Another day added to the string of pearls....

Had a nice night last night, we went for a late dinner to one of our fave Italian restaurants. We three split a caesar salad--very yummy with red onions, and I ordered the fresh mushroom sauce over veggies. Perfect for me. I love having something to order there that is satisfying and leaves me feeling great. We three were all in good spirits enjoyed one another.
I felt so good about the easy good choices I made.

Lots of thoughts about my talk with Don, sharing with D and liking what an easy connection it was. He said that when he was out at a restaurant/bar with our classmates and he was feeling like he was 13 again, it felt like he was tripping. lol Said he got speedy like he was at 13, talking a mile a minute and seeing them as they were, 50 yrs ago! This is the perfect time for us to reconnect, and I am grateful to MJ for that, he said he is too.

D and I talked about how the 'victim' story is dissapating. He feels the residue around money and I around food/weight, but both are close to done. Contaminated by awareness, the story no longer holds. Exciting. I said that letting go of the victim energy with Wendy will free us even more.

On our ride this am we talked about starting a foundation to educate and support families of struggling/Indigo teens. We got very energized by the thought of doing our work with families and kids like us and Justin. I feel that if we have the idea, the $$ is already on the way, no worries. Did I tell you that I am playing with the idea of a program that is set up sort of like RFBC for Everyday Joy? I am kicking it around, a subscription thing with multiple components, along with the books, coaching, courses, etc. Last night I dreamed that I was asked to do two EDJ workshops and planned and wrote them up very thoughtfully and completely, and it turned out I was really being asked to participate in a workshop,not lead one. When I found that out, I thought well, cool, now I've got two fabulous workshops ready to roll. Jennifer Anniston was in the dream, it all took place at her father's home, and she had a small bedroom in a guesthouse, the bed was like a loft bed.. Linda was there and at the end of the workshop, we all drank from a small metal cup with a diluted ayahuasca drink. I love whatever is being stirred up. I feel like cobwebs are being swept away. I like this a lot. I feel more alive than I have in a while and happy.

We're back from our ride, I'm having one of those yummy coco smoothies and it's getting ready to rain. Oh yeah, get this, earlier we were riding along our favorite part of the ride, a pedestrian road that goes through the Charles Deering summer estate and is beautiful and heavily treed. It is where I was when I knew MJ had died, where I was when I had the vision of my dying cousin Dick being carried down the stairs by his son. So we were in a state of excitement and enthusisam about our foundation idea--very in sync with each other and the concept. The sky was dark and rumbling with light thunder. All of a sudden, to our left up ahead, a loud CRACK! and two big tree branches fell to the ground into the brush. Whoa! We could see that they were live, not dead branches. Concluded that it was a lightening strike. And took it as a sign from the U that YES!! GREAT IDEA!! I APPROVE!! we both loved how it felt to get a blast of that divine energy!!

I got two more avos from my neighbor, the guac and pico were yummy yesterday. I am on a good eating roll. And here is my new story today:

• I am full of life and passion
• I live and let live, lovingly
• I make very wholesome food choices easily
• I am releasing all that no longer serves me--stories, foods, weight, control
• I am happy and grateful
• I am so in love with my soulmate husband
• I love seeing my son grow into young manhood
• I know that my daughter and I are healing our relationships so that we can be together again
• My life is an incredible unfolding masterpiece
• I am stringing conscious, cognizant, successful days together effortlessly
• I choose consciousness over comfort now
• I am beautiful, interesting, funny, powerful and attractive

Foods eaten today:

• Smoothie, coco,pineapple, strawbs, banana, hemp, flax, maca, cocoa, agave
• Banana, walnuts
• water
• small saladwith evoo, 6 small spin ravioli with tom sauce
• one roll
• 2 handsfull peanut m&m's

enJOY!

Good news and good food.....

I weighed 225.5 on Wednesday morning. This morning I am down 3.5 pounds to 222. I've gotta believe that this is about letting go in deep, energetic ways and changing my story. Yay!

I just got back from a bike ride with my husband in the beautiful South Florida summer morning and we are sharing a fabulous smoothie with:

• 2 cups baby coconut water and meat
• 1 banana
• 1+ cup frozen strawberries
• 1 1/2 cups frozen pineapple
• 1-2 T agave syrup
• 2Tflax seed
• 2T hemp seed
• 1/2 to 3/4 cup water for consistency

Blend all in VitaMix. (I reserve a little of this and add some water, 1 T maca and 1 T raw cocoa powder, blend and drink. Got my superfoods in that way and still enjoy the pure goodness of the fruits in the smoothie.) I'll make another one later for lunch with the rest of the coconut water and meat. How lucky can a girl get!

