OK I officially fell off the wagon last night, but I just got back on LOL!!  I am not sure why, but after living in Canada for 15 years, yesterday for the first time I was home-sick – YIKES.  I was ready to get on a plane and fly home to the UK.  Not even my TV segment – my Oprah moment cured me. This meant for some reason I decided to eat really bad food.  I am always shocked at why and how we turn to food for comfort.   There are so many things in our lives that are related back to food, including our childhood memories, special occasions, where we come from and so much more.  This has become just another moment of awareness and observation. Anyway today I am much better and after much guilt and remorse I am now back on track today.  I went to Dwight’s class at Kamloops Hot Yoga and detoxed out those bad decisions.  I now will continue with RAW and the help of some Vitamin D (Thanks Kitty for this suggestion.  I really suffer at this time of year from the lack of sun and too many customers telling me they are off to sun, sand and sea) and maybe a couple of tanning sessions.  Manytan have a great deal on for $20 for the month.

2012 is to be the best year EVER!

Since the beginning of Pure Cuisine, I have met some amazing people so far on my journey.  One of them is Mr Shawn Wiesner – A law of attraction coach personally trained by Jack Canfield, who was introduced to me by a powerful business woman,  Kathy Grant.

Shawn and I met and after a very short time it was clear that we were going to be spending time together creating in 2012.  I knew 2012 was going to be my year and after meeting Shawn we created some great ideas to offer to powerful women who also wanted to make 2012 their year.     

Shawn has a plan that we all can follow to achieve our goals and dreams this year. It starts with the “Discovering Your Life Purpose” workshop being held at Pure Cuisine on Feb 2, 2012 from 6:30pm-9:30pm.  This is the foundation to everything else we will be doing this year and will really help you get clear on what it is you want.  This 3 hour workshop is available to ALL women, whatever your goals!  On meeting Shawn you will instantly feel his positive energy.

If you are interested in this great journey, please contact me via Facebook or email at mypurecuisine@yahoo.ca

Monday I will be posting our family challenge for next week.  It is big and I am already overwhelmed!

LOVE!!!!!

YIKES – emotional eating!

So thought I would post this as it is quite interesting what we do when things don’t go as planned. 

I received a call about my 17 year old son that needed dealing with last night.  God totally gave me a spiritual teacher in that boy and every week seems to bring a new challenge with raising teenage boys.  After lengthy phone calls and a rather heated call with my son – what did I do? Go straight for the box of truffles that I had lying around from Christmas.  I stopped and said to myself “ This is emotional eating Julie – I don’t care I am DONE” and proceeded to eat two truffles.  We are such funny creatures!

We all know that our emotions play a big part in what we eat. We look to food for comfort – that warm hug, and I am not alone.  I know that my awareness at that time prevented me eating the whole box and instead eating two.  If you are reading this then do one thing tomorrow.   Be aware of what you are eating and WHY!  Here is a picture of the box that I ripped into.  I am a serious chocolate addict.  Since eating RAW though I have not really even craved chocolate, apart from when there is a teenage son to contend with LOL!

Back on track this morning and I decided to treat myself to my favourite mango smoothie.  Here is the recipe:

Mango Smoothie

1 fresh mango

1 x 4oz banana

Good handful of spinach

3 cups of waters

Pinch of vanilla (optional)

1 tbls of flax oil (optional)

Blend and enjoy!

Sorry I can’t get the picture to rotate.  This smoothie was so yummy.

Yesterday was day 4 of totally RAW and loving it.  I always know that when I go raw something happens to me on a different level.  I start looking at all aspects of my life and this time is no different.  I am certainly spending this time deeply reflecting on my life, my happiness, what makes me happy and how I am spending my time in this short life.  I know change is coming.  I also know that 2012 is my year.  Recently I heard that old quote “Everywhere you go there you are” and it meant more than it ever has.  It doesn’t matter what you do – there you are doing the same thing.  This was big for me.  So my saying of the day is “Become the Change You Seek”.  This I will be defining for myself in the next week.  I will keep you posted.  It will be an extension of my vision board – which is weird because I have this strip of white down the right hand side of my vision board that just did not get filled.  Maybe this was what that space was for.

So I am excited, scared and surrendering to my inner voice through this time.  When going 100% raw you really are in-tune with life.  Alert and awake to what is going on.  I know in the past that this has sometimes been too much for me. It’s nice to live in a numbed out world for a while and this is where most of us live.  That way we do not have to deal with the dysfunction of our lives.  Food can give us that warm hug and bury those feelings.  When you eat clean, nutritiously rich food that truly feeds the body you are awake – YIKES!

