“I do say to you: Kill neither men, nor beasts, nor yet the food which goes into your mouth. For if you eat living food, the same will quicken you, but if you kill your food, the dead food will kill you also. For life comes only from life, and from death comes always death. For everything which kills your foods, kills your bodies also. And everything which kills your bodies kills your souls also. And your bodies become what your foods are, even as your spirits, likewise, become what your thoughts are. Therefore, eat not anything which fire, or frost, or water has destroyed. For burned, frozen and rotted foods will burn, freeze and rot your body also. Be not like the foolish husbandman who sowed in his ground cooked, and frozen, and rotten seeds. And the autumn came, and his fields bore nothing. And great was his distress. But be like that husbandman who sowed in his field living seed, and whose field bore living ears of wheat, paying a hundredfold for the seeds which he planted. For I tell you truly, live only by the fire of life, and prepare not your foods with the fire of death, which kills your foods, your bodies and your souls also."
Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-HAH :) Tell it like it is, brother… ;) You can read the whole thing over at this site: http://www.essene.com/GospelOfPeace/peace1.html
Enjoy :)
on December the 27th I had:
2 cups water
1 lb cherries
1 pint all-the-greens-in-the-fridge/daikon/carrot/apple/cucumber/turmeric juice
small slice of mango/macadamia raw cheesecake with bowl of grawnola with fresh sliced banana and homemade macadamia cream
1 quart water
1 pint beet green/fennel/cucumber/lettuce/tatsoi/random greens/carrot/apple juice
bowl of cucumber cream = blended cucumber/avo/garlic/lime juice/salt with a bowl of chopped fresh tomatoes covered with basil pesto and flax crackers
3 cups water
I think it’s time to play the fun game again of ‘what have people been punching into Google to end up on this blog?’. If you’ve been reading here for a while, you’ll know I mentioned before that there is a part of the stats data for this site that shows me how people ended up looking at this blog – what they were searching for in Google which led them here…there are always some pretty fascinating enquiries in there – here are some recent examples:
*can you lose weight by eating a raw potato
*how do i make carob fudge with just water
*i have been detoxifying with bentonite my skin looks so nice
*how to get women on facebook
*cracao, Poland
*smelly pee wheatgrass
*her angry enema bag
*i ate fresh pineapple and my tongue started to bleed
...???…yeeeeeeeees…well, I do hope these people all found some kind of useful information here to serve them, if not the exact cure for bleeding tongues, smelly pee or pacifying enema bags… ;) LOL… I LOVE the idea that Krakow in Poland could be re-named ‘Cracao’ instead though – perhaps we could organise a raw chocolate party there…any readers in Poland…??? ;) As for making carob fudge with JUST water…hmmm…I’m not sure if even the master of living foods himself – Jesus – could muster that one… ;)
on December the 28th I had:
3 cups water
1lb cherries
2 mangoes
1 pint beet green/fennel/cucumber/lettuce/tatsoi/random greens/carrot/apple juice
little bowl of buckwheatie grawnola cereal with chopped fresh banana and apple
1 quart water
1.5 cups beet green/fennel/cucumber/lettuce/tatsoi/random greens/carrot/apple juice
bowl of pesto soup: basil pesto blended with fresh tomatoes, ½ a cucumber, fresh garlic and hemp seeds, with sprouted lentils stirred in for chewing, served with chilli flax crackers
3 cups water
My hair is drenched in coconut oil today. I LOVE the smell of it. I run the oil through my hair like this from time-to-time and leave it in for about a day or so, to let the hair soak up lots of yummy nutrients and get soft and sleek, then I wash it out. I used to see people coat their hair in coconut oil all the time when I lived in Sri Lanka. I thought they were crazy back then…lol…in my pre-raw days, it looked so greasy and disgusting to me, especially in a hot and humid tropical climate…well, here I am a few years later, smothered in coconut oil myself in summertime and loving it ;) My favourite coconut oil is made by Cocopura (see HERE) – it feels soooooo clean and pure to me, smells fantastic, tastes great and comes in glass packaging too, to keep it more stable. It’s hand-harvested in the South Pacific Islands – not so far from where I am now…actually, I’m rather surprised at the scarcity of coconuts here in OZ – any that I have seen are either the imported white-husk young Thai Coconuts or big orange fresh cocos that are $5 EACH…huh??? Looking forward to getting to Thailand in a few months and back to an abundance of fresh cocos – yummmmmmm… ;)
One love,
Angela. xxx
Saturday, 29 December 2007
Ancient Wisdom...
Saturday, 24 February 2007
Reaching Clarity...
This salad was quite some experience and opened up a lot of stuff for me… It was a deliciously simple combination of about five lettuce leaves with half a bunch of cilantro (coriander) and a handful of basil leaves. I dressed it with hemp oil, lime juice and some dulse flakes. It is the first thing I have eaten containing more than one ingredient since starting to break this feast and it was amazing… The taste explosions in my mouth were like nothing I’ve ever experienced – so intense. I could feel and taste each part of it and sat chewing and marvelling at how incredibly satisfying such a simple salad could be…
It was then that I saw clearly one of the huge gifts this Juice Feast has brought me – prior to beginning this Feast, I was at the end of many months of travelling from raw talk to raw talk, restaurants, retreats and so on – I had been surrounded by delicious foods for months on end and had been eating all kinds of less-than-optimal combinations and complicated mixtures…my inner being could easily tell me over and over again that it would be great for me to eat more simply, yet actually DOING that felt very challenging at that time…now, the picture is of course completely different…wow, such a turn-around…this 3-month break from solids has put me in a position where it is INFINITELY more easy for me to eat simply and thoroughly enjoy it…whereas I’m sure a salad like I just ate tonight would have felt extremely bland a few months back and I would have experienced a feeling of ‘lack’ or missing out on something… another thing I noticed while preparing the salad was how much care I was taking to make sure every piece of greenery I was about to put into my body was fresh and healthy looking…I don’t think I’ve ever paid such close attention to that as I did today – there was a complete desire to just fuel this body with the best possible produce I can…and again, this is not something that has patterned much for me in my past.
