When you think about the new trend of using different and, dare I say fancier, vocabulary words to describe the same exact thing, it often seems a bit phony. I would generally agree with that with few exceptions. One of those exceptions is the use of the words “healthy eating plan” instead of diet. A diet has a beginning and an end and any food restrictive program that has a start and a finish is doomed.

A plan for aiding you to a healthier life style is one with food modifications and long term goals and not based on such immediate results as things like weighing every morning and whether or not you have to lie on the bed on your back to zip up your jeans. Diets like Keto, Atkins, South Beach and so on are what I call restrictive. Certain foods are promoted and certain foods are banned.

A genuine healthy eating plan is the Mediterranean model that advocates real lifestyle changes and offers a huge variety of healthy foods. I will discuss this more in future posts. I have started about 3 weeks ago to modify my eating habits and so far I love the changes I see in my fitness level. Stay Tuned and get ready to commit and quit horsing around!!

I am putting this article in both the “I’m Just Saying” section and in the WELLNESS category because the whole concept really struck me as meaningful. Let me know what you think.

My husband is a big time sailor and he is currently reading a book called “SEA POWER” written by a retired Admiral. (Admiral James Stavridis) We know that with the world’s oceans and all of the fresh water, that water covers nearly 75% of the surface of the earth. So, I am thinking that here all of us are standing on 25% of the world with billions of other people and it made my problems seem pretty small for about 10 seconds. (Ok, so I do get that our own problems do seem to creep into higher thoughts.)

Admiral Stavridis quotes Shakespeare from his storm at sea drama “The Tempest” and he says. “We are such stuff as dreams are made on,” before he meditates on his literally 11 years at sea out of sight of land. He was 40 years in the Navy, and he figured of that time for 11 years he was literally on the ocean out of sight of land. He had a lot of time to dream-many hours to think about things.

Perhaps the thing about many of his thoughts that struck me with the most power out of all of this was his statements about the fact that all of the oceans have a connection. That is to say, is it all one big ocean? He says that perhaps the reason the British Navy ruled the waves for so many centuries was that they actually “got” this concept. Interconnection-who knew?

Anyway. I am putting that out there today. Instead of thinking about how different we are, why not try to think about what we may each have in common with each other. Are we all meant to be one big interconnected ocean? What do you think?