FOOD TO FREEDOM

Why Weigh?

So much to say about weight… such an obsession all my life…. “I’m too fat”, “I feel fat”, “I look fat”, “my thighs are fat”, “my belly is fat”, “my butt is soooo fat”, “my hips are too fat”, “have to hide my fat”.“I AM FAAAAAAT”.

It has been a looooong battle against fat. I won… when I stopped the fight.

Never ever quit! You can do it!

I just received the following from a friend and as I read this, I thought how perfectly this applies to us compulsive overeaters. I quit each time I binge, but not anymore.

I'm tired... and I eat too much

Yawn.... I am soooo tired.... and I have so much to do..... I have to finish this (blogging) and I feel like eating something, munching on something..... sweet .... like chocolate.

I have been very tired lately mostly because I work a lot at my full time job and I try to keep up with my website (the one in English and the one in French) and all my coaching projects.This is a LOT of work!

Youth through ageing.....

how beautiful... how inspiring....
Please check this video out! A woman 84 years old doing some acrobat dancing with a 25 years old, quite amazing! You can obviously see this woman has been exercising all her life....
When I watched the video this morning, tears swell up to my eyes and it made my day!
Enjoy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKRZv6NGjdc

"COOKED HUNGER" v/s "RAW HUNGER"

I had today an interesting experience I’d like to share.

I have been on raw foods for approx. 6 months now. The only non raw foods I still eat are rice cakes, even though I also make my own crackers in the dehydrator, and green tea because I loooove green tea.

About Love

Yesterday was my first wedding anniversary, April 7th. And wow, this means so much to me. All my life (it seems it was all my life!) I was so deep into food addiction, and my emotional highs and lows, I wrecked most of my relationships with men AND I did not meet the right person for sure. But how is it possible to meet the right person when you are within yourself a wreck? As we commonly say, I was not ready. Well, what does this exactly mean TO BE READY? ready for what? how? when???

Our hormones make us hungry!

Have you noticed how much hungrier you get right before your periods? I am starving the week before! and I mean, really hungry! much more than usual.

When I was deep into bingeing and dieting, I ignored the natural fact that for a few days a month, I had to eat more. So if I was on a diet, I thought I could not control myself and I hated myself for being so weak. So I binged or I thought I was simply because I did not know what was going on. Nobody ever told me this simple fact: a woman may need up to 500 more calories a day before her periods, it may be only one days of extreme hunger or it can last for a whole week. It is a genuine hunger. It is not a myth. The body needs more calories because it burns more during this period. It has to do with hormones obviously (I don't exactly know why and how; if anybody reading this has the answer, please send me an e-mail).

I know now exactly what is going on on those days and I do honor my hunger. I nourish myself the best I can. I was going through this period these past few days and I had a lot of seaweeds. I just couldn't stop eating seaweeds. Seaweeds are extremely rich in minerals so I guess my body was lacking some or a lot of them.  Here is  a very simple recipe for  a  "tartare d'algues" or a seaweed tartare:
I usually make a lot of it and keep it in the fridge in a glass bowl for over a week. Soak a bag of kombu, one of arame, one of wakame, one of spiral seaweed for 30 mn in cold water. Rinse well and drain well. Pour all in the food processor (you may want to do this in two batches because this is a lot) with a bit of vinegar, himalayan salt, ginger, garlic, a little bit of onion. Process for 1 minute. Do not overprocess it or it will be too mushy. Taste and adjust by adding more of the ingredients when needed. I usually add dulse flakes at the end and process again for a few seconds till everything is well mixed but pieces of seaweed are still in the mixture.  This is delicious either on a salad or on crackers.

WELCOME TO MY NEW LOOKING BLOG!

I want to welcome you to my new looking blog! This is such an exciting time for me. I have been working a lot on my website lately and it's getting there! A lot of new exciting items will be revealed in the next few months so stay tuned! The blog was an important part to set up and a priority. I wanted it to look good so you can feel welcome and at home. The colors you see and the feel of it are really the way I am. Orange is my favorite color and I wear it most of the time. It is warm, welcoming and make me somehow secure.

So let's talk about where I live right now. I am located in Sydney, Australia. I arrived here from New York, USA in september 2007. It was hard to leave such an exciting place like New York that I truly loved! But, to come here was a blessing. First because I was to rejoin my beautiful and lovely husband and second because this is where the whole story begins.... My husband and I went raw in October after listening to the Raw Summit 2 on the net. And very quickly a total miracle happened to me. My obsession with weight issues disappeared totally, completely, gone, finished, dead... no more obsessions!!! I had been obsessed since I was 14. Does this tell you something? Can anyone relate to these obsessions where you just can't be relaxed at a meal (what if I eat too much of this or of that... how many calories are in this or that....), when you don't really enjoy a workout for the workout itself. What you do is working out in order to burn calories, period. Or when you never never are in peace with your body but rather at war. Either by dieting and bingeing, or by taking dieting pills (even the "natural" ones). All that dissapeared I can say overnight.

So yeah... coming to Sydney was a blessing! Being on a raw food journey is a daily blessing! Writing to you and sharing my world with you are a blessing too! I truly feel lucky!

Till next time, take good care of your body.
With all my support,
Anne