Day 218 in my miracles life…
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. Mark Twain
Diet #Fail….
March 29, 2011 0 Comments
Day 217 in my miracles life
I failed, no i didnt have my own diet fail, but i failed in being a supportive friend to others on a diet.
Diets are hard, very hard, not only sticking to a diet, but choosing the right diet for you, living the diet, and creating a lifestyle that supports the diet….
And when i use the word diet, i dont mean a diet in the typical sense, i mean a diet in the way that it is part of your every day life, deciding to change you life, your lifestyle and everything and everyone that surrounds you so that YOU can be a healthier version of yourself….
I am healthy, and yes i say that i am on a “diet” but it is my lifestyle, it is the way that i choose to live, and as hard as it is for some others to understand cutting out certain foods is the way that i live, watching what i put in my mouth is the way that i live, and some would think i am crazy, insane, stupid, not living my life, not eating correctly – whatever, but i have found a “diet” that suits me and that is working for me and i am sicking to it… So who am i to critazise others who have worked just as hard as me to find a “diet” a healthy lifestyle that suits them?
I try as hard as i can not to be a hypocrite, but yesterday when i was sent an article on a particular diet i posted it on twitter to a dear friend of mine who is currently doing that diet…. To me the article was interesting… A different perspective, and my fail is based around the fact that the article was negative… I hadnt meant anything bar the fact that the article was interesting / a different perspective, however due to my lack of comment on the twitter post, it was taken in the wrong context stirring the pot on something that really didnt need to be stirred…
And i just want to say that i am sorry and that i failed. Please forgive me for my naivety
DIETS ARE HARD… And to those of you out there who are making negative comments on this particular diet or ANY particular diet, i ask you… HAVE YOU EVER BEEN ON A DIET? WHAT DO YOU EAT EVERYDAY? HOW MUCH WEIGHT HAVE YOU LOST LATELY? HOW MUCH WEIGHT HAVE YOU GAINED LATELY? And as harsh as it sounds WHO ARE YOU TO JUDGE WHAT WE DO?
It is our lives and our bodies, if we choose to restirict carbs to loose weight – then that is our choice, if we choose to do the Atkins Diet, the Dukan Diet, the Tony Fergason Diet, the Grapefruit Diet, the BabyFood Diet, the SeeFood Diet… What ever – it is our choice, we dont tell you what to eat, so dont judge us for what we eat… Because we are not judging you for what you choose to do in your lives…
I dont want to be a hypocrite, i dont want turn into the person who judges others, and the article i posted yesterday was certinaly NOT intended to put my dear friend down, let alone lead to negativeness, i mean of all the people i know he has been the MOST supportive to me and my diet, he has been the one who has cheered me on and pulled me out of the dimmer days, been the one to say “YEY” when i succedded and “keep at it” when i didnt….
So once again my friend, i am sorry… Your diet is your diet and unless it is you who asks for help NO ONE has the right to tell you how to live your life, nor how to create a lifestyle that suits you….
And if i have one peice of advice to those out there who critazize…. You try loosing more than 30 kilos in six months and see how you feel…
Diets ARE HARD – Be supportive, not negative.
Anger
March 28, 2011 0 Comments
Day 216 in my miracles life
They say you should write how you feel, they say you should express your emotions, tell it how it is, write it as you feel it so that the emotions dont overcome you, dont become you, so that whatever it is that is holding you back can be freed from within and your life and the people within it will not be consumed by your emotions…
Thats what they said, what someone said, and what i do… And believe it or not it helps.
I am angry. So angry. A large part of me is just so angry and i dont know why. I dont know who i am angry at, maybe i am still angry at God, maybe i am angry at myself and maybe i am angry at the world that surrounds me – i dont know, all i know is that inside there is anger.
Each morning i wake and i am grateful for the world that i live in, for the things that surround me, for the life i lead, and if it is one thing i am sure of it is that i am happy and that no matter how much i want in life, no matter how much i think that i need certain things, i know deep down that i have all that i need – i have a roof over my head, food in the fridge and the family that i dreamed of for so long – but no matter how many mornings i sit and watch the sunrise in awe of its beauty filled with happiness there is still a part of me that is angry.
Each month when emotions are running high, when there is no control, when i cant stop the feelings from escaping me, i get angry, so angry that it scares me. I turn into this person that isnt me, that is uncontrolable a person so filled with rage that she screams and yells at the people she loves the most in this world… And i am tired of it, i am tired of letting my anger escape me and i am scared that one day the people who are here to support me, one day they wont be able to take my anger anymore and they will leave.
I want to know why i am so angry, why once a month i cant control it, why once a month women must endure not only pain and discomfort but uncontrolable emotions as well… And i want to know why my emotion is anger – What made me so angry?
When i have everything, when i am happy, when i am grateful and filled with love – why am i so angry?
