Become a Gold Medal Olympian in Healthy Eating
The Olympics have started and after years of training the Olympians have their chance to put all of their training and discipline into the one thing that they have been working towards – Winning a Gold Medal for their country.
The Athletes know exactly what they want – they are focussed and clear. They know they can’t get their Gold on their own and they understand that just having a desire won’t get them their medal.
To support them they have to prepare, they have training schedules in place, nutritionists, coaches and physios to support them and they never lose focus on what they are working towards, even when they feel they can’t be bothered.
I want you to have a Gold Medal in Healthy Eating; I want you to become your own Olympian.
So what can the Olympic events teach you about Healthy Eating:
100 metre sprint: You need to starting ability and acceleration
Starting ability: Any change can be difficult and changing your eating habits can be amongst the most difficult. So when starting a new way of eating you need to be able to clear the initial resistance that you may face from both yourself and those around you.
Maintaining speed: After the initial momentum has got you started it’s important that you keep going and don’t slow down and slip back into your old habits.
Gymnastics: You require flexibility, co-ordination and bounciness.
Flexibility: To try new things and be prepared to make choices that may be different from your friends and family.
Co-Ordination: Being prepared, to ensure you have the right foods in your cupboards to meet your own taste preferences and lifestyle. To plan ahead and co-ordinate your day so that you know you will have food available to you that you want to eat.
Bounciness: To know that even if you binge, or eat foods that you didn’t want to that it doesn’t matter. You can just bounce back and re-set your eating habits.
Wrestling: You need a perfect stance and be skilled at being able to “take down” your opponent
Stance: Knowing yourself and what you need is one of the crucial skills required if you are going to succeed at anything, especially life changes. This is important so that if at any time you lose your way – you know just how to get back on track again.
“Take Down”: Your opponent may come internally in the form of self-doubt or cravings or from pressure from friends and family. It’s important to be prepared for these challenges and have plans in place to deal with the issues that you think may arise.
High Board Diving: You require absolute confidence in your own ability
Confidence: To trust your own inner voice and tune into the needs of your own body and not feel you have to follow some-one else’s idea or ‘right’ eating.
On Your Marks, Get Set and GO!
To start you on your way towards your own Gold Medal in Healthy eating you need to start to add more greens into your diet, not only are they incredibly good for you, they also help to banish unhelpful cravings. An easy way to increase the greens in your diets is to have a green smoothie and this is my favourite one:
Apricot and Blueberry Dream
Ingredients
2 bananas
4 apricots
A handful of blueberries
Peas shoots
Equipment
Blender
Directions
Add the ingredients to your blender and blend until smooth and creamy
It starts Monday 9th July
Let’s crank your SHINE Up!
Note: If you have already completed this challenge with me, then there’s no need to do this one (unless you want to repeat it and enjoyed the support) as the challenges are pretty much identical.
- Do you sometimes feel like your eating habits have gotten off track?
- Are you at a point where you need to re-set and renew, but find yourself struggling to figure out what to do next?
- Do you ever wish you could press that “reset” button and start fresh?
This program is about taking action and I will show you how to reset and upgrade your diet in a variety of delicious ways.
Here’s how it works:
Each day, starting from Monday 9th July (tomorrow) I’ll give you a delicious recipe or tip that will take you 10 – 15 minutes to prepare or do, that will help you upgrade your diet to fill you with energy and SHINE.
That’s right – all I ask you to commit to is just a couple of minutes a day!
You can get your daily action by subscribing to the blog via email, checking on our Facebook page
After enjoying your recipe or completing your task, you need to ‘tick off’ the task – we love accountability.
You can ‘tick off’ the task by leaving a comment to share your views on the recipe or say you’ve done the task on either that day’s blog post or that day’s Facebook post. Even if you don’t do the action, leave your comments daily so you maintain momentum and keep your commitment. I don’t expect you to be perfect, but I do ask for your commitment.
Remember that you are only committing 10 minutes a day for 33 days – This is sooo achievable.
**If however you want more, you can follow along with me as I complete the full program from my book Turn Your Shine On – Your Raw Food Journey for Health and Happiness. To order your copy visit http://www.shineonraw.com/turn-your-shine-on/, purchase it on Amazon and it’s available on Kindle too
To get access to extra tasty recipes, a few juicy bonuses and additional daily accountability sign up below:
Turn Your Shine On
After much blood, sweat and tears – well actually there was no blood, not even a paper cut, I am thrilled to share with you that my first print book is here!
