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Re(visions) #107 Motivation

Thursday, November 26th, 2009

Just wanted to let you know there are 5 things that can help you stay motivated. Here they are:

1.       Develop a plan for eating healthy, exercising and sleeping well.

2.       Make a list of goals with whys beside them.

3.       Get some motivation material (DVDs, CDs, or books).

4.       Regularly connect with people who have the same goals.

5.       Visualize living your dream every day.

Keep in mind that motivation is only one of the 20 key elements that help lead to happiness.

http://www.gettingtosomeday.com/content/free-hqc-video

Helping Motivate Your Happiness,

Gary Gzik

BizXcel Inc., 51 King Street W, Brockville, ON K6V 3P8, CANADA

Re(visions) #106 happiness

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.  ~Charles L. Morgan

Re(visions) #105 EcoFun

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

Save  the Earth… it’s the only planet with chocolate.  Author Unknown.

Re(visions) #103 Full Circle

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

Two more months til Christmas!!!!  Isn’t that exciting?? Ok, maybe a little too far away to start counting.

I hope this Re(visions) finds you well and thriving.  Isn’t that a great goal to have for yourself well & thriving? Peace and happiness in your life.  Finding that is the key.  What did you think of my note the other day on your right to True Happiness and getting to your Someday.  Definitely click through on the link to watch the video.  Here it is again http://gettingtosomeday.com/content/happiness-secret-2a.

That brings me to my next point.  I am going to be taking a break from my business for the next few months and regrouping.  I will be relaxing and refocusing on myself and my family and my surroundings and taking a breather from Coaching and all else that my business entails.  I want to still keep in touch with all of you so to do that I will be sending a quote for the week then you will know that I am thinking about you and you will know I’m still here and you can think about me and send me all of your good vibes.

I want to thank you all for your comments and thoughts on my Re(visions) from the past and I thank you for your business.  It is really appreciated.  I love communicating with you.

So, look for my quotes and I hope they move you through your week in a positive way which is why I started this weekly etip in the first place - I’ve come full circle. :)

Please continue to send me notes I always love reading them and I will be on my email regularly as usual.

Thank you to all and have an awe-inspiring week.

“Life is a journey, not a destination” - Ralph Waldo Emerson (but alot of other people have said it since and added to it)

Nutritional Tip -

“Live close to the land” is a great rule of thumb.  If your grand parents and great grandparents would recognize it as an edible substance then you are good to go.  Shop the perimeter of your grocery store, the processed stuff is in the middle and I’m pretty sure your Great Grandparent wouldn’t recognize a Twinkie. :)

Re(visions) #102 Unexpected response

Thursday, October 15th, 2009

Good Morning,

It has been suggested since last week’s communique on Vitamin Therapy that this therapy is not science-based and I shouldn’t be leading my readers on to let you think that it is and that it can really combat cancer.  Firstly, I would like to assure you that there is a scientific foundation to the therapy and, secondly, I think you are all smart people and you will do your own homework and decide what is right for you.  I am here as a curious and informative viaduct for news and therapies relating to our health & wellness.

I spoke with the naturopath this week and I am hoping to do the recorded interview soon.  I will keep you posted.

After the feedback from this one person this week, this is the quote I found to back myself up.  I hope it does the same for you.

“Make sure you have a different opinion and people will talk about you”  Arab proverb

 

Nutritional Tip -

 

Halloween is cooommminnngg! BOO! Did I scare you? Pumpkin seeds are an excellent source of omega-3 fatty acids, which help to control your cholesterol levels and keeps your nervous system healthy. Cayenne powder has some anti-inflammatory properties too.  Try this recipe - http://busycooks.about.com/od/savorysnackmixes/r/spicpumpkinseed.htm

 

To celebrate my 100th Re(visions) I am offering 4 months of coaching for the price of 3 months
 
Contact me for details.  I would love to help you look good, feel good and feel great about how you look.
Click here to learn more about an easy and delicious way to get all the nutrients you need without the calories or visit www.isagenix.com. Let your body be the miracle it was intended to be!

Re(visions) #101 Exciting therapies

Thursday, October 8th, 2009

 I have a friend who is exploring some alternative and complimentary therapies and wanted some advice from me.  I was collecting information on the Net for a naturopathic doctor in her area and went to a site that I had been to before.  Earlier in the summer I learned a little about Bowen Therapy which is a series of gentle moves over muscles and tendons that address the functioning of the body at many levels.  It is another really fascinating therapy.  But what I found yesterday got me so excited that I want to share it with you.

