Exercise: Escalators
Food: 5 bananas, smoothie (celery, papaya, mango and pear), bunch of grapes, big salad - lettuce, sun-dried tomato, carrot, sweetcorn, pine nuts, pesto dressing
Another of my friends is getting intentional with her eating, she's vegetarian four days a week now in order to in her words, save the planet, and a girl at the yoga weekend asked me if I was a raw-fooder, she'd obviously been observing what I was eating! She said I looked great and was glowing, which was lovely to hear. I've gotten used to a certain level of being eating like this plus all the other adventures I'm on, so it's always blows me away when the results are so obvious to someone else. She herself tried raw for six months and thinks it's time to make it more permanent.
And.. okay not one of my girlfriends per se, but Oprah has gone vegan (for 21 days)!
Read more here
http://www2.oprah.com/foodhome/food/cleanse/blog/blog_main.jhtml?promocode=HP42
I love the comment at the end,
Kathy Freston's Comments: External "fillers"—like soda and chips—leave you feeling empty and wanting more. Yearning, dissatisfied. To really feel substantially filled and nurtured and cared for, it has to come from something that is not outside of us. If you are pushed against a wall or challenged, try to remind yourself that you need not do and be everything.
If more people knew that they would be experiencing more freedom. It's these 'moments of truth' that bring awareness. We reach for 'soda and chips' or whatever it is we reach for, it could be any thing to damp down those emotions.. 'healthy food' does not promote health in our body if we don't actually need it, it becomes excess and something else for the body to deal with. I remember being offered some strawberries once and I said 'no thanks!' 'but it's fruit' they said. I'm not hungry and I don't want them but I'm meant to shove them down because they're fruit? It's completely a different matter if I want to shove them down!
Well if you doing the veggie, vegan, journey you know you're only a couple of tube stops from 'more raw' and 'all raw' !!!
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Wednesday 28 May 2008
Saturday 24 May 2008
Yoga
Exercise: Yoga, escalators and run
Food: Oj, 3 bananas, green salad with avocado, cashews and a few dates
Am doing a yoga and meditation weekend today and tomorrow. It was so lovely the centre is in Oakwood, so tonnes of greenery and what a gorgeous, delicious sunny day today!!
Giovanni (who looks like George Clooney with Mel Gibson's eyes, true! Serious potential for lookalike work there) guided us humorously and sensitively through four sessions of meditation interspersed with yoga stretches and poses.
http://www.rolfing-yoga.com/flash1.html
http://www.wccmretreatcentre.org.uk/
I'm really enjoying getting into meditation, just being present. Felt very detached afterwards but in a good way, just being in the midst of everything. The day ran from 10 to 5 with break for lunch and a wander. Lunch was a mix of vegetarian and vegan fare.
I felt light and floaty at the end so despite being out the whole day, then doing two trips for food shopping, I felt compelled to go for an evening run. And it was just the right conditions, cool and breezy!
Have noticed yesterday (off work) and today that I'm not eating as much but not sure if this is a trend yet, because when I'm not at work ie doing the things that I really, really want to do, food moves down the agenda. I was thinking that lots of people I come across don't like their jobs or are feeling unfulfilled. Which means they must be living off purpose, so is it any wonder we are eating off purpose too?
Anyhoo will see how I go. I may be moving to a new level in my raw journey. Haven't craved anything this past week, seems chips may have fallen off the 'attachments' list completely. Was going to get some edamame on Friday and I felt a check in my body like it didn't want that. It was very subtle but immediately turned round thinking 'no don't want that'. At another time I might get a go ahead signal. In a similar vein I had some nuts this evening and felt like I had enough, then went back and had some more although not a lot. But I felt that check, although I ignored it!
Food: Oj, 3 bananas, green salad with avocado, cashews and a few dates
Am doing a yoga and meditation weekend today and tomorrow. It was so lovely the centre is in Oakwood, so tonnes of greenery and what a gorgeous, delicious sunny day today!!
Giovanni (who looks like George Clooney with Mel Gibson's eyes, true! Serious potential for lookalike work there) guided us humorously and sensitively through four sessions of meditation interspersed with yoga stretches and poses.
http://www.rolfing-yoga.com/flash1.html
http://www.wccmretreatcentre.org.uk/
I'm really enjoying getting into meditation, just being present. Felt very detached afterwards but in a good way, just being in the midst of everything. The day ran from 10 to 5 with break for lunch and a wander. Lunch was a mix of vegetarian and vegan fare.
I felt light and floaty at the end so despite being out the whole day, then doing two trips for food shopping, I felt compelled to go for an evening run. And it was just the right conditions, cool and breezy!
Have noticed yesterday (off work) and today that I'm not eating as much but not sure if this is a trend yet, because when I'm not at work ie doing the things that I really, really want to do, food moves down the agenda. I was thinking that lots of people I come across don't like their jobs or are feeling unfulfilled. Which means they must be living off purpose, so is it any wonder we are eating off purpose too?
