Day 67

Thoughts: HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! 2010! Wow! I have had emails from people saying "How did you do it? Start the Earth Diet? How did you stick to it?". The first thing I did was declare my 5 year binge eating spree complete. I was over it. Truly. Tired and bored. 1. Declare your old habits and your old ways of being complete. Even if you don't believe it, declare what you want. What do you really want? And what are you committed to? For example I declared on Saturday at 10pm that I will start the Earth Diet for 365 days and am eating only foods born from the earth, and I am committed to losing weight,...

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Day 66

Thoughts: It's new years eve! New years resolutions are dumb. I guess they are better than no resolution though right. I used to wait until a Monday to sart something new, or tomorrow. I would break moments up into time and days and weeks "in october i will start this." A friend once asked me "whens a good time to do it now?" NOW!!! For 5 years I kept saying "I will never binge again from tomorrow, or from Monday, or I'll wait until the new year." Now I do it now! There is no waiting. What if I suddenly died? I don't want to die miserable. Challenges: Oh man...today I rushed to the toilet many...

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Day 65

Thoughts: Are we all chasing hapiness? Someday I will be happier..I will be happier when...once I do this then I will be truly happy. I got to the root of why I was doing what I was doing when I was bingeing for so many years. I believed that if I would eat really healthy and little during the week that I would lose weight and be skinnier and therefore be happier. And then at the end of the week I would be so starved and over it and binge on junk food thinking I'm stupid and there's no way I can do it, be skinny and happy. It was a vicious circle for years. Get to the root of why you are doing...

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Day 64

Thoughts: Die to the past every moment. You also die to your body every moment. When you turned 5 years old, you died to you 4 year old body. This is exciting because if you have a dis-ease in the body, or cancer, or illness, in every breath you can breathe out the old body and breath in a new body. You cells are always being replaced with new ones. If you are overweight you don't have to become resigned that you will always be like that because your body is constantly changing with each breath. The body is pure consciousness. Deepak Chopra's book "Power, Freedom, Grace" is one of the best books...

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Day 63

Thoughts: Be thin to cut cancer. I found this interesting article online today "Even those who are not overweight should slim down if they want to cut their risk of cancer."The World Cancer Research Fund carried out the largest ever inquiry into lifestyle and cancer, and issued several stark recommendations. They include not gaining weight as an adult, avoiding sugary drinks and alcohol, and not eating bacon or ham. Everyone must also aim to be as thin as possible without becoming underweight. EAT FOODS BORN FROM THE EARTH!!! Cancers of the colon and breast are some of the most common forms of...

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Day 61

Thoughts: Peace is giving up that there is something wrong. My beautiful friend Steph said this to me today and I got present to how easy it is to create peace for myself. In relation to food, for so many years I had it that I was wrong and what I was eating was wrong, and I was eating to much and it was wrong and my bingeing eating disorder was wrong. Those thoughts didn't help at all, it just created more "wrongness" and guilt and no peace. If you are overweight, wobbly, underweight, have an eating disorder, it is not wrong. If you state what is, for example "I have a binge addiction for junk...

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Day 62

Buy free range lettuce. Thoughts: My fellow universal earth child friend (hehe) Jonathan Stone sent me a text message today "Has your sense of reality and spirituality changed? (since the Earth Diet) are you able to feel and see canges in energy?". I wrote back "Yes, and I have to say that the question is amazing and you are a very enlightened being having asked that. I feel more connected to me, my temple is now clean, my body is showing heath beause thats who i am, my self expression is health and so all the chemicals and additives and trace of processing machines are being stripped out of...

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Day 59

Thoughts: To eat bacon or not to eat bacon?Challenges: Mum and Nadine were eating bacon this morning for breakfast. It smelt so good and I wanted to eat it. And yes pigs are a natural food source born from the earth, however the bacon and ham you buy from the supermarket is heavly processed. Eating meats such as bacon, sausages and luncheon meats, increases the risk of developing a lung condition called chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). One bacon strip contains about 40 calories, 3.5g of fat, 1.7g of saturated fat, 7.5mg of cholesterol, 120mg of sodium, and 2.5g of protein. The meat...

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Day 60

Thoughts: Merry Christmas! Why we eat so much (and throw out so much) at Christmas, and why we never learn! Challenges: Is Christmas more depressing for you or more happier? How do you feel? A friend mentioned to me "Christmas can be depressing for some people", I had never thought of Christmas like that! I thought it's a happy time of the year generally. I look at it as Christmas is "meant" to be happier but how do you really feel? And does it become socially acceptabable for human beings to act like crazy maniac chickens with their heads cut off zooming around the shopping centers buying last...

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Day 57

Thoughts: An easy recipe to get rid of candida. If you have a candida overgrowth in your body (and you will know from thr symptoms I wrote about in yesterdays blog) you can get rid of it or reduce it dramatically by a few ways. A colonic, a candida cleanse (detox diet) and generaly watching what you eat and consume. Colonic: What is a colonic? Colonic irrigation is a water enema given to flush out the colon. This will flush out the candida that is growing and leaching into your bowels. Candida Clense: Eat foods that contain no candida or create it. A list of candida free foods will be posted...

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Day 58

Thoughts: My sister commented that I have smaller boobs now. I have noticed this too. And it's because I am eating foods with no hormones. There are articles about hormones in food causing early puberty. I developed faster than my mother, who developed faster than her mother, and my younger sister developed faster than all of us. There are more hormones in our foods today then there was 50 years ago. -History of hormone use in food production As early as the 1930s, it was realized that cows injected with material drawn from bovine (cow) pituitary glands (hormone secreting organ) produced more...

