Life is crazy. I was thinking I would be able to keep up on my writing here at the blog , but life is truly topsy turvy. I have been working at my weekly goals, replacing totaled vehicles, editing my recipe book, attending classes, doing homework, helping hubby, keeping kids at all their functions, parent [...]
Another week has passed and one more goal achieved! What’s in store for this week? Again, let’s keep it simple and achievable. This week my goal is to continue the avoidance of all processed sugars. I will use natural sugars for any sweetening I may need. Maple and agave syrups, honey, stevia and other vegetable [...]
Over the years of living in a place that experiences inversion in the winter, I have come to learn my survival technique that works the best. I am not necessarily sick, just weakened by the air around us. I live in a valley. During wintertime, the high pressure settles in over the valley. It traps [...]
Exercise is going ok, but the sugar has been call me. Last week I accomplished my goals in part. Nutrition goals were fine, but living in this inversion is making me sick. Only worked out 3 times. Didn’t get my normal feel good rush with work outs. The air is heavy and dirty. Started my [...]
There are 52 weeks in the year. Every January, we like the idea of starting of the year with a resolution to complete and achieve 1 goal for the whole year. I want to start this year with a proposal for you. Instead of one goal that most people concede to failing at soon after [...]
“Work is love made visible.” Kahlil Gihbran We work at a job, at relationships, at being politically correct, at making other people happy, at giving, at taking, at surviving each day. The one thing that most people don’t work at is themselves. I have used the above quote in my work for over 10 years [...]
“Be here now. Be someplace else later. Is that so complicated?” David Bader
It’s funny that we come into winter, when we are supposed to be moving inward, using up stores from autumn, resting and rejuvenating vital organs and instead we go out, shop, stress, go crazy for the holidays, stay up late, work the same schedule on top of it and of course… we eat.. a lot. [...]
“Let Food be thy medicine.” He claimed that chronic disease came from auto-intoxication. i.e., self-poisoning due to constipation. The deposits of accumulated waste in the colon release toxins which inflame the nerves [producing rheumatism, neuralgia, melancholia, hysteria, eczema, acne, headaches, and many many other health problems. He taught a very logical way to fight and [...]
There are three substances that are common to almost every American’s diet, and a major reduction of these in your diet will improve your health and may even save your life. Wild guess…. sugars (sucrose), cow’s milk (pasteurized), and alcohol. In my own experience, the elimination of great reduction of these substances has really changed(for [...]