Ok that’s enough from me.  My white roses by my bed look beautiful, my hot yoga yesterday was amazing and my Hunter boots arrived today.  My Christmas present from my mother-in-law.  You will see me living in these gorgeous wellie boots (as we call them in England). As part of my simplicity plan I now only have about 6 pairs of footwear.  In the past I proudly would announce that I owned 35 -50 pairs of boot, shoes, sandals and any other sort of beautiful footwear LOL!

Love to you all!

Food Diary for yesterday

Green Smoothie – avocado, berries, frozen bananas, flax oil, hemp & freshly squeezed orange juice

Avocado chocolate mousse with oranges & bananas

Lots of water

Hearty salad and corn chowder soup (Day 3 of this soup.  Getting a little boring now.  Oh well it is warm and that, I am grateful for)

Raw Nanaimo bite size square, nut brittle and bite size mince pie

Here is my vision board – still have some finishing touches to do, but I loved the headings that Jack Canfield suggested as it really covers everything in life. 

Yesterday I spent the day in transitional raw.  My mother-in-law had made a wicked trifle that I had to eat yesterday LOL.  So today 100% and I am already feeling great.  It was so great to be back at work.  I realised that being around people and contributing to society in the way I do is what fulfills me.  It was great to connect with Kitty and chat about our great Christmases and even though we were not terrible with our eating habits we did both eat cooked food.  It was so interesting for us to talk about how CRAP we felt and that the more we ate of this “dead” food the less energy we had to do the things we loved.  We both also noticed that we were sleeping forever- never feeling like we were rested.  Our poor bodies had to do a whole lot more work during these 10 days off.

Anyway with already feeling better and cleaning the house yesterday of all clutter (well almost) I feel lighter in my space too.  My husband came in and wondered if we were moving out LOL with furniture moved and whole areas cleared.  Less housework, less clutter, more time for things that matter.  I am stopping at the store tonight to splurge on fresh flowers – this is part of my abundance for the year.  I will always have fresh flowers in the house.  I will have a vase on my dinner table and by my bedside.  There is nothing better than waking up in the morning to see something so alive and beautiful (other than my husband of course).   You cannot help but wake up and feel great.

Tomorrow I start hot yoga at Kamloops Hot Yoga.  I love hot yoga more than anything and so am excited to be back at it.  Thanks to Trina and Dwight for offering such great classes and a very flexible schedule.  I have actually penciled in yoga  twice a week after my business coach said “You have to just put it in your schedule and commit”  He was right.  When a business acquaintance today asked when I could do some demos I was pleased to tell her any days but Wednesday and Friday mornings as this was my yoga time.  She totally respected this, WOW – sometimes life is so easy we miss it!

On a business note I am busily preparing for our next 28 day Challenge which starts Jan 23 for 4 weeks.  This program is one of my favourite.  This is where a group of 10 people change their lives and we actually get to visually see the results – AMAZING!  If you are interested please call and book your space as there are only 10 seats available.  This is a great way to eat RAW and with my last 10 days, I truly know how great you feel when you starting eating this way!

Today marks the start of a new year and I have pledged to spend this year with three words as my theme;  

Simplicity, Fun & Abundance.

I have completed my vision board for 2012 which I will post on this blog tomorrow which has so many fun things that I want to achieve this year.  I am very excited to start my 2012 journey.  January will start my pledge for simplicity  - in eating 100% raw starting tomorrow for 30 days, (my family will be eating clean, organic food with vegetarian options)starting hot yoga again (cleaning the body), meditating and visualising daily, taking photos and PRINTING THEM!  buying only things that contribute to simplicity and clean living ie. glass containers to replace plastics, as a family we will be working on creating less waste.

I will start this week to clean cupboards, drawers and closets – we will be having an event at the Store in January for everyone to bring the things they no longer want.  Money raised will provide fresh fruit & veggies for the Food-Bank . This week I will also create a system for paperwork for the year that is simple, but not fun – paperwork is NOT Fun LOL!

My inspiration for simplicity is that I have spent this Christmas holidays reading the Steve Jobs book bought for me by my older son.  I am so totally in awe of this billionaire, genius who lived a life of simplicity – he didn’t really care about money just changing the world through technology. I am striving to be like this. With this said our family are avid Apple fans and have many of the products on the market currently.  After losing my I Phone four  weeks ago I have been struggling to function – but I am taking this as a sign from the universe and for the time being I am using an old regular phone – simplicity achieved!

This is a short video on what my raw food space looks like in my own home.

Cupboard Movie