I am reading a book called Beating Cancer with Nutrition by Dr Patrick Quillin.  He writes about how with a really intensive diet of whole foods and fresh fruits and vegetables we can cure many cancers that people become inflicted with.  Our bodies are starving for nutrients to fight against cancer and degenerative and chronic diseases within the unstable and toxic environment that we live in; if we feed our bodies what they need then they can start the healing process.  For a cancer that is well established and all the nutritional needs are being met then specifically trained doctors, like Dr Quillin, can also apply a therapy that entails injections of vitamins and minerals into the blood stream (and sometimes muscles) to combat the cancer.  This therapy can be used in conjuction with or instead of conventional therapies like chemo and radiation.   So, when I was on the site I found out that this clinic uses this injection therapy.  I was so excited to see that someone in our area has the knowledge and can help people with this disease or other diseases in a more natural way.  I phoned the clinic right away and I asked for an interview with the doctor.  I have an appointment with her for Tuesday to find out more about her practice and her training and her experiences. 

I will be sharing my findings soon.  There is just so much information out there on healing therapies outside of invasive drugs and toxic therapies.  I realize everyday, as I hear about new therapies, just how many options we have in our journey to staying healthy.

Life is a truly humbling and inspiring experience, isn’t it?

Nutritional Tip -

Here is a nutritional myth debunked.  I got the information from www.healthcastle.com .

Myth - Brown Sugar is better than White Sugar
The brown sugar sold at grocery stores is actually white granulated sugar with added molasses. Yes, brown sugar contains minute amounts of minerals. But unless you eat a gigantic portion of brown sugar every day, the mineral content difference between brown sugar and white sugar is absolutely insignificant.

If you want look into awesome nutrition that’s quick and easy and made with the utmost quality ingredients then visit http://jeanettejohnston.isagenix.com/ca/en/nutrition_overview.dhtml

To celebrate my 100th Re(visions) I am offering 4 months of coaching for the price of 3 months
 
Contact me for details.  I would love to help you look good, feel good and feel great about how you look.

baking with no fat - banana muffins

Monday, October 5th, 2009

I wanted to try and elimnate fat in this muffin recipe to see if we can get away with it.  So I read a couple of recipes and used my standard and made some substitutions.

Intead of putting in the oil (I use olive oil normally) I put in an equal amout of peach puree.  I figured it would supply moisture and the egg was still there to hold everything together.

I doubled the recipe which I find tends to make it harder to get a nice rise out of muffins cause you have to stire more but I did it anyway.  The muffins came out of the pan nicely! Whew!  First step to good muffins.

Taste test - while they are still warm I do a taste test - good flavour, very moist

texture - nicely squishy from the moisture - perhaps a little rubbery - is this because of not containing?

Next day- really nice flavour - I think I can taste the peach.  Still nicely moist.  Still slightly rubbery but perhaps a little better after sitting.  Maybe I’ve tried too many and can’t tell anymore…:)

So, no fat muffins are possible.  What a great way to supplement your nutrition with homemade, fat-free muffins!

Recipe - I took the Banana Nut Muffin recipe from the Joy of Cooking (my cooking bible) and left out the nuts for my kids’ lunches and substituted equal parts puree (I used peach but you can use apple or pear).  That’s it!  Seeds would be a great addition or chopped dates.  Yum!

Re(visions) #100 My hecto-etip

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

Good Morning,

Isn’t this exciting!  This is my hundredth Re(visions) - thus my hecto-etip! 

Did you know these facts around the number 100?  -

there are 100 tiles in the game of Scrabble  -  my favourite game;

100% represents wholeness, purity, or perfection (no error in a test or no contaminants in a product)  - I’m into purity but no one can be perfectly pure and whole  and it’s ok to aim for a high number but don’t knock yourself out to be perfect.

1-100CE    The first century Greek physician, Dioscorides, recommended the use of orchid tubers as an aphrodisiac.
    (NH, 4/97, p.77)  - even then they all about natural remedies!?!?!?!?

1-100CE    The 1st century Roman gourmet, Marcus Gavius Apicius, was thought to be the writer of the earliest known cookbook.    (SFEC, 4/16/00, Z1 p.2)  -  I wonder if they used MSG or too much salt (see my nutrional Tip this week)

Pythagoreans considered 100 as divinely divine because it is the square (10 x 10) of the divine decad (10). - Hmm, well, I don’t know what to say about this except that we are all “divinely divine” not just the number 100.

