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Seven Practical Steps to a Holistic Diet

15
May

These are the pivotal concepts I integrated into my life to create my holistic diet.

1. Aim for a positive goal and then feel it in your bones. Whilst losing weight may be necessary, it feels bland and listless. Having a goal to embody strength and vitality is one you can align to. It’s a goal that covers your health in it’s entirety. If your daily choices are guided by wanting to feel that way, you really can’t go wrong.

2. It’s not so much the number of calories you consume as it is how natural the food is that you choose to eat. If your body can’t easily or fully digest a food it’ll slow down your system and get a bit stuck. As Natalia Rose wrote in her book The Raw Food Detox Diet, “Waste matter in the body is the fundamental source of excess weight in your body.” Eat food straight from nature and your natural body will process it as it was designed to. Way back when I quit soy it only took a few months to get my body back. I had no idea that in the country I’d moved to it was used as a flour substitute in the bread (and many other products). Check your labels and keep it pure and simple. more…

The Holistic Diet

9 Apr 2013

I view my holistic diet as everything I let into my day, interconnected. I think of it as being discerning with regard to what I consume, surround myself with and pass my time doing.

The more discerning you are, the more self sovereign you become. Your diet becomes one of integrity when you stop kidding yourself by justifying lax behavior, because really, who does that serve? You have to fully accept the notion that eating processed foodstuffs will never get you feeling great in your body. You can sweat out some toxins sure, but your body already has to work hard clearing out the other polluters of our modern day lifestyles, so why add more? You want to bring your body more ease, not more damage. When you eat foods rich in vitality, that quality passes on to you. When you spend time doing life generating activities – whatever makes you feel alive – that feeling also builds up in you. Watch where your time goes and utilize your freedom to keep you feeling refreshed. You don’t always need to know exactly what’s going on in the world at any one time or have experienced everything and everywhere. The frustration will grind you down. Enjoy your own day. more…

The Addiction Free Lifestyle

7 Mar 2013

organic apples

An addict is someone who has given away their own freewill. Usually it’s defined as being obsessed, infatuated or enslaved with, or to, something. The kindest spin on it is to compare it to a passion or dedication.

But here’s the thing: one of my passions is food, but it doesn’t consume all my waking hours. I one hundred percent enjoy what I eat, not relying on foods that dictate my chemistry on an all too frequent basis. Being thrown from one craving to another, feeling edgy and irritable, doesn’t appeal and nor is it natural (normal and natural being two very different things these days!). It’s not always been this way for me, one year I had a venti caramel latte practically every day when really I should have just quit my job. You live, you learn. Nowadays a venti anything would look a little crazy to me and if I was tempted to get one, I’d immediately start wondering why. If you think it’s a treat, you might ask yourself what it is you’re treating. more…