Daisy is possibly the youngest reader of my book?
What’s all the fuss about?
If you’re new to the idea of raw foods and would love to know why I’m so passionate about it, check out my previous posts on raw food and the importance of food in general:
10 Easy and Delicious ways to add more raw food to your diet
Do you know what your ideal diet is?
How fabulous could your life be if you changed your diet?
Enjoy!
Will you join me in eating more?
One of my intentions for 2012 is to make more of an effort to eat more in harmony with the seasons.
In January foods that are in peak season include:
Delicious Veg:
brussels sprouts, cauliflower, celeriac, celery, chicory, kale, leek and parsnips
Succulent Fruit:
apples, clementines, lemons, oranges, passion fruit, pears, pineapple, pomegranate, satsumas, and tangerines
There are many reasons to make a little effort to see what’s in season in your area:
Shining taste – Nature intended you to eat the food when it is in season, it is at its peak and even chefs agree that seasonal food tastes better
Shining value – Food in season is cheaper as it has cost less to produce and transport to your local shop – sometimes as much as a third cheaper
Shining planet – Growing and consuming foods in harmony with the seasons requires lower levels of artificial inputs such as lighting and fertiliser and therefore has a lower impact on the planet
Each month I will share with you my favourite recipes that support the seasons. There will be a juice, a smoothie and either a main meal or dessert.
So look out for some tasty recipes each month!
Free Teleclass: Step Up, CLEAN Up
Attention: Women who are ready to take their life to the next level
FREE Teleclass
Thursday 12th January 2012 9pm (UK time)
“You’re About To Discover My Step-By-Step System to Step Up and CLEAN Up your Life and Your Diet”
(Without Sacrificing Your Time or Wasting Your Money on Another Fad Diet)
Are you tired of feeling tired, flabby and dull, continually feeling de-motivated as you have tried another diet or eating plan that has left you unsatisfied and wanting more?
Are you fed up of listening to another ‘guru’ telling you what you should be eating, or not eating, only to find that their way doesn’t work for you or that their way is just too complicated, timely or expensive?
It’s painful to just say “OK” and try a fit someone else’s idea of perfect, isn’t it?
How many hours, if not days, have you wasted because you haven’t been able to find a way to eat that works for you and your lifestyle and circumstances?
And as you read more, follow more plans what happens to you and your incredible body? You still have the challenge of not knowing what’s right for you. You stay stuck, you feel deflated, and nothing changes.
So… what’s the alternative?
Learn How To Get Back In The Driving Seat Of Your Life and Make That Shift To The Next Level
During this 45 minute teleclass I will share with you my step by step approach that will guide you through my Step Up, CLEAN Up system, where you will learn the importance of each step:
1. Create clarity about your perfect body, your ideal life and your fabulous future.
Why you absolutely must get clear on how the choices you’ve been making have created the results you are living and discover how when you follow 3 simple steps you can recreate your life
2. Learn about the True you and your relationship with food.
Uncover how you, and millions of other women, have been using food as a tool to deal with other areas of your life, and learn how it is possible to finally release out-dated patterns of behaviour such as emotional eating and comfort eating
3. Eat right for you.
By the end of the call you will understand why it is essential that you embrace your uniqueness and know that the food you eat needs to be as unique as you.
4. Activate your passion.
Discover how when you eat right for you, it is possible to translate your new found energy and enthusiasm to finally complete those projects that have been put to one side and move towards a life of confidence, purpose and passion.
5. Nourish yourself on every level of your being.
Understand that it is possible to fall in love with the yourself and the amazing opportunities that open up for you as you up-level your diet, your life and your dreams
To join me on this fabulous, content rich call, simply complete the form below:
“Could I please have some toast?”
“Could I please have some toast?”
This was the question asked on Sunday morning at the ‘Adventure for the Soul’ retreat that I ran with the beautiful Claire Maguire last weekend.
The answer to the question was of course ‘yes’. This gorgeous lady needed to slow down the processing that she was experiencing and what quicker way to do that than with food?
