(90-Day Detox) Day 67: It’s Sunday and All Is Well in the World

Well, it’s a Sunday morning and the kids are clicking and clacking with lego on the floor in front of me. The heat of yesterday has moved through and a cooling grey sky is here in its place reminding us it’s Spring, not Summer. Yesterday it would have been hard to convince me it wasn’t a hot day in July!

I woke up this morning smiling at the thought of “Don’t be so obsessed about what you eat.”

Last night at our post-pj party picnic, I found myself snacking on some vegan treats. And you know, I think I half expected to wake up with an extra 30 pounds of water retention having taken over my body, but after a good night’s sleep, I feel…

…AMAZING.

This really worked for me, this detox. We’ve discussed a lot of different things. Eating late, exercise, sleep and communication. Relationships, mind over matter and even sex!

I’ve been reading a lot lately on the physiological reasons not to eat cooked food. Just talking about the science of what happens when you heat your food and why it is toxic to ingest. It’s incredible when I think of the degrees and credentials people have around health and nutrition, and yet the simplest things (like the effect of heat on fat, protein and carbohydrates) seem to have been overlooked in the books on health.

So, I’ve been reading a lot about why not to eat cooked food, or at least the consequences of doing so. And it certainly makes for a legitimate arguement, but then I am so quickly reminded about how one’s attitude, emotional state and outlook on life affects every cell in the body. So the fact of the matter is, you can eat the best food in the world, but if you’re not breathing deep, cleansing breaths, if you’re not living in loving, fulfilled relationships, if you’re not happy doing what you do in life, if you don’t communicate what you feel, then you may as well be eating cardboard.

Stress is stress, it doesn’t matter how you look at it. And the body responds the same.

Listening to the teleseminar with Roe, I was inspired to take my discipline up a notch or two. But then I can only do it to the degree that I feel that extra degree of severity is worth it to me. It’s so hard to prioritize  the next degree of severity when my life feels like bliss most days.

And yet, I do believe that even bliss is relative. How good can good get? I guess that’s why I’ll find out if and when I turn up the volume on discipline.

I know I’ve been getting a few emails from some of you who resonate with the inability to carry through with a juice feast. It may be a question of time, personal organizational skills and general attachment to the sensation of chewing, but I’ve not yet managed to get through a full day of juice feasting in spite of my desires to do so. Who knows, maybe it will happen yet. I have to say I’m fascinated by the start of the process for the 6-Week Detox. I just know I’m going to learn SO much and I’m curious to see how this goes. I managed to get a sneak peek at the detox protocols and I’ll keep you posted on how I do.

***Later in the afternoon***

Just came back from the potluck and filming with Radio Canada. It was interesting. They’re doing a piece on anti-aging and wanted to have stories of raw foodists and get a look at what this diet is doing. I’ll get another mini window on camera, but I’m not sure if I’ll show you the link or not. Guess I’ll preview it first. It’s still exciting, though, because they called me up just because of a simple website that we have online.

One of the people I encouraged them to interview is a truck driver and a raw foodists. Neat guy. Great story.

It’s so great to go to these dinners and connect with other people trying to make the raw food diet work in the real world. We compare stories, network and make friends.

I’m going to spend the next few days digging my heels into some articles and transcripts and cold hard facts about food. I’ll share with you what I learn as I learn it. I want to finish this 90-Day Detox with a bang. Something that gets us powered and committed and on board for LIFE.

There’s are a couple cool telseminars coming up this weekend!

Yikes! I gotta go. I’m late for a date with my pores and have some teleseminars tonight! I do have more to say about life, love and adventures of one kind and another, but I’m being counter-intuitive and learning how to keep my mouth shut a bit more. Mom says it’s good for me to do that sometimes.

I guess we’ll see.

Sunday snuggles,

Tera