how do you muffle your calling and inspirations; with over eating, meds, recreational drugs, coffee, toxic food, sugar? how?

8:15 AM grapefruit and walnuts

10:47 AM blackberries in almond milk, phytogreens and orti C and an afterthought, tart

12:00 NOON a tomato sandwich and matcha tea

2:24 PM chia pudding, a small bowl to test myself

7:05 PM veggie plate with left over chutney and pate with grapefruit chips, zucchini with mustard/garlic dressing

7:30 PM experimenting with a mixture of chia, coconut meat, berries, almond milk, vanilla pwd., cinnamon, coconut crystals. success!

Sunday September 4, 2011

watched some tv last evening, the hoarding show

Last night an aspect of myself did not want to sleep. I find it highly interesting to hit this mind space. It comes slightly attached to cling on feelings of not knowing what to do and sweet tastes eating. Because I felt like it I ate a couple of Me-jool dates around 1:14 AM and thoroughly blissed out with the piece of coconut cream peach flan I had picked up earlier in the evening at Bliss Cafe, around 4:00 AM, together with a cup of red raspberry leaf tea. Although I thought I would go to sleep much earlier, more like 2:00 AM, I didn't do so until after 5:00 AM. My reaction is merely of curious mindfulness.

Peppermint leaves… I must go to our local fabulous herbal medicinals store today for bulk peppermint leaves, that I plan to cold brew in the sunshine. I did not get to the Herb store. Will do so tomorrow, today is a stats holiday.

late afternoon- 18 oz of water then a bended matcha tea that looked like this: hemp seed a couple of teaspoons, almond milk, 1/2 tsp matcha tea, added hot water. wow! then indigestion eeewwww, possibly because my digestive system was not ready for food yet today, minor distraction.

'Sweet Rhythm, The Healing Feeling'
-Djembe Mug by pottery artist Goldie Sherman, Guelph ON

4:45 PM spanning over the next 2.5 hours I staggered my eating, it wasn't a decision to do so. When jotting down the time I noticed my eating behaviour.

smoothie of blackberries, carrot, butternut squash, kale, almond milk, celery, phytogreens pwd. with 6 phytogreen caps and 2 orti C. 2 blackberry tarts, some pecans, a small dish of mango chutney with veggie chips.

Eating day ended at 9:00 PM with a grapefruit and some pecans.

Lymph, keep it moving

For many many years I had dry skin brushed as a mostly daily routine, on off throughout the years. Then about a year and a half ago I stopped and haven't gotten back to it even though at times I think to. Dry skin brushing is wonderful to keep the lymph moving. For a number of months now I have been ending my morning shower with alternating hot/cool flows of water which also helps to keep lymph moving. Do you do anything to help your lymph to cleanse?

A few years back I did the 5 Tibetan Rites for about a year and a half. I liked the effect the rites promoted and I am keen to get doing them once again. The 5 Tibetan Rites work with aligning the chakras. Another practice I incorporate when I feel a need is hands on chakra alignment cleanse. It is transformational with releasing blocked energy. The profundity of this simple self-treatment never ceases to amaze me.

The morning captured me experiencing the enjoyment of drinking warm matcha tea.

12:18 PM salad plate of romaine, red onion, mustard dressing, red pepper, sunflower pate

2:45 PM frothy icy cantaloupe smoothie

3:17 PM blackberry tart
at this point I realize how fast the day is going and how much more I want to accomplish today!

5:00 PM butternut squash salad

9:14 PM salad of romaine, tomatoes, pecans, mustard dressing

9:45 PM two blackberry tarts

11:00ish PM dish of frozen fruit homogenized topped with pecans

33 oz of water today

a young friend painted pictures for me today, this is one of them.
I call it 'Flowers, Trees and Them'. She painted it while standing and prefers to sit.

