Small Changes That Make Big Differences

Taste Better, Feel Better, Better For Us!

Many people set themselves up for failure when they try to make drastic lifestyle changes. This could mean a number of things, i.e., it could become too challenging after a period of time, or you miss your comfort foods, drinks, etc., time is short and it’s easier to pick up fast food.

There are a lot of reasonable reasons to make conscious choices about “adding” the good and “minimizing” what’s not good for you. Starting with small changes that make big differences is an amazingly graceful way to make huge strides.

Another thing I like about small changes is our bodies have intelligence, point them in the right direction and we will follow!

Here is what worked for me from a perspective and application:

Perspective: If you can shift your perspective food from simply being fuel to understanding it's individual values for the healing properties, you will begin to exhange condiments, main and side courses and the way you prepare them, in ways you never imagined.

Application:

• Start exchanging your body water (you are 70% water – think about a flower vase when you don’t exchange the water). This means begin drinking pure water or water that has been pH enhanced or a green drink when you wake up in the morning, stop before meals and resume an hour after meals. You can also make lemonade with stevia as your alternate drink of choice.
• Add fresh lemon or lime to your water.
• Make your salad dressings with fresh limes or lemons and good cold pressed oils like Avocado Oil, Coconut Oil, and lots of spices
• Add cold pressed oils everywhere you can
• Make sure you are taking in enough Omega 3,6,& 9 oils everyday through your butter exchange, condiments, fish, avocados, or capsules/liquid supplements.
• Add tomatoes, cucumbers, everything that is green, at every opportunity.
• Simplify your food preparation – keep salad greens loose in a refrigerator drawer, unwashed, but mixed and ready to go. You can rough cut lots of different veges each week and keep in a large bowl of water in your refrigerator, ready to grate, chop or dice.
• Stir frying in avocado oil, or steaming, and even baking are great ways to prepare veges, fish, etc. (avocado is a high heat cold pressed oil) and a major shift from frying and boiling.
• Make dinner your most important meal – minimize the acid (meats, potatoes) digestion should cease before retiring, your healing cycle requires it.
• Chew your food many, many times, the more you chew the less acid your digestive tract has to produce to break it down.