Hi May, good to meet you too!!

Good catching up sleep time...very important in recovery. The class I do will just be very casual for my friends, thought it easier to get them all here once rather then show them all individually. they keep asking for recipes, but I'm hesitent to give them any, as I worry that they will try it themsleves & get dissapointed with the results. Better that they see the tricks so it works & they are sold;-)

I don't mind helping you out if you come down this way though, as you are interstate I could provide some tools(vitamix, excalibar, etc. etc.) that you can't bring on the plane!!!!

Hi Jen,

Not apple is my feeling.  I read in a mainstream journal that apples are better at waking you up in the morning than coffee, so perhaps something else?  I've a vague memory of reading grapefruit juice is good for sleep, but that may not be what you're wanting in all that green.

I'm so pleased to read that you are starting to pick up again anyway.  Please still get heaps of rest if you can though dear lady - if it's exhaustion you had, even if feeling better (through will power and/or raw power) you could still do with some healing time.

I wonder if your seminar table centres will be a bit scarce tonight in that they'd expected them to last the whole seminar.  What a laugh!!!

Was Caitlyn's dinner a kind of 'pudding'?  Sounds delicious.  I seem to feel best when I avoid recipes with nuts in them so that one looks good for me!  Post me a taste next time please?

Wishing you more healing rest and peace Beautiful Lady,
May

I love the people here! Fruity your new avatar is so cute! Thanks for all of your offers. I'll take you up on the offer of help. Princess has also offered. I'll only need regular blenders as my class is for people who are just taking the very first steps into raw and don't need any of the high powered stuff yet such as a vitamix. Or a dehydrator. Simple food made delicious! But when I do a class in Sydney I'll need about four or five normal blenders and if I can't get those then I'll definitely borrow it. My brain is working over time on how to work this out! You guys are so fantastically generous with your time. 

Hi Gina, I was talking to Piers at MBS about getting shirts printed up with photos of the 'old me' printed on the front and our symptoms printed on the back or sleeves. I love this idea. Do you know how many times I see people in the supermarket, miserable, holding their basket with low cal cola and low fat this and low gi that and want to walk up to them and put my hands on their shoulders, look them in the eye and say, "I can help you if you let me." I wouldn't do it of course but if I had a shirt with the old me on the front with 'old me' written above it in bold red and "ask me how I did it, I won't charge you" written underneath it, How cool would that be? I'm sure I'd get loads of people interested in raw. Help so many people.

May, I dunno what you would call that dinner. Chocolate mousse was what I told her it was... it was vay vay yummy!!! 

Aaaah Princess. I loved every minute with you. It was awesome. I don't blame you at all for my illness. I've been running on empty for a long time and was due for a crash. I remembered when I got home when Brock was a baby and I was physically ill from exhaustion. Vomiting from tiredness. I need to learn to stop earlier! I can't wait to hang with you again. It was like I'd always known you. Hmmm. See how these lists go hey! I might see if I can time a couse to coincide with city to surf. Yaaaaaaaaaaaaay!

What a day I've had today. Firstly I went to the supermarket and did my shopping. I felt almost assaulted by the ads insinuating that I will not get breast cancer by using anti-perspirant, overly bright lights, high sugar 'healthy' stuff. Desperate sick people loading up with all the stuff I mentioned before and aisles and aisles of stuff that I would love to not go to. New goal. Not have to go to supermarket! I made it out of there in one peace though!

Then at dinner time roughly, hubby tells me that he wants to go raw for a weeks trial! I tried not to let the emotion show too much! Exitement is scary for a phlegmatic! Anyhow that was great news. I've also suggested that we walk together for 15 minutes each day to clear our heads and spend some time together which seemed to go well. Aaaahmen. So good. He has also given me permission to get rid of my microwave! Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaay! Super happy about that.

My kids are both detoxing. (I've decided to knock the word 'sick' out of my vocab). They have sore throats, red rimmed eyes and black shadows. I told them if they want to get better that eating fresh and healthy foods is the way to go. They both agreed that I never get sick. I told them that I couldn't force them to eat that way though, but if they get sick in future they should know why it's happening.

