Today I am one step away from facing a new stage of my recovery.

Post DETOX life and questions like: How to REMAIN clean? How not to fall back into bad habits? How not to WASTE all this job and effort I made those last 21 days?

My Clean guru, Dr. A. Junger says so wisely: “See what resonates with you, try things out, keep an open mind and a sense of humor, and above all, view your life as a fantastic journey where some of the biggest toxins you’ll encounter are actually the STRESS and WORRY created from trying to live too ‘perfectly’.”

Ta-da! Can you put it any better? So I say to myself today: “Kasia, relax, cheer up, it will be brilliant! Why shouldn’t it be?” …”As long as you avoid PERFECT!”

The notion of “perfect” is a huge thorn in my eye. I will touch on this subject later. (Sure I will!!!)

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Now when you have seen my naughty mushroom noodles in the previous post, so delicious and still so DETOX-friendly, I thought I might as well show you few of my other KICS ASS dishes (do you notice how I slowly try to make you try this CLEAN stuff??? )

Chicken breast covered with sesame seeds fried in garlic oil served with cauliflower and parsnips (Pasternak/korzen pietruszki/palsternaka) pure (instead of mushed potatoes!) and raw, green salad (sugar snaps, avocado and fresh parsley):

Vegetable and chicken stir fry with soya sauce (forbidden during detox but I am a rebel!!) garlic and ginger. I also used a very cool product: seaweed noodles (“kluski” z wodorostow, sjögräsnudlar). Let me know if you want to learn more about them:

Raw salad with E.V.olive oil seasoned with fresh garlic, lemon zest, rosé pepper and apple cider vinegar. I also added quinoa, pumpkin and sesame seeds. This one actually looks better than it tasted ;)

The last one, a super tasty sallad made of raw letuce, cucumber and carrots and also stir fried garbanzo (cieciorka/kikärtor) and green and yellow beans which I “blanched” in a slightly sour dressing and mixed with the rest of ingredients. Covered with sesame and flax (siemie lniane/linfrön) seeds. Mmmmm:

I hope that my pictures made you hungry and soooo interested in CLEAN food.

As for me, I am exhausted   

Love, Rest and Clean Food to All.

I might be a food freak.

How otherwise to explain the fact that a pan filled with golden fried mushrooms makes me excited?

Let me show you how I turned an ordinary lunch into a 50 Shades of Grey experience.

After all it is my last DETOX lunch, for this time :)

1. Boil a portion of buckwheat noodles (makaron gryczany/bovetenudlar):

2. Fry some mushrooms, onion and garlic golden brown in a pan (I used coconut oil). Season with salt, black pepper and parsley (pietruszka/persilja).

3. Toss the noodles into the pan and mix. I topped this dish with raw veg. sallad fresh basilica and a generous splash of E.V olive oil directly on the plate.

Othervise it looked a bit... GREY   

Love and taste to All. There is more to come.

Why not?

I do what I want.

It is my body and I decide! :)))) And I crave pizza NOW!

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Prima Aprilis! April, april, din dumma sill!

I do decide. That is still true! :)
I just had a GREEN juice. And it actually was green, All beetroots are gone for some reason.

Love and GREEN juice to All.

I am almost there!

There is only one day left and I can tell you I am tired. I love my red juice. There are some lovely soups I managed to put together (asparagus and cauliflower) and tasty chicken based lunches, but I am getting soooo bored now.

I cannot even say what it is that I am craving from my ordinary food list.

Wait a second…

I guess it would be a rye bread sandwich with soft boiled egg quarters resting on a thin layer of mayonnaise (!!!), garnished with slices of radish and spring onion, seasoned with generous amount of black pepper.

Not chocolate, not buns or cookies.

Not even red wine!   

Maybe a generous splash of brandy…. Mmmm!

It kicks ass! The world’s largest food addict has almost made it! 

Please let me survive ONE MORE DAY!

Love to All.

I had a lion chase experience this morning.
Someone STOLE an hour of our life on Saturday night!!! So we woke up one hour later this morning.
But green/red juice had to be mede anyway and egg and cucumber sandwich had to be eaten by my boy before daycare.
I ESCAPED the lion when I NOTICED that a stress reaction is flusing over my body and I managed to breath through it.
More? I managed to make a NEW PLAN. (Drive instead of walking!) and I mede it to the meeting I had on time!!
Now when the meeting is over I sit with a huge cup of caffeine free tea, eat a raw eco bar and I breath myself back to ballance.
I REST! And I am proud :)
Love to All.

Is stress dangerous for us?

NO! Stress (and adrenaline) has always helped us survive when we were in danger. When we needed to choose between fight or flight.

Take ZEBRAS. They live among lions. They are lions’ food. They should be TERRIBLY STRESSED.

But they are not. Why? They do not PLAN or WORRY for the next lion chase. They do not ANALYSE their last lion chase. What they do is they RECOVER after the lion chase. They go and chew some grass and sunbath, scratch their backs on trees, whatever.

This is why ZEBRAS are mentioned in stress recovery sometimes. And this is why I choose to be one. I choose to rest when I need to. I choose to respect my body’s signals. And also SAVE the energy for the times I can need it more. As often as I manage...

And when I feel I might need an extra reminder I put my talisman on for help:

So do not be afraid of stress! Moderate stress pushes us forward and helps us achieve things!

As long as it is followed by RECOVERY and REST we are on the safe side   

There are still few hours left of this Sunday, so REST YOURSELF INTO THE NEW WEEK!

Love to All.

I was going to write about the Zebra-effect, but it does not tickle me at all tonight.

Do I dare to write about how CALM I managed to be the whole day? Will it make tomorrow a day from hell? Will I jinx it?

I will take the risk.

I don’t really know what happened. I don’t know what it was that I had done differently.

Often times the weekends are most challenging for me. I find no space for myself mentally and I feel it is too much to do with all the people, all the food and all the fixing.

But today?

All the children were happy, kind and helpful. At least 2 of 3 were unplugged most of the day (not only during Earth Hour!) doing stuff together with us, running outside. There was this symbiosis and harmony above us.

And now the question is, was I calmer because the whole family was so harmonious or were they harmonious because I was calmer?

Last Saturday I destroyed my day by doing too much. I did not repeat the same mistake today. I even took a nap during the day and several breaks in the sun. Am I possibly getting wiser? Am I possibly starting to listen to what my physical body needs?

Harmony, I spread my arms wide open to welcome you. Please stay!

Love to All and goodnight.

To make these not being able to eat them. It is pure love :)