While things are very, very quiet on the blog, know that OneHealthyGirl.com is ultra active on Facebook. Follow her here!
Live Light, xo-C.
While things are very, very quiet on the blog, know that OneHealthyGirl.com is ultra active on Facebook. Follow her here!
Live Light, xo-C.
Posted at 04:51 PM in Carla | Permalink | Comments (0)
The time has come to say goodbye. I've reached a point in my wellness journey where retiring the blog is a healthier choice than continuing it.
I went from peddling a product in September 2007 to making food choice a personal and spiritual destiny today, December 29, 2009. Here marks the point where blogging about veganism no longer makes sense. It has become so personal, so spiritual...gasp, so religious....that there's no point blogging about it.
One can argue days on end about the nutritional and/or environmental and/or animal welfare benefits or detriments of veganism, but at that day's end it boils down to a spiritual choice to kill and eat animals and their by-products or not. I don't like other people shoving their dogma down my throat and I won't do it to you. Defending veganism has become a waste of my time.
There are so many passionate, intelligent and successful nutritionist online that I shall not be missed. If you still wish to stay in touch and get minute doses of One Healthy Girl, I will keep feeding my Facebook Fan Page with interesting articles and links to other sites.
I continue to reach for my PhD in Holistic Health and Healing through the University of Natural Health and this year I plan to complete my first 1/2 marathon as a vegan runner using the principles of ChiRunning. The journey continues as an inward one.
Best wishes to you and I hope 2010 brings you divine growth to enrich your life. Thank you for reading and supporting OneHealthyGirl.com.
Be well and live light, xo-C.
Posted at 12:55 PM in Carla | Permalink | Comments (10)
A Facebook reader and longtime friend asked of me "seems you avoid a lot of foods! what DO you eat??" So I thought I'd take a break from Food School to answer this excellent question.
First of all, I must confess. I eat a lot. I love good food and I enjoy an ample meal. This morning I've already had my matcha tea and two (not one, but, yes, two) Sunshine burger sandwiches on toasted Ezekiel bread with Veganaise. YUM!
I wish I had had some lettuce or tomatoes to add, but I used up my produce last night at dinner and today is Produce Tuesday, so I'm out until this afternoon.
Yesterday afternoon, after school, we went to the grocery stores. Yes, these days I can't just go to one. All my neighborhood standard grocery stores carry different organic goodies in their "special sections," so I can't get all I want from just one store.
I still have the receipts, so I can tell you what we bought at Harris Teeter Southend (omitting non-food items):
Organic applesauce
Kashi cereal (I've weaned Bella off Newman-O's and now cereal is her "dessert.")
Rice noodles
Raisins
Penne whole wheat pasta
Naked Food Green Machine
grapefruit
lemons
orange bell pepper
romaine lettuce
yellow onion
red bell pepper
cremini mushrooms
At Publix Southend, we bought:
Coconut milk yogurt - finally found it! It's delicious!!!
organic raisins (yes, we have a raisin demand in our house and we're nailing down favorite brands)
raspberry lemonade (for popsicles)
star fruit
organic mac and cheese
Cascadian Farms cinnamon cereal
Cascadian Farms honey o's (on special 2 for $5)
Last night I made a sautéed garlic, onion, orange and red bell pepper, mushroom rice noodle soup with a romaine, orange and red bell pepper, garlic, Bragg's ginger & sesame dressing salad which my husband and I shared. I added some diced carrots and cucumbers to my salad serving. Bella had organic cheese tortellini and carrot sticks.
That's an example of what I/we eat. I do avoid a lot, but I also eat abundantly of real, whole food. If it's not organic, local, artisan or homemade, I rarely eat it.
I know more about food that I do about cooking, so this is most certainly a journey for me. I'm learning to like cooking more, but it does take some extra planning on my part to find foods and recipes that my family will enjoy. It's worth it though because our robust health is obvious and I wouldn't sacrifice that for the world.
Hope that answers the question and gives you a peek into a typical food day in my life.
Live Light, xo-C.
Be sure to read what Bella and I have been up to at OneHealthyKid.com!
What do you eat? If you have a recent grocery store receipt, will you share what's on it? Click here to leave a comment at this post on my blog.
Posted at 10:25 AM in Carla, Grocery Report | Permalink | Comments (3)
It's Thursday evening as I write and I have a bad case of the fükitz. If you don't know what that is, it means that I've reached my limit and feel like tossing it all out the window.
