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| Lori before losing 100 pounds, 1999. | Lori after |
YOU, FOOD, LAUGHTER & TRANSFORMATION
6 week class beginning Monday March 15th (time 7:00PM)
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$180 per person
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Are you sick of throwing out vegetables because you didn’t have time to wash and cut them. Are you ready to save time and save money in the long run.
Instead of throwing out your vegetables, how about ordering a veggie tray from your local grocery store. Call the day before you do your shopping and order a Vegetable tray with NO dip, tell them you want it after 12:00 the next day. This usually insures that they wash, clean and cut up the veggies the morning you pick it up.
When you get that tray home, bag up the veggies into zip lock bags or containers. Now you have clean, prepared veggies at your finger tips. They are great for a stir fry, in a soup, to add to a sauce, to use in a casserole or to just snack on.
Don’t like something on the tray, make it a special order and only get what you like on the tray.
You can do this weekly and enjoy clean, freshly cut, tasty vegetables whenever you want. I love having fresh veggies in the house and you will too.
I have finished my first E-Book and I am very excited to share it with you. Soon it will be available for FREE . Sign up for my E-Newsletter and you will receive the link for the book. It should be available by Monday the 8th.
Here is a little blurb from the book, enjoy.
Any weight loss is a success; don’t tie yourself to a number so tightly that you feel you have failed if you don’t reach “the goal.” There is more to weight loss than just the numbers on the scale. Pay attention to how you feel, are you in control, breathing easier, more active. Success is not the finish line it is the journey, pay close attention to the changes you are making in your day to day life. All these factors go into your “goal” weight. Base your success on how you feel, not just physically but mentally as well. The scale and the weight charts are just one measure of your results.
It is scientifically impossible to be both grateful and depressed at the same time -Wallace Wattles
I just came across this while reading Philosophers Notes (Brian Wilson) and had to share it with you. Please make a list of 10 things you are grateful for. Any 10 things, right now, make a list. Is it made? Do you have it in front of you? Spend a few minutes each day reviewing this list and think of it throughout each day. It needn’t be elaborate, just things or people that you are grateful for.
Here are a few on my list that I quickly made when I paused my notes to write them down. Diet coke, clean running hot and cold water, my laptop, Samantha and Homer (Pets), Andy, my Clients, my slippers, and my warm and dry house.
Again look at your list daily, be in gratitude, all good comes from gratitude.
Thank you for reading this and being in my life, I am grateful that I am able to share with you.
“I am where I am, and that is okay.” I heard this quote on a CD from the book The Astonishing Power of Emotions by Jerry and Esther Hicks. I was driving and it brought tears to my eyes. Something so simple, yet so very powerful. I know that accepting what is in our life is crucial to moving forward, but not blaming ourselves for where we are is pure freedom.
I think since last week when I heard it, I have been digesting it over and over again. Letting it really sink into the very core of me. I repeat it multiple times daily and it is wonderful. There are no more recriminations about anything. Any choices that I have made have brought me here, for better or worse, which of course is just my perspective anyway. But knowing that I can change where I am going by a thought, a choice, an action, well that is freedom. Acceptance is the start of change, if I am not willing to accept who I am at this given moment how will I ever grow or change.
My deepest wish for you is to read these words I AM WHERE I AM, AND THAT IS OKAY and start to shift. To truly accept where you are, for me this is on many levels, not just my weight. But it is refreshing not to say, if I hadn’t had ???? over the holidays I would be 5 pounds less, etc. The truth is I am where I am, and that is okay. I can only change the past by thinking differently of it, so today I choose to accept where I am, as I am and to take actions from this place. Not from where I wish I was, or where I want to be, but from where I am right now in this moment.
My goal for myself and for you is not to just get to the “right” weight, my intention for us all is to enjoy the journey. To accept it all, the highs (weight loss, loose clothes, passing up 2nd’s on your favorite dish) and the lows (weight gain, tight clothes, going for 2nd’s or 3rd’s) and to be okay with it each day, each moment knowing that we are all okay just exactly as we are.
May 2010 bring you great acceptance and love of yourself, the very best gift you can give and receive.
Happy, Healthy 2010!