Anyhoo will see how I go. I may be moving to a new level in my raw journey. Haven't craved anything this past week, seems chips may have fallen off the 'attachments' list completely. Was going to get some edamame on Friday and I felt a check in my body like it didn't want that. It was very subtle but immediately turned round thinking 'no don't want that'. At another time I might get a go ahead signal. In a similar vein I had some nuts this evening and felt like I had enough, then went back and had some more although not a lot. But I felt that check, although I ignored it!
Thursday 22 May 2008
A Parallel Universe
Exercise: Escalators
Food: litre of OJ, about 10 bananas, handful of cashews and almonds, green salad - baby spinach, peas, avocado, celery, cucumber and raw pesto
Sometimes I have moments where it feels like I am living in some weird and wonderful world of my own (indeed I am and so are you!) with the various journeys I have embarked/am embarking on in every area of my life, and it is literally every area. So much is changing or changed, just a few,
- I don't watch TV (not a rule or a conscious decision would watch if I wanted to, it simply went from medium priority to low priority to zero priority. )
- I would not have called myself a nature-lover before now I know that I am
- While not being a beach lover I wouldn't have been my choice to visit a cold country during their cold season. That is not an issue now
- I shop intentionally, I visualise what I'm looking for and then go and find it. I no longer shop to escape or for retail therapy anymore. Still enjoy shopping just clearer about my objectives!
- I eat a natural, unprocessed plant-based diet. A colleague asked me if it was hard eating out as there is so much I can't eat. I said everywhere does a salad! Also explained I'm not doing this from a place of deprivation but of abundance. I can eat ANYTHING I want, it's just that I choose not to. Big difference.
- My courage muscle is growing bigger!
- My desire to learn is huge
- Much better able to detach from emotions
- Trusting God's work
quote from author Neale Walsch... "You can live a charmed life, and there is a formula by which you can make this work." Here is the formula: "You can live a charmed life by causing othersto live a charmed life. That is, be the source of "charm" - ofcharming moments and experiences in the life of another." "Be everyone else's lucky charm! Make all who you touch today feel"lucky" that you crossed their path. Do this for a week and watchthings change. Do it for a month and you'll be a different person."***
I'm taking up this challenge....
And,
"To be nobody but yourself - in a world which is doing it's best, night and day, to make you like everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight - and never stop fighting.
E.E Cummings, poet
Coolio.
Food: litre of OJ, about 10 bananas, handful of cashews and almonds, green salad - baby spinach, peas, avocado, celery, cucumber and raw pesto
Sometimes I have moments where it feels like I am living in some weird and wonderful world of my own (indeed I am and so are you!) with the various journeys I have embarked/am embarking on in every area of my life, and it is literally every area. So much is changing or changed, just a few,
- I don't watch TV (not a rule or a conscious decision would watch if I wanted to, it simply went from medium priority to low priority to zero priority. )
- I would not have called myself a nature-lover before now I know that I am
- While not being a beach lover I wouldn't have been my choice to visit a cold country during their cold season. That is not an issue now
- I shop intentionally, I visualise what I'm looking for and then go and find it. I no longer shop to escape or for retail therapy anymore. Still enjoy shopping just clearer about my objectives!
- I eat a natural, unprocessed plant-based diet. A colleague asked me if it was hard eating out as there is so much I can't eat. I said everywhere does a salad! Also explained I'm not doing this from a place of deprivation but of abundance. I can eat ANYTHING I want, it's just that I choose not to. Big difference.
- My courage muscle is growing bigger!
- My desire to learn is huge
- Much better able to detach from emotions
- Trusting God's work
quote from author Neale Walsch... "You can live a charmed life, and there is a formula by which you can make this work." Here is the formula: "You can live a charmed life by causing othersto live a charmed life. That is, be the source of "charm" - ofcharming moments and experiences in the life of another." "Be everyone else's lucky charm! Make all who you touch today feel"lucky" that you crossed their path. Do this for a week and watchthings change. Do it for a month and you'll be a different person."***
I'm taking up this challenge....
And,
"To be nobody but yourself - in a world which is doing it's best, night and day, to make you like everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight - and never stop fighting.
E.E Cummings, poet
Coolio.
Monday 19 May 2008
Awareness Is The First Step To Freedom
Exercise: Run, escalators
Food: Green smoothie - mango, apple and rocket, 2 bananas, 600g grapes, salad - lettuce, spinach, mushrooms, celery, tomatoes and raw basil pesto, almonds dipped in raw honey
Despite having about 5 hours sleep I woke up really wanting to run. I realised this was probably due to the fact that I had gone to bed saying I'm going for a run tomorrow. I also stopped eating quite early 8/9ish and had a couple of pints of water between that time and going to bed.
Today I didn't eat until 12 noon, had good long gaps between my 'meals' green smoothie at noon, grapes around 2, bananas around 4pm and salad about 4.30 and almonds when I got in around 8.30pm.
I have been dipping into my sister's book 'The Wisdom of Florence Scovel Shinn'. Go and buy this book for the sake of your spiritual health. We are spiritual beings. Hmmm yes you might feel uncomfortable but it's true, and you will never truly 'get it' until you embrace that. Anyway go buy that book, read the reviews on Amazon.