As an obese person, my self-esteem was very low and what I can see now is that my prevailing attitude towards myself in all areas was that ‘anything will do’ because I felt so little self-worth, that I was not prepared to ask for the best for myself. It always seemed like I was ‘lucky’ to have or get anything at all, as I didn’t really ‘deserve’ anything…attention from others, nice clothes, the things I really wanted – whatever it was – I didn’t really feel like I was ‘worthy’… as a result, I was pretty much boundary-less in most areas of life – it was too much of a challenge for me to define what I really wanted/needed/desired, as I didn’t feel like I was really ‘deserving’ of any of it, so I held my energetic boundaries wide open towards everything. I didn’t make my choices clear. Any food was ‘good enough’, any attention from people was a bonus – especially any male attention - and so on…
I would look at other women and couldn’t get my head around how they could be so small. Lol…that maybe sounds funny to others, but everything about them looked so small to me – little feet in little pretty shoes, tiny clothes, small handbags – littlelittle people…how did they fit into those little spaces? How was it that they ironed their clothes and had them folded and hanging on rails in closets, when mine were in a big bundle exploding out of my backpack…? Now, don’t get me wrong, I don’t suddenly have post-Feast aspirations to start ironing my clothes and wearing kitten heels ;) ...but it does show me some key things about my patterns…mainly how much I have NOT been choosing clarity for myself, how my boundaries have been big and broad and not very ‘clean/clear’… I like the way David Rain uses the analogy of coming out of the end of a Juice Feast with a very ‘clean’ body as like getting a brand new car…you don’t want just ANYONE and ANYTHING in that new vehicle…you don’t want dirty feet and stinking foods and grubby hands…you want to preserve that ‘new-car-vibe’ for as long as possible…right? Suddenly there are new rules – no more eating ice cream in the car, no more getting in with muddy shoes, no more hands on the windows – the old ways aren’t acceptable any more… Well…that’s what this feels like too…new body, new rules :) Hmmmmmm…long may it last…
Today I have had:
500ml (1 pint) water
500ml (1 pint) prune soak water
7oz/200g soaked prunes
150g/5oz diced papaya
water of one old coconut
½ medium watermelon
500ml (1 pint) water
1 green salad – lettuce, cilantro, basil, hemp oil, lime juice, dulse flakes
1.2 litres (1.2 quarts) celery/red pepper/garlic/orange juice
I LOVE PRUNES…I really do…they are really pleasing me at the moment – sooo sweet and simple and yummy…the papaya was great too – another new addition for today – I actually bought a lot more of it in the shop, but decided to share it with an old begging woman on the street as it was so delicious and she seemed so interested in it…she seemed pleased…I also tried a new experiment today of inhaling green powder straight into my mouth with a straw…I don’t recommend it…lol…
Today is the last day to buy my juicing e-book at the pre-order price of $10. ‘A Juice Feaster’s Handbook’ will be sent out tomorrow evening to all those who have pre-ordered and the price will increase to $15 from then on…so, if you haven’t already ordered, you can get your copy HERE now :)
One love,
Angela. xxx
Friday, 23 February 2007
Going for Green ;)
http://www.current.tv/watch/22860522
Today I have had:
600ml (2.5 cups) water
600ml (2.5 cups) celery/red pepper/garlic/orange juice
½ a medium watermelon
4 small mangoes
1 tbsp green powder
1 tbsp coconut oil
1 tbsp dulse flakes
water of three young green coconuts
400ml (1.5 cups) swiss chard and pineapple juice
250ml (1 cup) water
which is about…2.7 litres of liquids or 0.7 GALLONS…eeeeeeeek – under a gallon, for the first time since November…wow, that's a shock…but I guess the juicy fruits are giving me so much water in a different form that I don’t feel the need for so much actual liquid…
Eating the watermelon today, out in the sun, was such a lovely experience…I just LOVE the structure of watermelon – especially when I can see all the patterns and colours in it in the sunlight…and sinking my teeth into it, crunching on the yummy seeds and so on after all this time – it was blissful…
I also drank the greens/pineapple drink along with some of the coconut water at the same time – I named this drink ‘Green-a Colada’ and it was yummy :)
Today I have been continuing to enjoy this unfolding new life of simple food choices…and I am repeatedly reminded of things that Matt Monarch introduced me to last year…he would often emphasise the importance of not ‘overlapping’ meals – i.e., allowing one meal to digest before eating anything else…and I never really understood it at the time…but now I am at a point where this body feels so clean and sensitive that I finally feel I can really integrate what he was saying, because I can totally experience it for myself now…back then I still felt so full of ‘junk’ inside that it was hard for me to associate with what he was describing, but now, at this point of ‘cleanliness’, I simply don’t want to create digestive issues for myself by adding in complex mixtures of anything…I am sure that over the coming weeks my intake will get gradually more complicated, but right now, this feels amazing…so, thanks Matt :) I get it now…
I am also happy to note at the moment that I do not feel any ‘dampening down’ of my energy or depression etc, since starting back with solids – in fact, if anything, quite the contrary – I feel great and even a bit more energised perhaps…I’m definitely happy to observe that, as people often seem to report going into a slump after juicing for extended periods then starting solids again…ahhhhhhhhhhhh, life is good :)
One love,
Angela. xxx
Thursday, 22 February 2007
Cracking Open the Fruits...
“…you want to give your body enough solid food to prompt peristalsis, and small amounts of food will not do that. Your body can handle it - go ahead and eat, just according to the order and timing of the protocol…your colon will be glad to have something to work with.”
And so it was that, somewhat reluctantly, I started to add in juicy fruits again today too, along with the prunes…
Today I have had:
1 litre (1 quart) water with lemon and ginger
500ml (1 pint) prune soak water
7oz/200g soaked dried prunes
200ml (.75 cups) orange juice with hemp oil
1 litre (1 quart) celery/red pepper/garlic/orange juice
1tbsp coconut oil
½ tbsp dulse flakes
600ml (2.5 cups) water
5 mandarins
Water of one old coconut with green powder
A 1-inch/2cm thick slice of pineapple cut into chunks
Which is about 3.8 litres of liquids, or roughly 1 gallon…I guess that number's going to just keep on declining…hmmm…it feels strange to see that…
I am so interested to see how my body reacts SO precisely now to tell me when it has had enough of smthg. I have read often of this phenomenon – how a body that is very clean will immediately indicate at the point when it has had enough of something by triggering a change in the taste buds, so that something that tasted good suddenly tastes strange and unpleasant. I experienced that ‘tipping point’ with all the things I ate today. I am loving experimenting with mono-mealing for that reason alone….it’s amazing – something tastes good and good and good, then BAM, it suddenly tastes bizarre and I can’t eat any more. The strongest reaction came with the pineapple, which often tends to affect people strongly anyway – the effect was so instantaneous that I literally could not take another bite…prior to eating the pineapple, I realised I’d forgotten that it is a food that can be eaten, not just a juice ingredient…lol…I was deciding which fruit to eat in the evening and didn’t even consider the pineapple at first – I guess I’ve just juiced them so much these last months I’d forgotten it’s possible to eat them too…it felt very peculiar to cut it up and just put it in my mouth – no mechanical intervention inbetween…I'm definitely enjoying the fact that I can just pick something up and eat it now like that again - it feels strange still, but fun and cuts down meal prep time enormously ;)
I also realised today that I am almost entirely unequipped to eat solid foods in this house – I have never eaten here, so there are no plates, no utensils, no nuthin’ except mason jars and a couple of spoons…hmmmmm…could be a challenge when it comes to eating salads in a couple of days’ time ;)
So…how am I feeling now? Hmmmm…well, overall, still going great, happy to be taking things slow enough that it feels like each thing is fully digested in my body before I put something else in, getting used to the heavier feeling in my stomach and intestines again and noticing tonight that my scalp is very itchy again, which tends to happen when I’ve had more fruits than greens - I think more greens today would have balanced that for me a bit better…it’s definitely another new learning curve…another shift in gears...
