Fake Food Can’t Do That

April 15th, 2011

I watched Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution the other day. He’s starting season two now.  He’s on ABC on Tuesdays @ 9pm and I encourage everyone I encounter to watch it.

Here is a youtube clip of my favorite part of Tuesday’s  season launching episode.

Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution: 70% of America’s Beef is Treated with Ammonia
“Pink Slime”

And you can watch the full episode online, here.

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I used to LOVE Taco Bell.  Nachos Bell Grande please.

I used to LOVE Arby’s.  Roast Beef N Cheddar please!

I used to LOVE Wendy’s.  Single value meal please!!

I used to LOVE Mac Donald’s.  Ten piece Chicken Mac Nuggets meal please!!!

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Now… those things don’t even taste like food to me.

Now… I have become familiar with what real food tastes like.

Now… Fake food no longer satisfies me.

Now… I often notice that I feel like crap for many hours after eating fake food.

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Eating something just because it “tastes good” (which is totally debatable) is how countless animals have died after drinking some sweet tasting antifreeze.  We’ve been given the beautiful gift of common sense and reasoning.  We must stop acting like stupid animals.

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And yes, I know.

I hear you shouting at me.

WE WILL ALL DIE ANYWAY!!

WHY NOT ENJOY WHAT YOU’RE EATING IN THE MEANTIME?!?

I DON’T NEED TO LIVE FOREVER!

HEALTH NUTS ARE GONNA FEEL STUPID SOMEDAY, LYING IN THE HOSPITAL, DYING OF NOTHING!

But the thing you don’t know…

The thing you fail to see…

Is that my Now is improved.

I love my Now even more when I nourish it well.

I may be hit by a bus tomorrow…

But as I sat here, eating my real food…

I felt the life force of the Universe…

Grant my body Nourishment & Love…

And my Now became a communion with God.

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Gas Whisperer & Other Recent Adventures

April 12th, 2011

Hello People!!!

I’m a day late for my Half Moon Book Review *) but it will post later today!  In the meantime, here’s a snippet of what’s been going on in my life for your own, personal amusement.

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I’ve been trying to get some form of exercise on a daily basis, and the harder I try, the more miserably I seem to fail at it. A few weeks ago I decided that the next morning, Monday, I was going to get off my butt and start running again.

I woke up with my back out, and barely able to move.  Then, after two days, when I finally started to be able to move more freely, I came down with a flu that took me through another week and a half.

A while back, I also went through a really weird loss of control when I was reading Marianne Williamson’s, A Course in Weightloss.  Apparently I have some very serious beliefs and thought patterns related to my body and my weight.  Which isn’t really surprising.  Who HASN’T had their heads filled with garbage about their bodies?

I watched a documentary called Fat Head that really changed the way I was thinking about food.  It’s still pretty far off base as far as I’m concerned because it promotes things I don’t agree with, but taking a more personally tailored approach which includes home cooked, organic produce, and using my own amazing powers of common sense, I’ve found myself eating a low carb diet.

I know our epiphanies are our own, and they’re never as amazing to anyone else, and that’s why I’m not going to babble on about my whole body realization.  The short of it is, I realized that to love, honor, and respect my body is to invite God to experience and create through it.  It’s like cleaning the temple in anticipation of the King’s arrival.

I decided a more structured morning routine was in order.  I make routines, but I’m not so strong with the following of them.  It’s that Aries in me :)

My new, whole being, morning routine is now as follows…

** Body ** Go jog.  Seven and a half minutes out, alternating jogging and walking measured by the distance between phone poles.  Then seven and a half minutes back.  Only 15 minutes.  I can do that.

** Spirit ** Come through the door, out of breath and sweating, pour a glass of water and drink it on the way to my chair.  Open a 15 minute meditation timer, tip my head back and just breathe.  My mind is clear after exercise, and my body is exhausted.  Why not use that to my advantage?

** Mind ** When the meditation timer dings, I refill my water, and grab an apple from the fridge before I reset the 15 minute meditation timer, and pick up whatever Spiritually natured book I am currently reading.

And if I go in directly and shower after my reading, I can knock the whole thing out in an hour.  A one hour daily devotion dedicated to honoring myself, and in doing so, I’m inviting God and my Angels to work through me, because I’ve created a holy and sacred environment within me.

I have been working this routine perfectly for two days now.

Yesterday and today.

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Yesterday~ The Gas Whisperer

I leave to go to the store.  I HAVE to get gas.  I’m a little worried I won’t make it to the station.  I take a deep breath and thank my Angels for their assistance in getting me there and for bringing me peace.

The last time I did that, it was a mind blowing experience, so I was confident that all would be well.  Wouldn’t you know it, I had the exact same experience again!

I saw the gas station sign as I approached and it said $3.78.  I looked away a moment and glanced back up and watched the sign change to $3.89.