Thank you to my Re(visions) readers both new and old.  I hope that you have enjoyed reading my weekly givings and though they have changed in nature over the last two years the nature in which they have been given has never changed - with much gratitude.

 

Nutritional Tip -

SALT!  Be careful it’s everywhere.  Lurking in the darkest corners and the most unexpected places.  Prepared foods, of course, are high in salt and some restaurant foods are packed with salt in order to increase the taste and to get people to come back for more.  The big chain restaurants are the biggest culprits - 1330 mg of salt in a Junior Beef Burger from Montana’s, made for kids - kids maximum daily recommended intake for salt (age 9-13) is 1000 mg!  They get all their salt intake plus more in one burger.  Imagine what’s in the adult versions.  Baby food is another place you wouldn’t expect to find high salt but they add it because they claim the adults won’t be it if it doesn’t taste good to them so they add salt to appease the adults!  The prediction is that young Canadians will suffer heart attacks and other cardiovascular problems at increasingly younger ages unless something is done.  There is an action group at the government level to reduce sodium in these foods but so far there has been no action.  It is our responsibility to make sure those foods are eaten as “treats” than as part of our regular diets and to ask questions of our retailers and restauranteurs - let them know we are watching and concerned.  See http://www.theglobeandmail.com/special-reports/hard-to-shake/  for more information.

 

To celebrate my 100th Re(visions) I am offering 4 months of coaching for the price of 3 months.  Contact me for details.  I would love to help you look good, feel good and feel great about how you look.

 

 

Re(visions) #99 The Sweetness of Life & Honey

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

Happy Thursday,

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.  The way it actually works is the reverse.  You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.  ~Margaret Young

I thought I would pass this quote on to you today.  I think it speaks to how we wait for life to happen and we don’t realize that is it is already happening and we should just enjoy it.  It speaks to me in many ways this week.

Life is Sweet. Enjoy!

 

Nutritional Tip

Honey - is a great subsitution for sugar.  Honey is high in antioxidants and has a wide range of vitamins and minerals.  Honey can also be beneficial for your allergies - eat local honey as they feed off local plants and help you build up a tolerance to the plants that bother you.  This is a typical homeopathic treatment - treating like with like.  Honey is great for your skin and wounds since it is a natural antiseptic.  And, of course, it is great when you have a sore throat.  Click here to get even more information on nature’s oldest sweetner.  I have a new jar of local honey that I am waiting to crack open.  Yum!

“Well,” said Pooh, “what I like best,” and then he had to stop and think.  Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn’t know what it was called.  ~A.A. Milne

 

Click here to learn more about an easy and delicious way to get all the nutrients you need without the calories.  or visit www.isagenix.com.

Re(visions) #98 The Healthy You Program

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

We can never really change someone; people must change themselves. But we can help. We can be a resource. We can nurture, encourage and support. - Stephen R. Covey

That’s is what I would like to be as a Coach; as your Coach;  a resource, a nurturer, an encourager and a supporter.  That’s what The Healthy You Program is all about.  This program teaches you about nurtition, about self-care and allows you to examine where food gets in your way of your health.  Benefits include long-term weight loss, higher energy and clearer mind, increase in defense of chronic diseases. Click here to learn more about the program.

Nutritional Tip -

Just 47 pistachios, a one-ounce serving, contains 13 grams of predominantly monounsaturated fat and no cholesterol. All nuts, including pistachios, contain some saturated fat but are considered low in saturated fat. Fats are a concentrated source of energy and play an important role in assisting the body to absorb fat-soluble vitamins such as vitamins A, E, D, and K.

Pistachios are the richest source of potassium of all the nut family. The potassium content of one ounce of pistachios is equal to that of one orange, a whopping 310 mg. Two ounces of pistachios contain more potassium than one medium banana. More of the pistachio’s nutritional attributes for one ounce include 2 mg. vitamin C, 66 IU vitamin A, 44.9 mg magnesium, 16.5 mcg folic acid, 1.9 mg. iron, 38.3 mg. calcium, 5.8 g protein, and 3.1 g dietary fiber.

That single ounce of pistachios carries more than 10% of the Daily Value for dietary fiber, vitamin B6, thiamine, magnesium, phosphorous, and copper.

In comparing raw pistachios to dry roasted, you will find that some nutrients are diminished when the nuts are dry roasted, such as only 19.8 mg vitamin C, .9 mg iron, 36.9 mg. magnesium, and 275 mg. potassium compared to the higher figures noted above.

To learn more about Pistachios - their sex life,  history and origin please visit here.

 

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