I was thinking today how sometimes when we tell someone about some new thing we are doing or someone tells us about some new thing their doing, we or they can get distinctly agitated. And what it is, is that we feel threatened or that we have to change. The ironic thing is that if we genuinely feel that way we are probably not living very congruent lives and it may be change is needed! But essentially the thing is you don't have to do anything, just be open to the possibility of new insights that can enhance your life, that way you'll recognise if and when you need to change.
It's a quality that certain people have to listen to another's experience and not feel defensive or judgemental. I once met a lovely guy who I talked to for ages and what struck me is I was saying some unconventional things by 'mainstream' standards in terms of my lifestyle etc and he was just so comfortable and happy in his skin listening to me. And that was when I realised what an attractive quality he had (and the rest!). People like that have something precious. I have a number of friends who have that same gift/maturity and it's a blessing to be around. They are people who you can just be yourself with while still growing into greater things.
Awareness is such a catalyst for freedom. Just recognising the truth of something whether it's a pattern of thinking in our own lives, or the fact that our lifestyle habits are not supporting our vision of ourselves etc can precipitate massive action. i.e. as Bob Proctor states in 'You were born rich' - the highest level of being is, thinking good thoughts -which lead to idea- manifest in physical. But how we tend to live is look at our current physical condition - think how to solve it - and then come up with idea. Always, always the VISION comes first regardless of your current circumstances.
Remember when I said when I was little I used the think that there was a definite way of good health. What we hold deep in our minds has huge impact on our life for better or worse. We get to choose. Get the Florence book!
Food: Green smoothie - mango, apple and rocket, 2 bananas, 600g grapes, salad - lettuce, spinach, mushrooms, celery, tomatoes and raw basil pesto, almonds dipped in raw honey
Despite having about 5 hours sleep I woke up really wanting to run. I realised this was probably due to the fact that I had gone to bed saying I'm going for a run tomorrow. I also stopped eating quite early 8/9ish and had a couple of pints of water between that time and going to bed.
Today I didn't eat until 12 noon, had good long gaps between my 'meals' green smoothie at noon, grapes around 2, bananas around 4pm and salad about 4.30 and almonds when I got in around 8.30pm.
I have been dipping into my sister's book 'The Wisdom of Florence Scovel Shinn'. Go and buy this book for the sake of your spiritual health. We are spiritual beings. Hmmm yes you might feel uncomfortable but it's true, and you will never truly 'get it' until you embrace that. Anyway go buy that book, read the reviews on Amazon.
I was thinking today how sometimes when we tell someone about some new thing we are doing or someone tells us about some new thing their doing, we or they can get distinctly agitated. And what it is, is that we feel threatened or that we have to change. The ironic thing is that if we genuinely feel that way we are probably not living very congruent lives and it may be change is needed! But essentially the thing is you don't have to do anything, just be open to the possibility of new insights that can enhance your life, that way you'll recognise if and when you need to change.
It's a quality that certain people have to listen to another's experience and not feel defensive or judgemental. I once met a lovely guy who I talked to for ages and what struck me is I was saying some unconventional things by 'mainstream' standards in terms of my lifestyle etc and he was just so comfortable and happy in his skin listening to me. And that was when I realised what an attractive quality he had (and the rest!). People like that have something precious. I have a number of friends who have that same gift/maturity and it's a blessing to be around. They are people who you can just be yourself with while still growing into greater things.
Awareness is such a catalyst for freedom. Just recognising the truth of something whether it's a pattern of thinking in our own lives, or the fact that our lifestyle habits are not supporting our vision of ourselves etc can precipitate massive action. i.e. as Bob Proctor states in 'You were born rich' - the highest level of being is, thinking good thoughts -which lead to idea- manifest in physical. But how we tend to live is look at our current physical condition - think how to solve it - and then come up with idea. Always, always the VISION comes first regardless of your current circumstances.
Remember when I said when I was little I used the think that there was a definite way of good health. What we hold deep in our minds has huge impact on our life for better or worse. We get to choose. Get the Florence book!
Saturday 17 May 2008
Please Yourself
Exercise: Run, yoga and escalators
Food: Dates, banana ice cream tart, plus extra banana ice cream (ie just bananas), a few grapes
I am now the queen of raw recipes. Well I have been experimenting! I've had a burst of creativity. I made a 'cous cous' recipe yesterday. I processed a head of cauliflower minus the green bits, until it looked like fluffy cous cous. I then mixed in some shelled green peas, some corn from fresh and wild which I'm sure had been heated in some form and vacuum packed, but not bothered, it looked like a corn on the cob should look, I mixed it all up with Seggiano's raw pesto (I will get round to trying out my own recipe, but until then this is delicious and cheeseless!), and some mushrooms which I marinated in a little olive oil and a touch of balsamic vinegar. It looked like a cous cous dish and tasted yummy too. The funny thing was a colleague said to me 'your lunch looks so lovely, I wish I could eat it'.
