Your 28-Day Total Health Plan - Day 21

Day 21: Discover Your Strengths
At the end of the day, reflect on what you've accomplished, not what you should have done.
Looking back at the joyful moments you have experienced thist year, try to make the connection between your untapped passions and your No. 1 career goal. For more help in identifying or narrowing down your top goal, ask your friends and family members what they consider to be your best skills and talents. If you are not sure who to ask, go to the bookshop and get a copy of Strength Finders 2.0 and do the online test to help you discover your unique combination of strengths. You may surprise yourself!

Today's Recipe
If you eat red meat, look for 91 percent lean beef; it's comparable nutritionally and caloriewise to 93 percent lean ground turkey; it's also lower in cholesterol.

For today, try this recipe from Martha Stewart: Asian cabbage stuffed with ground beef sirloin and shiitake mushrooms to help boost your immunity during the rainy season.

INGREDIENTS
8 ounces ground beef sirloin
4 ounces shiitake mushrooms, stems removed, caps coarsely chopped
1/2 cup cooked brown rice
4 cloves garlic, minced
1 tablespoon finely grated peeled fresh ginger
2 scallions, thinly sliced
1 tablespoon soy sauce
1 tablespoon toasted sesame oil
1/8 to 1/4 teaspoon red pepper flakes, plus more for sprinkling
Coarse salt and ground pepper
1 head Napa cabbage

DIRECTIONS
1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees. In a large bowl, combine beef, mushrooms, rice, garlic, ginger, scallions, soy sauce, sesame oil, red pepper, and 1/2 teaspoon salt.
2. Remove 8 large outer leaves from cabbage (if leaves are less than 5 inches wide, overlap 2 leaves, side by side). With a rolling pin, roll each leaf until the stem end is pliable.
3. Dividing among leaves, mound meat mixture toward upturned stem end. Starting from filled end, holding sides in as you work, tightly roll each leaf into a bundle.
4. Arrange cabbage rolls, seam-side down, in a 9-by-13-inch baking dish. Pour 1 cup water over rolls; cover dish tightly with aluminum foil. Bake for 30 to 35 minutes. Serve drizzled with juices and sprinkled with red pepper, if desired.

Today's Exercise
Combine all of this week's moves again today. Walk for 3 minutes and run for 12 minutes. Repeat for a total of two run/walk intervals.