Get Rid of Cravings

Have you heard of EFT?  Emotional Freedom Therapy?
I have always been the type of person to allow myself to experience what comes my way and see if it works.  Guess what?  It did!
My friend Frances Soda practices EFT.  Her technique is holistic and energetic and certainly free-ing (if that is a word!).  I worked with Frances on my cravings for particular sweets....discovered the why's behind the cravings and cleared the energy blockages from my system with her help.  No more cravings!

Not only that, Frances taught me how to work on those cravings or other situations in the future.

This is Frances's next workshop - will you be open and attend??

Nutrition Journal

Working towards healthy eating habits is not an easy task with all of the fast-food, processed food and simple, quick cooking dinners that are on the market.  One of the best ways to understand what you are eating so that you can eliminate some of that unhealthy quick-grab food is to actually spend a few minutes each day writing down what you have eaten.

You will be amazed at what goes in your mouth.

Go one step further, and write down why you ate it:

• were you hungry?
• was it meal time?
• were you bored?
• were you trying to stay awake?
• were you thirsty and decided to eat instead?
• were you just driving by and had a 'craving'?

All 6 situations need to be understood by you, especially the last 4.  What you eat can be dictated by why you are eating.  Take some time to investigate for yourself and then take a few steps to give yourself some healthy alternatives.  Here are a few:

1. have unsalted nuts available for a quick snack
2. buy organic produce
3. wash and cut produce as soon as you return from the store so that it is ready to eat
4. eliminate junk food and salty snacks from your cupboards
5. eat a fruit instead of drinking fruit juice
6. have your drinks with ice - more refreshing and you can crunch the ice to satisfy both thirst and the feeling that you need to eat something
7. keep driving by and think of the money you will be saving instead of spending it on a craving
8. eat breakfast! everyday
9. drink green tea
10. eat cruciferous vegetables like broccoli, cabbage, kale etc - their high fibre keeps you full longer

What I Learned About the B Vitamins

 

There are a list of B Vitamins, each with their own properties and influence on our system.  A complete set of B vitamins is called a 'Complex'.  You will find this at any grocery store with a pharmacy or any local pharmacy...even on-line.

All the B vitamins included in the Complex are:
Vitamin B1, Vitamin B2, Vitamin B3, Vitamin B5, Vitamin B6, Vitamin B9, Vitamin B12 and the vitamins Biotin, Choline and Inositol.


Here are a few things that the B Complex Vitamins can do for you:

1. Helps body produce energy:  B1 converts the carbohydrates we eat into glucose, the other B vitamins work to convert glucose in energy.
2. Regulates and stabilized nervous system:  B vitamins help with the correct functioning of the adrenal glands and the production of some hormones and nerve-regulating substances.
3. Helps with digestion:  B vitamins breakdown fats, proteins and carbohydrates
4. Helps maintain healthy skin and hair: B Vitamins work to promote cellular reproduction

3 Benefits of Green Tea

Daily consumption of Green Tea is a must!

Green tea will help you:

• burn fat because of the concentrated levels polyphenol antioxidants.
• cleanse your body & improve skin tone by neutralizing free radicals in the body
• protect from other various diseases including cancer and heart disease by boosting immunity

For more information, click the links provided.  Lots of great information is out there.

Happy Tea-Drinking Day!

Memories Are the Fruit of Your Labour

A nice meal, great company and all of your efforts to gather a great group of people together to connect your circle of friends has come to fruitition.

You have worked hard to:

• fit into your outfit
• set the perfect table
• create the most social atmosphere
• provide for everyone's needs
• clean the house
• feel quite the host

Congratulations!  The fruits of your labour will become the stuff of which memories are made. 

Memories come in all shapes and sizes. They come from the moments that we reflect upon afterwards; they come from the facial expressions and touches throughout the day; they come from something we have heard or glimpsed; they come from all over at different times into our minds.

Be mindful of the fruit of your labour.  Don't let them slip away.  You will always have a bank of memories to draw upon....and unlike any other bank account, it continues to fill up even with withdrawals.

Reinvent Everyday

It takes courage to reinvent joys, to reinvent opportunities, to reinvent dreams, to reinvent connections, to reinvent hopes that you have set aside.

~Mary Anne Radmacher

I cannot think of anything else to say with this quote.  It is completely true and defines courage to a T.
Take a moment today to reflect on reinventing your own opportunities and dreams, making connections new and fresh and looking at your list of hopes and reminding yourself that they can be reality.

Which Way Do I Go?

"Never look back unless you are planning to go that way."

- Henry David Thoreau

Picture yourself here.  Looking in the rearview mirror.   This guy looks like he has left something behind.  Or perhaps he missed something along the way.  Either way, can he go back?  Or is that going backward?

Perhaps he can take a moment and reflect on how he missed it or left it behind and understand why that happened.  Going back is usually not the solution to anything...only causing more harm than good. 

I had the opportunity to go back to a job I had moved on from once.  Fortunately, I got to spend a day shadowing in the role and realized that the job was no longer what I thought it was - it had evolved (or changed) and my perception of the role, while still the same, no longer matched the job.  Happily I moved on to something new and different, and better.

As Thoreau says - plan to go back....investigate, reflect and remember, but don't stay there!