Friday's Fabulous Food!:
Breakfast:
Fruit Elixir with water, frozen wild blueberries and banana
Laughing Giraffe Organics Raw & Vegan Cranberry Orange Cacao Granola
Lunch: at The Stand, Norwalk, CT:
1 1/2 fresh green juices with kale, collards, cuke, celery and apple
1/2 hummus avocado wrap in collard with raw almond hummus, tomato avo and sprouts
1/2 curried collard wrap with curry almond pate, red peppers, avo and sprouts
Dinner: at One Lucky Duck Takeaway, NYC!: Shared with my friend Lori
Taco salad: Romaine, spicy taco crumble, pico de gallo, guac and cashew sour cream; cilantro-lime dressing......aaooaoaoowwwwowowowo
rawsagna: Zucchini and Tomato Lasagna: Sun-dried tomato sauce, pistachio basil pesto, pignoli ricotta
Desserts:
Moonpie
Malamar - just think of these childhood desserts a la raw; deep, dark chocolate, cream and bliss
1/2 pint of raw oreo ice cream
complete contentment!
Today's Food:
Breakfast/Lunch:
Amazing fresh raw goat cheese from Amish land gifted to me (thank you, Josef!). This cheese rocks!
Nuts Online Pink Salt & Cracked Pepper Mixed Nuts & Seeds
Fruit Elixir with frozen wild blueberries and banana
Snacks:
Laughing Giraffe Organics Raw & Vegan Cranberry Orange Cacao Granola
Nuts Online Rosemary Garlic Pistachios & Almonds
32 ounces water
Dinner:
Salad with mixed lettuces, spinach and arugula, yam, beet, carrot and parsnip (from Genesis Farm); with sprouts, dulse, nutritional yeast and sea salt
Dessert:
1/2 pint Vanilla Almond Buttercup raw ice cream from One Lucky Duck Takeaway
Are you getting enough sleep? Are you drinking enough water? Are you speaking your truth?
Most often, when we have food cravings, it is from an imbalance in our body system. Our body system is our whole physical body, including our blood sugar, which frequently becomes imbalanced by the foods we consume; it is our emotion/psyche body, which tilts off balance when matters of the heart create deep, intense feeling in us; it is the energy body, when old cellular memory floods the chakra system and elicits conditioned responses from long ago and far away; and it is the spirit body, when our connection to our Divine Source becomes unraveled.
On the physical end, we always need to look first at the primary components of daily health; food, water and rest. Our food should be primarily plant-based, laying low on sugars, flours, dairy, alchohol and caffeine. Our water should try to come close to half of our body weight in ounces. Our sleep should equal the amount you know you need to give you energy, focus and an uplifted mood. When we start compromising these simple components, our body system tries to compensate in other, more depleting ways, resulting in low energy and an increase in sugar, fat and simple carb cravings.
In matters of the heart, when we stop speaking what we are truly feeling; when we stuff it all in; when we stop asking for the love we need and the touch we desire, we look to those imbalanced foods to fill the unfulfilled spaces.
As my dear friend Jessica said to me this morning, "It's always so much more profoundly healthy to say how we really feel than let the "elephant" sit in the living room unidentified." When we actually share the "unspeakable," a huge weight is lifted off of us, and the freedom we feel in our bodies takes the place of the food we were craving.
Take a moment for a self-check-in: Are you eating mindfully, drinking fully, sleeping deeply and speaking wholly?
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Saturday, May 22, 2010
Monday, April 12, 2010
Water, Water Everywhere...
Today's Food:
No Breakfast
32 ounces lemon water
Lunch:
bowl of Seaweed Chowder
Snack:
2/3 cups 'Go Take a Hike!' organic and raw goji berries, mulberries, golden raisins, cacao nibs and pistachios
8 raw Himalayan figs
32 ounces lemon water (big water cleansing day)
Dinner:
some garlic olives
salad with romaine, cabbage, diakon, sprouts, cuke and mushrooms with nutritional yeast, dulse and olive oil
Dessert:
2 dates rolled in coconut
12 ounces water
Once again, thanks to the lovely Angela Stokes-Monarch for her blog today, which lists all the Summer's raw festivals. Click below, and once on the site, click on the link on the left that reads: "A list of Raw Food Festivals in Summer 2010."
http://www.rawreform.com/index.php
Hmmm, the 'Space of Love Harvest Festival' in South Africa sounds good! If you want to hang out with Angela and Matt, join them at the 'Raw Food Gathering,' in Vilcabamba, Ecuador; their new home.