'Wild Waters' Painted while sitting

so little to verbally say today :)

mango Chutney ready to stir(by hand)

lunch

new batch of chia pudding with blueberries, blackberries, coconut water which I ate some of after lunch. Chia causes my lips to chap, overnight. Prolly overdosed myself. My stomach felt a strange full feeling, small yet hard full. Definitely a food to eat small portion of. It would be great to mix with fruit and add as layers to fruit & veggie cakes.

some nutritional information regarding Chia.
15 x more Magnesium than broccoli
5x more Calcium than milk
8x more Omega 3 than salmon
2x more Iron than spinach
More Potassium than Banana
More Antioxidants than blueberries, strawberries and cranberries
20% Complete Protein
40% Fibre content
Gluten Free
Pesticide free
It contains all 9 essential amino acids making it a complete protein.


evening- supper large garden salad

Greetz!

water 20 oz. first thing this AM

7:14 AM a small bowl of chia pudding with added almond milk.

1:10 PM nori rolls using raw nori sheets from Japan(purchased before the tsunami), julienned beet, cucumber and carrot, sprouted sunflower pate, green onion, mustard dressing, a side of the pate, sweet yellow pepper and pecans. mmmmMMMM! then a bowl of chia pudding … it all smacked of the very finest of food.

2:50 PM macha tea with almond milk, coconut water and a wee bit of coconut crystals

1.5 hour brisk walk at the beach where the scenery is always interesting, fresh, full of nature breathing, moving, playing, living

a greyed down day yet the sun dazzled the water

6:32 PM veggie chips with mariana sauce and almond/pecan cheese. a smoothie of carrot, beet, cucumber, coconut meat, coconut water, blackberries, phytogreens pwd., orange, plums, kale, icecubes. 6 caps phytogreens and 2 orti C caps, and some pecans.

sometime during the evening a large pink grapefruit and a small bowl of the pudding made me a happy eater.
It was so cool/cold out today that I wore a heavy wool sweater under my denim jacket. Seems the one month of summer has come and gone.

Island View Beach, a long walk

She's come undone, and that is good

10:26 AM 2 7/8 cups of water. I wasn't the least bit interested in any water or food until this time.
following the water: a large pink grapefruit and a handful of nuts (walnuts/pecans soaked and dehydrated)

12:50 PM lunch pizza and a tart. The pizza: wrap dehydrated more than usual used for the base, almond/pecan cheese, mariana sauce, raw olives, fresh from my garden- basil leaves, sun dried tomato, red onion, sunflower pate(of sprouted sunflower seeds with fresh parsley and minced dill pickles> all surrounded by fresh from my garden, beans; a WOW(!)echoes from the chambers of my pleasure.

It was a shared lunch. A 'more please'(!)lunch.

3:30 PM matcha tea, a bliss ball and small lemon macaroon

8:00ish PM a tart topped with almond/pecan cheese, a couple forks full of the spectacular sunflower pate.

10:00ish PM a pink grapefruit

made a batch of almond milk and chia pudding for maybe- breakfast.

Tally Ho!

Hari Om Tat Sat

8:24 AM smoothie of yam, turnip, kale, blueberries, blackberries, phytogreens pwd., carrot, hemp butter-- it is more like a pudding than a smoothie; it is smooth.

1:02 PM Salad of garden lettuce, parsley, spinach, roma tomato, red onion, pecans added part way through eating it, with mustard dressing (yes, I really really love that dressing and it is quick and easy to prepare).

Following the salad, a blackberry tart.

water 16.5 oz.

6:00 PM Strawberry peach cobbler I also purchased last night from Bliss Cafe

6:46 PM mango chutney, falafels, veggie chips; the chutney was so spicy hot that I added a dill pickle.

7:52 PM blackberry tart with cheese and a side of grapes

I get hungrier and eat more when the weather gets colder, like a bear preparing to hibernate, she says as she fills her face full of the rest of the grapes. It is good to see from this perspective what I eat. It shows me how little I need.

Today, a 1 hour brisk walk.

A really creative video