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Day 56

Candida roots. Ewwww!Thoughts: Do you have candida overgrowth in your body? I've had candida for years and didn't know about it! Since I have started this Earth Diet the candida in my body has reduced huge, I am not as bloated, my face is less puffy, I feel alive inside. I did some more research on it tonight and here's what I got....If you have more than one of the symptoms here you may have an overgrowth of Candida Albicans. This condition (called Candidiasis) can give you a wide variety of symptoms which we may be able to help you with. The symptoms of Candida can vary greatly and you could...

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Day 53

Earth wine! Yep totally natural and organic!Thoughts: Today was the first time I have had alcohol on the Earth Diet! And guess what...totally earthy alcohol! Yep! My father Bernard made it himself from his farm! He grows the grapes, organically, no pesticides or sprays, then picks the grapes. For red wine they pick the grapes in April and for white in February. Then him and my brothers and Helen put the grapes on the back of the ute on a tarp, and stomp on the grapes!!! Love it, a totally organic way of getting juice from the grapes instead of a machine! Once there is juice Bernard puts it in...

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Day 54

Dinner!!!Thoughts: I am in food heaven!!! My fathers property is called the Bio Organic Vinyyard and Garden! A map postcard of Western Australia (my father Bernard is the artist!). To the East "Nannup" is where the farm is. And he lives there with his wife Helen and my 2 brothers Sam and Tosh. It's absolutely amazing. Clean fresh air, tall trees, rain water, solar power, totally sustainable and they grow everything to eat. Grape vines, apples, cherries, lemons, herbs, corriander, mint, basil, potatoes, lemon grass, chamomile, lime leaves, sage, thyme, they have lavender and spinach and rocket,...

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Day 55

Thoughts: Tonight I got into the beans! Kidney beans. I've never been a big fan of beans and tonight I enjoyed my beans dish (recipe below) so much I did a little research to find out just how good these things were. I told my father Bernard that I would write my blog on beans tonight. He said "Is anyone interested in listening about beans?". I said "sure". He said "plus they make you fart, but they are lovely things". !!! Hahaaa I thought that was funny! So:-Beans are one of the longest cultivated plants. -Beans were deposited with the dead in ancient egypt. Can someone remember to add beans...

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Day 52

Mums strawberry plant! Nothing beats a fresh fruit or vegetable straight off the earth and into the body! Thoughts: There is nothing wrong with wanting to lose weight. I believe it is a natural human being state. Be in your natural state. We are naturally healthy and slim. Listen to your body and when it wants to exercise then get up and do something about it, even if you just move. I have been putting on some music (loving Black Eyed Peas new album!) and dancing around to that! It wakes my body up and I feel alive and excited and energetic! I have also been listening to my body and what it wants...

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Day 51

A natural earthy alternative to foot scrub and exfoliant!!! Fish!!!Thoughts: How far would you go for your health? How hard would you work and how much does your health mean to you? Today I arrived in Singapore airport and there was absolutely nothing I could eat there inside the Earth Diet (no preservatives, additives, processed foods for 365 days). There was a McDonalds and a cafe sellings pastries and breads. So I took action and jumped in a cab ($17) went into Singapore and bought some cherries ($4) and some nuts almonds cashews pistachios ($8) and a cab back ($15) in time to get my flight....

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Day 50

Thoughts: I have news that I am excited about and news I'm not so excited about....I'm not so excited that I am leaving India in about half and hour!!! AND I am excited that I am coming back to India in September! Wooooo! So while I was in Rishikesh I met with an absolutely amazing man called Sudhir who is an Indian man who funds a school (Arohan School) for orphans and impoverished children! Out of his own money and accepting donations Sudhir has created a school to children whose parents cannot afford to send them to school! 10 years ago Sudhir was making 26 rupee a day (50cents) so he went...

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Day 48

Lunch. Thoughts: South Indians eat a lot of rice. North Indians eat a lot of wheat. Shabanna the beautiful Indian women I have met is from the North and she said she has eaten Chapati's (wheat and water made into a pancake) every single day of her life (since she started eating). She has not missed a day of wheat! And she is thin. The wheat in India is less processed and is whole and brown, compared to our westernised flour which has been processed and a bright white. Westerner's have wheat intolerance, irritable bowel sindrom, celiacs disease, all of which is said to be caused by wheat. Shabanna...

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Day 49

at the Taj Mahal!Thoughts: I wonder if he woke up this morning thinking "Today is my last day on earth, I will die today". I saw a dead person today. He looked around 16 years old. There was a crash on the road. I can still see it vividly in my head. A motorbike crash, 3 people lying on the road, 2 slightly moving, 1 completely gone, the beingness gone, just the body left, half the head missing, somewhere on the road. People driving by not affected (every 6 minutes an Indian dies from a crash on the roads). My friends told me just forget about it. Far out. Life really can just end in a second....

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Day 47

Imagine waking up to this every morning...mmm...my hike through the Himalayas!Thoughts: 3 days in India and at a traditional Indian wedding! wooohooo! India hands down the best country I have ever been too, and next time I am coming with friends or family, I want to share this experience with them! The wedding blew my mind! I felt like I was in fairytale land, the Alice In Wonderland! Fairy lights, red carpets, Indian music, lots of food, beautiful Indian women wearing glittery saris, hours of dancing! I danced my little heart out - Indian style of course! And oh Indian music is sooo amazing,...

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