How many times have you said to yourself, “I have to lose weight”, “I have to go to the gym more often”, “I have to eat healthier”, etc.

We tend to do the same resolutions every year, but nothing happens because we are simply not ready. We know that at some point we will have to decide what we really want.

What we think, believe and do is a reflection of our internal balance and harmony with ourselves. When we become conscious of that it becomes easier to make proper food choices.

The approach to healthy eating is a slow transition.

 

 

1.    LOVE YOURSELF

Find a quiet, peaceful moment in your busy schedule. Create a personal space using candles, incense, flowers and stones in your favourite room.
Think about all the good things that happened to you lately – especially when you feel down or caught in negative feelings. Be grateful for everything you have: health, people that you love and that love you, your parents, your spouse, friends etc. Write down your affirmations. Visualize what you would like to create in your life and sense it as if it is happening right now (health, slender body, happiness, harmony), and practice love, peace and compassion.

 

 

2.    LOVE YOUR FOOD

Listen to your Body. How do you feel emotionally, physically and spiritually after ingesting certain foods?  What are your cravings? Incorporate one food at a time and experiment with it. Prepare your food with love, as it will aid in digestion. Create your own recipes in order to develop a relationship with food.

 

 

3.    LET IT GO

Our body needs natural food, rich in nutrients and enzymes without pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, and that has not been irradiated, packaged, processed and genetically modified. Eliminate them!  Remember what you put in your body is what you become. If you put junk in your body, your body becomes a junk yard, and if you put superfoods in your body you become healthy, happy, and beautiful in body, mind and spirit. A work of art!

 

 

4.    EAT SUPERFOODS

Superfoods will detoxify your body and nourish and rejuvenate the cells. These life-force foods include fruits, vegetables, and raw or sprouted seeds and nuts. Think about live, organic food taken from the garden and solar-powered with the sun’s energy. When we eat this food, this energy is transferred into our body and gives us energy, youthfulness, and well-being.

SEA VEGETABLES: Eat spirulina, dulse, wakame, arame, kombu, or chlorella on a daily basis. They are packed with trace minerals, and they remove toxic chemicals and metals from the body. Toss them on salads or use in soups.
VEGETABLES: Make your own salad with radicchio, green leafy lettuce, arugula, and dandelion. You can add beans or radishes and sprinkle on some ground flaxseeds, pumpkin seeds, or dulse.
WHOLE GRAINS: Eat fibre such as basmati brown rice, amaranth hemp seeds, kamut breads and Quinoa. They are important for digestive health and efficient bowel movements.

GOJI BERRIES: Packed with nutrients and fiber, eat this fruit at least ½ hour before your meal. Have a bowl of fruit in the morning. Mix apples, papayas, mangoes, pineapples, bananas, pears and sprinkle with Goji berries.

SEEDS AND NUTS: Eat almonds, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, and brazil nuts. For better digestion soak seeds and nuts over night.

SMOOTHIES: Mix hemp or rice protein with almond or soy milk in a blender.  Add some maca and/or bee pollen, as well as frozen bananas. It is yummy and filling.

WATER: Drink water that has gone through reverse osmosis.  Make sure that you get at least two litres of water a day to help your body remove toxic waste, especially if you drink coffee and alcohol, which are diuretics and promote fluid loss.

GREEN TEA: Drink this instead of coffee. It is a potent antioxidant, contains flavonoids, helps regulate blood sugar, and is anti-inflammatory.

LEAN PROTEIN:  Fish, eggs, and chicken are very good for non-vegetarians.

 
5.    EXERCISE

There is no weight loss and fit body without exercise. Adding 30 to 45 minutes of gentle physical exercise such as walking, cycling, and dancing will promote cleansing of the blood by stimulating circulation and perspiration. It will increase strength and well-being, and reduce stress. Be around people that exercise regularly and eat healthy!