Living here in Miami, we hit the motherlode last week when our neighbor was trimming his trees and had dozens of green coconuts he wanted to get rid of! We've got so many we're thinking we can't use them fast enough so will open a bunch and freeze the water and meat in ziplocs.

After I write this I'm making my famous guacamole and pico de gallo.

Guac:

• 1 medium Florida avocado
• 1/2 red onion, chopped
• juice of one lemon
• 1T cumin
• 1t ground coriander
• sea salt to taste

Mash avo with a fork, mash in the rest of the ingredients. Enjoy with flax crackers or raw veggies, or on top of taco 'meat' or marinated veggies, etc. Or take it with to when you go out to dinner and put it on top of your restaurant salad for a great dinner.

Pico de Gallo:

• 3-4 medium tomatoes or 2 cups grape tomatoes,
• 1/2 medium white onion
• good handful of fresh cilantro
• juice of one lime
• jalapeno pepper to taste
• sea salt, optional

Chop onion in food processor, add tomatoes, cilantro and the other ingredients and pulse til desired consistency. Sometimes I eat this like gazpacho, it's so amazingly good!

I make these so often I could do it in my sleep. lol

Today my mantra is: EAT WHATEVER YOU WANT AS LONG AS IT'S RAW.

• I love being alive
• I see that everything is working out for the highest good of everyone
• I am patient with life's process
• I am letting go of fear and control in favor of trust and peace
• I have a brand new story about food, weight and bodylove
• Today is a brand new day and I'm grateful for new opportunities to love
• I am live in my body and love the buzz I feel
• I am eager, conscious and open
• My life becomes whatever I want it to become
• I am blessed beyond all imagining
• I have all I need and all I want

enJOY this new day!

PS Food eaten today

• Smoothie
• Smoothie
• 2 figs andwalnuts
• Some guac and pico and a few flax chips
• BigCheese: small caesar salad, side of mushrooms YAY!

Still Friday.....

I am looking at what I am eating, what I want to eat and what my true goals are. This is the only way I can determine if what I am doing will bring me closer to or farther from my goals.

So far eating high raw, with the pizza, pie, etc thrown in is not allowing me to release weight. I know when I am eating all raw,even with higher fats like evoo, or avo, I do begin to let go of the weight, and this is even with a 'bite' of this or that now and then. But not with the cooked being a staple part of my diet.

My goals are to:

• Achieve easier, steady, permanent weight release down to my ideal weight of around 140 lbs.
• Maintain normal blood sugar/A1C levels---like my last bloodwork showed
• Digest food more easily
• Stop the illusion of guesswork about food and weight
• Enjoy the emotional, spiritual balance and radiance of a healthy lifestyle

I am changing my story about my ability to choose to do this for myself. All of the old reasons 'why not' are falling away. They're being replaced with the knowing that if I want to, I can.

So, the beginning of my new story is.... well, actually I've already written it in a journaling exercise I created called "What's playing at the movies?" which allows you to script, detail and FEEL the reality you want in order to allow it to manifest in your life. Mine is very detailed and I will read it every day. It has to do with making the decision to eat a very high raw diet and finally find the peace and joy of releasing not only the excess weight but the struggle and obsession with the food plans. It has to do with closure on the past and opening to a more joyful future. I will focus on this new story A LOT.

This journaling exercise (and others like it) will be available soon in ebook or online course form soon at my spiritual life coaching website http://www.everydayjoy.com/

So I'm off to eat some beautiful fruit and read my movie script. :-))

enJOY!!

Every day a new beginning.....

Yesterday I ate beautiful oranges, and cherries that were perfect. I made a big smoothie and spilled it all over my office carpet. I had a small slice of pizza and a tiny sliver of homemade apple pie. They both tasted good. I didn't eat much. And I was satisfied, totally.

I see that I am able to keep my emotional balance very well despite what goes on around me. I keep choosing love and trust, and releasing fear. I've worked hard over many years to be able to do this. My barometer is my stomach/solar plexus. When I am in fear it burns and hurts. When I am in love and trust it is peaceful and comfortable. I know a few energy clearing techniques taht work really well for me and I use them.

Today I have half a smoothie waiting for me in the fridge (the half I didn't spill--lol). I have oranges and cherries and mangos and apples, and the guac and pico I didn't get around to making yesterday.