I’ve been sent some great video links today for different raw-themed clips – here’s my favourite one – it’s a hilarious little animation about the perils of prescription pill popping…
www.cafeoflifepikespeak.com/Videos/Licensed%20To%20Pill.swf
ENJOY :)
All love,
Angela. xxx
Wednesday, 21 February 2007
Feast-Breaking Vid Online :)
Alrighty then, as promised, the video of me breaking my Juice Feast yesterday is now online for your viewing pleasure ;)
Here is the link:
http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=2055968753902029556&hl=en-GB
and I have also embedded it below for those of you whose browsers will allow you to see it that way…
It has been so much fun to share this message with the world and put this video out there today – thank you all SO much for all the wonderful feedback – it has been quite amazing…
Many people have been asking about my eyes – yes, they do seem to have become more blue and clearer over the last years of being raw and especially over these last 3 months of juicing…it’s definitely another nice side effect ;)
Today I have had:
400ml (1.5 cups) water with lemon juice and ginger root powder
850ml (3.5 cups) celery/red pepper/garlic/orange juice
500ml (1 pint) prune soak juice
7oz/200g SOAKED DRIED PRUNES
600ml (2.5 cups) water
1 pack sugar cane sticks
water of one old coconut with green powder
1 litre (1 quart) pineapple/celery/red pepper juice
300ml (1.25 cups) water
which makes…about 4.3 litres of liquids today or…1.14 gallons…
So…bowel movements…after having the prunes yesterday, I was ‘due’ to have a bowel movement (BM) around 3-6 hours later…well…it didn’t happen that way for me, so the next step then is to take some cascara sagrada to stimulate peristalsis. I was a little cautious of doing that before going to sleep last night though, so left it until this morning…plus had yummy water with lemon juice and ginger root powder too to encourage more movement…which all did indeed stimulate a BM…
Then onwards with more prunes after that…they taste sooo great to me – so simple and delightful, friendly…I could not in fact finish the whole 7oz/200g in one sitting today – felt too much – which is quite a novelty for me – to feel that kind of thing and acknowledge it and not just finish it all at once. I ate abt 2/3rds, then left the rest for later, when they actually looked appealing again. I had been kind of intending to increase to 2 packets of them today, but there just was no need – my body didn’t need any more than that. I feel my Feast-breaking process may in fact take longer than the ‘recommended’ 6 days, as I’m just so enjoying taking it slowly – don’t feel any need to rush back into solids – nothing I’m hankering for…so for the next few days at least I’ll likely keep it very simple still…I just can't imagine right now being at a point in 4 days time where I'm back to eating full salads...which I'm happy about - I'm much happier to be feeling like this than to be magnetised to the fridge and frantically re-emerging myself in solids, which had been a fear for me - ahhhhhh, the releasing joys of just sharing those fears - getting them out, then watching the energy dissipate out of them :)
I also noticed today how my body seemed to want water very soon after having the prunes – it was like it was a shock to have smthg that solid – not liquids – and it was asking for more water to try to handle this new input…
It’s so funny for me to observe myself – how slow and methodical and detached from solid food I am right now – I find I still avoid fibre like it’s a hazard or smthg…lol…like this evening when I was making juice, some of the pineapple pulp fell back into the juice and I immediately went to grab it out, as if it would jeopardize everything, before realising that actually, fibre’s back on the menu now…I think that’s going to take some getting used to again now – I’ve been really re-trained these last 3 months…
All love,
Angela. xxx
Tuesday, 20 February 2007
The Pleasure of Prunes...
Today was the day I broke my 92-Day Juice Feast…
I ate solids for the first time in 3 months…and I feel GREAT :)
I woke feeling reluctant to get up and face the prunes I’d put to soak the night before…more than anything else, I felt fear of them…lol…how many people were dealing with that issue in the world today? Fear of prunes…I bet there’s an official term for it though… ;) I avoided them all morning…
Then the energy started to shift for me…I started to feel like it was my birthday or something – I felt a special glow inside and a joy and appreciation for all this Juice Feast has brought into my life…I did a really enjoyable radio interview with the delightful Dagger of HighVibe.com in New York, which will be available on internet radio next week, then it was time…time to face the prunes…
They tasted sweet and simple to me and felt soft and enjoyable in my mouth...I sat with them in a beautiful Zen garden and reflected on the wonders of this Feast so far and my intentions for eating from here on in...I made a little film of the experience, which I hope to be able to share with you tomorrow when I have YouTube cooperation...
I felt SOOOO buzzed afterwards…really happy and excited and high on the joy of life…the prunes felt kind of ‘full’ inside me – nothing unpleasant, just a bit unusual somehow…and it was all such a transformation from the fear and reluctance I’d felt in the morning...now I was just delighted with life and the choices I have here…wow, what a great experience…
So, today I have had:
750ml (3 cups) water
700ml (2.5 cups) orange juice with hemp oil
500ml (1 pint) soak water from prunes
200G/7OZ SOAKED DRIED PRUNES
600ml (2.5 cups) water
1 litre (1 quart) celery/red pepper/garlic/orange juice
water of one old coconut with green powder
250ml (1 cup) water
which makes…about 4.3 litres of liquids today…or about 1.14 gallons
PLUS…the PRUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNES… ;) solids…prunes…imagine…
I am taking the view in my head that I am pretty much just carrying on with a liquid-y lifestyle, just adding in bits and pieces of fruit etc on the way as I work through the Feast-breaking protocol – that helps me keep perspective…
I discovered this evening that the new maid who has been frenetically cleaning this house the last couple of days has thrown away my nut milk bags…lol…I guess she didn’t approve of them then, or was confused…anyway, very fitting timing at least…and I don’t mind – those nut milk bags have worked extremely hard the last few months and were surely due for retirement…besides which, I’m just delighted she’s here taking care of the cleaning…she is (clearly) ultra-efficient…
So, no more hand-squeezed watermelon juice for me until I get a new bag…oh well, now I can EAT it anyway ;) FUN... :)
All love,
Angela. xxx
Monday, 19 February 2007
The final 24 hours of a liquid life...
