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Life is a Race

I often think of my life as a race. How do you view your life? Whenever you start something new, it is a bit scary and exciting, all at the same time. Everything seems to go really well at the beginning and in a weird way, you crave more of it. You find yourself giving more than you should and you want to hold back but you just can't. Eventually you find yourself a little tired from the extra effort but you are just so happy and excited and you forget about all those fears that you had from before you started. Somewhere in the race you have a low point but it is easy to get over it. You certainly don't want to quit so early in the game so you find that inner strength and bounce right back. Things start to get a little hard and you find yourself getting tired..both mentally and physically. You are nearing the end of the race and you just don't know if you have enough in you to finish. You would never quite but the words "can't" and "quit" keep popping

70.5

That's how many hours I have left of interning for my clinical rotation. I anticipated 3 more weeks of interning for a total of 9 weeks for my acute care rotation but the hours are clicking on by! Since I have been at St. Vincent's I have averaged around 9-9 1/2 hours a day. Over the past 2 weeks I have put in several 10 hour days. And believe it or not, the dietitians come in before me and leave after me. It's a lot of work to be a clinical nutrition and a lot work once you are one! I can't believe how time is passing and the way things are going, it looks like I only have 2 weeks left of this rotation!!! WOW. I will finish my internship with 128 hours of staff relief and I am fairly certain that I won't be putting in less than 9 hours a day. At first I was not doing very well with the 9-10 hour days of interning. I have been completely exhausted and overwhelmed with my non-stop life of interning. But this week was a step up in my learning curve. I went from seeing

Vegetarian Blogging

On Tues evening, after a long 10-hour day of interning at the hospital, I was super excited to receive the latest Vegetarian Nutrition Update Volume XIX, Number 3, 2011 in the mail. I quickly turned to pg 12 only to see my article on Vegetarian Blogging. I wrote this article back in the fall and have waited very patiently to see it in the magazine. Similar to writing for LAVA magazine last summer, there is a long waiting period after you submit an article and then see it in print. Well, the wait is over and I am really happy to see my first-ever article in a magazine associated with the American Dietetic Association. Vegetarian Nutrition is a dietetic practice group of the ADA. Here are some great links: http://vndpg.org/ http://www.vrg.org/ http://vegetariannutrition.net/ I hope you enjoy my latest article! Vegetarian Blogging Marni Sumbal, MS Web-log: A personal diary, an unfiltered chronicle of life, a photo album, a research tool or a publication of interesting facts. Although the

Wholesome Food Tips

I hope you enjoy my latest article from the FREE Iron Girl Newsletter. I love to practice what I preach so this article came straight from my heart. Enjoy! WHOLESOME FOOD TIPS Marni Sumbal, MS When was the last time you peeled away the plastic from your "natural and healthy" meal, only to read a paragraph full of ingredients as as you waited for your meal to prepare itself in the microwave? Can one truly enjoy eating food with a plastic fork from a plastic container, especially at a time when the body is asking for nutrient-rich fuels? One of the many advantages of homemade cooking is that you know exactly what you are putting into your body and where the food is coming from. There is something to be said about having a refrigerator filled with wholesome products. Isn't it beautiful that you don't have to read an ingredient label on a bag of apples, oranges or grapes? The best way to make healthy choices is to be mindful of the habits that you are creating. W