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Emotional Eating

Emotional eating ties right into eating late at night because nights are when we’re most likely to engage in this particular bad habit. Our culture uses food as a drug to boost our moods and bury bad feelings. We drown our sorrows in chocolate—heck, there’s a whole industry of cards, magnets, t-shirts, and other gift items that excuse chocolate bingeing as a normal part of life!

Many people, when they’re sitting alone at night winding down from the day, find themselves beginning to think about the problems and stressors in their lives. Your alone, the house is quiet, and you have some free time, so that’s easy to do.

Unfortunately, that’s when we reach for the “comfort foods”— chocolate chip cookies just like the ones mom used to make, a bowl of ice cream like the one you’d share with your dad on Sunday nights in front of the television, or a bag of chips like the one you munched with your friends while watching a funny movie. Food is a huge part of our culture.

It’s almost always a part of our celebrations and, let’s face it, because we tie it to the good times, it has a calming, soothing effect in the bad times.

Avoiding this issue might be a little tougher than the rest, but if you make a commitment to stick to your food plan and take a moment to pause and think before you reach for your comfort food.

Tips for avoiding emotional Eating:
1. Try to keep your mind occupied with good thought by engaging in a favorite hobby or activity.
2. Reach for the phone instead of the food; call a friend.
3. Always think before you eat. Are you really hungry.

Here's a good  affirmation for the Emotion Eaters:

I am the sole creator of my life. I choose now to put loving, creative,   and consistent energy and enthusiastic effort into discovering and fulfilling   my life purpose. I take total responsibility for structuring my time. by Doreen Virtue, Ph.D.

 

Turning Knowledge into Power

From Success.com October 2008 issue

FEW Actions You Can take Right  Now

Get Uncomfortable: Take Robin Robert’s advice. Pick one action outside our comfort zone to greatly increase your ability to achieve success. Start doing it now.

Be a Mentor, Find a Mentor
Pick one person you can help mentor in their job or life. and then find a mentor with the skills to help you achieve greatness in a specific area of you life.

Plan Your Green Seed
Saving the whole world might seem daunting, so select just one thing you will do to live greener today. Tomorrow, maybe consider another.

Forgive:
Follow the doctor's (Oz) orders. Write down one person you need to forgive. Is it someone who has hurt you? Is the guilt for something you have done.... or not done? Is it you whom you need to forgive? Is it you whom yo need to forgive? Forgive and let go.

Seek Advice
Identify one area of your business or personal life where you are having difficulty. Pick one person you know who is good n that area. Call them and ask their advice.

Say Thank you:
Learn from the great Zig Ziglar. Identify three people who deserve your gratitude. Tell them why today. then write down three great things about our life right now. FEELING  BETTER ALREADY?

Married Couples Who Play Together Stay Together

ABC News July 26, 2008 &  Mercola.com

"The more you invest in fun and friendship and being there for your partner, the happier the relationship will get over time," says Howard Markman, a psychologist who co-directs the university's Center for Marital and Family Studies.

“The correlation between fun and marital happiness is high, and significant.”

Other studies, too, have found that having fun together -- especially while doing “new and exciting activities” -- is the secret to a happy marriage.

For married couples, finding moments to be together free of financial, family or other stresses is not an indulgence, according to new research from the University of Denver.

Four Tips to a Happy Marriage

1. Fight fair. “The way you interact during marital arguments is as important a heart risk factor as whether you smoke or have high cholesterol,” says Timothy W. Smith, a psychology professor at the University of Utah. Verbal aggression, such as yelling at or insulting your partner, leads to decreased intimacy and “self-silencing” -- keeping quiet during a fight -- has been linked to depression, eating disorders and heart disease in women.

2. Keep positive feelings alive. Couples most likely to be married for the long-term are those who maintain their positive feelings for their spouse for at least the first two years. The Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) can help you to clear any emotional blocks that may be sabotaging your relationship.

3. Read the book Fighting for Your Marriage. It is a valuable source of information for positively handling disagreements between you and your spouse, which will increase the success of your relationship.

4. Support your partner’s goals and dreams. People feel happiest in relationships where they feel the other person helps them achieve their own personal goals.

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Make fresh popcorn the old fashioned way

Make fresh popcorn the old fashioned way – with a pot, stove, kernels, a little oil (coconut oil) and a lot of shaking. Microwaveable popcorn bags are coated with suspected cancer-causing perfluorinated chemicals. Stove-popping is just one way to avoid contact with the countless chemicals we’re exposed to daily.

