It has been a little while since I wrote something, and I feel that’s because I’m always writing about similar topics with the main theme being spiritual growth and working on self. I was thinking, “hmmm, what else can I write on this?” and the idea came to me to do something a bit different and write about my other passions and interests. I realized that the readers of this blog who don’t know me personally probably don’t have a very good idea of who I am or what I’m like, other than I have psychic abilities, work with energy and am passionate about helping others with their spiritual growth by sharing my own experiences. Other than that, none of you really have any idea about my other interests and passions so I will be sharing those on my blog now. I will likely make different sections on this blog so you can easily get to the stuff you want.
I gradually came to see that my life doesn’t have to be defined by any one aspect of my passions, a job that I have, interests that I pursue…..everything that’s there is me as a whole and meant to be expressed. Also, in the work that I do as a healer, I’m seeing that it doesn’t have to be carried out in one clear cut defined way. We can heal in many ways, and people can receive healing in many different ways, it doesn’t necessarily have to be through energy work, or readings, it can be through simple inspiration to make positive life changes or even just being there for a friend when they really need you. Basically, all actions that somehow benefit the greater good are actions of healing in my eyes.
So now getting to something I haven’t shared about on my blog but have been working at very diligently and passionately for almost a year now. Health, fitness and nutrition have been a great area of focus for me this past year and I’ve seen tremendous changes both inside and out because of the changes I made. Before, what I ate, and physical activity had never been much of a priority for me. The bad habits eventually caught up with me, and without really realizing it, I had become chubby! Aside from the fact that excess body fat is not all that aesthetically pleasing, I knew if I stuck to the same habits things would only get worse and it could eventually do damage to my health.
It was around Oct. of last year that I started doing hot yoga, and I didn’t own a scale at this time but based on the scale at my parents house I knew approximately where I was at. I didn’t notice any major weight loss at first because I had not yet made any changes to my diet. Still eating too many processed foods, carbs and fast foods. The big changes started to come for me when I did the master cleanse for 10 days in December, I lost a little over 10 pounds and while on the cleanse I gained so much emotional clarity due to the detox. I felt great, and after the cleanse was when my eating habits began to change. I became much fonder of salads, veggies and fruits, and I cut out white carbs, sodas and fruit juices. I definitely felt positive changes from the diet, of course I’d slip up every now and then and eat the junk but the feeling afterwards was always very sluggish and low energy so I quickly knew I couldn’t go back to the old ways. Slipping up is nothing to beat yourself up over, it happens.
On top of the healthy diet, I gave yoga a break and decided to get serious in the gym. I was working out with a trainer doing some intense workouts! Again, I noticed positive changes from this. I worked out with the trainer for about 2-3 months and then felt I wanted to go on my own and do the p90x program, I felt I wasn’t concentrating enough on my cardio when I was working with the trainer and knew the p90x program would force me to do so. When I did p90x I also further changed my diet into what some people refer to as the caveman diet. I gave up all grains (grains were not eaten in caveman times) and was living on a diet of fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, lean meats and legumes. Just so you all know even with the healthy eating habits I do allow myself a cheat day usually once a week when I go hang out with friends, on these days just about anything is fair game, cup cakes, cheesecake, chips etc. lol. I’ve managed to still see great results while having a little bit of flexibility.
For about one month now I have been in a new phase of my workout and diet plan, I’m in the gym with the trainer again focusing on building a bit more muscle mass. I worked on my cardio on my own, and I’m now quite comfortable doing intense cardio and it’s easy for me. The biggest change I’ve recently made though is going on a raw food diet. There is so much to explain about the raw food diet that I would have to make a separate entry for it. Basically, what the diet includes is lots of leafy green, limitless veggies, a good portion of fruits, nuts and seeds as small snacks and a whole lot of other amazing super food supplements that I will explain in future entries. Because everything is eaten in its raw form, meaning it’s not processed over a temperature of 115 degrees, the enzymes in the food are all still living. Living enzymes mean the food is more bioavailable than cooked food in which most of the nutrition is degraded.
The results of everything I’ve done over the past year:
I’ve lost close to 30 lbs, I wasn’t even really that bad to begin with, just avg/chubby but I’m now at the level of skinny bitch, lol.
Better looking skin
Mental clarity improvement
Emotional issues were more easily brought forward to deal with, because i wasn’t eating just for the hell of it I had more time to focus on my inner workings. Detoxing is never just a physical thing, body, mind and spirit all go through the detox process because they are linked.
Feeling more connected with surroundings. As the toxic junk is cleared out, you begin to feel the real you, call it what you wish…your core, your soul etc. and you feel how it reacts in relation to its surroundings.
In my next entry I will do a write up about my experience with the master cleanse with specifics on the process of the cleanse and also the benefits of each ingredient in the lemonade. I wish I had thought of sharing all of this with you a long time ago.
October 6, 2010
Categories: Diet and Fitness . Tags: body, detox, diet, dieth, fitness, gym, Health, lemonade cleanse, master cleanse, mind, nutrition, p90x, raw food diet, skinny bitch, soul, super foods, training, vegan diet, weight loss, workout . Author: intuitivechelle . Comments: Leave a Comment