Read Crazy Sexy Diet: Eat Your Veggies, Ignite Your Spark, and Live Like You Mean It! Online
Authors: Kris Carr,Rory Freedman (Preface),Dean Ornish M.D. (Foreword)
Tags: #Nutrition, #Motivational & Inspirational, #Health & Fitness, #Diets, #Medical, #General, #Women - Health and hygiene, #Health, #Diet Therapy, #Self-Help, #Vegetarianism, #Women
Crazy Sexy Diet: Eat Your Veggies, Ignite Your Spark, and Live Like You Mean It! (55 page)
Day 13
21-DAY
CLEANSE
Making meals for yourselves
and others is a profound way to share love. As you get more comfortable with your ability to make tasty cuisine, invite folks over to break (gluten-free) bread. Just because you’re cleansing doesn’t mean you have to isolate. Share your knowledge. The world needs you! Teach your coworkers how to juice. Make a healthy lunch for your mom and share the recipe. You’re the sexiest Prevention Is Hot cheerleader I have ever seen—shake those pom-poms!
Be the change you wish to see in the world. (That’s not my genius—that’s Gandhi. He’s hot.)
Allow me to help others find their core vitality. Help me to share my knowledge in a way that people can understand. Though I am excited, I realize that people don’t like being bashed over the head. Help me teach with patience and compassion.
I have the amazing ability to clearly communicate my wisdom to others.
Tongue scraping, anyone? Ever notice the whitish coating that sometimes collects on your tongue? That’s waste products and bacteria. Help your tongue out by gently removing it. You can find a scraper at any health food or drugstore—they cost about $2. French kissing is a lot better with a clean tongue!
When making meals for meat-loving carnivores, choose a hearty, well-seasoned dish that will wow them—roasted veggies, a raw lasagna, tempeh Reuben, or rich grain dishes and soups. Then how about a lush dessert? Kick off the festivities with fresh juice served in a sexy wine goblet or champagne flute.
Day 14
21-DAY
CLEANSE
Guess what?
It’s fasting day again. If you’re up for it, fantastic! If not, just eat light and bright today. One of the benefits of fasting is mental clarity and spiritual purification. Fasting gets rid of excess. It peels off the layers of dullness revealing a holy honey core. Some of the greatest spiritual teachers, activists, artists, and philosophers used periodic fasts to connect with a deeper layer of self. Gandhi, Buddha, Jesus, Mother Teresa, Plato, Aristotle, Abraham Lincoln, and Leonardo da Vinci are among some of the fasting hall of famers. Buddha’s experience with fasting is très Crazy Sexy. While he did experiment with longer fasts, Buddha found them too extreme (me too!). Instead he opted for the oneday tune-up that led him to the middle way and enlightenment. Buddha is hot!
Think about other areas of excess in your life. Closets? File cabinets? How about your Rolodex? Whoa. This may be time for a little housecleaning, and not just with the mop and broom. It’s time to detox the little black book. You just don’t have enough energy to tap yourself out with people who take, take, take. The people who really matter will step up to the plate.
With a loving heart, help me to release the relationships that bring me down. I bless them and send them to the light so I don’t have to haul their tired asses around in my mind. Guide me to surround myself with people who give and receive with ease.
I am a magnet of goodness and starlight. Like attracts like. The relationships in my life are nurturing and I am supported today.
Review the section on Reiki in
chapter 7
and give yourself some healing energy. Take a salt or cider bath after your thirty-five-minute moveand-shake session.
How are those catnaps coming? Are you training yourself to shut down and tune out? Oh, and are you getting eight hours of nightly snooze?
Day 15
21-DAY
CLEANSE
Let’s be real.
Sometimes forgiveness can feel like a four-letter cuss word. We all have a hard time letting go of people, memories, and situations that hurt us. But holding on to grudges keeps us prisoner. Wanna liberate? Choose peace. It’s a one-way ticket to wellness. This doesn’t mean you have to invite your enemy to dinner and hug or that you should dismiss abuse or neglect. It means that your health is your first priority and anything that blocks the flow has got to go! Release the negative emotions that fester and lower your vitality. Forgive.
Sometimes the hardest thing to forgive is your body. Perhaps you feel that it has betrayed you in some way. Try to reframe the issue. If it were a professor, what would it be trying to teach you? Become aware of the lesson.
If you can, forgive your family, friends, enemies, cells, bones, tissues, and most importantly, yourself.
Write a list of people, situations, and body parts that you need to forgive.
Help me to let go of the pain and forgive.
Through the power of forgiveness all emotional and physical obstacles melt away. I embrace my past and look forward to my future. Today, I forgive.