Today I completed editing of my new e-book – ‘A Juice Feaster’s Handbook’ – YAY :) Thanks to all those who have already pre-ordered this book – you have all been entered into the prize draw to win one of 6 hampers of yummy raw treats, chocolates and snacks. If you have not already placed your order, there is still time to get an order in and your name into the prize draw – just click HERE to pre-order the book for $10 and you will automatically be entered into the Post-Feast Feast giveaway…
The E-Book is currently being read over by an external editor and will be ready to send out by the end of this week. I’m really excited to be able to offer this information like this – there have been so many emails and questions during the course of this Feast and I have combined all of those answers, plus all of the things that I too wanted to know and also came to understand/realise during the course of Feasting, into one volume…I feel it really is an indispensable little guide to Juice Feasting…hurray :)
Today I have had:
500ml (1 pint) water
800ml (3.5 cups) orange juice with hemp oil
1 packet sugar cane sticks
water of one old coconut with green powder
1 tsp coconut oil
1 litre (1 quart) mozote
½ litre (1 pint) celery/red pepper/hot pepper/garlic/orange juice
1 litre (1 quart) celery/swiss chard juice w/ water of 1 old coconut
250ml (1 cup) water
which be-eth…about 4.7 litres of fluids today or…around 1.24 gallons…
Well then, so…here we are…Day 92…and how do I feel?
Hmmmmmmm…well…quiet, mainly…reflective…it seems at once all so huge and yet so fleeting…
This whole juicing experience seems to have passed so quickly…and yet I look at my chopsticks and eating with them seems like a distant memory, from a by-gone era…lol…
I have thought a lot today about how much I desire to keep things simple post-Feast…it is going to take so little to physically satisfy my stomach – that is not really the issue – the issue will be with my mind –the longer I can keep a simple focus on things and remember how easy it has been to nourish this body optimally on plain juices for 3 months, the better…this body doesn’t need complicated foods or recipes – in fact, quite the opposite…long may I remember that…
Over the last three months I have lived and juiced through the ups and downs of green juice rejection, pancreas issues, sugar withdrawals, massive mucus expulsion, intrepid hiking trips, housing upheavals and more… You could probably fill a swimming pool with the amount of juice I’ve consumed…and going by the theory that we ‘go back in time 120 days for each day of juice feasting’, I have gone back in time over 30 years now…which means…I am pre-birth again I guess… ;) well, that’s nice…time to rise like a phoenix again then… and so I emerge now on the other side of three months on just liquids feeling clearer, happier, more balanced, calmer, 18lbs lighter and extremely thankful for having chosen this experience…
This has been an amazing journey of discovery for me and I thank you all for sharing in it – for your comments, feedback, questions and support…
Apparently it ain’t over ‘til the f*t lady sings though…well, I love singing, but I don’t think I really qualify for that title anymore…these gorgeous soul sistas do a great job though…I love this song – it’s one of my absolute favourites to dance to, so please, if you will, humour me for a few minutes here, press play, get up, get grateful and DAAAAANCE ;) Celebrate this end of an era with me…yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-HAH :)
Thanks…
I appreciate it. ;)
I’m off to soak me prunes now…
See you on the other side…
All love,
Angela. xxx
Sunday, 18 February 2007
Beware the Juice Banshee...
The energy in me was reflected back at me strongly in the weather pattern outside – wild, blustery winds, a heavy, dark, moody sky, tension in the air…the electricity flickered and the internet connections jumped…
I felt ready to explode with energy – powerful, very sharp, fearless, fierce – I drank very little compared to usual and yet was absolutely wired with power – I danced like a crazy banshee in my room to release some of it…lol…and I jogged…and I blasted through my work schedule…and I sang along SO loudly to Alanis Morrisette, wrenching out her heartache and bitterness on ‘Jagged Little Pill’…yep…it was that kind of day… ;) If anyone has any doubt that a person can still be functional after 3 months with no solid food, they should have seen me today – I felt like I could have run a marathon…
…it all finally came to a head around 5.30pm, when the heavens finally broke and the rain came. It felt relieving to me. It is the first time it has rained here in weeks. Then dusk came in too and with it, a relaxing, a softening and the dissipation of all this tension…pheeeeeeeeeeeeeewww…wow, I guess one of the side-effects of juicing for so long is greater connection to nature and I surely felt that today…intense…
Today I have consumed:
500ml (1 pint) water
500ml (1 pint) orange juice with hemp oil
1 litre (1 quart) water
water of 2 old coconuts with green powder
900ml (3.5 cups) watermelon juice
1 litre (1 quart) celery/swiss chard juice with coconut water
1 tsp coconut oil
500ml (1 pint) water
which makes…around 5.2 litres of liquids today or…about 1.37 gallons…a lot of water…
I had mainly coconuts today. I could not face fruits. My descending colon said no – it is hurting at the moment – I feel like it wants a couple of days with minimal sweet things…when I went to the supermarket and tried to buy a pineapple, my colon was in strong disagreement. I stood looking round the produce area for quite some time and nothing looked like it would work except the coconuts, so…coconuts it was…I could feel the strong need for greens today too, so made straight celery and swiss chard juice and sat down to drink it with a coconut in the other hand. I was prepared for the worst – I was pretty sure the greens were going to taste foul to me. I was completely surprised to find that in fact the greens tasted great and the coconut actually tasted a bit odd…hmmm…wow – really needing greens then I guess…
I feel like at some point later this year I’d love to do another green juice fast – get off the sweet stuff totally for a number of days – maybe 10 days or so…for now, this is the penultimate day of this Feast…tomorrow is my last totally liquid day…ahhhh, the end of an era… ;)
One love,
Angela. xxx
Saturday, 17 February 2007
New Pics on Day 90...
DAY 90…well, well, well…nearly done now...into the final 48-hours of full-on juicy action...
A few days back Audry posted a comment on this blog enquiring abt weight loss and to see more recent pics of me –
There is one thing I am very curious about: pictures of you during this feast.
Have you grown to be very, very thin? Would you mind posting some pictures of what you look like right now? If you have lost a significant amount of weight on this feast, how do you feel about the way your body looks? Is is mentally/emotionally difficult to see yourself very thin?
…well, here we are…today I was excited to get my hair cut, so took a few snaps – here are some before/afters from today…
In response to the questions, I do not feel I am ‘very very thin’ right now, though I am definitely smaller than when I started feasting. I believe I have lost somewhere around 18lbs during this feast – I’ll find some scales to measure that properly in the next couple of days…
I feel great about the way my body looks at the moment. I feel like it is getting healthier all the time and a very good weight for my size and build (I’m 5’7” and currently around 138lbs/62kg). I am in fact a bit surprised that I have not become excessively thin at any point during this feast, which suggests that for me, there is likely still significant cleansing work to do at some point in the future, to really clean out deeper before more re-building. I’m prepared for that and happy to be where I’m at with things right now.