Moroccan Chicken Pie
March 27, 2011 0 Comments
Moroccan Chicken Pie
Hmmmm Moroccan food…. So many nommy herbs and spices combined to make magically flavored dish’s! On the menu last night was a not too naughty, but not that healthy Moroccan Chicken Pie – the original recipe was found on taste.com.au - Moroccan Chicken And Almond Pie (B’stilla) Recipe – Taste.com However i changed it up just a little to suit my tastes (and unfortunately not my husbands) just a little more.
stuff you’ll need
- 1 tbs olive oil
- 4 chicken thigh fillets, coarsely chopped
- Plain flour
- 2 brown onion, coarsely chopped
- 2 garlic cloves, crushed
- Cauliflower
- Peas
- 1 tsp ground ginger
- 1 tsp Turmeric Powder
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 cup (250ml) chicken stock
- 12 sheets filo pastry
- Spray oil
- 1/2 cup coarsely chopped coriander (or dried)
- 2 eggs, lightly whisked
How i did it
Now this one is fairly simple…. Dice the chicken and place it into a little plastic bag with some seasoned flour, shake it all around so all the chicken is coated nicely – set aside. Dice two onions and chop the garlic, place some oil in a deep pan and when hot fry off the onion and garlic until the onion goes clear, then remove from the pan and set aside. Heat some more oil in the pan and when hot place half the chicken in the pan and brown – the chicken doesnt have too be cooked through just sealed, repeat with the second batch of chicken. Remove the chicken from the pan and return the onion and garlic to it, when the onion and garlic is hot add all the spices, stir then add the chicken back to the pot and stir, turn down the heat and add the stock, stir ensuring that all the spices are combined into the stock, let reduce – maybe 15-20 mins. Add the peas and cauliflower and let reduce for another 10 mins – you are looking for a sticky not dry, not too runny consistency.
While the chicken is cooking make sure your oven is heated to about 180 degrees Celsius, greese a spring form pan and set aside. Get out the filo pastry and with pleanty of bench space layer spraying each piece with oil so the pastry forms a circle – so one piece slightly off the corner of the other. Once you have a circle of pastry layered give it one last spray of oil and carefully lay into the spring form pan – the edges will fall over the sides of the pan.
By now your chicken should be cooked / reduced to a pie inside consistency (yes very professional terminology!) add the two slightly whisked eggs then pour the chicken mixture into the filo pastry then fold over the over hanging pastry onto the top of the pie to form a messy top (again – real pro terminology) spray the top of the pie really well with oil then place in the oven… Cook until pie is nice n golden…
Serve yourself a massive piece – cause it truly is yummy… So yummy you will want more, and more and more!
One Day…. I did it!
March 26, 2011 0 Comments
Day 214 in my miracles life
No More Dairy free
I did it, i am a much stronger person than i thought i was because i did it. I lasted 20 days without dairy. It didnt really help my weight loss, it didnt really solve my stomach aches, but i did it….
This morning as i sipped my latte that i have dreamed about for at least a week, i realised that while i love dairy too much to give it up completely, taking 20 days off from dairy has given me a new take on it. I dont need dairy, i dont need milk in my coffee, and i dont need a latte… I can handle not having cottage cheese in my salad and i can handle not having eggs every day, and i guess though the 20 days i have learned a new habit – black coffee, i have a new appreciation for straight black coffee, while i love a latte – i like a black coffee as well.
I know that the more i hold back on weekends the more likely it is that i will loose the last of my weight quicker, but for now in my happiness i will enjoy my masi tripple shot skinny latte each S
aturday morning, and i will enjoy some cheese for lunch and some eggs for dinner…. But i will always remember that i CAN do it, and if i put my heart too it when we come back from our mini break next week i just know that i will drop the final three kilos & be able to begin maintaining the healthy lifestyle i now live…
Carpe Diem….
2 Days…. Kinda not really
March 25, 2011 0 Comments
Day 213 in my miracles life
Day 20 Dairy free
I have a sneaky suspision that i cant count…. Apparently after today i still have one more day dairy free, however i think i have made my point… So tomorrow i SHALL enjoy a latte 
Just when the caterpillar thought that the world was over, it became a butterfly….
3 Days…
March 24, 2011 0 Comments
Day 212 in my miracles life
Day 19 Dairy free
COURAGE
It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new…. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful.
There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power…
As The Weeks Go By… 30 Weeks
March 23, 2011 0 Comments
Day 211 in my miracles life
Day 18 Dairy free
A thousand good luck fairies heading your way…
5 Days…
March 22, 2011 0 Comments
Day 210 in my miracles life
Day 17 Dairy free
DARE
Nobody succeeds beyond his or her wildest expectations unless he or she begins with some wild exceptions…
6 Days…
March 21, 2011 0 Comments
Day 209 in my miracles life
Day 16 Dairy free
I dont know the limit of what we can do, but i know we can limit ourselves by what we do… Dr John Demartini