It’s easy to forget about the power of food and how it affects us. It’s something many of us take for granted as we eat what we want when we want, often giving little thought to the process.
During our three day retreat we serve up wonderful raw food meals, as not only do they taste delicious but they also support the transformational results that we create for our guests.
However, this simple question ‘Could I please have some toast?’, reminded me why our food choices are just so important in creating the life and the results that we want.
It all comes down to energy.
For as long as I can remember I have been aware of energy, vibrations, frequencies – call it what you will, and for over ten years I have been developing this skill to such an extent that I can discover the energetic blocks that are holding people back and then quickly remove them.
People are often fascinated by this and usually shocked at how accurate and how much information I can ‘read’ from someone.
When people ask me to explain how I do it, the best I can come up with is that it’s like picking up on and tuning into the person’s unique frequency. It feels like walking into an atmosphere; like when you walk into a room and see two people who aren’t talking, but you can sense that they’ve just had an argument or when you first meet someone and you ‘just know’ if you will get on with them or not.
Everyone and everything has its own unique frequency, some frequencies are high and others low. The same is true of food.
Most people’s diets consist of wheat with bread and pasta being staples. Often toast for breakfast, a sandwich for lunch and pasta for an evening meal. If you think in terms of colour, these foods are brown and cream. They are stodgy in nature and make you feel full or even heavy or bloated. This frequency is at the lower end of the scale.
At the other end of the scale you have fresh raw fruits and vegetables. If you think in terms of colour these foods are the colours of the rainbow, vibrant and alive. They are fresh and juicy and leave you feeling refreshed and light.
The food you eat becomes you; it creates your experience of the world.
Next time you are walking down the street start to look at people and see if you can tell what frequency of diet they are eating. People who eat lots of bread often look puffy and bloated; just like a loaf of bread. While those who have a tendency for sweets are often more ‘wobbly’ like jelly. And the people who avoid the fruit and vegetable aisle of the supermarket just lack the shine and sparkle of fresh food, often with a ‘washed out’ look about them.
We all need food to live and with every meal you eat, you get to choose what kind of life, body and experience you create.
Sometimes you need foods with a lower vibration, foods that slow you down. This can be particularly relevant if you are experiencing events that are overwhelming you and you want to, albeit subconsciously, numb or stuff the feelings down.
However there will be times in your life when you want to up your game and take your life to the next level, and when this is the case you can support yourself by eating foods at the higher end of the spectrum. Foods that will help you raise your vibration include fresh raw and living foods.
Many people think raw and living foods are good for you because they contain more vitamins, minerals and enzymes etc. I believe it’s in their frequency; it’s the magic of nature.
Food – Are you on a high or a low
Our relationship with food, is at best complex.
Over the years I’ve worked with hundreds and hundreds of women, and each one of them at some point in their life had an issue with food or their body image.
In fact most of these women had put their life on hold whilst they battled with their weight, saying that they would make their next move, take the next opportunity etc… once they got to their magic dress size or lost a certain amount of weight.
Can you relate to this?
Shining Challenge
I want you to think back over your life and chart the Highs and Lows of your relationship with food.
- Get a large piece of paper and along the bottom of it put the years or your different ages, then up the left hand side of the page write the word ‘high’ at the top and ‘low’ at the bottom.
- Then scan throughout your life and mark on particular highs and lows that you’ve experienced over the years.
- As you look at your chart do any of your highs or lows with food coincide with events in your life or perhaps different diet plans that you have followed?
If yours looks anything like mine does it will have its highs and lows, in fact mine looks like a very exciting roller coaster ride!
If like I was, you’re ready to get off this rollercoaster I have the perfect announcement for you…
I’m delighted to let you know that it’s finally Ready!
My new Step Up, Clean Up program is ready.
This is a 30 day program where you will shape up your body, your life and get your future in order.
So, if you are ready to get off the highs and lows of food and are ready to Step Up and Clean Up click here
Make your own raw food rules
One thing has struck me recently and that is how many people are concerned with numbers. Well to be exact it’s - percentages.
What percentage of raw food should I be eating, what percentage of fats, greens and fruit should I be eating.
It’s not just food where we aspire to conform to the ‘perfect’ number, but I’ve also been hearing many people talk of dress sizes; ‘Oh I know I will be happy when I get to size 12, 10, 8…’
But in truth do the numbers really matter to you?
