Day 8

Thoughts: I use lemon for deodorant. I believe what you put on your skin is just as impactful as what you put in your mouth. Kevin Tredea, the amazing author of 'What They Don't Want You To Know' says "If you can't eat it, don't put it on your skin". I totally believe there is a natural 'earth' alternative for everything, for lotions, moisterisers, deoderants and cures. For example I use lemon for deoderant. And it works sometimes right, but the times it doesn't is when I have just had a huge binge and consumed chemicals and it has to come out of our skin somehow! So then I smell. But I find when I am healthy, I don't smell. There's no need to, I don't have copious amounts of toxins coming out! I have been smellier for the past week I must admit, if you get grossed out because of smells and visuals then stop reading now! But its true, I have been smellier. Its like my body is getting rid of toxins after so long of holding onto them. My poos are really smelly, so I am monitoring them, and Im sure once my body gets cleaner it wont smell as much! haaa! So today I was in a seminar, and its 9am and I can smell my underarms and while I quite like the smell of toxins coming out of my body, I thought of the other people in the seminar, so I went to the chemist and bought a Rexona roll on, and as resistant as I was, I filled my arms with aluminum. Aluminum is the ingredient in deoderant and one of the biggest hidden secrets of all! Its unfortunate the amount of people that are unaware of the health hazards of deoderants. Beyond the synthetic fragrances and toxic ingredients found in deoderant and most personal care products, are loaded with aluminum compounds that have been linked to Alzheimer's disease and brain disorders, respiratory disorders, and possibly cancer. Aluminum is one of the most common elements in the environment and the world's most common metal. It is used in cans and aluminum foil, as lightweight sheet metal in airplanes and other machinery, in electrical wiring - and in personal care products such as underarm deodorant and antiperspirant. In a culture where being well groomed and smelling nice is essential, its like a must to wear deoderants, but what you don't know is that they are powerful astringents that close pores, stopp sweat and odor from escaping the body. So it may leave the outside of the body smelling fresh and clean – but inside, the toxins that would have escaped the body in the sweat have nowhere to go. For this reason, antiperspirants have been linked to problems with the sweat glands and lymph glands in and around the underarms. If you want to smell nicer, than get healthier instead of clogging your underarms with aluminum! So to be safe: If you can't eat it, don't put it on your body! It does soak in! (you can buy aluminum free deoderant from health food stores!)

Read more: http://naturalmedicine.suite101.com/article.cfm/aluminum_in_deodorant#ixzz0Vby2OAQ5

Challenges: Well actually today I was having lunch with 6 friends at an asian place, I packed my lunch of course and brought it along (raw brocoli, strawberries and nuts), and actually asian was my favourite food, the curry, and the rice and the noodles mmmm so that was the first time in a week that I felt my body go mmm yum, but still in no way was I tempted! I am however looking forward to creating my own curries from scratch, from herbs and spices mmm mmmm! Then at dinner, I ate with my sister and a family of four, and my sister cooked this beautiful pasta dish, so im getting now that I want to include more variety in my Earth Diet! So you count on me for experiementing and creating variety and I will post recipes! It's atually easier than you think to eat from the earth! The aboriginals were doing it for hundreds of years before we came along!

Triumphs:So today was officially THE LONGEST I have been without bingeing, eating chocolate, junk food, processed foods, foods with chemicals, in 5 years! I would always say ok this week I will go for 8 days being totally healthy and then I would get half way through the week and give in and let my 'voice' win. I feel so empowered, so proud and am present to how I love myself and respect my word and my being!

What I ate today:

Breakfast: 1 apple, handfull of strawberries

Lunch: raw brocolli, strawberries, mixed nuts (brazil nuts, cashew nuts, almonds, hazelnuts)

Dinner: one sweet raw corn on the cob, raw brocolli (I never thought I would enjoy eating raw,but I actually do!)handmade sushi (rice, advocado, flattened seaweed), salad (green lettuce, advocado, spring onion)

Dessert: no dessert

Snacks: no snacks

Cost: $6 on a packet of mixed nuts :)

Exercise: 25 minutes walk and I walked up the stairs instead of the esculator!

