Sexy, Fit and Fabulous for 2014

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”, I want to look sexy, fit and fabulous.

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. We want to look sexy, fit and fabulous!

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, sexy, fit and fabulous 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,sexy, fit and fabulous 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 milk in a blender.  Add some maca and/or bee pollen, as well as frozen bananas. It is so 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 and we want to be sexy, fit and fabulous.

HERB BROCCOLI SALAD

2 cups broccoli, chopped in florets

1 yellow red bell pepper, cubed

2 tbsp capers, sundried

1 lemon, freshly squeezed

2 tbsp olive oil

1 tsp garlic, minced

½ tsp marjoram, dry

½ tsp sage, dry

Celtic salt to taste

Sunflower seeds

 

Combine broccoli, red bell pepper, capers, lemon, olive oil, garlic, marjoram, sage and salt in a salad bowl

Marinate the mixture for ½ hour

Sprinkle with sunflower seeds

 

 

Healing with Colours of Food

Each food carries a vibration and each colour of the rainbow has its own frequency. For example, freshly picked vegetables from an organic garden have a different vibration that pesticide-laden cooked food.

When we eat this colourful, high frequency food we ingest positive energies into our body. There are seven primary colours in food that correspond to seven main energy centers or “chakras” in the body.

Each Chakra can be affected by specific emotional and psychological issues. These energy centres are connected to our nerves, hormones and emotions. Chakras are the link between energy and the physical body.

 

RED COLOUR CHAKRA – is located at the base of the spine and is a basic survival center in the body. Associated organs are adrenal glands, kidneys, bladder, legs and feet.

Feed your root chakra with red food:

Beets, red peppers, red radishes, tomatoes, red apples, strawberries, cherries, red grapes, and raspberries contain high amounts of vitamin C. Vitamin C strengthens the adrenals colon, connective tissues and artery walls. Eating red food is also beneficial for people who have back pain, poor circulation, poor blood, are anaemic and are constantly cold.

 

Red food will give you confidence and well-being. If you are constantly tired, cold, depressed and with no energy than you are probably missing red from your food.

 

ORANGE COLOUR CHAKRA – is located in the pelvic (sacrum) area between the pubis and navel.

Associated organs are sacrum, lower part of the intestines, bladder and kidneys.

Feed your sacral chakra with orange food such as carrots, sweet potatoes, oranges, mangoes, papayas, apricots and peaches. Carrots are one of the best detoxifiers. They nourish the kidneys and liver and are rich in beta-carotene. Beta carotene prevents bladder, rectal, stomach and cervical cancer. Sweet potatoes are a kidney tonic and are rich in beta carotene. Oranges prevent bladder, rectal and stomach cancer and have a cleansing effect on the body. Mango is another delicious healthy fruit with lots of vitamin C, beta carotene, and pectin. Mangoes are used to treat kidney inflammation.

Orange is the colour of joy and wisdom, giving you physical energy and emotional strength

Eating orange food stimulates the appetite and aids digestion.

 

YELLOW COLOUR CHAKRA – is a solar plexus chakra located between the navel and the heart.

Associated organs are stomach, spleen, skin, pancreas, liver and gallbladder.

 

Feed your sacral chakra with yellow food.

Bananas, lemons, pineapples, yellow pepper, parsnips, cinnamon and grapefruits

contain fiber, vitamin C, pottasium, magnesium and pectin. Pineapple contains the protein-digesting enzyme bromelain which is a powerful anti-inflammatory agent. Banana is soothing for the stomach and helps balance intestinal flora. Cinammon is a digestive tonic, relieves gas and balances blood sugar.

 

Yellow is the colour of the sun and is the colour of happiness and cheerfulness.

Eating yellow food will help you focus and help you with concentration.

 

 

 

 

                      

HEALING WITH COLOURS IN FOOD

Simona Stepancic BSc, RHN, ROHP

Holistic Nutritionist/Plant Based Nutrition Coach, Holistic  Orthomolecular Practitioner

I have a simple explanation what colour is. Colour is a result of light and it is broken down into wavelengths and into different vibrational levels.

Foods that we eat daily also carries a vibration  and each colour of the rainbow has its own frequency.  When we eat this colourful, high frequency food, we ingest positive energies into our body.

 Foods affect our body, emotions, mind and spiritual life.  What we eat and how we eat also reflects a state of harmony within ourselves, with the environment and with the planet.

Food is much more than fat, protein and carbohydrates. Foods also possess energies that are important for healing, maintaining, building and cleansing the body.  Each food has a particular taste, shape, colour and texture.

Full spectrum coloured food contains sunlight energies stored in plants through the process of photosynthesis.

Seven spectrum colours in food correspond to seven main energy centers or “chakras” in the body. The word “chakra” is derived from Sanskrit meaning “wheel”. A chakra is a spinning vortex or wheel of energy; each one is located along the spine from the base to the crown of the head.

Chakras can be affected by specific emotional and psychological issues, as they are connected to our nerves, hormones and emotions.  Chakras are the link between energy and the physical body.

 

DETOX YOUR BODY 

Simona Stepancic BSc, RHN, ROHP, Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Orthomolecular practitioner and Raw Food Coach

Body cleansing has been around for thousands of years. In ancient times people cleansed the body and the mind.

Detoxification today is even more important then in ancient times. Today we are exposed to millions of pounds of chemicals in our environment. Toxins such as pesticides, herbicides, plastics, petrochemicals, heavy metals, pollutants in our water, additives in our food and residues from drugs, cigarette smoke, dental filings and paints irritate our bodies, making them more prone to disease and ailments such as allergies, cancer, arthritis, heart disease etc.

Our bodies are overloaded and work overtime to eliminate toxic materials from tissues and organs.

Detoxification helps the body open all channels of elimination to remove toxins and waste deposits.