I am up earlier than usual and it's a perfect day for a long ride.

I am putting everything into God's hands. And I drop my shoulders as I think that thought--I relax into it.

My friend since the fourth grade passed away yesterday from cancer. I am sad that she is no longer in the world and my heart breaks for her family. The last glimpse I had of her was a photo of her in the fifth grade....there she was, that funny, light, sweet Mary Jane. We liked each other the instant we met, had so much fun together all through elementary, high school and college, double dated and were in each other's weddings, and although we didn't have a lot of contact in later years, when we did it was warm and wonderful. I will miss her. And her passing reminds me that I have choice in terms of how I care for my body to maintain well being and radiant health.

• Today I am present and loving for myself and others
• I accept my emotions and allow them to flow
• I enjoy eating fresh beautiful foods that truly nourish me and feel good in my body
• I am active and alive
• I offer love where there is fear
• I accept and love myself and others with our faults and foibles
• I trust that everyone is on an unfolding path toward love and light
• Today I take time to meditate
• Today I take time to be aware and present
• Today I take time to care lovingly for myself
• I am committed to improving the ways I take care of myself
• I am grateful for all of the experiences of being alive to day.

I am changing my story about who I am and how I am and what is possible for me in all aspects of my life and relationships. I'm excited about this and look forward to thinking and writing more about it later today, and I am planning to made a vision board

enJOY~

Let's string some days together!

Yesterday was good, I biked, I had a big smoothie that made two meals, a lara bar at the movies, some oranges, ,and few handsful of good clean popcorn. A bunch of water. I only ate when I was hungry, the smoothies kept me quite a long time. It was wonderful to THINK I wanted something to eat but ask if I was really hungry and when the answer was NO, had water and that was it.
Here's what was in that big smoothie:
banana
strawberries
blueberries
apple
almonds
hempseed
flaxseed
maca
cocoa
yogurt
agave
YUM! a feast fit for a queen!

I have a slight headache this morning, maybe some detox..bring it on!
I am going biking this morning, a long ride. I'll be making that smoothie again, have stuff for a spinach salad, bought beautiful cara cara navel oranges...they're back in season! and some tomatoes and I have a nice big avocado from my neighbor that's perfect to use today. So some guac and pico. I also decided that when I go out for dinner and am planning to have a salad, I'll bring some avocado and pico to put on it.
I want this to be a sort of no brainer, not up for grabs every day in terms of what to eat. My commitment to myself is to pay attention and make choices that bring me closer to what I want.

What I want is to feel good in my body, to honor my emotions, to care for myself lovingly, and to eat and act and think in ways that allow me to release the excess fat I carry on my body. I am getting flashes of what I'll look like when I've released that weight, and it's not the same ME I used to envision...she was younger.lol No, this me is ME but smaller, lighter and very radiant and joyful.

All the emotional work I have done in my life, esp these past two years has brought me to today. I want to honor myself by taking the time, effort and attention it requires to care for myself beautifully.

So I want to string another 'pearl' of a day together today. I was inspired by someone who said her son who has had drug and alcohol issues has strung 100 clean days together. Bravo!!

• I love myself and the way I care for myself reflects that love
• I am enough
• I have enough of all that I need and want
• I am loved
• I love deeply
• My emotions light my path toward joy and well being
• I allow myself lightness and joy
• I choose beautiful, fresh, delicious foods to nourish my body
• I choose fun activities
• I support my loved ones on their journeys to joy and well being
• All is well.....now and always
• I relax into God's arms and allow all to be handled without me
  
  Here we go!

Paradigm shifts......

Once again I am inspired and motivated to eat raw foods. Inching my way toward this lifestyle is a process. I find the desire comes after eating SAD and experiencing the effects of it on my mind;/body. It's then that I want raw and more raw. Simple raw, salads, avocado, pico, fruit, lots of water, smoothies.
I am also aware that to change the state of my body requires a paradigm shift and I am asking for guidance about that. Einstein said you can't solve a problem on the same level of thinking that created it, so thinking about diet and exercise is not where it's at. I have to change my thinking errors to change my reality. What I have today is a result of my thinking, and if I want something different it will only come from different thinking...but only ALWAYS.

I am light
I am nourished
I am safe
All the ones I love are safe
All the ones I love are safe
I am cherished
I know how to cherish myself and others
I am precious and beautiful
I am worthy of the effort to care for myself
I am worthy of the effort to allow my dreams to come true