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