 

There are a few detoxifying techniques that you can incorporate into your life.

 

1.      Drink water

2.      Eat organic nutrient-rich food

3.      Exercise

4.      Dry skin brushing

5.      Infra-red sauna

 

Simona Stepancic BSc, RHN, ROHP, Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Raw Food Coach and Orthomolecular practitioner

 

 

 

 

Foods that Heal

Simona Stepancic, BSc, RHN, ROHP, Holistic Nutritionist, Orthomolecular Practitioner and Raw Food Coach

Foods that we eat daily shape our body, emotions, mind and spirit.

What we eat and how we eat also reflects a state of harmony within ourselves, the environment and the planet.

Food heals, prevents, and in some cases fights disease. Certain food can make us beautiful, while some causes inflammation in the body. Knowing this, it is easier to become conscious about our food choices.

Eating organic, fresh living plant food such as fruits and vegetables, nuts and seeds, sea vegetables, sprouts, and high quality oils is essential to get the glow, and experience vibrancy and aliveness.

These foods contain minerals, vitamins and plant pigments which are disease preventive phytonutrients and anti-aging antioxidants.

Phytonutrients are naturally occurring substances that plants create for their own protection. They give plants their colour, taste and flavour, strengthen digestion, detoxify your body, preserve your beauty, but most of all they are anti-inflammatory and have the greatest preventive effects against free radicals and inflammation.

The goal is to eat as many anti-aging antioxidants and anti-inflammatory foods as possible to boost the immunity and obtain lustrous hair, vibrant glowing skin, and strong healthy nails.

 Simona Stepancic, Registered holistic nutritionsit, Orthomolecular practitioner, Raw food coach

 

 

LIVE BLOOD CELL ANALYSIS – NOW AVAILABLE in Toronto area

Nutrition House: Humbertown, Burlington

 

A small drop of blood taken painlessly from your fingertip is viewed with a high magnification microscope that transfers the image to a monitor. We analyze the immediate test result together, revealing subtleties which cannot be seen by standard laboratory tests!

 

Find out what’s REALLY going on in your body.  Recognize imbalances, detect early signs of serious health conditions, and maintain optimal health!

 

Life blood cell analysis can reveal:

­ Nutritional deficiencies

­ Digestive issues – incomplete digestion of fats and proteins

­ Liver stress

­ Bacterial and fungal levels

­ Circulatory problems

­ Blood PH – Acid/Alkaline balance

­ The condition of red blood cells

­ Folic acid, B12 and iron deficiencies

­ Hormonal imbalances

­ Environmental sensitivities

­ Chronic fatigue syndrome

­ Compromised immunity

Seeing your blood live on a TV screen is one of the most exciting and beneficial experiences you will ever go through.

Simona Stepancic, Restired Holistic Nutritionist, Orthomolecular practitioner and Raw food coach

www.wholeimagenutrition.com

 

 

 

After a long hot summer we are back to work and ready for a new journey of conscious eating.

Our busy schedule might prevent us from thinking about the healthy food that’s best for us each day. But with planning ahead, our lunches gives us confidence and security. When shopping for particular food, ask yourself:  “Do I want this food to become part of my healthy body cells?”

Think about your total nourishment of the day. We need to eat (I would like to encourage you to eat) every three to four hours to balance blood sugar in order to maintain energy and focus.

I always recommend green drinks first thing in the morning. Drink them on a bus or train if you don’t have time at home. Mix greens with water or your favorite juice to embellish the flavour. If we don’t fuel our body properly in the morning, we will feel grumpy and moody, and will not be able to think straight.

Be creative when preparing a meal or a snack for work. Use different colours, shapes and textures of organic fruits and vegetables.

Serve celery sticks, radishes, cucumbers, carrot sticks, and chopped fennel with home-made spreads. You can also prepare your own cream cheese by mixing pine nuts, lemon, celery and a little water in a blender or food processor. Dips and spreads can stay for a week in the refrigerator.

You can use wraps such as rice paper, kamut pitas, and raw Nori sheets. Fill them with hummus or choose from a variety of home-made raw spreads, and add fresh vegetables such as radishes, cucumbers, sunflower sprouts, etc.

Make your own salad of radicchio, green leafy lettuce, arugula, and dandelion. You can add beans, radishes and sprinkle some ground flaxseeds, pumpkin seeds, dulse or whatever you prefer. Bring your own salad dressing made of extra virgin olive oil, lemon and Celtic sea salt.

Munch on Goji berries, which are packed with nutrients and fibre.  Have at least two apples a day. You can also make yourself a smoothie made of parsley and mango, which can be prepared ahead of time.

Take a protein shake with you if your work hours are long and you are heading to the gym after work.  You can choose from hemp, rice or whey protein; just mix them with water and add some fresh or frozen berries such as blueberries, raspberries, strawberries and blackberries. Protein shakes will keep you energized and alert and you will be able to work out longer.

 

And remember to drink water! Recommended is at least ten glasses of Reverse osmosis water every day. The amount depends on climate, stress and exercise. Have a bottle with you every day.

Many of us eat lunches away from home. Here are a few suggestions to choose proper food when eating out.

• Choose a restaurant with healthful dishes on a menu.
• Eat a salad or other vegetables with your chicken or fish if you have to have a meat
• When having a salad, order dressing on the side, such as olive oil and lemon.
• Skip the bread and butter.
• Avoid deep fried vegetables; ask the server to steam your vegetables.
• If you have allergies and intolerances to food always ask your server for the ingredients and method of preparation of your particular dish.

The transition to a healthy diet and lifestyle can be easy. Once you make the change, you won’t want to go back.  The rewards include improved memory, clarity, and focus.

 

Simona Stepancic, Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Orthomolecular practitioner, Raw food coach