Dear DaVita HealthCare Partners Teammates,

Oops!  I forgot to list my colorful choices.

I had 2 big bananas, one in mid-am, one in mid-afternoon.  Would be 2.5 servings.  Had one good sized green apple.  1.0 serving.  Had spinach with dinner.  1.0 serving.  Had small amount of carrots at lunch.  .5 serving.

I need Village Vitality to say if I have the estimates right from the 2 large bananas and the one good sized green apple.

When I am in La Casa del Mundo, our Denver headquarters, I usually have 2 full servings of vegetables at lunch.  And my assistant asked for the lunch here in Washington DC to have a good amount of vegetables.  Instead they only had a rice dish with some carrots mixed in.  Darn!

Let’s charge this health mountain together folks!    kt

Yo DaVitans !!!!!!!!

Welcome to MTM VII !!!!  (Match the Mayor #7)

For the next 6 weeks we will be joining hands and marching together on a path to better health.  Each one of us needs to pick a health goal.  The official metric is “servings of produce” of course, BUT I want to emphasize that you can pick something else.  The basic idea is to pick some change in your life, where if you can sustain it for the 6 weeks of MTM you might just sustain it for years thereafter.  Now that is cool.  And it has happened to a bunch of us!

In last year’s MTM I kicked my diet coke habit.  I was doing 2 a day.  I broke the habit and still to this day I am down to about 3 per week.  I owe much gratitude to the 5000 plus DaVita HCP fellow citizens that helped encourage me to break the habit.

As to today, I was happy to get 7 hours of sleep last night.  I was traveling back from Italy on Sunday, 3 plane flights, a total of 12 hours of flying, and I did email and work every minute that I was not eating.  It felt so good to catch up on hundreds of emails and other work.  But I was a tired puppy by last night when I got to my hotel, and my body was saying it was 6 hours later than the clock.

I started the day with a good workout, 30 minutes on the lifecycle, about 10 minutes of stretching, and 8 minutes of strength stuff.  No breakfast, I ate a late dinner when I got in.

Off to our office in Washington DC I went, and did meetings and calls until 7:30 pm.  I had a business dinner at that point, and then met Misha Palacek, one of our HCP executives, for a couple beverages and a wide-ranging conversation that went until 11:30.  Yikes, it was time to head upstairs, call home, and then do my first MTM blog of 2014.

It is great to be back on the trail to health with you.  Please allow me to thank you for your service, on behalf of our patients.

One for All & All for One.    KT