357 days to go!!!

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Day 7

Thoughts: I had a great day today, and I was sharing with my sister how at peace I am with myself and my body now that I have created this challenge. She had no idea that for 5 years I had a battle going on in my head about food. I realized that in my head it seemed like such a big deal, but really, it was a tiny problem (looking back at it now I can see it ws tiny, but actually being in it seemed like such a big dramatic deal), and as soon as you tell one person, the problem sort of dissolves out and has less impact on you. Once you can start talking about it, then the identity starts to lose power, its when you keep it to yourself that it boils and boils and the identity is winning. Because its just an identity right, its not actually you. You are love, peace, joy and would never self harm. So now I get that I choose to eat to nuture myself, instead of living to eat. Living to eat is a nightmare! And today I spoke with 2 amazing friends, both who have had eating disorders, Bulimia. We all shared authentically how it was to have an eating disorder, and how it controlled our lives, and I never thought it would be possible to be free of it. I realized how similar our thoughts were, and I actually never thought anyone else thought the same way I did, which is why I didn't tell anyone. One of my girlfriends said how she would have a shower and throwup in the shower because no one could hear it then, she could hide it, and she learnt that if you stick a toothbrush down your throat far enough she could purge, and then one night in the shower looking down at the food she threw up all over the shower floor and all over he legs, she brokedown, and said thats enough. No more! She declared it over. She had had enough of the pain. And unfortunately more girls than not suffer from a kind of eating disorder. But thats how powerful you are, you really do have the power to choose, and to have control and to say no more. What I am getting from this Earth Diet is that you don't feel the urge to overeat, to binge, you don't think 'im going to binge now, im going to eat 4 packets of carrots'. And there's no room for feeling guilty either, I feel so much love and appreciation for myself when filling my body of earth foods!

Challenges: I had a thought today (well one in particular haha), and to be honest my 'self' felt challenged by it. And the thought was 'what if i go back to bingeing on junk food? what if I can't keep this up and what if i just fail, and can't control the urge?' not an empowering thought I know! So thats what came up, and I guess my biggest fear is that I am not in control of what goes into my body.

Triumphs: Today was day 7 of the Earth Diet!!! After tomorrow, it will officially be the LONGEST I have gone without chocolate, sugar and processed foods in 5 years!!! This is a huge breakthrough!!!!So tomorrow, day 8 will be an exciting day ;)

Food I ate today:

Beakfast: 1 pear, mixed nuts (walnuts,hazelnuts,cashe nuts and pittachio nuts)

Lunch: raw broccoli, strawberries, my homemade sushi roll that I made last night (rice, advocado, carrot, lettuce, flat seaweed)

Dinner: pineapple, orange, lemon and ginger juice, raw brocolli and carrot, strawberries

Dessert: mixed nuts

Snacks: no snacks

Cost: I spent $7 on juice (fresh pineapple, orange, lemon and ginger)

Exercise: 30 minutes walk in Perth city

358 days to go!!!

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Day 6

Thoughts: I'm not sure what to call what I was going through before this challenge. An 'eating-disorder', an addiction, controlled by food, a food obsession, bingeing, a pain addiction...but you get the point. That's what it was...now its totally gone! What I actually thought would never shift, has shifted! Finally! 5 years of 'it' just declared complete and gone!

Challenges: Because I declared 'it' complete when I started this challenge I haven't had major challenges,cravings,and I'm not resisting it at all. I'm actually really enjoying this whole process. I guess my biggest challenge that I may face would be boredom. But with that being said, since I am the creator, boredom will only set in if I set it in, so this will be however I want it to be. This blog may even be boring to you because it does not have drama or challenges but you can count on me for another 359 days to write an honest blog about my Earth Diet and share authentically about whatever comes up for me.