I enjoy this new body. It is always so much fun for me these days to go clothes shopping for example...today I actually bought a top which is XS size…XS…I used to be XXXL…imagine…little things like that are fun for me to experience and acknowledge…it’s such a different reality for me now…and I love it :)
Today I have had:
1 litre (1 quart) water
1.2 litre (1.2 quarts) pineapple/celery/red pepper juice
1 litre (1 quart) watermelon juice
1 packet sugar cane sticks
water one old coconut with green powder
1 litre (1 quart) celery/red pepper/garlic/orange juice
1 tsp coconut oil
750ml (3 cups) water
which is about 5.5 litres of liquids…or…1.45 gallons…
yes…my juice intake has definitely become very simple of late – the same kind of mixes, small amounts, minimum hassle…I feel like I’m just finally getting a really good handle on this whole juicing business – and now my feast is nearly ending… ;) well, that's the learning curve I guess...and I will naturally carry on juicing daily…
Today I was reading other peoples’ online accounts of coming off feasts/fasts…many seem to find it extremely challenging to not overeat - especially during the initial stages of feast breaking – it was a bit disturbing to read, especially as someone with a definite background in food addiction issues, but I was glad to be reading it now – I feel like it steeled me further in my desire to eat ‘optimally’ for this body from here on in…
One love to all,
Angela. xxx
Friday, 16 February 2007
Flowing...
Wow, the daytime ‘summertime’ vibe here in San Jose is just beautiful at the moment…I feel so uplifted with it – I get enraptured with that blissful, carefree summer feeling where it feels like life is so light and everything’s unquestionably possible – the song ‘Summertime’ by Will Smith so encapsulates that vibe for me…I love it…it’s tough for me to concentrate on work though with that kind of feeling buzzing all around me… I know many of you are reading this in far off, colder lands, so relating right now might be a bit tricky, but I hope the YouTube video at least bridges the gap a bit ;)
Today I have had:
750ml (3 cups) water
500ml (1 pint) orange juice with hemp oil
1 litre (1 quart) pineapple/cilantro/celery/red pepper juice
1 packet sugar cane sticks
water of 2 old coconuts with green powder
1 litre (1 quart) watermelon juice
½ tbsp dulse flakes
500ml (1 pint) orange juice with hemp oil
250ml (1 cup) water
which makes about…5 litres of liquids today or…1.32 gallons…
I released an extraordinary amount of mucus in bowel movements today…quite bizarre…I had not done an enema in a really long time though, so decided to do one this evening. It was good. I discovered that there was a huge amount of pain at one point in the top of my descending colon as I massaged it. I stayed with the pain until it was all released, which was gruelling, but felt worth it afterwards, when I pressed that area again and found the pain was gone…
An article of mine on how to be a great house guest was published this week by the Guardian in the UK – you can read it here:
http://www.guardianabroad.co.uk/lifestyle/article/224
As you may be aware, I have been ‘on-the-road’ for most of the last decade, so it was fun to put together this article on enjoying homestays with others…speaking of which, I also opened a ‘Travelling in the Raw’ board on the Raw Re-FORUM today – you can see it HERE – add your travel tips, post requests for hosting, seek travel buddies…as you like :) enjoy…
I’m looking forward to the new moon tomorrow morning…in Aquarius…time for radical change, shedding old patterns that no longer serve, freeing the self, visualizing profound change…
Yeeeeeeeeeeee-HAH…
Read more HERE: http://www.astrowisdom.com/thisnewmoon.htm
…and all blessings to you for accepting and flowing with that beautiful, radical new flow…
One love,
Angela. xxx
Thursday, 15 February 2007
Liquids for Life...?
Today I have had:
1 litre (1 quart) water
500ml (1 pint) orange juice with hemp oil
1.2 litres (1.2 quarts) pineapple/red pepper/celery juice
500ml (1 pint) water
1 tbsp pollen
750ml (3 cups) watermelon juice
1 packet sugar cane sticks
1 litre (1 quart) celery/red pepper/garlic/orange juice
2 tbsp green powder
water of one old coconut
which makes…about 5.5 litres of liquids today or…about 1.45 gallons…
I notice that I make smaller quantities of juice these days…it used to be more like 1.5 - 2 litres/quarts at a time – now it tends to be around the 1 litre/quart mark – it just feels more ‘manageable’ to me that way – it’s enough to satisfy me, but not so much that I tire of it…I also know very clearly now which juices and combos I do and don’t like and can just stay with them – it has become less about experimenting and more just rhythmic for me, this juicy life…
I can really anticipate remaining with a high juice/liquids intake post-Feast…I just read a recent NewsTarget interview with David Wolfe actually, in which he also talks about his current lifestyle as being mainly liquidarian…here is an extract:
“…I'm way behind the current curve when it comes to making food. I just end up throwing everything into a blender, blending it up and running out the door.
You’ve got to go through a learning curve. I had this one guy who traveled with me for some time who was new to raw food and he was blending cabbage with MSM powder and water and eating it. I was dry-heaving watching him, but you know, he had to go through that learning curve of finding out what tastes good. You pretend like you know what you're doing until you figure it out -- and eventually you do.
What you can do with a blender is amazing -- I know about 50 different things I should be eating every day. You can't sit down there and eat 50 different things, but with a blender, you can throw 20 different things in there in the morning, 20 different things in there for lunch, 10 different things in for dinner -- you get it all, and then you have the most complete, rounded-out nutrition you've ever had in your life. It's a lot of fun and you can make it taste good.
People say, "Well, you know, I don't want to blend everything," but after a while you've been on this path -- the sensation of actually having to chew up all that food and then being tired after a meal is a drag. You want to have the energy to keep going and going, and therefore liquid nutrition becomes -- after a while when you're ready -- a better alternative.”
Mmmmmmmm-hmmmmmmmmmm…I hear that…well, we shall see how it all unfolds for me…I definitely don't want to miss out on chewing stuff altogether and weaken my jaw/teeth, but am loving the liquid life...
If you want to read that whole NewsTarget Wolfie interview, you can check it out here: http://www.newstarget.com/021540.html
Enjoy :)
One love,
Angela. xxx
Wednesday, 14 February 2007
Tuesday, 13 February 2007
Into the last week...
Well, here we are at the end of my last juicy Tuesday ;) by this time next week, I’ll be back in the world of solids...I am starting to look forward to it a bit by now…juicing has begun to feel a bit more of a challenge without optimal equipment here these last few days and the thought of just eating something again, like watermelon, rather than all the extra effort of juicing it, sounds like fun ;) we’ll see…
Here are a few more pictures from the beautiful Ometepe island in Nicaragua where I passed this last weekend…
Today I have had:
200ml (.75 cups) water
250ml (1 cup) mandarin juice with hemp oil
700ml (2.75 cups) watermelon juice
250ml (1 cup) cane juice
600ml (2.5 cups) water of old coconut
1.5 litres (1.5 quarts) celery/pineapple/red pepper juice
200ml (.75 cups) water
1 pack sugar cane sticks
1 tbsp green powder
1 tbsp coconut oil
½ tsp dulse granules
1 litre (1 quart) chard/celery/pineapple juice
which makes…about 4.9 litres of liquids today or…1.3 gallons...
I felt very run down and weak this morning, after 4 days or so without fresh celery or greens…I got it together to go to the supermarket and get what I needed. As soon as I had the celery juice I started to feel lifted and balanced…wow…it really is great stuff…different friends have been saying lately how that’s the one juice they would not go without and as little as I like the flavour of it, I could really resonate with that feeling today – it really is SO hydrating...