My dad has serious IBS. I rang him tonight and told him about raw. I spoke to him of stories I'd heard about people healing themselves of major bowel disorders and asked him if he would do a water fast with me for 10 days. The last we spoke about his condition he said he would do anything to cure it. Try anything. Today he said he's had enough. Thanks for the information, but he doesn't have the will to try anything else. He is very sick with it today. I'm very sad as I believe that he has given up on living. He's been fighting this for 20 years or more and I think that he has gotten his hopes up only to have them dashed when things don't work. I sensed a weakness in his voice that I've never heard. It's his descision but it's sad when your parent gives up the will to carry on. I'm hoping that it's not completely out of his head and that as he gets over this most recent attack that he may change his mind. It's up to him. Living proof of what Harl's has said a million times: 'most people would rather die than change their diet'.

Anyhow, many ups and downs. I'm off to do a little work now. Have a great night or day as the case may be!

xooxoxo

Jen thats exactly what I think when I see overweight and miserable people in the supermarket!  I wish I was brave enough to go up to them and say "there's a better way, you can feel happy and healthy and good about yourself..." but then I also don't want to trivialise how hard it is when you're in that position and have emotional and physical addictions to the foods you eat. 

And then to some extent people are like that because they chose to be, but I/we also know that what you eat dramatically changes your state of mind.  If there's anything I would like to tell people who are in that self-destructive cycle, thats the one!

Anyway after that ramble..I think the shirts are a brilliant idea, a picture paints a thousand words and its non-confrontational, you're just putting your experience out there and people can approach you if they want to hear more, you're awesome Jen

Hi Guys, I have had a weird day! I ddin't get to bed until after midnight which is silly with how exhausted I am. I"m looking forward to my new life with my raw business and just wondering how I'm going to fit it all in! I have to remember two things, everyone only has 24 hours in a day so my time management skills are in need of attention and also that where there's a will there's a way. I just have to ask 'how'. That's all. Simplify a bit!

I gave the kids the day off school today. Both were totally miserable this AM and I just couldn't think how they would go with the moods they were in. I usually go by moods rather than symptoms with the kids. If they have a high temperature and are as happy as Larry (where did that saying come from, does anyone know? Was there an extremely happy showhost called Larry somewhere?) I pretty much ignore the temp but if they have a low temp and are miserable and cranky that's when I sit up and have a closer look. Today they were the latter. I ended up taking them to the beach for an hour and a half and just letting the ocean water clean out their little noses and throats. They had a great time. I got burned and they didn't! I didn't wear sunscreen because I am RAW baby!!! I don't burn! Well actually I do. After sitting in the sun for ages in Sydney and my skin remaining lovely and normal I thought I was in the clear. Bugger. Never mind. By summer we'll see.

I went over my notes from the weekend seminar and taught Caitlyn some of the stuff I learned. She picked it up really quickly and we had some fun with it. I haven't been as vigilant as I want to with it. I've decided that from now on my first priority after getting the kids to school is to do at least half an hour going over what I'm supposed to from the seminar. I didn't pay all that money just for notes to sit in a drawer! And it's such good stuff. I am hoping to go again in October. It won't hurt to recap and also I get the feeling that Don Tolman is a lot like Billy Connolly in some ways. He knows what to teach us but goes off on so many tangents due to all the information he has in his brain that he's never sure what will come out of his mouth next! I'm going to see if I can volunteer. That'll be fun as I'm hoping that Hubby will be in the audience!

I have eaten pretty well today. I started with a rockmelon smoothie from two small rockies. I think they were a bit past their useby dates but never mind. Lunch was a dip that I'd made for Brock. He's had it loads of times and loved it but today wouldn't even look at it!  :angry: So I ate that with carrot. The dip was a handful of cashews with lemon juice, salt, pepper and about a 1/4 of a clove of garlic. Yummo. Then I made some juice for my kiddies. Carrot, celery and apple. They disliked it of course and so I drank that! And then dinner was a trifle made from blueberries, cream, raspberries, cream, oranges, cream, banana, cream! The cream was made from cashews blended 50:50 with cashews and was soooooo nice. And no, I didn't share it with anyone! 

Well I'm off to do some work and then to bed. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

Thanks everyone for visiting!

xoxoxo

awesome progress in so many aspects of your life Jennie...proud for you and of you

Hmm let me know when you are planning to whole sale dates,lol...im so there!

I will be happy to help you with your raw business when i am there with you,in any way that i can...im good at that kind of thing..very helpful...oh oh and massages when you are feeling like you need it..