*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

I'm having a thought and just wanted to work this one out in words before getting myself tied up in knots...

In a response to a stress out regarding the upcoming christmas the advise I was given is that noone can make me feel anyway, I choose how I feel.  I think that this potentially could be the root of a lot of my issues at the moment.  I care what people think, I've rarely made a decision in my life without asking for the input of those people that I care about.  In particular family and loved ones, and by extension I care what my hubbies family thinks of me.  So I wonder where does one draw the line between caring about what people think and wanting to make other people happy and caring only about what I think about my choices in life???  When what I do has an inpact on others I cannot say that I care only for my own choices. 

I do admit that I do many things, because I like to take the easy road, the path of least resistance, its easier to fall in line with what others want than to assert myself and rock the boat.  Ultimately ending up defending my choices and having my ideals and beliefs torn down by other people that I care about.  I cannot say that these attitudes and actions by others do not affect how I feel.  Surely being that way, not caring is more hurtful than not??? 

Anyway, I don't know, this isn't really making any more sense to me, but I know deep down that I need to reduce how much I care what others think, but I don't want to tap dance over the line of being hurtful to others... 

And finally, I can chose to use "detox" and "medically prescribed health reasons" for people that I don't care about, but if I say to a family who has lost 4 family members in the last 12 months that I'm doing something for health reasons then I can potentially cause more harm than good, thats not making a decision for me, thats potentially affecting them and how they feel on christmas day, and I think they have hurt enough.  I won't be eating their meat and roasted vege, its something that I don't care to do, but I need to think up a way to not hurt them and also get my way, and ending up leaving in tears because they can't look at my raw foods without having some hurtful comment about it as a lifestyle choice will affect me...

Rambling....  Need to think 

Oh oh oh, I'm drooling!!!!!  That sounds sooooo fabulous!  Looking forward to my shop tomorrow to pick up some more pumpkin!

Sorry, let me explain this family a little better, they are unwilling to try anything new, and push against the unknown, they don't eat vegetables at all unless they are fried.  I can take whatever I want for me I guess, but ultimately the explaining and the tut tutting and the questions will be challenging.  I don't feel guilty for eating all the salad, what I feel guilty about is that bringing along my own food will seem like I'm thumbing my nose at their traditions and beliefs, I don't want to seem like taking my own food is saying that I think that their decisions in life are wrong, because that is generally how they make me feel... 

And no, changing inlaws is not an option, I only got married this year, but thanks for the suggestion   

This will be my first raw christmas, and I'm wanting some survival mechanisms for dealing with families...  My family is aok, we always have salads and fruit that I know I can eat.  but the inlaws, they do the standard 5 meats and shallow fried veges, so gross!!!!  but if I take a salad I'm the only person who eats it and I always end up feeling guilty.

*waves back*  Hey RGG, I am always lurking!!!!!!