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Let Your Dreams Take Flight!

by bhealthy on April 19, 2010
Body:
This weekend I took it easy for a change
  • Thursday was volleyball
  • Friday was a rest day (I worked 8:00am-1:30pm and 3:00pm-9:30pm)
  • Saturday- I ran for 1 hour and 10 minutes
  • Rest on Sunday
Do you realize how much stress we put on our bodies all day every day? We stand for hours, we lift boxes, groceries, and who knows what else, we run, we stretch… I am proud and excited to be able to accomplish all the things my body allows me to do. I was also excited and proud to have been asked to speak about nutrition and eating disorders at an event this Saturday for girls that have scoliosis.
Scoliosis is defined as a lateral or rotary curvature of the spine. In recent research, lower bone densities have been linked to the development of scoliosis. However, it is mutlifactorial, which means linking one thing such as low bone density is a simple theory to solve a complex problem. Most peole affected can often undergo surgery, which seems rather successful.If you had scoliosis and your spine was affected like this:
scoliosis-4.gif scoliosis x-ray image by biologysucks
How do you think all of those demands we place on our body every day would be different ? I could not imagine what kind of additional stress it would be, how difficult all the things our body does for us would be and how often take it for granted!! These girls that I will be speaking to are my heroes heroines! I hope they enjoy my talk!
 Scoliosis and Osteoporosis linkages are currently being researched. Both diseases are more common in females, who have lower body weight, lower bone density, lower physical activity levels, and nutritional deficiencies. The nutritional implications are interesting and definitely indicate a noteworthy area of research!

Mind:

Nutritional implications- That’s where I come in!

I am eager and nervous about this talk on Saturday but mostly just excited to have some “real life” experience talking about nutrition to a group of people! It is like my dreams of becoming a Dietitian are really taking flight, which is so awesome to experience.

I have a mock counseling interview wednesday and I doubt that I could have been given a better topic- Meal Planning with Time Managament! You all are very aware just how busy I am- 2 part time jobs totaling 40 hours a week or more between the two, I am physically in class for 13 hours, which means I should be doing 40 hours of course prep/studying outside of class. If you took 8 hours a day for sleep- that is a total of 149 hours in one week. There are 168 hours in one week. If anyone can counsel on meal planning when you are tight on time, I think I can!

Finals are next week — YIKES!

Soul:

Thursday evening I headed over to my friend Andrea’s for dinner. She is in town again ( I have mentioned her and our dinners several times on here) and made dinner for us. I brought dessert, which I will share later in this post. Not only was it nourishing my soul to spend time with such a good friend, but she gave me a gift as well:

Isn’t that just lovely? It is so true too. Let your dreams take flight, dream and let your heart be the guide.

So on to that meal! Andrea made chicken tenders using sun chips and a little mayo for a binding agent, as well as spinach casserole.

We kept it light because I decided to make Banana Cupcakes with Peanut Almond Butter Frosting!

Here’s how I made them:

For cupcakes:

Preheat to 350°F. Whisk flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in medium bowl to blend. Mash bananas with fork in another medium bowl until smooth. Mix sour cream nonfat greek yogurt and vanilla into bananas.

Using electric mixer, beat sugar and butter in large bowl until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add egg and egg yolk and beat until well blended. Add flour mixture in 3 additions alternately with banana-sour cream mixture in 2 additions, beginning and ending with flour mixture and beating just until blended after each addition. Divide batter into muffin tin cups (generous 1/4 cup for each).

Bake cupcakes until tester inserted into center of each comes out clean, about 20 minutes. Transfer cupcakes to rack and let cool completely.

For frosting:

Sift powdered sugar into large bowl. Add cream cheese, butter, and peanut butter. Using electric mixer, beat mixture until smooth. Spread frosting over top of cupcakes, dividing equally. Sprinkle lightly with chopped peanuts, if desired. DO AHEAD: Can be made 1 day ahead. Store airtight at room temperature.

This was adapted from this recipe: http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Banana-Cupcakes-with-Peanut-Butter-Frosting-358240#ixzz0lXwDtLWf

I shared four of the cupcakes with my Thursday night volleyball team…

Gave a few to Andrea, and gave out the rest to my other friends! Although I very well could eat all of these cupcakes….

(tempting)…

 

I leave you with my friend that likes me way more than her owner….

She was trying to show me how playful she is, I think…

What are your dreams? Let them take Flight!
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  • http://www.healthforthewholeself.com Katie @ Health for the Whole Self

    My dream is definitely to be able to make a living as a freelance writer…maybe someday!

  • http://www.thebroccolihut.com BroccoliHut

    That’s exciting to hear about your talk–I actually have a very mild case of scoliosis. I would be interested to learn about any nutritional implications!

  • Laur

    mmmmm, now I want a cupcake.

  • http://damnthefreshman15.blogspot.com/ Mimi (Damn the Freshman 15)

    Congrats on your dreams! And those cupcakes look delicious!

    My dream is to be famous for something I’m proud of, be it writing, publicity work, etc.

  • http://itzyskitchen.blogspot.com Erica

    Girl! You are cahrazy busy! I don’t know how you get it all done :) I don’t know how I get it all done sometimes either though haha. Sounds like you will be giving a great talk! Josh has minor scoliosis and I have seen how much tougher it makes his life. Those cupcakes look so yum. Have a good one

  • http://www.dailygoods.wordpress.com Ashley

    you are so busy girl!!!! youre amazzzzzzzzzzzzzing. i need some time management skills, come be my mentor!

  • http://www.swankyrd.wordpress.com Kristen (swanky dietitian)

    Those banana cupcakes look amazing!
    That is an interesting look between scoliosis and osteporosis. I would love to find out more regarding the two.
    Good luck with those finals coming up!

  • http://www.froyolover.blogspot.com Gabriela @ Fro-Yo Lover

    Great post, girl!
    Loved the cupcakes :)
    Wish you luck with everything!
    Brazilian XOXO´s,
    Gabriela

  • http://candidrd.blogspot.com The Candid RD

    Those cupcakes look fantastic.
    That spine looks….crazy. My mom is a school nurse and she does scoliosis testing. She has seen many children with spines such as the one above, it’s so sad, and scary. You’re right though, so many of us (but not all) are so active and do so much all day, and we don’t even consider this as something that may be harmful to our body. HArmful, in a good way….sometimes? I mean I think it’s better to be very active than to be very inactive, for sure.

    You are going to do FANTASTIC when you give your nutrition talk. Pretty soon it will be second nature :)

  • http://www.thinspiredblog.com Lara (Thinspired)

    Laural! Just catching up on all your posts that I haven’t been reading…I am so behind with almost everyone’s blogs! I’ve missed you. Looks like you’ve been so busy, but also thriving! Hugs!