 

 

Treat your body, your temple, the house of your soul with care and respect. You want to make the best choices for your body; you want to eat the best food available on the planet.

Do you have difficulty waking up in the morning and feeling sluggish all day long? It could be your diet?

We all need energy to function properly. We need energy for grow, repair and functioning of our organs. One way to increase the energy is to eat properly. We live in a fast paste society where everything needs to be done quickly we don’t have time to sit down and enjoy our food.

Our busy schedule and level of stress forces us to skip meals, than we get this tempting craving for sweets like donuts, chocolate, chocolate bars, coffee potato chips, and french fries. These refined carbs will elevate insulin and makes you tired after. Refined carbs stresses our body and still energy from us.

 

Our body needs natural food, rich in nutrients and enzymes and grown without pesticides, herbicides, fungicides etc. This is super-bio-energetic food that will nourish your body and rejuvenate your cells. These life-force foods are fruits and vegetables, and raw or sprouted seeds and nuts. Think about live, organic food taken from the garden, full of suns energy (solar powered). By eating this food we transfer this energy into our body. It will make us stronger, and give us abundant energy and stamina.

 

It is good to have five balanced meals a day (3 meals and 2 snacks).

The trick is to be conscious of the food you are eating. Plan ahead so you can have healthy snacks on hand all the time.

 

9  ENERGY BOOSTERS

 

1. GREEN FOODS concentrates are nourishing and also easy to prepare. You can mix them with unsweetened fruit juice or pure water until dissolved. It is preferable to take greens on an empty stomach or 15 – 20 minutes before a meal. You can start with a 1 teaspoon in the morning. Grate drink whether it is at work, school or on the road.
2. SMOOTHIES – live foods and very easy to prepare in a blender and there you go. You can mix them with fruits, and it can be a whole meal if mixed with soaked nuts and seeds. For instance hemp protein mixed with raspberries or blueberries, you can also add some goji berries and maca powder. After drinking the smoothie you will feel energized, alert, happy, stressless and have no cravings for junk.
3. MUNCH OF VEGGIES – Fresh celery sticks, fennel, baby carrots, red radishes, red peppers, with a sunflower deep that you can prepare ahead of time (recipe below) hummus, almond, hemp and sunflower nut butters are also fabulous healthy snacks.
4. TRAIL MIX – mix your own seeds and nuts such as almonds, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, and brazil nuts. For better digestion soak seeds and nuts over night. You can also add some dry un-sulphured apricots, dates, figs, raisins goji berries, and they can also be soaked. These is calorie-dense snack, try to eat them only two to three times a week. Raw energy bars are also delicious alternatives if you don’t have time to prepare a snack.
5. ROLL-IT-UP – kamut pitas, raw Nori sheets. Fill them with hummus, different home-made raw spreads, add some fresh veggies and you are done. You can find some healthy crackers in a health food store. You just need a good dip.
6. AIR-POPPED popcorn preferably organic, another good snack to go. I recommend to find organic corn kernels that you can pop them on the stove or in the oven. Add some coconut oil or butter, some of your favourite herbs and spices.
7. FRUITS – good snack especially when eaten on empty stomach. Eat fruit at least ½ hour before your meal. Have a bowl of fruit every day. Mix apples, papayas, pineapples, bananas and pears. Papayas and pineapples  needs to be prepared in bite size pieces ahead of time and store in a plastic container
8. WATER – REVERSE OSMOSIS – sip it throughout a day. Make sure that you get at least two litres of water a day. Fill up the container in the morning so you know by the end of the day how much water you actually drink. Remember if you drink coffee you would need even more water because coffee dehydrates your body.
9. GREEN TEA – drink it instead of coffee. It is a potent antioxidant, it contains flavonoids, helps regulate blood sugar, and is anti-inflammatory.

 

Snacks can be the important part of our hectic lifestyle. It needs to be nourishing, easy to prepare, but good to eat. These are just a few suggestions that you can plan ahead for your new journey to a conscious eating.