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As you may have noticed, I've made mention of my upcoming SIX WEEK Jump & Juice Fast Feast Fest which I will start on Monday, May 11th.
Posted at 07:48 PM in Carla, Veganism | Permalink | Comments (2)
First, I am thrilled and honored to have been featured in this month's edition of Hilton Head Island's CH2 magazine.
Posted at 12:38 PM in Carla, Veganism | Permalink | Comments (1)
I am an excited first time gardener! Look at these darling radishes just peeking a sweet hello from the earth:
Posted at 10:44 AM in Carla, Food - Solid and Liquid | Permalink | Comments (0)
I am still in sunny Florida enjoying family time with my daughter and parents...my younger brother too! What a bonus. Before I left for my trip I had mentioned in my blog post that I would be sharing some information of a more personal nature.
Weekly I read other wonderful health blogs and am so inspired by others' sucesses: overcoming illness, losing weight or meeting athletic goals. And sometimes I am criticized that my blog posts are too harsh: over opinionated, too judgemental or filled with unrealistic expectations. Let me, if you will, bridge what I admire and how I've arrived at my "blogging voice."
I am a recovered bulimic. For five solid years I stuffed myself silly with horrible food and threw it up, often several times a day. I had one of the clinically worse relationships with food that a person can have. I lied, I concealed, I stole and I was full of shame day after day. I had mastered which food combinations had the highest rate of binging satisfaction while still being easy to throw back up. Hours were spent in drive-thrus and I'd eat meals on the sly on the way to meet with family or friends for the "real" meal. Drug store pharmacists started keeping their ipecac syrup (vomit inducing medication) behind the counter to make it harder for me to get...all pharmacies in my area. Sometimes I'd stock up when I was out of town where they didn't know me.
For years I had all the behaviors of a drug addict. I lived out of my mind always consumed with the next high (binge), I went through money like water, I poorly managed my obligations and responsibilities to family, friends, school and work and I even sneaked into people's houses to eat their food. I created chaos and spewed it freely on others. It was an ugly time of my life and I still suffer some long term dominoe-effect consequences of those bad choices and circumstances.
Evenutally I was helped with medication and pshychology and I quickly weaned myself off the drugs. It was during this transition, when I was grasping for answers, that I began to consider the biochemical and physiological effects of food on the body, especially the brain chemicals. The hardest part about recovering from bulimia (or anorexia) is that you just can't abstain from your nemisis of addiciton unlike alcohol, drugs, shopping, sex, or gambling. You have to learn to have a healthy relationship with food if you want to live.
This is a brief rendition of where I've been. I can share more with you if you think it could help you or anyone you know. But this is my success story. I've never wanted to flaunt or exploit it, but I now wish to give myself credit for overcoming a very grave illness. I have been on the down side of food and am on the up side now and feel that I do have the experiences and the knowledge to help others, if not from bulimia, then from emotional eating and/or poor dietary habits. Sometimes I can lack the sugar-coating in my advice or opinions and it's not because I think i know everything there is to know about food, but because I've seen, felt, and lived it's disasterous and also it's beneficial effects on my body, mind and soul.
I belive that the current state of health is 60% based on what you put into your mouth (food and drink). Genetics, fitness and stress affect the rest. According to Deepak Chopra in Quantum Healing, our bodies regenerate 98% of their cells EVERY YEAR. The liver regenerates in six weeks and the stomach lining in 3 days! The body is in constant state of renewal.
DNA provides the blueprint, but food provides the building material. If you've been given a great design and try to build with marshmellow puffs and soda, your temple will crumble. If you've been given a decent design, build it with fruits, vegetables, grains and smart oils while giving it movement, water, sunshine and rest, you will be the best illuminated temple you could possibly be.
That's my story, that's my goal and that's my voice.
Live Light, xo-C.
Posted at 11:33 AM in Carla, Food - Solid and Liquid, Lifestyle | Permalink | TrackBack (0)
It's Friday and I'm especially excited for two big reasons. First, later today I get to pick up my spanking new rebounder!! Do you know what that is? If not, it's a personal trampoline which is used for exercise, especially for the healthy movement of the lymph fluid. More in a minute...
Posted at 11:41 AM in Carla, Exercise | Permalink | Comments (1)