If so why?
What will that magic number bring you, how will your life be different, what will you be able to do that you can’t do now?
In relation to food, I think, and this is my personal opinion, that it is more important to find out what works for you. That’s right you know your body better than anyone else and it’s up to you to learn what works for you.
It’s great to read other people ideas and how certain food combinations, diets etc worked for them. But remember their way worked for them, and their unique body, lifestyle and history.
What works for you one year, or even one day will change as your body changes and the demands placed on your body change.
So it’s much more important to have a healthy relationship with food and not be rigid in your thoughts and behaviours towards it.
In relation to your body, it’s brilliant! Bodies are amazing, they do many incredible things for us, day in and day out, sure they get tired sometimes, but enjoy your body and your life, just don’t fall into the trap of putting everything on hold until you reach that magic number/dress size.
Does it really matter if you go swimming/wear a pair of shorts/play tennis and your don’t look like a super model, will anyone really care in a week’s time, will they even remember? The answer is no – so why hold back and miss out on something that you enjoy.
Whilst it’s true that we can learn much from other people and their experiences, it is much more important to make your own rules and be true to yourself.
Unique is so much better than bland – just ask your taste buds!
So do I recommend 100% raw and do I think you should be a certain dress size to be happy and gorgeous? Absolutely not! You are perfect just the way you are, gorgeous just the way you are and when you accept this you will realise how much truth is in this statement, you can take your life off hold and embrace the magic that life has to offer!
I believe that raw food is the most amazing tool that can help you get back in touch with your body, what it needs and how it responds, I also believe that it can have a much deeper impact on your life as it really allows you to connect to yourself on a deeper level.
But does that mean I think you should eat 100% raw all the time – No, would be my answer to you. I see too many people get really upset because they have fallen of the ‘band wagon’ or add incredible amounts of pressure for them to remain 100% raw or even missing out on social occasions because they don’t want to be tempted…
Food is one aspect of your life – a very important aspect, but it should be enjoyed and not feared.
Food should be celebrated and not full of shame.
If you do want to add more raw foods to your diet, and we’re not talking percentages, remember these important tips:
- Learn what works for you
- Get organised
- Learn to love and accept yourself just as you are
- The choices you made yesterday, create the experiences you are living today
So do the numbers matter to you – comment below to share your thoughts – I look forward to hearing your views…
Step up, CLEAN Up – Take your life to the next level
30 days to shape your body, your life
and get your future in order
September is fast approaching, and this is the perfect time for some reflection. It signals the next stage of the year and is naturally the time for assessing where you are and where you are heading.
I’m very excited to be able to share with you, in fact you are amongst the first to learn about a new program that I have put together to help you do just that; reflect where you are, understand where you are heading and then lift your life to the next level. This program is perfect for you if you say ‘YES’ to any of the questions below:
- Are you fed up of feeling tired, flabby and dull?
- Do you want to reactivate your passion and drive?
- Are you ready to take your life to the next level?
- Are you ready to take action and know that you can create the results that you want?
Now you can take charge, get back in the driving seat and wipe the slate CLEAN when you follow my simple 5 step plan
1. Create clarity about your perfect body, your ideal life and your fabulous future.
Get clear on how the choices you’ve been making have created the results you’ve been living and discover how 3 simple steps can recreate your life
2. Learn about the True you and your relationship with food.
Uncover how you have been using food as a tool to deal with other areas of your life, and finally release out-dated patterns of behaviour such as emotional eating and comfort eating
3. Eat right for you.
Embrace your uniqueness and know that the food you eat and the eating plan that you follow needs to be as unique as you. Discover how to create menu plans that inspire you, with food that you LOVE and that satisfy you on every level of your being. Meal times will never be a chore or full of shame again.
4. Activate your passion.
Translate your new found energy and enthusiasm to finally complete those projects that have been put to one side and move towards a life of confidence, purpose and passion.
5. Nourish yourself on every level of your being.
Fall in love with the new you and the amazing opportunities that open up for you as you up-level your diet, your life and your dreams
This program begins Thursday 20th October 2011
To register your interest please complete the form below and you will be the first to hear about the program and the special bonuses
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