This idea is about loving you and creating a beautiful life-style that you deserve!
I wonder how many health problems are self-abuse? No more, we can learn how to love ourselves totally, inside and out, physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually.  You can eat to be the most vibrant and energetically beautiful you!

1. Mental & emotional
What we think about ourselves become our feelings. Our thoughts trigger chemical releases in our brain which effect our emotions. Developing our love muscle for ourselves in crucial for our success. If we are thinking inferior thoughts or unworthy thoughts it creates a cycle of thoughts and feelings and hormones making us turn to food to feel better about ourselves, which is short lived as then we don’t feel good about ourselves for over-indulging and the cycle continues.
Stress increases the hormone cortisol which isinterrupted by the body as famine and the body chemistry changes to lay down as much fat as possible…cortisol also increases appetite. (next week we are going to address stress). Depression is associated with low serotonin which is the hormone to feel happy. It is also associated with deficient levels of B vitamins, low zinc and causes low energy and comfort eating.
Your brain is responsible to send messages to your organs for function.
Your brain is also responsible for producing good feelings, happiness, satisfaction, hopefulness, self-worth and good self-esteem. It does this by producing certain chemicals, or hormones called serotonin, dopamine, endorphins, and gabber.
When these hormones are absent or in low supply you will feel ‘blue’, inferior, depressed, irritable, anxious, worthless, hopeless, and of course this makes you eat more – right!
Eating dairy and wheat can also cause depression for many people and they are completely unaware of it.
Foods with toxins and chemicals like preservatives interfere with our brain, in fact high inflammatory foods and high sugar foods damage the hypothalamus part of your brain. This causes Neuro-degeneration and Neuro-degenerative diseases…it actually destroys cells and neurons in the brain.
Your body chemistry can become out of balance because of your hormones. Hormones are your body’s chemical messengers that are released into your blood stream and give orders to your cells to do certain things.
Your body creates and releases certain hormones at certain times to perform certain functions.
If your brain is not functioning right and there is a chemical imbalance, how can you have good physical health?

2. Appetite Satiety Centre Working (hypothalamus)
Leptin is the hormone that decreases appetite and gives us a full feeling. It is made in the fat cells. However, inflammatory foods cause Leptin resistance and we are not getting the full messages.
What are the inflammatory foods?
Sugar, fructose, artificial sweeteners, processed foods, bad fats
How to heal the hypothalamus:
• Stop inflammatory foods
• Heal with nutrients and or supplements
• Healthy oil in diet increases leptin
• Detox the liver
Ghrelin + others are made in the stomach and increase the appetite.

3. Alkaline environment
Eating to many acidic causing foods creates an acidic body which means the blood is acidic. Ideally our blood should be slightly alkaline. We achieve this through eating vegetables and fruits and avoiding acidic forming foods. Please refer to the chart provided to advise which foods are acidic or alkaline.
Why is it important to have an alkaline environment?
An alkaline environment allows normal body function absolutely necessary for the body to resist and fight disease.
When there is too much acid the acids must be neutralized, our alkaline reserves are used leaving the body in a weakened and vulnerable state.
When you have high levels of acid in your blood it can cause weight gain, obesity, diabetes, low energy, chronic fatigue.
The dangers of Acidosis (over acidic body)
I cannot stress how important it is to correct an over acidic body through diet and lifestyle.
This condition forces the body to borrow minerals from vital organs and bones to neutralize the acid and safely remove it from the body.
This is such a strain on the body and can suffer severe damage due to high acid body. Sadly this condition can go unnoticed for years.
Problems mild acidosis can cause:
• Weight gain, obesity and diabetes
• Low energy and chronic fatigue
• Burning urine
• Bladder and kidney conditions (kidney stones.)
• Acceleration of free radical damage (some suggest contributes to cancerous mutations)
• Premature aging
• Osteoporosis, weak brittle bones
• Joint pain, aching muscles and lactic acid build-up
Over acidity is very common today mostly due to the Western diet
The Western diet is full of acid-producing processed foods like white flour, sugar and drink acid-producing beverages like coffee, soda and soft drinks. Drugs are acid-forming, artificial chemical sweeteners are extremely acid forming.
Stress will cause acidity in the body.

4. Absorption of nutrients and minerals
Most Australians are deficient in zinc and iodine. The brain needs zinc to make serotonin. Zinc is important for depression, sex hormones, immune system, insulin. We need iodine for the thyroid hormones.

5. Balanced diet with water and fibre
The large gut functions on water and fibre. The body needs 1.5 litres just to stay alive.

Get to the Root Cause of Your Fat…

stop the endless rat-race of treating the symptoms of weight gain by yo-yo dieting, and get rid of the fat once and for all by dealing with the actual cause that made you gain weight in the first place. Get your body, mind and emotions in the right state for weight-loss. You can’t believe how simple weight loss can be once you discover this…
It’s Not About Will-Power… Have you ever

noticed the problem with will-power…eventually it runs out!