I made another banana icecream tart this time with blackcurrants blended in, and then another plain banana one with an almond and date base. Get me! The base is basically how Lara bars are essentially made , but in different quantities of nuts and dates, and most with added spices. But this is the cheaper option and you can the ingredients that work for you.
I'll leave you with this quote that I swiped from Bob Proctors 'insight of the day' email
"That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong."
William J.H. Boetcker
Staying with this, I used to work for a business based in the owner's home. A good few years ago now. My boss was a lovely lady and it was just the three of us working there. She would bring us out biscuits, snacks etc. Then one day I decided I wasn't going to have any biscuits because I was on a health kick. Didn't feel great that I was chomping on biscuits everyday. It wasn't part of my eating style if you discount the occasional ploughing through of a packet of digestives! And even though I said to her 'no biscuits for me', even when it was just me she still wheeled them out. I have to say I felt under a lot of pressure to just eat them to appreciate her hospitality. But I didn't because one, it was important to me to get out of the daily biscuit habit, and two, if I had started eating them again it would have rendered my words meaningless and I would have lost some self-respect, if not her respect. Beacuse even when people try to either consciously or unconsciously sabotage your efforts they are actually grudgingly or maybe wholeheartedly admiring you. It's what inspiration is about. Have a think about someone who truly inspires you, it's usually someone who knows their path and is walking it, and they usually stand out from the crowd in more ways than one.
I think if we are inspired to do something we should especially do it. I believe this is because these are pointers for significant growth and focus in our lives. I also believe it's how we are meant to live, inspiring and inspired. This is the way of much happiness and fulfilment (happiness is a byproduct of fulfilment and not the other way round!). In the absence of that (being out of touch with our lives and the source of our lives) leaves us being 'fixers' doing things we 'ought to' 'should to' etc. This way is often accompanied by discontent, frustration and listlessness. In a nutshell we are more likely to succed at what we want to achieve when we are inspired to do it. I ask myself questions like an I inspired to eat raw, (Yes), am I inspired to give money to this cause, am I inspired to volunteer to help etc. I've found it a useful tool. Hope you do too!
Food: Dates, banana ice cream tart, plus extra banana ice cream (ie just bananas), a few grapes
I am now the queen of raw recipes. Well I have been experimenting! I've had a burst of creativity. I made a 'cous cous' recipe yesterday. I processed a head of cauliflower minus the green bits, until it looked like fluffy cous cous. I then mixed in some shelled green peas, some corn from fresh and wild which I'm sure had been heated in some form and vacuum packed, but not bothered, it looked like a corn on the cob should look, I mixed it all up with Seggiano's raw pesto (I will get round to trying out my own recipe, but until then this is delicious and cheeseless!), and some mushrooms which I marinated in a little olive oil and a touch of balsamic vinegar. It looked like a cous cous dish and tasted yummy too. The funny thing was a colleague said to me 'your lunch looks so lovely, I wish I could eat it'.
I made another banana icecream tart this time with blackcurrants blended in, and then another plain banana one with an almond and date base. Get me! The base is basically how Lara bars are essentially made , but in different quantities of nuts and dates, and most with added spices. But this is the cheaper option and you can the ingredients that work for you.
I'll leave you with this quote that I swiped from Bob Proctors 'insight of the day' email
"That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong."
William J.H. Boetcker
Staying with this, I used to work for a business based in the owner's home. A good few years ago now. My boss was a lovely lady and it was just the three of us working there. She would bring us out biscuits, snacks etc. Then one day I decided I wasn't going to have any biscuits because I was on a health kick. Didn't feel great that I was chomping on biscuits everyday. It wasn't part of my eating style if you discount the occasional ploughing through of a packet of digestives! And even though I said to her 'no biscuits for me', even when it was just me she still wheeled them out. I have to say I felt under a lot of pressure to just eat them to appreciate her hospitality. But I didn't because one, it was important to me to get out of the daily biscuit habit, and two, if I had started eating them again it would have rendered my words meaningless and I would have lost some self-respect, if not her respect. Beacuse even when people try to either consciously or unconsciously sabotage your efforts they are actually grudgingly or maybe wholeheartedly admiring you. It's what inspiration is about. Have a think about someone who truly inspires you, it's usually someone who knows their path and is walking it, and they usually stand out from the crowd in more ways than one.
I think if we are inspired to do something we should especially do it. I believe this is because these are pointers for significant growth and focus in our lives. I also believe it's how we are meant to live, inspiring and inspired. This is the way of much happiness and fulfilment (happiness is a byproduct of fulfilment and not the other way round!). In the absence of that (being out of touch with our lives and the source of our lives) leaves us being 'fixers' doing things we 'ought to' 'should to' etc. This way is often accompanied by discontent, frustration and listlessness. In a nutshell we are more likely to succed at what we want to achieve when we are inspired to do it. I ask myself questions like an I inspired to eat raw, (Yes), am I inspired to give money to this cause, am I inspired to volunteer to help etc. I've found it a useful tool. Hope you do too!
Sunday 11 May 2008
Why Do You Do What You Do?
