It's OK to Increase Your Fats!

Yesterday:

Exercise:

Great 2.2 mile run in the Autumn weather

Breakfast:

Steel Cut Oats and chopped walnuts, soaked in water overnight, with a sliced banana and Forbes Wild Foods Pure Maple Syrup #3 Dark (Canadian)

32 moz. mason jar of water

Dinner:

salad of mixed mescalin greens, Sproutman Alfalfa sprouts, carrot, purple cabbage, grape tomatoes with olive oil and Himalayan sea salt

Morbier French raw cheese and goat gouda

Treat: Cocoa covered almonds

32 oz. mason jar of water

Today:

Exercise:

5:00 AM 2.2 mile run under the stars

Breakfast:

2 pieces Mestemacher German Sunflower Seed Bread with raw almond butter and sliced banana

32. oz. mason jar of water

It's that time of year again, where I talk about Eating with the Seasons. All Summer long I was happy to have big chunks of watermelon in the morning; now my body craves almond butter. In the warm weather, a fruit and greens' smoothie was filling; now I soak steel cut oats to ground and warm me as the temperature cools. Add to that a little maple syrup, some nuts and a banana and I'm filled.

My body is getting ready for hibernation; it's loading up on more fats and carbs to protect it from the cold elements.

Let yourself increase your fats. We are really quite similar to the animals. Every winter my body weight and body fat increase a little and every spring they naturally decrease; no diet necessary. Keep your exercise moving and you'll be fine.

Some great fats to add are: hemp or olive oil, 1/2 avocado, some raw goat cheese, soaked nuts or seeds, nut butters, tahini

Some complex carbs for fuel: Millet, quinoa, barley, steel cut oats, chia seeds (which are a protein and must be soaked in water to expand), brown rice pasta or soba noodles.

Before I went raw, this used to be my favorite breakfast:

1/2 cup cooked millet, drizzled with organic olive oil and Herbamare seasoning

Steamed Swiss chard, beets and carrots drizzled with Bragg's Amino Acids and tahini.

This breakfast offers both grounding (calming) and sprouting (revitalizing) energy; Yin and Yang. It also supports balanced blood sugar levels.

Embrace the change in seasons and let your food reflect it.

Write in and share what new food choices you've made this week....

In Health,

Hope

A Tribute to One of My Heroes

Today's Glorious Food:
Breakfast:
Some Raw Jungle Peanuts
Drink: G.T. Dave's Organic Raw Kombucha Botanic No 9

Snack:
A ring of dried apple

Dinner:
Matt Monarch's cucumber yum pot! I couldn't remember his exact concoction, but it looked so yummy on his Utube. I took: 1 large cuke, peeled and 1 avocado, scooped and food prcoessed them together.
Then I put some pieces of dulse seaweed in the bottom of a bowl, poured the mix on top and mixed the dulse through it all.
It was delicious!
Small salad with red leaf, sunchokes, 1/2 tomato, alfalfa sprouts, carrot and nutritional yeast; with olive oil and Bragg's

Dessert:
small bowl of Artisana raw pecan butter (YUM; I love this stuff!) with shredded coconut and a small splash of agave

I want to pay tribute to one of my heroes who just passed away at 96; Jack LaLanne.
I remember, as a child, seeing him on tv in the mornings, along with his white German Shepherd. He was reaching people with his message of movement; that exercise each day was vital to our life force.
I've always held a soft spot of adoration for him. This morning, when reading his obituary on line, I saw that what influenced him and steered him in the direction of health was meeting Paul Bragg. Yes, readers, that is the same Bragg as Bragg's Aminos. Paul was an early advocate in the field of healthy eating of whole foods and waylaying disease in the body. I had no idea that Jack LaLanne met him and that this changed his life. This is when he lost weight and started exercising, subsequently changing the course of exercise with his personal philosophy and brilliant methodology and bringing weight training even to women in those days.
During different decades of his life, Jack undertook outrageous feats of skill, determination and stength, like having his hands and feet shackled and swimming across Alakatraz.
He was always sending a message to the world about what was possible if you took care of your body, mind and spirit.
I feel that his energy was not filled with ego at all; rather, he was passionately committed to reaching people with his message of health and letting them know that anyone could do it.
He was a true advocate for the health of humanity.
A few years ago, I read a great interview with him. As it turns out, he was basically eating all raw food; possibly some meat (I can't remember) but mostly all raw vegetables and fruit and no dairy, sugar or white flour.
He was still, at about 92, working out four hours a day.
I was just blown away by his consistent commitment; his powerful and gentle energy and his understanding of whole health.
He also had a beautiful marriage of 51 years.
His message was so simple, and if I close my eyes, I can hear it coming through the tv set of my childhood, knowing my mother was watching it.
Now she is in her 80's and still working out at the gym and with a trainer every week.
Thank you, Jack LaLanne, for giving life and health to so many people! You will be deeply missed, and I miss you already.