 

 

 

 

 

When my niece was diagnosed with cancer I become emotionally stressed and depressed.I was thinking: ‘she is too young, she can’t die just like that, I have to save her… but how?’ ‘O K’, I thought, ‘I will take care of the food and supplements. That is all I can do with my knowledge and expertise.’

I wanted to teach her how to eat healthy, and to appreciate food that nature provides. I wanted for her to become fully developed in mind body and spirit.

Walking through the garden was always a joyful experience. I introduced her to a variety of flavourful fruits and vegetables. She smelled them, touched them and picked them fresh.

It has been nine years since we started this journey of conscious eating. She is a powerful fourteen years old girl, who swims, rollerblades, bikes, hugs the trees and meditates. But the most important is that she is cancer free. 

Here are a few DO’S and DONT’S that she has learned throughout her precious years.

DO’S

Decorate your plate with cruciferous vegetables such as cabbage, broccoli, brussels sprouts, bok choy, onion, garlic. They are fabulous cancer fighters, potent phytochemical compounds that plants use for their own protection.

Eat bitter greens such as endive, arugula, dandelion, swish chard. They are packed with vitamin C, vitamin A and beta carotene.

Have Turmeric every day. According to Ayurveda, turmeric is the top anti-cancer herb. It is good for digestion, is antibacterial, and has an anti-inflammatory properties.

Turmeric is more effective when used in cooking. Just sauté ½ teaspoon of turmeric in olive oil. You can use it on salads or in grain dishes.

Eat sea vegetables such as spirulina, dulse, wakame, arame, kombu, chlorella on a daily basis. They are packed with trace minerals, and they remove toxic chemicals and metals from the body. Toss them on salads or use in soups.

Munch on nuts and seeds such as almonds, walnuts, Brazil nuts. They nourish  the brain, and contain protein, vitamin E and calcium. Soak them over night before eating them for better digestion.

Eat fibre such as basmati brown rice, amaranth hemp seeds, kamut breads and quinoa. They are important for digestive health and efficient bowel movements.

Juicing: fresh fruits and vegetables. They are easy to absorb and the enzymes aid in digestion, assimilation, and detoxification. Buy a good quality juicer that can juice all vegetables and plant food, including stems, peels, seeds and grass.

Use coconut oil. It is rich in medium chain triglycerides.  MCTs help the body metabolize fat efficiently. Coconut oil contains lauric acid which has anti-bacterial and anti-viral properties. It is safe for cooking and even frying (which I don’t recommend) and it is non toxic at high temperatures.

Buy organic food as much as possible. Studies show that organic food produces higher levels of vitamins and minerals and that using chemicals, pesticides and herbicides deprives our foods of vitamins, minerals, enzymes and macronutrients.

DON’TS

Eat processed (fat and sugary) food like cheesecake, commercial muffins, ice cream, potato chips, donuts, and cinnamon roll. It will imbalance blood sugar level and nerve chemicals, affect emotional wellbeing, and make you crave food even more.

Use partially hydrogenated oils such as palm oil, margarine, vegetable shortening, and bottled salad dressings. They are full of dangerous chemicals that are associated with heart disease and arthritis.

Use leftovers. Older foods are mouldy, lose vitality and are harder to digest.

Buy frozen pizza and other processed food from the freezer. They are full of chemicals, additives and preservatives. Processed food is dead food.

Eat a lot of meat especially commercially raised. Animals accumulate environmental toxins in their organs and fatty tissues. They cause cancer, heart disease and arteriosclerosis.

Eat fruits with other food. Fruit digests better by itself and leaves the stomach within half an hour. Otherwise it will ferment in the stomach, especially if your last meal was meat.

Eat past 8 pm. If you eat after 8 pm your insulin level will rise and you will not be able to have a deep sleep, and feel rejuvenated, fresh, rested and full of energy in the morning.