Hi WY,

I believe your interest in my diet is genuine and you have no intention to tease me, openly laugh at me or try to sway me from the way I feed myself; That is why I am going to answer your question honestly.

I do not think that a way I eat must necessary be correct because nobody really knows what the most proper diet is and whether a diet described today by professionals as correct is able to serve well all the people all the time. I use information from the web and books as the general guidelines only because I desire to comprehend the main principles of a diet considered to be good for a human health; Then I may introduce a few changes to the way I eat - my diet fluctuates then with time and seasons. I guess the knowledge I possess gives me a courage to trust my own intuition the most.

I simply consider myself a master of the content of my plate but I do not promote my own diet. My diet surely satisfies my own needs but it does not mean that it will also satisfy health requirements of somebody else.

Most importantly, I do not live to eat but I eat to live. Fasting, exercising and loving my family are as important part of my life as my diet.

I realize that I need to work on my spirituality but meditating per se cannot grab my interest enough to force me to start doing it; Since my childhood I have favoured a rope jumping to any spiritual activities. In fact, I love rope jumping so much because it probably gives me some spiritual pleasure that could be compared with the meditation; When I jump, I feel a bliss, a calmness, a freedom from any worry or stress.

Having said that, now I may introduce my own private diet.

My diet is based on plants that I mostly consume in their raw state. Green juices made from dark, leafy vegetables are the staple of my diet. I try to use a variety of different leaves, according to the season. Because I do not mind any bitterness in my juices, I recently juiced dandelions (leaves, flowers, and roots) as they appeared in spring; I could step out of my house and several minutes later could bring them home to juice right away. Unfortunately, a dandelion is the only plant that I may have without shopping.

I enrich my juices by adding a maca powder, a nutritional yeast, oat bran, rice bran, seaweeds, bee pollen, and some concentrated fat from the following list: an avocado, a flax oil, ground flax seeds, soaked chia seeds, soaked and ground raw seeds and nuts (I remove almonds skin).

I consume vegetable salads made from easy to masticate vegetables or veg parts. I juice all the veggies or their parts that are hard for my teeth. I eat apples and bananas all the time but the rest of fruits I eat seasonally only. I consume a lot of red grapefruits in season. I guess I will start regularly consuming some berries as soon as my daughter leaves our nest because, at present, she eats them all. From time to time, I consume some grain but I prefer a quinoa which I usually eat with my green juice when I desire something warm. In summer I often sprout beans and legumes (quinoa is the easiest to sprout all year round) that I also consume in a cooked form, usually in winter only. I drink herbal tee, green tee, rejuvelac, kombucha and a lemon juice with water on a daily bases. I seldom drink pure water, except when I water fast.

I never eat breakfast; I drink rejuvelac, water - diluted kombucha or lemon juice with water instead. I eat once or twice a day but I could stay without any food as I never feel hunger. I often eat by myself (green juices) because most of the time I am home alone. I seldom eat with my husband because he never returns from his work at the same time.

In winter I often prepare for my family a vegetable soup that I cook as little as possible; I seldom eat it as the cooked food does not serves me well - I feel as though I have swallowed a rock. I like drinking the vegetable broth only.

Love,
Anne

Hi Julian,

I believe that your body requires from you as much rest as possible to heal. I wish you a happy fasting.

I am sure that any vigorous exercise does not promote a deep healing. However, I listen to my body carefully and I am not able to refuse its demands; When I am full of energy even when I dry fast, I must release it somehow to feel better - that is why I grabbed my skipping rope and spent some time in my backyard jumping among green trees, colorful flowers, bird singing, bees buzzing... At this moment my physical activity serves less as a sport and more as a form of a soothing, calming meditation. It is the only form of a meditation I am able to perform.

However, I also realize that it makes no sense to abuse my body by forcing it to exercise when I fast and feel drained and weak; I know that it is a time to take as much rest as possible.

Love,
Anne