I reckon if you have a weight problem, if you are overweight,or have created an eating disorder in your life, than you just don't have enough going on outside your life. If you did, then you wouldn't have time for an eating disorder, and you wouldn't have the space for it. Like I was caught up in my own little world. But now I remember that im just a tiny little dot in the whole universe and my eating obsession was tiny and not worth me having! You know like a problem I created and it's not worthy of my life! So now I get there is no need to have an eating disorder,no need to have a food obsession,no need to create extra drama!

Triumphs: today I got something huge and it was because of a comment my friend Matt posted on my blog, and that was that I truly have transformed my old way of being in just one declaration. I got how powerful our words are, and if we say we are going to do it, we will. And if we say we aren't going to do it, we won't. I feel like 'it' is no longer part of me,and 'it' is no longer in control,and when I look at it now,even though it's been just six days,I can't believe i let it control my life for so long!I have now expanded my plate,and I don't mean plate full of junk food,plate full of raw brocolli hehehe!Suffering is optional,and once I declared my eating-bingeing-obsession-pain-addiction-whatever-you-want-to-label-it complete,I feel like a big fat brick has flown off me and flew far into outer space!iam left feeling calm,peaceful and relieved! I feel so amazing because I have finally honoured my word,after 5 years of saying "as of tomorrow I will not binge,as of tomorrow I will love myself,as of tomorrow I will never binge again" I am finally honouring that. For 5 years I could not be my full self expression because I was not living with integrity.I was not being true to my word and so was depleting my true self!

What I ate today:

Breakfast: green apple, bowl of oats boiled in water

Lunch: mixed nuts (macadamia, cashew, pitashio, almond, peanut), a pear

Dinner: homemade sushi with rice,advocado,carrot and lettuce,and seaweed!

Snacks: peanuts in a shell

Dessert: no dessert

Recipe: sushi: cook rice,chop lettuce,advocado and carrot.wrap the raw ingredients and cooked rice in flattened seaweed!easy peeeeseey!and did you know sushi that you buy at a restaurant has sugar and vinegar in the rice!

Exercise: Walking in Perth city for 40 minutes! Oh and I walked up the stairs instead of taking the esculators!

Cost: Today I spent $22 on fresh fruit and vegatable, broccoli and carrot for tomorrow, sweet corn, mixed nuts, free range organic eggs.

359 days to go!

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Day 5

Thoughts:I was eating the sweetest pineapple I have ever had tonight at the airport, and they paged me for the plane. Ooops hehe. I wonder if it was super sweet because I haven't had artificial sugar for 5 days and the natural sugar now stands out to me.

Challenges: Making time to prepare meals from scratch. And Bryan just bought a doughnut in front of me. Now I'm remembering the time I ate an organic doughnut in Byron bay mmmm.Nut nah i get more energy and peace from eating pineapple instead of a doughnut.

Triumphs: I was craving red liccorice and ate pineapple instead!I also got today that for 5 years,for way too long I made food and eating and body image into such a big problem,a burden,an issue,when really if u create a problem bigger than you, there is no time for an eating 'disorder' as such. So I have taken on starting a new business, spreading I Love Earth around the world, taking on challenges like this, creating an online art community, getting new headshots so I can start auditioning again, and what I am left with is no time for drama, no time for an eating disorder, no time to make food into a big dramatic pain addictive controlling habit. Just Living :))))

What I ate today:

Breakfast: Herbal tea leaves, orange, two eggs fried in olive oil with peanuts.

Lunch: Raw brocoli, 4 tablespoons of peanut butter (pure crushed peanuts),chamomille and mint tea leaves

Dinner: Salad with green lettuce, celery, advocado, and French fries (potatoes cooked in olive oil), fried eggs.

Dessert: fresh pineapple at the airport mmmmm

Exercise: 90 minute bikram yoga class

Cost: $2.50 on pineapple.

360 days to go!

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