Between a Rock and an Apple

When we spend more time thinking about what we're eating and less about enjoying the food itself, we get out of balance. In other words, if you're caught up in working through your emotional baggage around food issues and not spending time learning how to enjoy your food, you're missing the crucial component to reprogramming. Reprogramming our thinking around food involves not only uncovering those places of pain and shame, but also making opportunities for and taking great pleasure in joyful eating. I get that it's not easy, but it is essential.

Note: Capitalized recipes are my own.

Day 114

• handful of chlorella nuts
  
• Blackberry Pudding (frozen blackberries, avocados, bananas) topped with coconut flakes and homemade granola
  
• cup of Reishi and Chaga Brew (reishi, chaga, coconut flakes, goji berries, vanilla bean)
• small serving of Almond Pate (almonds, carrots, celery, garlic, Bell's Seasoning, nama shoyu, sea salt) with carrots, celery, and homemade Seed Crackers
• Superfood IceScream (ice, Brazil nuts, cold nettle and cat's claw tea, mulberries, cacao nibs, honey, maca, mesquite, carob poweder, sea salt)
• celery with Olive Sesame Dressing
  
• cup of water with Watch Your Back flower essences
  
• cheese and flatbread sandwich from Dunkin Donuts [hard admission... be gentle]
• take out from Bua Thai: veggie spring rolls; veggie and tofu Pad Thai; cold nettle and cat's claw tea
  
  

Today's Observations
OK. The Dunkin Donuts. While driving to teach my raw vegan class (LOL!), I realized that I was hungry. I also was craving cheese - which is really rare for me. So, I tried to think of what I could have that was low-impact, but also I knew I needed to get to my class quickly. So, it wasn't the greatest choice. I get that. I'm trying to not beat myself up over it. I'm actually more frustrated with myself for choosing that particular establishment than I am for choosing that particular food. Dunkin Donuts isn't known for their organics. ; ) Tomorrow: lots of chlorella.

Sidenote: I actually debated not putting that Dunkin Donuts foray in the list. I really did. Then I thought, you've never excluded anything on this blog and to start not would lead you down a slippery slope. So, I really had to work through some serious baggage to be able to type that in.