Today is my final day of the detox, for breakfast I had an organic apple and a glass of organic tomato juice. For lunch I added in organic lentils. I had the lentils over brown and wild rice over spinach, spring mix and some brocolli. If you told me 2 weeks ago that I would love that, I would have thought you were crazy…it has to have some meat or chicken to be really good. But it was delicious.
I also went to an organic farm today and bought some heirloom tomatoes, I am going to cut those up with some organic basil for dinner tonight over rice. YUM! I also bought organic Medjool Dates, it’s like eating candy they are so sweet and good. If you have never had one, just buy one at your local grocery store and try it, you can thank me later.
I still haven’t had an hunger pangs, mostly I get lightheaded, that’s how I know it is time to eat. I am very excited that I completed my goal with this detox. I will pay very close attention to what foods I add back into my diet and how they make me feel. A friend just compared it to being like a baby, adding each new food and seeing what/how it works for you. I like that comparison very much and look forward to determining what makes me feel the best.
Have a wonderful evening and a healthy tomorrow!
Good Morning! I have finished my morning walk, and I skipped the elliptical today since I have weight training tonight. The detox is going great, I am about to have my first solid food in 7 days. Yesterday day 10 of the detox/fasting journey was my last day of just organic juices, of which I did 7 days. I will break my fast with an organic Apple, I am a bit nervous about this but will have it anyway. I am not really hungry though my stomach is still making lots of noise. I did have my tomato juice to start the morning. I feel strange knowing that I am going to eat, a part of me doesn’t want to and another part of me believes it is time. It is a very different feeling that I can’t define. I think because I have found this to be so easy and eliminating all food choices and knowing that I am only having juice has relieved all pressure. I expend no energy on thoughts of food, it’s been wonderful. It is amazing how much time and energy we can put into thoughts of food. Not just the unhealthy, but as simple as what will I have for breakfast, etc, are we going out for dinner? There have been no thoughts of that, it is strictly we are having juice. It reminds me of when I was very strict with a meal plan and followed it exactly for 4 weeks, no excuses, and no changes. Once you make up your mind, the discipline actually sets you free. Perhaps that is what is holding me back from the apple, I think I give up some of the discipline, but that is up to me. I can still be disciplined. Okay I am going to get the apple.
I am very grateful for all that I have learned during this process so far and I look forward to learning even more over the next few days as I reintegrate food into my life. I am excited that friends that have watched me do this are going to give it a try, not to the extreme, but to do the detox portion, not the fasting portion. It makes me feel great that people want to be healthy and are willing to make a change and an effort to be that way.
If you have been reading my blog for the past week you know that I have been detoxing my body and mind. Well over the past couple of days lots more clarity on what triggers me. Not just my own emotions but those of the people around me that I love. I find this extraordinarily interesting. Here’s the big difference, when I get anxious my pattern is to reach for food, it calms me. However, when people are upset around me, I want to feed them. YIKES!
I have been going back in my memories to see if I can recall this occuring in my life. My Mom was not a eat you’ll feel better person, but my Dad definitely ate through his stress. I picked up his pattern, I am leaving that pattern daily.
What I notice is how much I miss the act of cooking, it’s not so much the actual eating, but the cooking. I love to cook, it has always been very calming for me. It allows my creative juices to flow, it keeps me active and it takes my mind off of whatever is bothering me. Over the past 10 years I have learned to cook very healthy, low calorie meals so it has worked out great.
But and this is a big but, I have not cooked for anyone since last Wednesday and with emotions running wild due to the Detox I realize how much a part of my life cooking is. I am truly loving how much I am learning and what is coming up during this process. I hope that even if you don’t do as long or extreme a detox, I do really hope that you do some kind of detox.
It has been a thrill so far and still no physical hunger, and not one headache either. What a fabulous 8 days, I am looking forward to more feelings coming up and more learning. It has truly been a wonderful experience so far.
Today is my 4th day of organic juice only and still no hunger. I have found the psychological side of not eating intriguing, how I have wanted to cook and eat due to emotions rising, but not from hunger. Not giving myself the option I must just accept the feelings and be with them.
I would have thought the bigger challenge would be dealing with the physical hunger, not the emotional issues that are coming up due to not eating. Along with my body clearing all the toxins, so is my brain and mind, I look forward to the next few days to see what comes up.