CRAP!  What should I do?  But then I knew.  And I had to be right because if I got to the other place at all, I wouldn’t be able to go anywhere else.  I was running on fumes.  And so I went for it.

A couple miles down the road, the sign comes into view as I approach…. $3.75!!  Even cheaper than the original price at the other station!!

And then, in my shock, as I was pulling in, I said, out loud…. Oh my God, I’m like… The Gas Whisperer…. which made me start to giggle a lot harder than one might think. (LOL)

There is only two pumps and there were already four cars parked next to them, but as I pulled in, in a fit of giggles, all four cars pulled away and seemed to circle the pumps on their way out as though they were choreographed.  It was really odd.  But I pulled right up and filled my tank ALL the way up.

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Yesterday Evening ~ Affirmational Assault

I have recently reconnected with a girl who grew up across the street from me.  We were best friends.  We even did that whole “blood sister” thing when we were like, 9 and 10.  We’ve lost touch and reconnected several times through the years.  It’s always almost like we’ve never been apart when we come back together.  We were always close.

We were having a very Spiritual and philosophical conversation on the phone yesterday evening and we got to talking about how I feel about the law of attraction and how I believe the Universe operates, and the evidence I’ve seen in my own life.

Then the conversation turned to money when she found a dollar in a pair of jeans out of the dryer while we were on the phone and she exclaimed, “I love how I keep finding money everywhere!!”

I was absolutely blown away by being given such a BEAUTIFUL soapbox from which to preach (LOL), and I took the opportunity.  I started to tell her how that was a wonderful affirmation, and how if every time she finds ANY money, she would make that declaration, she would find that there would be a lot more found money in her future.

I said…

Every thought is a prayer.  God doesn’t stop listening… you just stop being aware of the presence.  Say things about money that make you happy, like…. I love finding money!  I love when people GIVE me money!!  I feel SO good when I know I have enough money.  I feel so relaxed and contented when money flows easily to me.  I love winning money!  I love GIVING money!!  I love that the world is just one big energy stew and that I can have as much money energy as I want!!  I love that there’s always enough!

It was quite a little rampage I went on.

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And Today ~

I won $70 on a lottery ticket this morning.

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Ironically, I spent $72 yesterday to fill my gas tank.

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Unintentional Flaws of Intention

November 18th, 2010

** Mark your calendars!! **

~ Full Moon Group Abundance Meditation on Sunday 11-21-2010 @ 11am & 11pm EST ~
There’s nothing to sign up for.  Bring a friend.  Or a hundred friends.
For more information, check in here.


Back in October, I’d set an intention with the New Moon to lose fourteen pounds in four weeks.  Here I am five weeks later, and I’ve not only NOT lost the fourteen, but I managed to gain two.

I wasn’t terribly worried about it.  I could see it happening as it was happening and I let it be.  I had a lot going on and each day it seemed like there was always a different reason why I couldn’t go work out.

And I’m not just talking “excuses” I was making to not go.  I had a sick child one week and then the other one was sick the following week.  They weren’t home from school all those days, but they were home for some.

Can’t really go to the gym with a sickie at home.

But anyway, none of that matters.

This morning on Lilypad Paradise, my quote was about will.  It reminded me of when I quit smoking and when I lost 40 pounds a few years ago.  I enjoyed starting my day thinking about how strong my will can be and how powerful I am when I use it.

I went to Curves this morning and worked out hard.  I mean, I really put my focus into it.  I zeroed in on the muscle group I was on, and made each move with purpose.  Today’s the first day I’ve been there this week.

On my way home, I wandered off on a train of thought about how good it felt to work out after having not done it for a couple weeks.  I thought about how good I feel inside my body when I work out regularly.  I thought about how I need to really MAKE this workout a regular part of my morning routine.

“Too bad I couldn’t get a grip and lose those 14 pounds last month….”

As soon as that thought reared it’s ugly head, the realization hit me.  I didn’t lose the weight and I was unable to stick with it and find the time and I also ate like a pig for the entire month…. and it’s because of that intention.

I wasn’t intending growth, I was intending improvement.  But I don’t need to improve.  I am as I am and that’s the way I’m supposed to be.  As soon as I officially intended to lose that weight and “improve” myself, or rather how I saw myself, I think my subconscious took the hit and suddenly I ate everything in sight in a self soothing manner.  Suddenly I was far too over taxed and put upon to find free time to work out.  That fits in with that whole martyrdom thing too.

I think I need to focus my intentions into having a regular morning routine that includes my Lilypad Paradise quote of the day, meditation, and exercise.  That will put my focus more on feeling good and being happy and healthy.  I already meditate and do my quote.  Now to integrate the exercise… Oh great, now I’m thinking about affirmations DURING exercise. Hmmmm…

As a side note, I’m also reminded that creating is downstream while LOSING or getting rid of is very upstream thinking.

Growth.

No more improvements for me!!

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