The kitchen in my place has become suddenly and quite disturbingly full of fruit flies…I have done my best today to minimize their interest in being there – putting all produce away, throwing all rubbish out immediately, cleaning surfaces thoroughly etc, yet…they still seem to think it’s a great place to be…hmmm…if anyone has any recommendations/top tips for convincing them to leave, I’d be very interested to hear them…
Ok, a glut of questions for today…
- how thick-thin are your juices? and are smoothies allowed from time to time?
Thickness of the juices depends, naturally, on the ingredients. In general though, for cleansing purposes, the thinner, the better. Any ‘thicker’, more pulpy juices such as might be obtained from mango or papaya, will only serve to slow down the cleansing process.
Smoothies are not recommended in this particular cleansing programme, as again, they are just slowing down the cleansing process with the fibre they still contain. This cleansing is about taking a break from solid foods/fibre.
-have you made any colonic hydrotherapy during the fast or do you think it works automaticly on the same basis with only the feast?
I have been doing enemas throughout this juice feast, with great results. The idea is to use them to keep everything flowing through – creating a ‘vacuum’ in the colon by cleaning it out encourages the body to dump out more old toxins from the small intestines and elsewhere. I have not received any professional colonics during the course of this feast, primarily as I am in Costa Rica and there do not seem to be many colon hydrotherapists practicing here…I definitely think they would be beneficial though - yes, the feasting certainly cleans us out to a great degree, but the colon cleansing really helps the process along...
-if green organic vegetables are not everytime avialable do you reckon that you can swap it with selfgrown Wheatgrass, Spirulina etc.etc.?
Yes, you can swap other things in for the greens on occasion, but I would not really recommend making that a constant feature of your juice feast, especially if you’re intending to feast for a long time (i.e. more than a couple of weeks). Home grown sprouts, micro-greens and so on will of course be great, but dried things are not really an ideal substitute for fresh greens.
-are raw nut-seed milk allowed during the feast?
Nut and seed milks are not used during this feasting process. They are mucus-forming and again would slow down the cleansing.
-have you tried to make some dry or water fasting from time to time (once at week?) between the many juices days to allow your body to enter in stronger in contact with the spiritual part and get more emotional-mental stability? Do you think it could be integrated if desired?
I have not been having water or dry days during this feast. I do not feel at this point in my life that is something I would really want to choose for myself. My metabolism is quite sensitive and I feel that water or dry fasting would be very demanding for me. That is not to say that others may not find it beneficial as part of their cleansing process. Certainly there are days when I desire to have more/less juice, but at this point, water and dry fasting do not hold much appeal for me. A concern for me about anyone mixing that in with the feasting process is that the body may receive confusing messages about whether or not it is going to get physical nutrition or not and the fluctuation between intake might in the end be more disturbing to your system than beneficial.
Thanks for all the questions. In fact, the answers to all these kind of common queries and more are found in my new ebook, ‘A Juice Feaster’s Handbook’ which is on pre-order at the moment for $10 and will be released next week… (remember, all those who pre-order now are entered into a prize giveaway to win yummy raw treats like snack bars, goji hearts and raw chocolates ;)…
One love,
Angela. xxx
Monday, 12 February 2007
Juicing - the Nicaragua Chapter
How did we get so far…??? ;)
One week from today, I will be breaking this feast with a meal of soaked prunes – my first solid food in 3 months…
Well, back to the present…I have been away for the last few days on a visa run to Nicaragua – hence the pause in blog entries – internet access was almost non-existent on the BEAUTIFUL island of Ometepe on Lake Nicaragua, where I’ve been exploring for the weekend…
It was a simply wonderful weekend of relaxation, away from the city and computer, just out in the semi-wild, experiencing the very simple, laid-back, slow pace of life there on these incredible volcanic islands. The lake is enormous – so large it seems like the ocean, with waves and beaches and even sharks. The island of Ometepe consists of 2 volcanoes, joined by a thin strip of land. One volcano is active, the other dormant, with a lake filling its crater. On the day we arrived by ferry, the active volcano had blown that morning ;O…we had an incredible clear view of both cones – apparently extremely rare there, as both cones are usually shrouded in clouds…it is a really beautiful place...
So, here’s what I’ve been surviving on these last days out on the road…
On Feb 9th I had:
1 litre water
1 litre orange juice with hemp oil
250ml tangerine juice
2 packets sugar cane
500ml watermelon juice
water of 2 old coconuts with green powder
1 tbsp kelp with cayenne
500ml blackberry and pineapple juice
½ tbsp coconut oil
500ml water
which is about…4.7 litres of liquids or…1.24 gallons
I woke at 5.30am that day – really bleary, as that is really early for me to be up, but I was meeting my friend to get the bus up to Nicaragua…I hand-squeezed juice the entire trip, with a nut milk bag and mason jar. I travelled very light – just a few bits of clothing, a couple of books and whatever foods I had on me to juice that day. I really enjoy that now – travelling light ;)
Entering Nicaragua, I came to realise the contrast between Costa Rica and its neighbours. Nicaragua feels SO much less developed – as soon as we crossed the border, we were met with beggars and hustlers on the streets. The people looked and talked different, everything was cheaper than in Costa Rica, the infrastructure was much less developed and the properties had far less security around them…it was quite a surprise for me, to see how different the places are. I came to appreciate the fact that I ‘ended up’ in Costa Rica during this period as I did, as I really didn’t put much planning into being here at all…yet it seems to be one of the cleanest, most organised, free-thinking and developed countries in this region…
We took the ferry out to the island of Ometepe, meeting some other friendly travellers on the way, found a nice little place to crash for about $7/person/night by the beach and wandered by the water under the stars…mmmmmmm…bliss :)
On February the 10th I had:
500ml water
water of 4 young coconuts
500ml pineapple juice
1 tbsp coconut oil
400ml watermelon juice
1 litre water
water of 2 young coconuts
700ml orange juice with hemp oil
1 tbsp green powder
½ tbsp dulse flakes
which is about…4.6 litres of liquids or…1.21 gallons...
This was such a delightful, relaxing day for me. We woke by the beach and went out for a morning walk by the water, basking in the sunlight and drinking fresh young coconuts for about 25cents/12pence each…people were out jogging on the sand, kids splashed happily in the water with a rubber dingy and beautiful blue long-tailed birds flew among the trees and hotel fronts…
We set out for a nearby natural spring. It was lovely – cool, clear, refreshing water. The climate is very hot there on the islands – though not so humid and thankfully there seem to be very few biting insects and a lot of nice breezes. We cooled off in the waters where the locals were playing with their kids in the waters and the young guys performed cool tricks with the rope swing over the water.