Exercise: Walking (yesterday running and dancing)
Food: Green smoothie (mango and spinach), box of grapes, 3 bananas, bought salad (leaves, peas, sweetcorn, avocado, sun-dried tomato), a small packet of pistachio nuts, some dates
Yesterday I went to Vita organic restaurant in Soho, I had a selection of salads and orange juice. The oj was delicious, the salads were okay not inspired. They had a raw choc cake for dessert. I'm not keen on raw choc, probably because although I used to eat it, choc was not a mainstay. In the end decided to have it and I definitely didn't like it. It was so bitter and full of nibs and started getting a headache. Some people really do love this stuff but I'm not sure it serves my highest good! I've been looking at some anecdotal evidence and it seems raw choc can never be truly raw plus all the other stuff it contains. So we're eating it for the taste (or not!) like most things then;) But if that's the case is it heresy to say I would prefer a square of the regular, fair-trade kind??
I love the re-development of St Pancras station, (and my pleaure is heightened by the presence of chopp'd, a chic salad bar. The original one is in Leadenhall Market and a new bar opened about a month or so ago in Spitafields) it is so bright and airy with beautiful shopfronts, the glamour of being the start of a journey into Paris via Eurostar, but also a solid departure point for places in the East Midlands amongst others. I love the big wooden doorways that connect it to Kings Cross, it's a bit like stepping into another city even though both stations are side by side.
Food: Green smoothie (mango and spinach), box of grapes, 3 bananas, bought salad (leaves, peas, sweetcorn, avocado, sun-dried tomato), a small packet of pistachio nuts, some dates
Yesterday I went to Vita organic restaurant in Soho, I had a selection of salads and orange juice. The oj was delicious, the salads were okay not inspired. They had a raw choc cake for dessert. I'm not keen on raw choc, probably because although I used to eat it, choc was not a mainstay. In the end decided to have it and I definitely didn't like it. It was so bitter and full of nibs and started getting a headache. Some people really do love this stuff but I'm not sure it serves my highest good! I've been looking at some anecdotal evidence and it seems raw choc can never be truly raw plus all the other stuff it contains. So we're eating it for the taste (or not!) like most things then;) But if that's the case is it heresy to say I would prefer a square of the regular, fair-trade kind??
I love the re-development of St Pancras station, (and my pleaure is heightened by the presence of chopp'd, a chic salad bar. The original one is in Leadenhall Market and a new bar opened about a month or so ago in Spitafields) it is so bright and airy with beautiful shopfronts, the glamour of being the start of a journey into Paris via Eurostar, but also a solid departure point for places in the East Midlands amongst others. I love the big wooden doorways that connect it to Kings Cross, it's a bit like stepping into another city even though both stations are side by side.
I made my raw hummous but not sure about it so it's in the freezer! Meanwhile as the temps soar, banana ice cream is hitting the spot!
As you know I am working through 'Life on Purpose' by Brad Swift. I can't really rave about this book enough. I think it is in my top three of all time inspiring books and that is saying something as I've read plenty of fab books, plus I haven't actually finished it yet! I've been on a break ;) but ready to pick it up again. The interlude has been very useful in allowing things to soak in. There was an excellent feature in the 'life on purpose' ezine. Read at the blog here It's one to read over and over. And the principles can be applied to the raw food lifestyle and other ways we choose to eat.
http://www.lifeonpurposeblog.com/
Friday 9 May 2008
Playing Gourmet
Food: 4 bananas, mango and spinach smoothie, quite a few almonds, salad of celery, cucumber, cherry tomatoes and mushroom marinated in raw pesto, later on a mixed salad of deli leaves, sundried tomatoes, peas, sweetcorn, pine nut and pesto dressing, edamame and later some dates and super cold banana ice-cream!
Exercise: Escalators
My chickpeas are sprouting! I have no idea whether I will enjoy the raw houmous I'm going to make but I love the fact they are sprouting, something about seeing something grow. I do realise I will be pulversing them in the food processor at some point!
I have a pasta nozzle for my juicer so decided to run a courgette through to see if I could make veggie spaghetti. That didn't work there was courgette juice spraying out all over the place...nice. So just cut it julienne myself marinate in pesto with mushrooms. It tasted yummy and great textures. Felt quite proud of myself. Will be using mushrooms more in my menu now.
I took a friend to Saf restaurant this week and she loved it. She had the Buddha Bowl - jasmine rice and tofu (cooked) and Apple cheesecake made with cashews. The cheesecake is a serious high point! I had some nuts and olives, seaweed salad and the cheesecake! But we both felt light as we were leaving.
Yesterday had some houmous and mushrooms in houmous bar, this morning I noticed my emotional poise had been seriously diminished! The link for me seems to be getting ever stronger. Harmony........
Exercise: Escalators
My chickpeas are sprouting! I have no idea whether I will enjoy the raw houmous I'm going to make but I love the fact they are sprouting, something about seeing something grow. I do realise I will be pulversing them in the food processor at some point!
