Juicing Finale – The first day on solids. – Raw Vegetarian only.

OK, so we are eating again, but as I mention avoiding toxins and processing. So let’s make this day eight report, a menu proposal for going back from any fasting or cleansing process. But of course, what we have on the plates here may very well be a cleansing process in its own right.

Day 8 of our juice fasting - all the first day of eating;

It is Sunday morning so we are not woken up by nice soft music, or a Sandy MacGregor guiding us through meditation as is otherwise normal. However, being young healthy and energised, I’m still wide awake at 5 Am, and I noticing that Connie is too. I also noticed that she still have some issues, or un-comfort, with her back and sciatic nerve.

At 5:30 I go down to the office and create a CD, containing just mentioned soft music and include a guided meditation by Sandy MacGregor, meditation titled “healing yourself” - Plugin and start the CD in the bedroom - and we enjoyed a half an hour meditation.

I then go up and put on a cup of tea for us, and dish up a plate of berries. Connie had a desire for berries the night before, and it would be a nice and soft start on the first day after juicing. Here it is;

As it is served in the bedroom.

After enjoying that in bed we get up to start the day, checking computers and of course Facebook - and planning today’s work list. And now it’s Connie’s time to start preparing breakfast for us - and she always do a more serious effort than my quick tea and some additions.

So here’s Connie’s breakfast, which we decide to enjoy down at poolside - as we having an absolutely beautiful day here at the Gold Coast.

As mentioned, it is raw vegetarian food only, raw because even processing may well turn out to be a toxin. Some processing less so, while other overheating can completely convert the products chemical structure.
(An example being cooking oils, when heating to the stage of creating smoke of the frying pan - you have turned them into a toxic substance - better throw them out and start over. The one oil however that this doesn’t apply to is coconut oil.)

On the subject of processing food;
Our preferred definition, probably controversial, but it’s great with different views. The food that provide nutrition, that support and sustain your body is healthy food, things that you put in your mouth that doesn’t support your body in any way are toxins.

Most of which mentioned here, as toxins, are actually damaging to your body, while some not directly damaging but takes the body’s energy and efforts to process and dispose of.

I met a schoolteacher in Brisbane some years ago, just briefly for lunch and a chat - and I can’t even remember her name. But I do remember her story;

She told us that she had competition for the children in her class, they got points if they have food in the lunchbox that “remember” where it come from. Raw vegetables do remember whether come from, while the dangerous substance in a Coca-Cola bottle certainly doesn’t.

And to a big extent, our processing do the same, it kills the food. Nothing will survive an hour in an oven at 200°, or swimming in 100° oil in a frying pan. But worse still is the factory processing - and all the chemicals added, if it is white it’s and lookes very 'clean' then rest assured that it is cleaned.

Cleaned from all its nutrients and fibres that is, clean white food products therefore, most definitely, can be classified as toxins. And that some of those products are; white flour, white bread, white refined sugar, white table salt, (proper salt is good for you and we need a lot of it.) white rise, pasta etc, etc

But quickly back to my menu, where Connie prepare this beautiful plates for our garden lunch.

And to keep it short, lefts move right on and have a look at a dinner;

And as you can see on this beautiful plate, we do deviate slightly - including a tub of natural Greek Yogurt with Garlic and other nice spices.

So that was our nice and relaxing Sunday - but more importantly a very healthy Sunday. Try it out for yourself - the above diet is an excellent break from your chemicals and processed food any day.

But there are many alternatives to healthy living, and the Paleo diet is one of them. The Paleo diet is not a vegetarian diet, and therefore a good alternative to people who don’t want to give up their meat.

Check it out by clicking here - or on the images in this blog.

And for today’s video, let’s do another repeat as this is a good one.
Our friend and Naturopath Samantha Backman are interviewing Mr Don Tolman.

Juice fasting sessions; Don Tolman and his son Tyler have a regular juice fasting sessions in Bali several times through the year. You can join them on destination, or you can join them via the Internet.

Connie and myself will have another juice fasting session here at Mudgeeraba HiltOnZ in September 2014 - also a session designed so that you can follow us over Email, Skype and Facebook.

Looking forward to having you with us then……………

Finaly - just had to post the one picture Connie took over the week;

The author, all dressed up (dressed down?) for some serious garden work.