We caught a local bus from there round to the other side of the island – the other volcano – which is less inhabited – apparently round the far side of this volcano, people still live more or less ‘wild’ – there is no real road, people are just out there in the forests…we didn’t make it round there to check for ourselves, but I can imagine…it’s all very ‘rustic’ feeling…houses are wide open to the streets, pigs, dogs, chickens, cattle and kittens roam around at will and it feels generally like the pace of life is a little beyond ‘survival’ mode in many places…though it is far more common to see people swigging soft drinks and chewing sweets than drinking coconuts or eating fruits...
We found our way to a nice organic farm-stay place called ‘Zopilote’ and went to sleep in a very cute little wooden house on stilts, with hammocks on the porch – yummy :)
On February the 11th I consumed:
500ml water
600ml pineapple juice with green powder
300ml orange juice
water of 5 young green coconuts
1 litre water
300ml tangerine juice
water of 3 young green coconuts
1 tbsp coconut oil
1 tbsp dulse flakes
½ tbsp kelp with cayenne
250ml orange juice
150ml chamomile tea
water of 3 young green coconuts with green powder
500ml water
which makes…about 5 litres of liquids today or…1.32 gallons...
On this day I woke feeling hungry –the impact of being away from a good source of veg to juice was starting to set in and I went out first thing to pick oranges for morning juice…I found the tree and collected plentiful oranges, plus some fresh noni fruits for my friend – it was a really great experience for me to be out foraging like that on my own – I realised suddenly that every time I have foraged in the past, I have been with guys, who have known what they’re looking at and told me what each tree is. Being out there on my own was a different experience, as I really had to look for myself and work things out for myself – it was fun – it felt like seeing with different eyes – not just a blurry mass of green, but individual trees and plants with different things on offer…
The oranges unfortunately turned out to be really sour… lol… my friend appreciated the noni though…and we set off across the island again, walking with all our stuff (oh, the JOY of travelling light ;) to the lovely Finca Magdalena organic farm and hostel, where a big permaculture course is currently underway. We met up with friends there who had just returned from climbing to the top of the dormant volcano in mud, rain and cloud-cover…we all headed back over to the beach area...
By this time I was feeling quite worn out from not having green juice for the last few days. It was quite challenging for both my friend and I to find enough sustaining raw food on this trip, BUT, it is do-able and we both found ways. The coconuts are incredible and really balancing and sustaining for me and I love the fact that oranges/mandarins are so easy to juice by mouth, just walking along, sucking the juice out and discarding the pulp. For me, it is so much about having the will and the commitment to stay with it – there is a solution for every apparent ‘problem’ - I just do my best, working with what I have. An intake of mainly coconuts, orange juice and green powder was however starting to feel a little depleting and I was very spacey by the night-time and went to sleep early.
On Feb 12th I had…
500ml water
800ml coconut water
200ml orange juice
500ml watermelon juice
600ml orange juice
½ tbsp green powder
1 litre water
400ml orange juice
1 litre watermelon juice
500ml water
1 tbsp green powder
½ tbsp coconut oil
2 tbsp hemp oil
1 tbsp pollen
300ml water
which is…about 5.8 litres of liquid or…1.53 gallons…
I woke by the beach after a very long and restful sleep, packed up, got the guys at a local shop to fill my mason jar with fresh coconut water and we set off early for the ferry back to the mainland. It was a gorgeously hot and sunny day and I squeezed lots of refreshing watermelon juice on the ship back too…
The bus journey back down into Costa Rica was a very special experience for me. I really LOVE journeys like that where it feels like there is a lot of time for contemplation. I was drawn to use the time to examine how it is that my life came to be at the point it currently is at…I took myself back to 2 years ago and traced my path forward to where I am now, seeing clearly how it all moved and pieced together. I rarely go into old stuff like this and it gave me SUCH an overview and different perspective on things – it felt like watching a film of someone’s life, understanding the whole thing from the ‘bigger picture’, rather than at the day-to-day level…wow…it was amazing…I felt like I understand myself so much better afterwards…
So, back to San Jose and my little lovely place :) Happy to be home and back to access of celery juice for a start ;) Rabies the kitten was waiting for me when I returned, extremely happy to see me too…
It was a GREAT trip – I really had a fantastically relaxing time and enjoyed the beauty and sun and wilderness so much…mmmmmmm…
One love to all,
Angela. xxx
Thursday, 8 February 2007
Announcing the Post-feast Feast :)
________________________________________
Larawlicious Raw Treats offer a box of their simply divine Goji Goddess Hearts (see pic). These luscious raw sweeties are chewy and cacao-free. (If you want to order some for Valentine’s Day, get your order in quick to info@hunabku.biz)
www.lydiasorganics.com have gifted us a selection of their fabulous dehydrated goods, handmade with love. Yummies include apple-ginger bars, savory trail mix and grain-less apple cereal.
www.RawLiving.co.uk have donated a mixed selection from their best-selling range of raw chocs and trail mixes - hi-crunch, whoosh, be the change, bullet ride, hi-trail goji and magic mix.
www.TheRawChocolateCompany.com offer up a bundle of each of their outstanding bars – Cacaobars, Sunberry and Vanoffe (my personal favourite raw food treat ;)
www.TheRawFoodWorld.com is offering a mixture of the delicious Raw Crunch bars in Wild Blueberry and Wildcrafted Goji Berry flavours.
www.Yaoh.co.uk want to share with you some of each of their award-winning hemp seed raw snack bars – tropical, apple and cinnamon and date/walnut flavours.
It will likely be a long time yet before I personally get back round to eating things like raw snack bars and chocolates – it’s going to be prunes, juicy fruits and salads for me for a good few weeks yet... So, in the meantime, you may soon be the lucky winner of a lush bounty of raw snacks to enjoy on my behalf ;) Each hamper contains at least £15/$30 worth of treats…yummmmmmm… :)
HOW TO ENTER THE GIVEAWAY
All those who pre-order my upcoming E-Book – ‘A Juice Feaster’s Handbook’ will be entered into the draw to win one of the prizes. This insightful e-book outlines in an easy-to-understand format, the who/what/when/why and how of Juice Feasting, whether you’d like to do it for a weekend or the full 92-Days…
This E-Book will be published around the end of February, when my Juice Feast is over. At that time, all pre-orders will be fulfilled for the e-book and if you are one of those picked, a taster hamper of treats will be winging its way to you too, along with your new book.
To pre-order YOUR copy of ‘A Juice Feaster’s Handbook’ for just $10 and be in with a chance of winning, CLICK HERE.
PLEASE remember to provide your postal address with your order, so that we can get your celebration hamper to you if you are one of the lucky winners picked at random. The winners will be announced in the next newsletter.