Take fun seriously. Plan for it. Put it on the calendar. Fun is nonnegotiable, and fun helps you to do what? Forgive! Try rebounding. Jumping on a mini-trampoline burns about 100 calories in fifteen minutes. That’s nothing to sneeze at. Trampoline playtime moves trapped fat out of tissues, cells, and thighs. Blast your favorite tunes and bounce to the sky. If you can’t invest in a tramp at this time, buy a jump rope and “Skip to My Lou, my darlin’.”
Make your own trail mix. Dried fruits like goji berries are low glycemic, and because they have the same transit time they combine well with nuts. Try goji, raw macadamias or cashews, mulberries, and some raw cacao nibs. Call it Forgiveness Trail Mix and enjoy some while blessing the experiences that make you the strong person you are today.
Day 16
21-DAY
CLEANSE
Part of what
you might need to shake your groove thing and live like you mean it is to travel. No fear. You can go all over tarnation with the Crazy Sexy lifestyle.
Adventure! You’re not living on an island (unless of course, you live on an island). Nothing can stop you from sightseeing in your own backyard, across town, or across the globe.
Grant me the wisdom to see beyond my boundaries.
I am a global God(dess), open to the world.
Dry brush? Check. Thirty-five-minute jog, walk, tumble, roll, or bounce? Check. Neti pot? Check. How about getting your eyebrows shaped by a follicle master? Your brows are the frames that highlight your beauty. Tend to them.
Read my friend Emily Deschanel’s advice about eating Crazy Sexy on the road.
GO VEGAN
with
Emily Deschanel
It hasn’t always been easy being green—
or vegan. I’m an actor, so I often find myself on location or in circumstances that don’t lend themselves easily to healthy eating. Traveling and location work requires a little extra planning.
Always do Internet research before you go anywhere. Print out a list of health food stores, farmers’ markets, and restaurants in the area where you are visiting. I also look up juice bars before leaving for a trip. Juice makes me feel better and healthier, and brings my body back to normal after being messed up by flying.
Happycow.net
is one Web site that helps you find restaurants with vegetarian or veggie-friendly food and health food stores across the country.
Healthy Highways
(healthyhighways.com) is an excellent guidebook for healthy eating across the country. Many mobile phones have applications that help traveling vegetarians, too;
http://groovyvegetarian.com/2009/04/21/top-ten-vegetarian-apps-for-apples-iphone
offers a list of the best vegetarian apps. One app, Vegan Xpress, finds vegan options at chain restaurants if you’re really stuck in the middle of nowhere (or suburbia!).
It can be challenging to travel in foreign countries or very remote areas. Language and cultural preferences can be a barrier.
Vegetarian Passport,
third edition (2010), translates your vegan needs into thirty-three different languages so waiters and food purveyors can help you select the right items. Otherwise, stick with whole fruits and veggies—you may have to cook them in boiling water in certain areas of the world where the water supply may present problems.
Airports are getting better and better at offering healthy and veggie/vegan food, but they still have a long way to go. I wouldn’t count on finding a lot of vegan choices in terminal shops and restaurants. And I can’t count how many times my preordered in-flight vegan meal wasn’t available. So if it’s easy to bring your favorite foods with you, stock up, and leave room in your carry-on and suitcase. Bring a salad in a sealed container. I love Dr. Cow cheese (a raw food made from cashews) and crackers. Sea’s Gift nori seaweed packs are a great alternative to potato chips.
Traveling light is important, but so is being prepared. I have traveled with a blender in my suitcase—the Magic Bullet is a small blender that is easy to travel with. I also pack protein and green powders with me for shakes, and Baggies of supplements labeled with time of day or meal.
If you can, stay in a hotel room with a kitchenette to prepare your own food or stow farmers’ market produce in the fridge. To cook up a feast, access veggie recipes on a smart phone, from your laptop, or from an electronic book reader.
If I am invited to a party or dinner, I always offer to bring my own food so the host doesn’t feel obligated to make recipes that may intimidate them or a special meal just for me. Vegan food can sound daunting to people who are new to it. This is a wonderful opportunity for you to introduce people to vegan food, and how good it can taste! If I go to an event and I don’t know what’s on the menu, I will eat before I leave home.
You can always choose a vegan getaway if you are going on vacation. Check out
vegetarianvacations.com
for places and package deals. You can’t always plan a trip that way, however. I went to Spain last summer, which isn’t the most veggie-friendly place, so I did research and found that their definition of vegetarian isn’t quite as strict as ours. They serve chicken at most vegetarian restaurants! But I was able to remain vegan the whole trip by sticking to whole foods (like produce and grains). Gazpacho is a delicious vegan soup!
Remember that being a vegan is adventurous, and so is travel—that sense of exploration, an open mind, and a willingness to be honest about your needs should take you around the world with no problem at all!