· Focus on strengths first – The drive to perfection is wearing down many of us. When we hyper-focus on our flaws they drain energy and put our focus on the negative.
Focus on your strengths first, such as kindness and willingness to help others. Pick one or two traits that are your strengths.
At the end of the week, take a moment to reflect and write down how your strengths helped you feel and what you have learned.
Research suggests that doing this activity created a happiness boost lasting up to six months.
Focus on your strengths first, such as kindness and willingness to help others. Pick one or two traits that are your strengths.
At the end of the week, take a moment to reflect and write down how your strengths helped you feel and what you have learned.
Research suggests that doing this activity created a happiness boost lasting up to six months.
https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/careers/workplace-award/how-to-create-your-own-happiness-at-work-and-play/article36259991/?ref=http://www.theglobeandmail.com&
The theme this week is job articles about mental health in the workplace:
"Picking the right mental- health support"/ "Living a healthy life can be the best way to advance along your career path"
http://badcb.blogspot.com/2020/06/picking-right-mental-health-support.html
"Beware a sudden change in job functions"/ "Exploring mental- health issues in the work force"
http://badcb.blogspot.com/2020/06/beware-sudden-change-in-job-functions.html
My week:
Jun. 7, 2020 "10-year-old 'AGT' contestant shocks Sofia Vergara with a voice like Lady Gaga":
NYC woman on Destroying Property in Low-Income Neighborhoods:
I found this on Facebook and I shared it on my timeline:
"‘You are here profiting off of our f---ing pain!’ — Desiree Barnes slammed people for looting low-income neighborhoods and destroying resources residents need."
My opinion: Desiree Barnes yells at people for vandalizing her neighborhood which is for low income housing and immigrants with their small businesses. She might as well add: "You guys should all be ashamed of yourselves."
You can protest all you want. Please do not vandalize people's homes and businesses.
"'They saved me': How protesters protected a lone cop, a moment captured in powerful photos": I really like this article because it was positive.
I find that Matt Long who plays Zeke on this show really stood out to me. I have seen him and watched a few eps of Jack and Bobby (in 2003-2004).
Ghost Rider: I even saw him on the Ghost Rider movie (2007) with my friend Angela and her dad at this $1 theatre.
I remember it was in the summer time and the theatre chairs weren't that comfy. The movie was average. I did like the action and special effects. I wouldn't watch this movie again or the sequel.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8421350/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
I recognize him in the promo of this TV show Lucky 7 that came out in Fall 2013 TV season. The show got cancelled after 2 episodes and you can watch the show on iTunes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_7_(TV_series)
Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector: I saw the pilot when they aired in Jan. 2020. I watched the 2nd episode yesterday. I saw this on Telus on Demand and the episodes expire on Jan. 2023.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9307990/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_3
Telus on Demand:
1. Go to On Demand
2. Go to TV on Demand
3. Go to Major Network Channels
4. Go to CityTV to watch Manifest and Lincoln Rhyme.
Or you can click on any other shows you want to watch.
The theme this week is job articles about mental health in the workplace:
"Picking the right mental- health support"/ "Living a healthy life can be the best way to advance along your career path"
http://badcb.blogspot.com/2020/06/picking-right-mental-health-support.html
"Beware a sudden change in job functions"/ "Exploring mental- health issues in the work force"
http://badcb.blogspot.com/2020/06/beware-sudden-change-in-job-functions.html
My week:
Jun. 7, 2020 "10-year-old 'AGT' contestant shocks Sofia Vergara with a voice like Lady Gaga":
Roberta Battaglia always dreamed of performing on America’s Got Talent, and on Tuesday, the 10-year-old’s dream came true. The pint-sized singer from Toronto blew the judges away and earned a spot in the live show round.
Roberta claims she got her voice from her father, who is an engineer for a local radio station. He must have some powerful genes because Roberta has quite the powerful voice, which she showed off by performing the Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper hit, “Shallow.”
Roberta received a standing ovation from the audience and the judges. Modern Family star Sofia Vergara told Roberta, “It was breathtaking.” The actress then awarded the young singer with the Golden Buzzer, which advances her directly to the live show rounds.
My opinion: I was impressed with her voice. She's only 10 and she sounds so good.
NYC woman on Destroying Property in Low-Income Neighborhoods:
I found this on Facebook and I shared it on my timeline:
"‘You are here profiting off of our f---ing pain!’ — Desiree Barnes slammed people for looting low-income neighborhoods and destroying resources residents need."
My opinion: Desiree Barnes yells at people for vandalizing her neighborhood which is for low income housing and immigrants with their small businesses. She might as well add: "You guys should all be ashamed of yourselves."
You can protest all you want. Please do not vandalize people's homes and businesses.
"'They saved me': How protesters protected a lone cop, a moment captured in powerful photos": I really like this article because it was positive.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Officer Galen Hinshaw heard the call over the radio. One of his fellow officers was in trouble.
A crowd of protesters had surrounded a police cruiser at the base of the Clark Memorial Bridge. The officer inside radioed for help as protesters — strobed in blue and red patrol car lights — banged on the car’s hood and windshield.
Local entrepreneur Darrin Lee Jr. spotted Hinshaw and the advancing crowd and linked arms with the stranger in the red mask.
“Once I saw the guy with the red mask step up, I said, 'I gotta step up,'” said Lee, who also runs a child care center. “It was reactive. I just went.”
He had no idea what would happen next.
“I really thought at that moment, 'Protect him. It really isn’t his fault.'" Lee said.
Lee was also worried that Hinshaw would react and hit him from behind, so he turned to reassure the officer that they were going to protect him.