The Problem With Milk

• Cow’s milk contains a protein called Casein which is what a lot of people are intolerant to. There are two types of casein – alpha and beta-caseins. Beta caseins are divided into two types A1 & A2 milk. Most of today’s milk contains both types of beta-casein protein, A1 and A2. A2 milk comes from cows specially selected to produce A2 beta-casein protein alone rather than both. (Although it still has casein and lactose).
• Lactose is the main sugar found in cow’s milk which some people have intolerance to an inability to digest.Yogurt is made from milk but seems to create fewer problems, maybe because it is fermented.
  Foods with dairy:
  Breakfast cereals, muesli bars, energy bars, cereal bars, breadcrumbs, breads, crackers, deli meats granola, vegetarian meat products.
  So what can you do? Replace cow’s milk with rice, almond, oat milk. Replace cheese with goats or sheep cheese.

The Problem with Wheat

The wheat we eat today is not like the wheat our ancestors ate. Today our wheat is genetically modified and bred to have higher gluten levels to make it easier to mass produce loaves. It is full of preservatives, insecticides and has been fumigated.
`Many people are intolerant of today’s wheat which is specifically grown to be high in gluten but may not ever realize it is the wheat (the gluten) that is causing it. Because the symptoms may not show up immediately, even a day after eating it they just think “there must be something wrong with me” and just live with it. The symptoms can range anywhere from bloating, recurrent mouth ulcers, abdominal pain, irritable bowel, fatigue, irritability, poor digestion, headaches, food cravings, sinus problems, acne, lethargy, depression and weight gain. (Fatigue is the commonest symptom of gluten intolerance).
Foods with wheat gluten:
bread, rye bread, pasta, cake, cookies, pasties, muffins, pies, crackers, biscuits, white sauces made from flour, candy, lollies, ice-cream, processed foods, soups, noodles.
Wheat may also be used in make-up, mascara, hair products and body products.
It takes 3 weeks to get gluten out of our system
So what can you do?
Buy organic whole wheat seeds and grind your own flour…most problems occur with the wheat protein gliadin. Some people can tolerate wheat without the preservative 282. Other people can tolerate wheat types with lower gluten levels such as spelt, barley, oats and rye.
Cut out gluten for 3 weeks and see our fabulous you feel and quickly you lose weight!

Tired & Overweight – It’s Not About Will-Power but Digestion!

Your Digestive System Has Been Over-worked For Years…Your Digestive System May Be Broken!

What are the symptoms of a healthy functioning body and more specifically a healthy  and effective digestive system?

• You wake up feeling fully energized
• You can maintain your energy on a regular basis without any dips in your energy
• You are mentally alert
• You naturally adjust to your ideal weight whenever you try to eat healthy and exercise more
• Regular bowel movements 2-3 times a day.What are symptoms of an unhealthy digestive system?
• You feel lethargic and tired after eating a big meal as your energy is used to digest the food
•  You experience uncomfortable gassy or bloating symptoms after eating
• You have irregular bowel movements
• You have fat around your tummy.

The key to digestion and energy is to digest your food as quickly and efficiently as possible. The goal of eating food is to increase our energy and give us fuel for our body.

Do you ever feel fatigued and tired after a meal?  Bloated? This could be due to poor digestion.  Ideally we really want to use as little of our own energy

to get the energy out of the food.  Unfortunately many of us could be using so much of our own energy to digest the food.The thing that makes all the difference is not the number of calories a food contains, but how quickly the food or rather sugar enters your bloodstream. Food that enters your bloodstream quickly makes you gain weight; food that enters your bloodstream slowly helps you lose weight. So when it comes to weight loss the focus must be on the qua

lity of food rather than on the calorie count of the food. You need enzymes to break down the food. I believe 80% of root cause for energy, skin, weight- loss is from poor digestion over a period of many years.Most of the enzymes we need for digestion come from vegetables and plants. If we can’t digest our food it is stored as fat or eliminated – nutrients and all. We can’t make these in our body so the key here is we need living food not dead food!What do I mean by Living Food?  As soon as you pick a fruit or vegetable (let’s say an apple) it starts to die, its loosing nutrients.  A bruised apple is an example of enzymes been released.You can eat the perfect diet full of nutrients but if you don’t have enzymes it won’t do you any good!Manufacturers and growers want to keep their food on shelves longer andappear fresh.  To do this they need to kill the nutrients and enzymes.  To do this they use Aspirin, Sulphur or Heat processes above 118 degrees or radiation.

Growers and manufacturers deliberately destroy the enzymes and nutrients in our food to keep the food on the shelves longer. So what can you do? Focus on eating fresher whole foods that have all their nutrients in tact so that it takes longer for your body to break it down. This will keep you full longer, promote stable blood sugar, boost  your metabolism and give your body nourishing calories rather than empty ones.