Uh oh!! Skipped a day!

As much as I like to talk, I cannot believe I skipped a day!!

One thing I have noticed over the two full days of NOT cheating was how full I felt.

Day before yesterday I had my first juice of the year.  It was delish.  Then I made the cauliflower popcorn my friend Sheree shared with me.  You cut up a head of organic cauliflower, put it in a zip lock.  Add olive oil, nutritional yeast and some garlic salt.  (more on spices later.)  Shake it up.  Put it in a bowl.  I eat the whole thing.  It's so good for you.

I also roasted some vegetables.  I screwed that one up.  I had brussel sprouts, mushrooms, cauliflower, red pepper, squash, butternut squash.  I put olive oil and salt and pepper on them and put them in a 425 oven for 35 minutes.  Well they were overcooked and mushy.  Actually they were delicious but were not what I had in mind.  I think a hotter oven and less vegetables that "shrink."  I wanted still firm but with a browned side.  Maybe more of a stir fry would have been good.

Yesterday more juice and my Vitamin C/Calm drink with vitamins.  Then a big glass of juice (adding broccoli to the recipe.)  I was actually full.  In two days I really didn't eat much other than veggies and juice and I was FULL!  I felt so healthy!!

Plus I am a distributor for a nutritional drink called Trevo.  If you go to Trevocorporate.com you can learn more about the drink.  It is micronized (think concentrated to the micron level.)  It has every good fruit, vegetable, seaweed, coral grade calcium, digestive enzymes, vitamins, minerals, etc.  Dr. Jean told me it is a good product.  I'd love to introduce it to the midwest and be one of those ground floor MLM success stories but I don't have it in me anymore.  The only obsession I can have in my life right now is healing myself.  Trevo is part of it.  If you come to me, I'd be happy to tell you about it, but I'm not going to invite you to a meeting or a call.......I am going to drink 6 oz per day.  The dose for a normal, healthy person is 1 oz.  I feel that by flooding my body with as many good things in a day can only help heal myself.

Am I being a Nazi?  No.  I will not beat myself up if I eat something outside the raw/vegan/vegetarian realm.  My goal is to be totally aware of what I am putting in my mouth.

I have Netflix and I love it.  In fact, I barely EVER watch TV anymore.  What I watch I watch on Netflix.  There I started with Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead.  This is what got me on the Juicing bandwagon.  I've watched so many documentaries on food and health.  Watch a few of these and I am sure you will change the way you eat.  I highly recommend Netflix and to educate yourself about what you are doing to your body.  One thing I gleaned from one of the shows is this.  Don't deprive yourself of things.  Add IN healthy things to your diet.  Every time you choose organic over regular.  Every time you choose free range beef over antibiotic ridden, fattened up meat you will be one step closer to a healthier you.  Drink filtered water instead of soda.  I cannot tell you how much I LOVE a huge glass of watered filled with ice!!

Spices.  After I started seeing Sheree Clark, I realized she made so many of her recipes with lots and lots of spices.  I looked at her spice cabinet and it was filled with organic, fragrant spices.  I went home and cleared all the outdated spices.  I threw them away.  Why would I put an expired, processed spice into a recipe?  How in the world would I think it would make it taste better?  I've also done some research on spices like garlic and turmeric.  These are all very good to help combat cancer.  So you can make your food awesome and fight cancer?  Who knew???

One other topic.  I have worked through some emotional baggage which I know directly has to do with my cancer.  I believe I got cancer because my life was out of order.  I was stressed ALL the time which turns your body into a cancer making machine.  I believe that most illnesses are caused or made worse by emotions like anger, bitterness, hate, etc.  I was so guilty.  I am working through the causes of my anxiety.

At this point in my life I have one nagging situation which doesn't seem to get better.  It causes stress and I need to do something about it.  I don't think I can be completely free to heal until something happens in the situation.  The problem is, it is not something that I have the power to change.  The only thing I can do is try to influence the people involved in order to effect change.  That is part of my stress.  I can see from the outside looking in how dysfunctional and out of whack the situation is.  I also know that the players in the situation know it is not right either.  I watch as people have become stuck in a place where it is more than uncomfortable to change.  If they make a move the wrong way, they could upset the apple cart.  Everyone seems paralyzed even though everyone knows it is not a good situation. I have gotten the "pray about it" defense, and believe me I really have prayed.  Please God do something!!  So anyway, I've got to figure out what to do about the situation so it doesn't affect my stress.  I really should be able to walk away and not worry about it, but it affects someone I love very much and because of that I cannot stop thinking about it.