I have a pasta nozzle for my juicer so decided to run a courgette through to see if I could make veggie spaghetti. That didn't work there was courgette juice spraying out all over the place...nice. So just cut it julienne myself marinate in pesto with mushrooms. It tasted yummy and great textures. Felt quite proud of myself. Will be using mushrooms more in my menu now.
I took a friend to Saf restaurant this week and she loved it. She had the Buddha Bowl - jasmine rice and tofu (cooked) and Apple cheesecake made with cashews. The cheesecake is a serious high point! I had some nuts and olives, seaweed salad and the cheesecake! But we both felt light as we were leaving.
Yesterday had some houmous and mushrooms in houmous bar, this morning I noticed my emotional poise had been seriously diminished! The link for me seems to be getting ever stronger. Harmony........
Monday 5 May 2008
Eating Out
Exercise: Run, lots of walking and escalators
Food: Freshly squeezed orange and grapefruit juce, some dates, banana 'ice-cream', salad from Beetroot, and then a salad from Fresh and Wild (leaves, raw tofu, carrot, alfafa sprouts, beetroot etc), corn, water with slices of cucumber
Forgot to say, checked out Saf restaurant in Shoreditch last week! It's the latest opening by raw chef Chad Sarno. I was able to go late afternoon when it was very peaceful. The decor and service is beautiful. I had a starter and a main. For starter I had flax crackers with guacamole, salsa and cashew cream. It was all lovely but I try to keep the fat levels down, so next time will ask for extra salsa and minus the cashew cream as it was a touch rich for me. My main was the Saf bowl with courgette noodles, parsnip rice, marinated mushrooms, a spicy dip and a couple of other things. This was very refreshing and I liked it a lot. I didn't try any of the desserts, well mainly because I ran out of time! And they are yet to launch their take away service. But I was sitting alongside another lady and we swapped notes on our choices. She then very kindly put aside one of her raw cookies for me from her dessert. It was very generous and unexpected. It was some sort of lucuma/choc combo. I'm not a fan of raw choc for a myriad reasons, but if I do decide to eat it I'm not kidding myself it's a health food. Awareness is the first step to freedom. So actually would have happily done without it as I didn't enjoy it that much, I could tell if I had eaten more of it my body wouldn't have been happy.
I remember last year after spotting a raw choc bar in Spitalfields Organic I bought it and ate it, nothing surprising there! But by the time I got back to my desk I felt distinctly unwell and it was like my throat was constricting. Managed to get myself to the bathroom without looking like I was dying, and threw up, after which I am grateful to say I started to feel human again. I remember checking the ingredients and lucuma was one of them along with the obvious raw cacao etc. So anyhoo not a fave for me. I had my eye on the lemon tart so will probably try that next time. Nice for a treat. One fab thing I brought home from there was their delightful way of putting slices of cucumber in the drinking water. Such a simple act but very aesthetically pleasing as well as being very blissful to drink.
Today I had a salad at the dinky Beetroot cafe on Berwick St, I've eaten there once before, it has a good vegan selection both hot and cold, but also carries cheese and meat stuff. My salad was a mix of greens, the signature beetroot, carrot, cabbage in a soyonnaise dressing, quinoa and some peanut, sprouty bean thing. At first I thought the large box looked quite small. But then realised it had depth. I chewed for England. Very yummy and filling. Highly recommended for just £5.90. I think it would be great for a low-key food date.
I had initially been exploring Wardour St to find Vitaorganic which I found but it was closed. There are a quite a few raw/health friendly cafes in that millieu of Wardour, Berwick and Brewers St. Also got some Itsu edamame and another salad from Fresh and Wild for later. The past couple of days I've not been wanting the lettuce part of my salad but happy with celery, cucumber etc. So just going with that. What I have been wanting a lot of is orange juice. So am going to load up on the golden ones this week. OJ is my number one favourite raw thing to have anytime of the day.
I've had a pack of chickpeas in the cupboard for ages so have decided to have a go at sprouting and make some raw hummous!! Also my fabulous Matstone juice which serves me so well has attachments for making pasta and nut butter, so will see if it can do the vegetable spaghetti. When I think of it the machine is pretty amazing. It also has a very simple slicing attachment which I use for celery and cucumber and other bits for salads, I enjoy them so much more when they are finely cut. Plus it has a an oil extractor attachment which I've never used, But just thinking I could use it to extract oil for my skin and hair. I'll need to work out whether the yield is worth it, but I can have fun finding out!