Though I was so tired this morning due to late nights and heavy food, by the time I finished 64 ounces of water, I was highly energized! Always look to water over food to really supply you with true energy, cleanse your liver and gallbladder, nourish your cells and clean your blood. Not only that, the more water you take in, the more you will see the collagen in your face become more supple and alive. By the way, eating more raw really hydrates and nourishes the skin. Check out the skin of most 'raw foodists.' It's pretty vibrant.
I know it's hard to drink water when your body is craving a brownie, so pretend you are gathering research to teach a class on the effects of hydrating the body with water.
I always suggest "trying things on" with lightness and fun. Make it an experiment; one day brownies; one day water.
I remember one year, during Wintertime, my normally soft skin was uber dry. I would rub my leg and there was no softness. All I did to change that was to drink a nice amount of water each day and the dryness completely disappeared.
Fatigue is so deceptive, as we always reach for food (usually protein or sugar) to give us a charge; actually, the food often tires us out more, as it makes the body work harder; especially the digestive system. When we simply have water, we get a real surge of energy that is sustained for hours. I do suggest adding fresh lemon, orange or fresh berries, as it makes it so enjoyable to drink.
If you work in an office, here's a great way to increase your water; it worked for me years ago: Go into the office kitchen, and "borrow" the extra pot bellied coffee pot used for the coffee machine; there's always an extra unused one. Then fill it with water from the water machine and bring it back to your desk. Your only commitment is to drink that one pot of water each day; then you're good to go.
Please write in and tell me when you're optimal "watering times" are throughout the day...
No Breakfast
32 ounces lemon water
Lunch:
bowl of Seaweed Chowder
Snack:
2/3 cups 'Go Take a Hike!' organic and raw goji berries, mulberries, golden raisins, cacao nibs and pistachios
8 raw Himalayan figs
32 ounces lemon water (big water cleansing day)
Dinner:
some garlic olives
salad with romaine, cabbage, diakon, sprouts, cuke and mushrooms with nutritional yeast, dulse and olive oil
Dessert:
2 dates rolled in coconut
12 ounces water
Once again, thanks to the lovely Angela Stokes-Monarch for her blog today, which lists all the Summer's raw festivals. Click below, and once on the site, click on the link on the left that reads: "A list of Raw Food Festivals in Summer 2010."
http://www.rawreform.com/index.php
Hmmm, the 'Space of Love Harvest Festival' in South Africa sounds good! If you want to hang out with Angela and Matt, join them at the 'Raw Food Gathering,' in Vilcabamba, Ecuador; their new home.
Though I was so tired this morning due to late nights and heavy food, by the time I finished 64 ounces of water, I was highly energized! Always look to water over food to really supply you with true energy, cleanse your liver and gallbladder, nourish your cells and clean your blood. Not only that, the more water you take in, the more you will see the collagen in your face become more supple and alive. By the way, eating more raw really hydrates and nourishes the skin. Check out the skin of most 'raw foodists.' It's pretty vibrant.
I know it's hard to drink water when your body is craving a brownie, so pretend you are gathering research to teach a class on the effects of hydrating the body with water.
I always suggest "trying things on" with lightness and fun. Make it an experiment; one day brownies; one day water.
I remember one year, during Wintertime, my normally soft skin was uber dry. I would rub my leg and there was no softness. All I did to change that was to drink a nice amount of water each day and the dryness completely disappeared.
Fatigue is so deceptive, as we always reach for food (usually protein or sugar) to give us a charge; actually, the food often tires us out more, as it makes the body work harder; especially the digestive system. When we simply have water, we get a real surge of energy that is sustained for hours. I do suggest adding fresh lemon, orange or fresh berries, as it makes it so enjoyable to drink.
If you work in an office, here's a great way to increase your water; it worked for me years ago: Go into the office kitchen, and "borrow" the extra pot bellied coffee pot used for the coffee machine; there's always an extra unused one. Then fill it with water from the water machine and bring it back to your desk. Your only commitment is to drink that one pot of water each day; then you're good to go.
Please write in and tell me when you're optimal "watering times" are throughout the day...
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