My body is my temple

I grew up in the san francisco bay are, in a Mormon home where we were very health conscious.

Part of it was being Mormon and the threat of drinking coke as committing a sin, and part of it was that my mother was an Adelle Davis fan [who was a bay area girl, too].that shunned all foods packaged processed. We picked, canned, froze and stockpiled our food. We knew where it came from and we cooked from scratch.

When my mother was pregnant she would drink this “shake” in the morning that consisted of about a cup of milk, an egg, a big spoon of brewer’s yeast and ice.

Luckily the kids weren’t mad to drink this bubbly raw egg mess but would be eating some sort of hot grain cereal with a little milk and sugar.

Fast forward and it’s no wonder I eat such strange things.

This morning I got up and tracked my weight in my “My Plate iphone app that syncs with Lance Armstrong’s livestrong.com.

I love this app because it knows the weird stuff I eat and it syncs online and gives me a picture pie chart of what I am eating.

This morning I had some of my 3 bean salad with beets, and threw in sprouted red and green lentils.

Were you heading out for a mcMuffin?

Then I go to the app and press progress. It shows that so far what I have eaten is 21% protein 66% carbs and 12% fat for a total of 555 calories.

I then take my Kepra and Dexxa with a glass of turmeric tea – which is cold- and start the water for my green tea. I piddle around the house while the kettle spurts and sputters.

My little dog comes out to see if she is missing anything and I give her a little love and hugs and belly rubs.

It’s the crack of dawn and she and my Caveman are both smart enough to know that they should still be asleep so, she sneaks back into the bedroom with the Caveman and I head to my office but on the way grab some

FRS; Free Radical Scavenger. from the fridge before I plant myself in front of my pretty carved desk.

I got turned on to FRS a bunch of year back when antioxidants were just coming into the health scene.

The way I understand it is that most of what we do and lots of what we eat creates an oxidative reaction in the blood stream and clogs up the body. 

Free radicals are the bits of crap in our system that cause inflammation and disease while the antioxidant clean the inflammation from my body. 

I was crewing for Tony Robbins and the Tony, who is also vegetarian and has super energy, was purported drinking this to support his body and energy.

At that time it was really hard to find FRS in the storesso I got set up on autoship for the FRS concentrate in about 1999.

I haven’t been following the company much but recently noticed the new packaging and plastic bottles. When I picked up a bottle to check out the bottle I read that   it was originally developed by two Harvard guys for chemo patients to help them maintain their energy and immune system.

Amazing!

I just knew that caffeine really robbed my body of energy and this stuff is a heavy duty anti-oxidant, supports my body and now that I think about it, It’s probably one of the reasons why everyone else is having trouble with chemo and radiation and I am NOT!

I know that I am just a nutty california veggie girl but there are  loads of personal testimonies on the FRS site.  I know that this stuff works for me because I am never sick and have super great energy before the chemo and even now. You can find the stuff at super target, GNC or maybe at your gym. Grab a bottle and let me know if it works for you.

Now that we’ve talked a little about your body, let’s chat about your mind.

I love Julia Cameron and The Artists Way.
She has a technique called Morning Pages where you wake up free form journal without edit or reservation. Once you  fill four pages you stop and become aware of the “stuff” in your uncoscious.
For me it really helped me realize what was circulating in my head and helped me clear some of that “stinking thinking out and also clarify dreams and wishes.

Of course there is also an iphone app to go with that too 🙂 I hope that I have given you some tools to handle your health and that some of these tools will help you choose a life of inspiration not consternation.

PS a little funny Caveman quote to make you laugh.

Last night I made a little fish and salad and corn muffins for dinner. As we sat down to dinner the Caveman says “let’s pray” and reaches for my hand.

Then he says”:  ’cause whenever you cook, I really need a prayer.

Love to you.

Be grateful for this day and for the chance to circle the sun one more time.