Food: Freshly squeezed orange and grapefruit juce, some dates, banana 'ice-cream', salad from Beetroot, and then a salad from Fresh and Wild (leaves, raw tofu, carrot, alfafa sprouts, beetroot etc), corn, water with slices of cucumber
Forgot to say, checked out Saf restaurant in Shoreditch last week! It's the latest opening by raw chef Chad Sarno. I was able to go late afternoon when it was very peaceful. The decor and service is beautiful. I had a starter and a main. For starter I had flax crackers with guacamole, salsa and cashew cream. It was all lovely but I try to keep the fat levels down, so next time will ask for extra salsa and minus the cashew cream as it was a touch rich for me. My main was the Saf bowl with courgette noodles, parsnip rice, marinated mushrooms, a spicy dip and a couple of other things. This was very refreshing and I liked it a lot. I didn't try any of the desserts, well mainly because I ran out of time! And they are yet to launch their take away service. But I was sitting alongside another lady and we swapped notes on our choices. She then very kindly put aside one of her raw cookies for me from her dessert. It was very generous and unexpected. It was some sort of lucuma/choc combo. I'm not a fan of raw choc for a myriad reasons, but if I do decide to eat it I'm not kidding myself it's a health food. Awareness is the first step to freedom. So actually would have happily done without it as I didn't enjoy it that much, I could tell if I had eaten more of it my body wouldn't have been happy.
I remember last year after spotting a raw choc bar in Spitalfields Organic I bought it and ate it, nothing surprising there! But by the time I got back to my desk I felt distinctly unwell and it was like my throat was constricting. Managed to get myself to the bathroom without looking like I was dying, and threw up, after which I am grateful to say I started to feel human again. I remember checking the ingredients and lucuma was one of them along with the obvious raw cacao etc. So anyhoo not a fave for me. I had my eye on the lemon tart so will probably try that next time. Nice for a treat. One fab thing I brought home from there was their delightful way of putting slices of cucumber in the drinking water. Such a simple act but very aesthetically pleasing as well as being very blissful to drink.
Today I had a salad at the dinky Beetroot cafe on Berwick St, I've eaten there once before, it has a good vegan selection both hot and cold, but also carries cheese and meat stuff. My salad was a mix of greens, the signature beetroot, carrot, cabbage in a soyonnaise dressing, quinoa and some peanut, sprouty bean thing. At first I thought the large box looked quite small. But then realised it had depth. I chewed for England. Very yummy and filling. Highly recommended for just £5.90. I think it would be great for a low-key food date.
I had initially been exploring Wardour St to find Vitaorganic which I found but it was closed. There are a quite a few raw/health friendly cafes in that millieu of Wardour, Berwick and Brewers St. Also got some Itsu edamame and another salad from Fresh and Wild for later. The past couple of days I've not been wanting the lettuce part of my salad but happy with celery, cucumber etc. So just going with that. What I have been wanting a lot of is orange juice. So am going to load up on the golden ones this week. OJ is my number one favourite raw thing to have anytime of the day.
I've had a pack of chickpeas in the cupboard for ages so have decided to have a go at sprouting and make some raw hummous!! Also my fabulous Matstone juice which serves me so well has attachments for making pasta and nut butter, so will see if it can do the vegetable spaghetti. When I think of it the machine is pretty amazing. It also has a very simple slicing attachment which I use for celery and cucumber and other bits for salads, I enjoy them so much more when they are finely cut. Plus it has a an oil extractor attachment which I've never used, But just thinking I could use it to extract oil for my skin and hair. I'll need to work out whether the yield is worth it, but I can have fun finding out!
Saturday 3 May 2008
Present And Correct
Exercise: Run, escalators, and a tonne of walking
Food: mango and pear smoothie, 3 bananas, some dates, 2 salads of mixed leaves with either peppers, sweetcorn, cabbage and onion or beetroot, carrot and cucumber
I processed some semi-dried tomatoes (from Spitalfields) with a little olive oil to use as dressing, the tomatoes tasted gorgeous. Although the salads weren't quite right a little cold methinks.
Glad to be out in the fresh air running, and marvellous weather for it too. Not sure I would be up to it feeling the effect of tuesday's yoga's class which was all about the legs, and still building strength. Although have a definite inner strength. The message for me at the moment is very obviously 'be present'.
So I visualised doing my run and just enjoyed each 'step' as I went not worrying about how far I'd done or how far to go, and it was blissful, almost timeless.
I've been motoring through my back copies of 'Living Nutrition' and I've read at least three articles about 'being present' in one form or another!
Ways to be present
- Look at the person you are talking too
- When you eat, savour each mouthful, note how you are feeling, look at the colours,
- Smile
- Let past 'stories' be that, create new stories now
- Use language creatively and lovingly
- Spend time in nature (even if it's a walk down your road!) and focus on all that surrounds you
- Be forever grateful
This bit is from an article by Happy Oasis in Vol 19, 2007 Living Nutrition mag
reframing statements from a negative to a positive
- What's wrong? What's happening?
- Are you ill? How are you feeling?
- I don't want to get sick I aim to be healthier than ever
- Life is suffering Life is so precious, brimming with gifts
- It's freezing outside Invigorating isn't it?
- Feeling lousy I'm feeling a little less than fabulous
- Don't worry Have faith
- Don't shout Shall we whisper? Wonderful!
- I don't want to I prefer
- I won't I'd rather
- I hate I appreciate
- I hate rain Rain is beautiful
- You can't win The adventure continues
Genius!
Food: mango and pear smoothie, 3 bananas, some dates, 2 salads of mixed leaves with either peppers, sweetcorn, cabbage and onion or beetroot, carrot and cucumber
I processed some semi-dried tomatoes (from Spitalfields) with a little olive oil to use as dressing, the tomatoes tasted gorgeous. Although the salads weren't quite right a little cold methinks.