________________________________________
Today I have had…
300ml (1.25 cups) water
500ml (1 pint) orange juice with hemp oil
½ tbsp pollen
½ tbsp coconut oil
½ tbsp kelp with cayenne
1.2 litres (1.2 quarts) pineapple/celery/mint
1 packet sugar cane
900ml (3.5 cups) watermelon juice
750ml (3 cups) beet/carrot/parsley/chard/ginger
1 tbsp green powder
400ml (1.5 cups) tangerine juice
500ml (1 pint) water
which makes about…4.7 litres of liquids today or…1.24 gallons…
Update: a friend here informed me today that coconut oil IS actually available here in Costa Rica, however, it is unfortunately all heated and processed – nothing raw…so…a definite gap in the market there ;)
Questions, questions…
what to do if organic is out of reach? I live in a country where organic is very expensive, the greens for the juice would be about 10-15$ for 2 pounds. I would love to do a juice feast but financing it is a problem.
Well, what to do indeed…in my opinion it is best to choose organic when we can. However, it’s a tricky conundrum if organics are not easily available or affordable. PERSONALLY, I would choose to not do this if I did not have good access to organic produce. Of course, different people will feel differently about that – only you can make the choices for your own body. My feeling is that greens in particular are so high in water content and vulnerable while growing, that I do not want to bring that amount of potential pesticides into my body that has likely been used on non-organic produce. Here in Costa Rica for example, apparently the laws are lax to the point where the crops can be sprayed up until the day before they are picked…hmmmmmm…no thanks… So, my personal choice would be to not do a juice feast of this length or intensity if I did not have good access to organics. Perhaps a shorter feast WOULD be affordable though…OR prepare yourself for it, by growing your own things in advance, if that’s possible…OR take a trip somewhere else where the organics are cheaper and more abundant and possibly find that you get a holiday and feast all in one for the same amount as juice feasting at home might cost you ;) Hope those ideas helped…
My visa here in Costa Rica runs out this weekend, so I’m about to head out of the country tomorrow for the weekend to Nicaragua, all being well…so…back to juicing and blogging randomly on the road it seems ;)
One love,
Angela. xxx
Wednesday, 7 February 2007
Coconuts on the Costa...
I remember David Rain mentioning before I started this that by Day 80 of his first feast, he was still having solid bowel movements. I was so surprised and yet, here I am too, 80 days in and in the same position…it’s so curious…I can definitely feel there is still a lot of cleansing work for this body to go through yet…I can imagine I will enjoy to take a break from juice feasting after this, get back into the world of solids for a while, then return to juice feasting again at some point in the future…
Today I have had…
300ml water
600ml orange juice with hemp oil
400ml watermelon juice
1.2 litres pineapple/celery/mint juice
water of 1 old coconut with greens
1 packet sugar cane
1 tbsp pollen
400ml water
½ tbsp coconut oil
½ tbsp kelp with cayenne
500ml orange juice
water of one old coconut with greens
which be…about 4 litres of liquid today…or about a gallon…wow, not much today…and precious little greens…hmmmmm…I feel it too – my body is very sensitive now and not having greens feels less than optimal right now…it was a very full-on day for me here though and my juice choices were all quite ‘fast’ for that reason…except the pineapple/celery/mint earlier in the day, which felt EXTREMELY powerful to me – it actually raised my heart beat too – it was potent…
Another question…
are you able to find coconut butter/oil easily in costa rica? i cannot find it here in brazil. interestingly i am in bahia, the state of coconuts and no oil/butter. i guess all of it gets exported from here.
Hmmmmm, yes, a very similar situation here in Costa Rica…abundance of FRESH coconuts, but no oil/butter to be found…people in fact seem to often throw the coconut meat away here – just drink the water…well, maybe more so with the young cocos than the old…definitely seems like an untapped market though – no coconut oil here that I’ve ever seen…I use Cocopura stuff that I brought down here from the States…it’s divine…feels very clean and pure to me – from the South Pacific Islands…
I do love coconuts...they are truly amazing sources of nourishment...I love that we are able to live on just their water for extended periods - they provide all that we need and were indeed 'life-savers' for me today in my busy state, to just reach for one, poke a whole through one of the 'eyes' and stick a straw in...I feel very grateful to be in a place where they are available in such abundance...
I’m pretty much off honey at the moment. I feel like it’s triggering too much unmanageable sugar stuff for me – I have a bit and want more and I’m sure any lingering candida get more enjoyment out of it ultimately than I do, so, I’ve stopped using it.
My energy at the moment in general is very good. I sleep around 7 hours a night, wake up refreshed and ready to go, feel sustained pretty much consistently during the day and then wind down towards sleep around midnight. It feels like a very nice, stable, healthy pattern to me. I think back to how much my energy jolted around all over the place nearer the beginning of this feast and see that I am so much clearer and more stable now…nice… :)
Here’s to my last couple of weeks of juicy living – for now :)
One love,
Angela. xxx
Tuesday, 6 February 2007
Back to Simplicity...
Today I have had…
750ml (3 cups) water
400ml (1.5 cups) orange juice
1 packet sugar cane
500ml (1 pint) OJ with hemp oil
1.2 litres (1.2 quarts) pineapple/celery/red pepper/chard juice
1.2 litres (1.2 quarts) watermelon juice
½ tsp green powder
½ tbsp kelp with cayenne
I packet sugar cane
½ tbsp coconut oil
900 ml (3.5 cups) pear/celery/parsley juice
which makes about…5.2 litres juice today or…abt 1.37 gallons…
I started using another different juicer today – a ‘Juiceman Junior’ centrifugal ejection model that I borrowed from a friend’s place. Hmmmmm…well, I’m definitely happy to have something to be using, but it also so clearly shows me the differences in machine quality and performance. It leaves a lot of pulp and even whole pieces of veggies behind. I squeeze everything through a nut milk bag afterwards and loads more juice comes out. I also came to a realization today that making juice with a blender takes more energy to cut all the produce down before use, but less clean-up time, whereas making juice with a juicer is the reverse. I can just take the stuff straight out of the fridge and start juicing with a juicer, but then there’s quite a lot of cleanup afterwards…
I did the watermelon juice today totally by hand. I just cut it down into very small pieces, threw them all in the nut milk bag and squeezed. A friend of mine raised the point to me recently that this is really a much more body-friendly approach than using a juicer or blender. The liquid has been barely oxidised and instead just squeezed by hand, straight into a jar to drink – it likely contains much more immediately recognisable information than watermelon juice, even from the same fruit, that has been prepared with a juicer or blender. I like that concept...
Some more of your questions answered…
just a quick question, whats the deal with the coconut water? is that the same as coconut milk? also, i dont usually weigh myself, though i was wondering if you have lost any weight doing this feast. ?
Yes, coconut water/milk is the same thing – the liquid that comes out of the coconut. Yes, I’ve lost weight during this feast – at least 15lbs…I think more – have not weighed myself for a couple of weeks – maybe more like 18lbs in total…
This morning saw really sunny, gorgeous warm weather over San Jose and I was fortunate enough to be invited on a short trip out into the mountains with my landlady…it was so lovely to get out into the morning sun and fresh mountain air, surrounded by greenery, for an hour or so, before returning to the city and the tasks of the day…mmmmm…I’m really a country girl at heart… ;)
One love,
Gela. xxx
