Ok, well it turned out as a great day...

Food:-
1/2 Pineapple
5 kiwi fruit
1 lg Mango
Marinated Mushrooms

Exercise:- (afternoon)
15min rowing
Bench Press- 20kg/10reps 20kg/10reps
Overhead flys- 5kg/15rep 5kg/15reps
Push ups- 8/4
Chest pass med ball- 4kg/25 4kg/25
DB flys- 2x3kg/10reps 2x3kg/10reps
Tricep Extension- 5kg/10 5kg/5
Med ball arms to toes- 3kg/7rep 3kg/4rep
Stretching...

I'm feeling very motivated and light, my endurance on the weights was far better than I expected seeing as I haven't done anything for a few months (like 6 months) and every other time I've not been raw and when I first started back I was always stuffed after a few exercises! 

So Very happy Janne!!!!!!

Yeah, I'm inspired for a vege patch as well!!!!  Hmmm, the thought of hubby getting all dirty in the garden sounds nice also  

Just FYI the fluroride in QLD water was delayed until the new year...  I'm so NOT happy about its arrival!

Well the grand plan of exercising didn't go as well as I'd hoped, by the time I had gotten home I had a full blown migraine type headache and the best I could achieve was lying on my couch being a total sook!  I had a really interesting experience this morning though, doing my T5T all my joints were cracking and popping like an old woman but afterwards I felt SOOOOOOO much better!  It was amazing!  Today I feel 100% better than yesterday, though oddly I'm almost a kg heavier....  I know I know, I just shouldn't weigh myself, but it was more of an intersting observation than anything else. 
This morning, similar routine to yesterday-
Up, drink water
T5T
Body brush and shower
I've been chewing my way through a pineapple for breakfast, though clearly it is going to last me right trhough lunch as well, its yummy and juicy, after that I have 5 kiwi fruits and 8 plums to get through..... Hopefully that will last me until I get home this evening!  Hopefully as I get less toxic I'll stop sleeping so much and start having better time management skills in the pre 8am hours and I'll start back on the GS, till then I am powered on fruit!

Thanks for popping in guys!  Have a super, sensational, smiley day!

Hey christian, I use the Yuva products from Pure Indulgence, they have a lovely skin hydrating moisturiser that works wonders and the products are 100% natural...  So that might be helpful for you!

*moan* *groan* *whimper* oh, the detox today is bad bad bad....  which means its sooooo good for me, but still, I feel horrid   

Got up,
Drank 1 litre of water
Did T5T (the first time I've gotten through all 21 reps)
Body brushed & showered
Ate 1/4 rocky
Have snacked the rest of the day on about 1kg of plums & had another 1 litre of water trying to chase the headache away.  I'm going for a run & swim tonight so that should hopefully get all the achy joints on the go... 

Ah well, the day has been productive, I've made a beautiful functional new webpage for my work that I'm really excited about!  So yay me!   

On the up side I've booked into a Jazz class on wednesday nights, should be great fun so I have to look forward to!

Keep smiling beautiful people!!!!!!!! 

Oh thats so awesome!  I'm glad its showing in Brissy!!!!!!  Do you know what time???

Is anyone else going?  I'm getting so excited and just wanted to see if anyone else was also jumping out of their skin!!!!!!

Hi Geo, i've just read all about that and it sounds amazing!  Will definately have to do that.  At the moment I have a bath salt from Perfect Potion which is lovely as well, but no shiny eyes after that one!  Just a quick question, the select botanicals you seem to have to be a registered specialist to order, which I'm not, or am I looking on the incorrect site?

Thanks

J

Kabbalah has some interesting concepts on this exact topic.  In that every cell in the universe is linked, and therefore you vibrating at the highest possible level, always striving for a higher goal automatically means that the universe also vibrates on that higher plane.  I find that personally, since learning that I feel that my contribution every day makes a difference.  You know, butterfly effect, that my small good deeds and positive outlook everyday may have a tsunami effect elsewhere in the world. 

It is at least an interesting concept. 

you can also look at it by saying that focussing on the negative increases its vibration...  It could be considered selfish but I try and apply those 2 principles to the world 

Well I had a wonderful moment yesterday, I was still pondering the Christmas family issue and i picked up Natalia Roses book "The Raw Detox Diet" and what do you know, it has a whole section on dealing with the christmas period, i feel so much more calm about it after rereading it twice over a couple of days. So I'm a happy little camper now, I have myself centred again and feel strong about my choices!  Always a good place to start.

Today I started a fast, my first one ever, prompted by a significant lack of food in the house and also the fact that I've been thinking about doing one for ages, I actually feel amazing this afternoon, I've been able to get through heaps of work!  Drinking heaps of water and releasing lots of bad things inside me...  Feels fantastic!

Other than that I've started contemplating what I want my 2009 to be about, I like to set my new years resolutions around a "theme" for the year.  So this year was always going to be around resolving financial confusion and having my wedding...  And I feel at this point that I achieved both.  So I'm tossing up a year of health a wellbeing, or a year of detox...  Have been very interested in some methods of detoxing the body that I discovered in my reading and would like to get my body to a point where it is functioning at an optimum level.  Having had chronic digestion issues for the past 10 odd years it might take a few years to get to this point though....  Still, enjoying planning, its always my favourite activity! 

Hey Sweetpea, could you PM it to me as well! 

Thanks!

J

Hey Theresa,
I've always read that its the balance between fibre and carbs that makes something either higher or lower in GI and carbs, they are still carbs, veggies are still predominantly carbs, but it is their combined structure with fibre that reduces their overall sugar absorbtion. 

So if a lettuce leaf have 10 gms in carbs and 5 gms of fibre (this is obviously numbers plucked from the sky) then its overall carb load is 5.

Obviously that lettuce leaf is not primarily protein or fat or alcohol, the othe forms of macronutrient, so it is still a carb.

That was always how I interpretted the difference...  Happy for someone to say that I'm wrong, and by the feel of this thread, I'm sure someone will....

Thanks Jennie, that was all the nice things I definately needed to hear, I think that I have always been a pleaser, I'm naturally inclined towards keeping the peace with the ones that I love but have found that it means that I'm inevitably not true to myself, i need to find a balance and like you say a way to break this to them gently and kindly and let them get used to the change!  I hope over time they will realise that I'm more peaceful and less likely to explode at them, from built up frustration. 

Thanks for all the support!

J

Absolutely, enjoy!  I too have been feeling that its a bit much at the moment, I believe its something in the stars!!!! 

sending you big massive hugs, and a virtual chrissy present for all the help you have been to me this year!

Love

Janne