“He was looking nervous and scared,” Lee said. “If he panicked, then there was gonna be a war out there.”
Suddenly, the protesters seemed to turn on Lee. One man who had marched with him for nearly the whole protest was surprised. Another shouted in Lee's face: "How can you protect him!"
Lee got nervous.
Ultimately, five men formed a human shield to protect Hinshaw. All of them strangers to one another. Nobody knew the name of the man to his left or to his right. Three were black, one white, one Dominican — all linking arms to keep harm away from Hinshaw, himself half-Pakistani.
“A human was in trouble, and right is right," said Ricky McClellan, a factory worker from Old Louisville who was locked onto Lee’s left arm.
After reaching the bridge and watching some protesters throwing rocks at police cars, McClellan spotted Hinshaw as he walked around the group and thought, "Whoa, you're by yourself?"
McClellan watched as the crowd around Hinshaw grew larger and louder. Then he heard Lee yell, “Lock arms! Lock arms!”
That's when Julian De La Cruz saw the men locking arms and jumped in.
“I saw the guys link up and I saw a weak spot,” De La Cruz said, and took up a position on the end of the line.
He was nervous, scared.
“Things could’ve gotten really bad,” he said.
The entire scene lasted no more than two minutes.
“If I can hold my brothers accountable, if I can march with my brothers and turn against them to say, 'This isn’t right,' that’s where the accountability comes in,” he said.
“In the end, that’s all that we are asking for," said De La Cruz, whose uncle is a police officer. "What we need is for those great cops to hold their brothers and sisters accountable at all times.”
As proud as De La Cruz is of that night, he shakes his head and says that this shouldn’t be an extraordinary event.
“This should be the norm,” he said. De La Cruz also feels that media images of violence, vandalism and looting misrepresent Louisville and the protest.
“What happened that night with us linking arms was just one of many heroic acts that night," he said.
“Nobody knew anybody but we just stood up and did that,” he said. “If the officer was black we would’ve done the same thing. He’s somebody else’s son. He’s somebody else’s loved one."
Hinshaw has reached out to the men through social media and texts. But he's looking forward to meeting them all and thanking them in person.
George Timmering, co-owner of Bearno's, said he'll buy the pizza when they're ready to meet.
“Those guys, they saved me,” Hinshaw said. “There’s no doubt about it. And I am beyond thankful. If it wasn’t for them intervening and recognizing that I was in trouble and helping me, I am sure that I would’ve been assaulted in one form or another.
Jun. 8, 2020 'Friends' co-creator apologizes for lack of diversity in shows: 'I didn't do enough':
But as the sitcom gets new fans, one old problem has popped up again: it's alarming lack of diversity. The criticism isn’t lost on Friends co-creator Marta Kauffman.
The NBC show also featured predominantly white recurring guest stars, with the exception of two of Ross's (Schwimmer) girlfriends. Aisha Tyler appeared in nine episodes in 2003 as Charlie Wheeler, while Lauren Tom played Julie in seven episodes in 1995. Schwimmer said casting "women of color" was a "conscious push" on his part.
"I was well aware of the lack of diversity and I campaigned for years to have Ross date women of color," he said in an interview with the Guardian earlier this year. "One of the first girlfriends I had on the show was an Asian American woman, and later I dated African American women. That was a very conscious push on my part."
Schwimmer also defended the show, saying it was "groundbreaking in its time" for some storylines, like "the way in which it handled so casually sex, protected sex, gay marriage and relationships."
Just last month, Kudrow admitted the show would be "completely different" today. She also wanted to acknowledge the series for what it did right.
"Well, it would not be an all-white cast, for sure. I'm not sure what else, but, to me, it should be looked at as a time capsule, not for what they did wrong. Also, this show thought it was very progressive," she told the Sunday Times. "There was a guy whose wife discovered she was gay and pregnant, and they raised the child together? We had surrogacy too. It was, at the time, progressive."
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I usually go here. $20 for a haircut. I haven't had a haircut since Oct. 2019.
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Pick up my prescription: I read on Facebook that ETS will start charging for fares on Jun. 15, so I went and picked up my prescription this week.
I usually go here. $20 for a haircut. I haven't had a haircut since Oct. 2019.
https://www.yellowpages.ca/bus/Alberta/Edmonton/Emonas-Beauty-Salon/7978178.html
Pick up my prescription: I read on Facebook that ETS will start charging for fares on Jun. 15, so I went and picked up my prescription this week.
Manifest: I finished watching season 2 of this show. I would say season 2 is as good as season 1. There is action and supernatural stories here. I saw this on Telus on Demand and the episodes expire on Feb. 2021.
I find that Matt Long who plays Zeke on this show really stood out to me. I have seen him and watched a few eps of Jack and Bobby (in 2003-2004).
Ghost Rider: I even saw him on the Ghost Rider movie (2007) with my friend Angela and her dad at this $1 theatre.
I remember it was in the summer time and the theatre chairs weren't that comfy. The movie was average. I did like the action and special effects. I wouldn't watch this movie again or the sequel.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8421350/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
I recognize him in the promo of this TV show Lucky 7 that came out in Fall 2013 TV season. The show got cancelled after 2 episodes and you can watch the show on iTunes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_7_(TV_series)
Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector: I saw the pilot when they aired in Jan. 2020. I watched the 2nd episode yesterday. I saw this on Telus on Demand and the episodes expire on Jan. 2023.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9307990/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_3
Telus on Demand:
1. Go to On Demand
2. Go to TV on Demand
3. Go to Major Network Channels
4. Go to CityTV to watch Manifest and Lincoln Rhyme.
Or you can click on any other shows you want to watch.
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