Topsy Turvy Tummy

Exercise: Run
Food: Almonds, strawberry/spinach/pineapple smoothie, 5 small fairtrade bananas, strawberries blended with almond milk, herbal tea with raw honey

Had such a lovely sleep, could have stayed in bed all day, but didn't. I bought a load of fruit from Sainsbury's last night but the bananas and the mangos need to ripen more. So at noon had some almonds. Then remembered a bit later that I had some green smoothie left from yesterday and had that. So far so good. Went for a run about 3pm, still good. Had shower, then popped out to get some apples and pick up dry-cleaning, not so good, tummy is twisting and turning. Came home, and had the bananas I'd just bought. They were just on the cusp of ripe but tasted less so because I'm so used to brown spots now, lots of them. Tummy still twisty. Think it was due to not enough of a gap between the almonds and the smoothie combined with the run. A case of trapped air. Settled down now. Finished off almond milk by blending with strawberries. Too be honest didn't taste that grand, but then again I wasn't exactly hungry, just didn't want the 'milk' to spend another day in the fridge.

Today I'm again mulling over the need for courage to live a purposeful life. It is absolutely essential. Courage is feeling the fear and doing it anyway because of a deep conviction to be congruent, authentic and passionate. This came up because I was thinking that the attachment to cooked food is the greatest addiction that ever was. It's quite something, and add to that the fact that we need to eat.

Without courage there can be no happiness. Courage to be, courage to love, courage to seek God, courage to eat raw, courage to be vulnerable, courage to change.