Aaahhhh yes my favorite jeans,  thanxs Jen.

Hope your having a great weekend xx

My goodness, loooonnngg time between posts. Lots has happened.

Among other things we moved house and I went to SA for a week to see my gran, only to have to fly straight back over as she passed away. so glad I had the week with her before hand.

Getting my garden sorted here and that will be an ongoing venture.

So had a big break from training, probably a good idea, quite a few therapists I had seen in relation to my blood work and weight gain had suggested i do this. Went back last week and am trying a totally different way of training at present, a few basic compound free weight exercises followed by a circuit with weights and bosu ball then full on cardio for short duration. Like HITT training. Along with this I am walking my dog at night.  Still got to get the hang off the circuit training with the bosu ball. I'll go tomorrow again.

A few of my relo's and myself have entered a competition with each other over 12 weeks. with weight loss, I wanted fat loss, and measurements but not so doable so body weight it is. Although I could do with loosing at least 10kgs of fat. This is week 3 I think, anyway it ends around the 10th January.

I had repeat bloods done, get the results on Tuesday, still going great with the raw food, over 7 months now. Interestingly I weighed myself for the first time in months at the start of this comp and over the 7 months of going raw I had dropped about 7kgs. So obviously my thyroid must be settling down, anyway will be interesting the results.

So I am not working today, well not until this afternoon and I go help with a delivery at the food co-op. it is glorious weather here. I have not put my goals I wanted too in writing yet. Actually I am still not entirely clear on them.

One thing I have noticed is that I have been very spasmodic with my weight training. I absolutely love weight training it's even a form of meditation to me, I find I have to concentrate so much on the task at hand that I think of nothing else often while lifting weights.

However I have not had my heart in it lately. I have been skipping lots of sessions. Can't quite work out why. I could ride with this, however I think I am going to come down hard on myself and make my self go regularly and before I know it I will be loving it again

Anyways I need to get outside and enjoy this glorious weather before I go to work, will see if I can add a pic of my youngest child.

Love and light Alixx

Just noticed the pics of your kids and your sons eyes are gorgeous, great that he must be detoxing hay as they are returning to such a gorgeous vibrant colour.

My youngest has similar eyes

I have always been fascinated by iridology. Have you ever read any of Dorothy Halls work she is a retired Australian herbalist.

Hope your having an awesome day!!

Thanks Jen, no I haven't heard about it before. Will google it

have had a very good day. very tired though, restless night sleep. We had great storms during the night here.

I went to a workshop about food production, peak oil and our carbon footprints it was very interesting and we watched a DVD on what Cuba is doing agriculturally since the collapse of the soviet Union, very inspiring what they have achieved I think. I can't remember the name of it will post it if I find out.

Also saw Food Matters during the week, it was great! David Wolfe features in it, he ROCKS!!

I just love persimmons as well

Okay I decided today that I would start a journal here. I have a blog, however I've been slack writing on that of late.

So I have some goals and before I mention them a bit of a run down on me.

I've now been raw for around 6 months now, gosh how time goes by... I LOVE IT!! the raw food that is

What led me too raw food, ill health came upon me quite quickly, and I put on nearly 20kgs between mid October last year and February this year. Then a series of blood tests with unusual readings within my thyroid, kidneys, liver and iron count and a few other peculiarities were picked up.

Went to lots of practitioners, both medical and alternative and didn't get many reasonable or explainable answers... so that led me to do my own research and I think what may have contributed or triggered my health issues was my diet before hand and possibly the stress i was putting my body under.... i am, or should i say was a figure competitor, which is very similar to bodybuilding, but we carry a little more body fat and we just get to wear make up fake nails and high heels when competing, so not me, however I did enjoy it for competing

My diet consisted of lean animal proteins, fish, green veg, whey protein, egg whites. Leading up to a comp i would weight  train up to 6 times a week and do up to 2x 45 minutes of full on cardio 6 times a week,....... I did this for months on end if need be for a comp coming up, the last comp my body decided it had had enough and wouldn't let go of the body fat and this is when my health issues arose, i consider it a blessing now as it led me to raw food and I have never felt better

However the weight is not coming off at all easily if at all. I feel great though but it is important for me to loose the weight. Not to get down to comp weight, but just fir into all my clothes  would be nice!!

So I recently saw a homeopath and still not sure what to make of that, as he suggested that there was absolutely nothing wrong with my health, physically or emotionally. He suggested that the fat issue is a mental issue from childhood stuck in my etheric, and to go away and think about that, so I have and can relate but can not as yet connect to the issue, or work it out totally.......bugger I'm impatient.

So I won't post my goals here yet as I want to think about them overnight, sleep on them so to speak and once I post them I will commit to them 100%

I've cut back heaps on my training, as I was advised that I would not get better if I didn't. I have taken up yoga again and have just started including the 5 Tibetan rights a few times a week. Gone back to meditating much more regularly as I was being quite slack there so these are all bonuses.

Life is great, now I just need to fit into my jeans, may sound superficial but such is life I love my jeans

May have blood tests again in a few months to see improvements since going raw.

So that's a bit of where I am at

Love and light Ali x

funny scales story.

Muscle weighs so much more than fat anyways.

I have been having similar detoxing symptoms, ear wax, one ear blocking so I can hear my own voice in my head, pimples, heavy head, not really headaches and vivid dreams, often including not violent but grotesque things like a lower leg limb on a green velvet chair and one of my kids just had to go and throw it around to my absolute horror and embarrassment until some ugly tumor looking kind of thing came out of it, strange!

Hope you are having a great weekend, and was lovely to talk to you recently when making my order, .... I should have told you my raw story LOL just thought you would be very busy.... I went raw overnight after one week of organic juices and zucchini and miso soup

This is great info for me. Must agree I have always let my kids be exposed dirt and common childhood illness.

I was wondering if any of you have experience or suggestions for kids and eczema, my youngest has it on his hands and I've tried numerous alternative external remedies, it settles down only to flare up again, especially in the cold weather or just before he gets a cold.

Thank you I think I will find both these of great interest.

Its great all the support here as well

I loved it as well!!

I downloaded the movie and have watched it twice, once by myself and once with my cousin. I must admit although I had heard little bits and pieces in the past I had not paid enough attention. I certainly will now!

I am intending to give a copy of it to as many of my friends, family ect that will listen and watch. In the past when I mention to my mates or family I didn't know enough to make them pay attention,  they would think I'm being paranoid, or gullible ect,  labeling what I would say as 'conspiriaces' . Now that will change with me being more knowledgeable myself and able to provide a copy of the film for people to watch for themselves.

For example, my cousin thought I was being fanciful I'm sure so yesterday I watched it with her and her attitude has certainly changed now, and she intends to research more through her work.

I sincerely thank the people here for posting the information

Hi J,

I am pretty new to raw food as well, and am loving it as well, and so much like you mentioned to learn.

I look forward to following your journey, and you're right this is a great forum.

COOL! glad you could understand the instructions fbi. I've downloaded quite a few,

Good luck when you do Jen