Ending Constipation

A product I highly recommend is Ejuva Cleanse, which is an herbal cleanse. It’s an amazing product that I love so much I offer it for purchase on my website. Not only do I have firsthand experience with it’s amazing cleansing effects, I’ve also heard great things from clients who have used the product.

Another option is to mix your own cleansing drink. Here are a couple of recipes that also work well. They
act like a broom sweeping through your intestinal tract and clearing away all the debris.

Colon Cleanse Drink (1)

• 1/3 cup pure organic Aloe Vera juice or gel
• 1 1⁄2 cups pure water
• 1 oz. fresh wheat grass – optional (or 1 tsp. powder form)
• 1 tsp. powdered acidophilus
• 2 Tbsp. ground flax seed

Blend the ingredients in the blender and drink right away!

Colon Cleanse Drink (2)

• 1 1⁄2 cups pure water
• 2 Tbsp. Sun is Shining or Vitamineral Green (Green Superfood Supplement)
• 2 Tbsp. ground flax seed or chia seeds
  

Optional: 1-2 tablets of Cascara Sagrada – don’t use more than 7 days.
Mix ground flax seed and powder in water and swallow tablets. Use this drink on an empty stomach at
bedtime, or 1 to 2 hours before breakfast.

What’s Your Poo Telling You?

Jesse my son once gave me a little book titled What’s Your Poo Telling You? (See, he DOES think I’m obsessed!) Well, I think it’s a great little book, so I put it in our guest bathroom. Apparently I’m not the only one who thinks about this issue because everybody reads the book. It’s an easy read and I get confessions all the time—from everybody that comes to our house! They all read What’s Your Poo Telling You?!

"String Beans"

From: Brigitte Mars- Excerpted from Raw Some  Maximizing Health, Energy, and Culinary Delight with the Raw Foods Diet. 

String beans are considered a spleen, kidney and yin tonic. They have traditionally been used to improve acne, diabetes, diarrhea, leucorrhoea, night sweats, thirst, and frequent urination. They nourish the pancreas and increase the fluids, or yin aspect of the body. They help in eliminating uric acid, and are thus in relieving the inflammation of arthritis and gout.

Snap beans are very alkaline and the green beans more nutritious than the yellow ones. They are neutral in temperature and sweet in flavor. They are rich in beta-carotene, B complex, calcium and potassium.
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Morning Meals (Smoothie, Cereal, and Almond Milk)

A light morning meal will leave you feeling energized and ready to begin the day. Juices and fruits are perfect for breakfast, since they are high in nutrients yet low in calories and easy to digest. They are much more healthy than eating fried eggs and bacon! Not only that, when you wake in the morning your stomach is empty, so this is an optimal time to cleanse your insides with a smoothie. If you're having trouble with constipation, this can end that very quickly.

If you need something heavier in the morning try the Quinoa cereal with almond milk.
Raspberry Smoothie Breakfast (2)

• 1/2 Cup almond milk (see recipes or available at the health food store)
• 1 Tsp flax oil
• 2 Tbsp of ground flax seed of chia seeds
• 1 Tbsp Vitamineral Green  or Sun is shinning
• 1 Scoop Sun Warrior Protein (vanilla) *
• 1 Cup Raspberry (fresh or frozen)
• 1 Cup or more water   

Blend all ingredients.

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The Benefits of Drinking Green Juices

This week I shared the Morning Meal!  So, here's my favorite one:  JUICING

Yes, those smoothies are excellent for your breakfast, and they are much better than breakfast cereal that contains 50% sugar, but let's talk now about juicing.

You know, I can't stress enough how keeping your menu to liquids in the morning is an excellent way to aid your body's natural repair cycles.

Green juices are fantastic for the morning!  Because our bodies are usually far too acidic, green juices give us a balancing, settling way to help flush out all of the bad things while imparting the good ones.

Along with many of my clients, I like to start the day with a cleansing green drink because of all the alkaline minerals found in leafy greens.  When you wake up, you have literally been fasting for 8-10 hours, so it's a good idea to flush out your system with high water-content fruits, a green smoothie, or a green juice. Click here for Recipes

Eating + Fructose = Fat

From: Mercola.com

Beware of HFCS PROPAGANDA
To further complicate matters, the Corn Refiners Association recently launched a major advertising and PR campaign designed to rehabilitate HFCS’ reputation. The group is spending $20 million to $30 million on the campaign, including running full-page ads in more than a dozen major newspapers, claiming that the product is no worse for you than sugar.

This, of course, is not true.

The Corn Growers Association wants you to believe that HFCS has the "same natural sweeteners as table sugar and honey." But don’t fall for it. HFCS is highly processed and does not exist anywhere in nature.

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