Glad to be out in the fresh air running, and marvellous weather for it too. Not sure I would be up to it feeling the effect of tuesday's yoga's class which was all about the legs, and still building strength. Although have a definite inner strength. The message for me at the moment is very obviously 'be present'.
So I visualised doing my run and just enjoyed each 'step' as I went not worrying about how far I'd done or how far to go, and it was blissful, almost timeless.
I've been motoring through my back copies of 'Living Nutrition' and I've read at least three articles about 'being present' in one form or another!
Ways to be present
- Look at the person you are talking too
- When you eat, savour each mouthful, note how you are feeling, look at the colours,
- Smile
- Let past 'stories' be that, create new stories now
- Use language creatively and lovingly
- Spend time in nature (even if it's a walk down your road!) and focus on all that surrounds you
- Be forever grateful
This bit is from an article by Happy Oasis in Vol 19, 2007 Living Nutrition mag
reframing statements from a negative to a positive
- What's wrong? What's happening?
- Are you ill? How are you feeling?
- I don't want to get sick I aim to be healthier than ever
- Life is suffering Life is so precious, brimming with gifts
- It's freezing outside Invigorating isn't it?
- Feeling lousy I'm feeling a little less than fabulous
- Don't worry Have faith
- Don't shout Shall we whisper? Wonderful!
- I don't want to I prefer
- I won't I'd rather
- I hate I appreciate
- I hate rain Rain is beautiful
- You can't win The adventure continues
Genius!
Thursday 1 May 2008
Skin Glorious Skin
Exercise: Escalators
Food: grapes, 3 bananas, some dates and orange/celery juice
Had first food at 6pm today. The grapes were lovely actually tasted them not just the sweetness. The bananas were like ice cream as they were very ripe, hence I was eating them so they wouldn't go to waste. But feel it would have been better to stick to the grapes. Well they'll sweep me innards clean!
Tuesday was the hardest day but very happy with my body's progress. I couldn't have contemplated this while working before. Ideally I would have been laying with my feet up at some serene and scenic location getting plenty of rest. So plan B was getting plenty of sleep and lots of fresh air everyday, and reading good stuff.
Today had to stand on one escalator, otherwise danger of me going backwards while everyone else was going forwards! Feel weaker after eating, not surprising as my body is now diverting energy for digestion.
This points to the fact that food does not give us energy, sleep does, or to put it another way we experience renewal and rest while we sleep which leaves us energised. Food simply provides the 'raw' material for your body to break down and then build the body. Think about it you can go 24 hrs without food quite easily (you may not want to but you can!). Can you go a whole 24hrs without sleep? Not an attractive prospect, you'll probably become a whole different animal!
A couple of months ago, maybe less I had a breakout of spots on the left side of my face, very bumpy. I was not impressed as I have great skin! But decided to just carry on as is because I knew it was a detox symptom and not something to 'treat'. And it cleared up by itself first becoming very smooth and now the marks have all but disappeared. My skin is absolutely beaming and I haven't worn make-up for at least a week, just a touch of lipstick and mascara. I kind of just stopped. Will I continue like this? Who knows.
Am bulk ordering raw pistachios, cashews, and nori sheets to experiment with veggie sushi.
www.realrawfood.com
Food: grapes, 3 bananas, some dates and orange/celery juice
Had first food at 6pm today. The grapes were lovely actually tasted them not just the sweetness. The bananas were like ice cream as they were very ripe, hence I was eating them so they wouldn't go to waste. But feel it would have been better to stick to the grapes. Well they'll sweep me innards clean!
Tuesday was the hardest day but very happy with my body's progress. I couldn't have contemplated this while working before. Ideally I would have been laying with my feet up at some serene and scenic location getting plenty of rest. So plan B was getting plenty of sleep and lots of fresh air everyday, and reading good stuff.
Today had to stand on one escalator, otherwise danger of me going backwards while everyone else was going forwards! Feel weaker after eating, not surprising as my body is now diverting energy for digestion.
This points to the fact that food does not give us energy, sleep does, or to put it another way we experience renewal and rest while we sleep which leaves us energised. Food simply provides the 'raw' material for your body to break down and then build the body. Think about it you can go 24 hrs without food quite easily (you may not want to but you can!). Can you go a whole 24hrs without sleep? Not an attractive prospect, you'll probably become a whole different animal!
A couple of months ago, maybe less I had a breakout of spots on the left side of my face, very bumpy. I was not impressed as I have great skin! But decided to just carry on as is because I knew it was a detox symptom and not something to 'treat'. And it cleared up by itself first becoming very smooth and now the marks have all but disappeared. My skin is absolutely beaming and I haven't worn make-up for at least a week, just a touch of lipstick and mascara. I kind of just stopped. Will I continue like this? Who knows.
Am bulk ordering raw pistachios, cashews, and nori sheets to experiment with veggie sushi.
www.realrawfood.com
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