4.Accept quiet times and go with flow. Curl up by fire and read good books. Coddle yourself with extra long baths with special lotions. Get your nails done. Get massages. Fix yourself a warm breakfast. It’s kind of a hibernating time anyway.

5.Jumpstart your thinking brain. Start a new course. If you’re an extravert, go to community ed classes. If you’re an introvert, enjoy yourself on internet with distance learning courses and take teleclasses. 6.Start a new intellectual project at work (if possible) and/or at home. 7.Start anything new – new health club, new piano lessons, coaching, fencing lessons, new hairstyle.

8.If you live in an area where this is high allergy-time (such as Texas), pay adjust your diet, because it’s cumulative - pollen PLUS diet PLUS dust and mold inside your house. Clean our your air ducts.

9.Laugh. One simple exercise is to put a pencil in your teeth crosswise. This makes muscles of your face into a smile, and this helps our bodies. It gives us same great relief a good laugh does.

10.Don’t fight it. There is no need to appear “Miss Congenialty” when you aren’t feeling that way. It’s okay to be in a quiet place.

Also, because this is peak of SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder), get more sunshine. Exercise outside. Take a Caribbean cruise. When sun crosses bed in spare bedroom, go lie down and soak up rays.

Change is only thing that stays constant, so know that your mood will eventually find its place. If you are seriously depressed, check with many mental health professionals available to help you.

You say, “who cares”?

Well, let me tell you that we should care and why… these bacteria in digestion process in cow are competing during process for nutrients, nutrients, nutrients! In this miraculous process harmful bacteria is crowded out… parasites are destroyed… viruses are obliterated… and nasty toxins are literally knocked out BEFORE they reach very flesh of COW!

The awesome design of digestive system of cow brings to us “flesh with purified nutrients”!

In turn, our consumption of COWS that have been range-fed, organic and chemical free protect us from harmful effects of triglycerides and cholesterol!

Now I am REALLY going to lose some readers… as most of us know, in nutrition, meats are great sources of complete protein. However, because hormones, antibiotics and pesticides enter picture of raising beef Great Design of Creator is altered. This is NOT way it was meant to be.

My message to you: Don’t throw baby out with bath water!

I found a great quote from What Bible Says About Healthy Living by Rex Russell, MD, that I would like to share with you:

“Maybe it’s time to get off our rump roast and eat more of everything God created for food.” ~ Rex Russell, MD

Jan McCracken http://lowcarbcookin.com Author, Low Carb Christmas Cookin’ COMING SOON: Low Carb Everyday Cookin’ jan@lowcarbcookin.com

Jan McCracken is author and self-publisher of 39 gift books and cookbooks. Born in the Midwest and former owner/innkeeper of a country bed and breakfast in Branson, MO, she has been cooking since she was 17 years old (she won’t tell us how many years that is)!

Jan has been living the low carb lifestyle for 8 years. Her long-term goal is helping people understand that food is truly the great medicine, prevention and healer of disease.