Lectin-less

I promise! Lectins tomorrow!

For some reason, I could not sleep last night, even with 2 meditations and my sweet sleep essential oil.

There was nothing on my mind, but I lay in bed for 3 hours with my eyes closed and unable slip from my conscious state.

Psychotic dog Jack woke me as Adoring Husband left for work at 5am-ish so I’ve been running all day on two hours sleep.

AH and I arrived at the shop just after 8am and finished setting up for the art class.

There were 6 people playing today ...

And they made some beautiful art ...

I’ll create a Facebook post tomorrow to show the world how fab everyone was.

AH and I had a brief swim this afternoon, but even I was cold and lasted about 10 minutes before climbing out and jumping under a hot shower!

Barramundi and salad for dinner.

A one hour phone call with Vegan Chickie.

Off to bed for a decent sleep.

Nite all.

Friendly Friday

Again, no lectin post because it’s late and this will be a short one.

I woke up at 8.40am - actually, I woke at 5.45am, reached across and cancelled my alarm before it went off, then rolled over and went back to sleep until 8.40am.

I was a bit shocked when I realised how late it was, however, I stayed in bed until 11.30am.

The pool was my next destination and I spent an hour swimming 21 laps, doing water aerobics and floating.

I’d made plans to meet The Motivator at The Happy Abode, so I ducked into my studio and threw some paint on a canvas ...

At 1.30pm Adoring Husband dropped me at the shop where TM and I linked arms and skipped around in circles while she showed me everything that she had done during the week, then I got dizzy 😵 so we chatted for a while before finishing the set up for tomorrow’s art class.

While I was doing that, a man came into the shop and asked if he could join the art class! Adoring Husband is going to join the class too so it’s going to be interesting with a couple of blokes in the mix.

We left the shop at around 3.30ish and arranged for TM to come home for a swim.

In the 20 minutes until she arrived, AH and I rushed around like headless chooks attempting to make our house and pool area look somewhat presentable. We’ve been slack home owners of late.

She and I had some real quality time in the pool until it began to get chilly at 5.30pm.

After she left I cooked up some duck with asparagus, carrots, zucchini and a mushroom, shallot and walnut sauce. Delicious.

Now it’s almost 11pm so I’d best get some sleep so that I’m bright and breezy for class tomorrow.

Nite all.

Check it.

Ok so I decided to save the lectins for another post.

Instead, I’m sharing this YouTube video of Anthony Williams (The Medical Medium) talking to Jelena Djokovic (wife of No 1 tennis player Novak Djokovic) about the liver and finding the road to good health.

It’s 47 minutes long but has many great snippets of useful information for those who want to take some control over your health and not have to rely on prescriptions to mask the symptoms of whatever condition you are suffering from.

While your meds are masking symptoms, the disease is still in your body creating internal havoc AND the medication will surprise you with long term side effects and damage in the years to come.

If you want ‘quality’ old age, you really need to be your own health care advocate and create a healthful environment in which your body can ‘thrive’ instead of a toxic one that it has to ‘cope’ with.

I loaned Aggie one of this guy’s books “Liver Rescue” and I have just purchased his “Life Changing Foods”. I sent “Thyroid Healing” to Beautiful Girl With Long Blond Hair for Christmas last year and I know a number of my customers (in their 60s & 70s) who follow his dietary guidelines and are feeling more vibrant and strong since making the change.

These things always have more meaning for me if I can see positive results in others who’ve tried it.

So without further ado, here is the video.

Jelena and Anthony

Everyone is different and there is no single health miracle that suits everyone, but you owe it to yourself to understand your body and learn how to nurture it with a healthful diet and lifestyle to make you the strongest healthiest version of yourself possible.

We don’t want to be limping to life’s finish line feeling like crap if we can avoid it.

Let’s move on!

Today, I did washing and spent quality time in my studio. It took me two hours to create these ...

I like them both. I may even squeeze one more in before bed tonight 👩‍🎨

We had barramundi with roasted cauliflower and zucchini and a big salad for dinner.

Junk TV is on my agenda for the moment.

TGIF!

Nite all.

I'm a Loser!

Tenth out of Eleven teams!

We did very poorly in trivia tonight. Unusually so. Now that I think about it,  instead of passing our answers to the table beside us to check and score for us, the organisers, for the first time, allowed each team to score their own rounds.

I have a sneaking suspicion that people may have had a little cheat here and there. Just sayin'.

Instead of going to the movies to see the movie "Judy" with the girls this morning, I decided to stay at home and have some 'me' time.

I felt like I needed to quietly reset.

I got out of bed at 9am, tested the pool water and decided that a swim was definitely part of my plan for the morning so I changed into my swimmers/bathers/togs and made my way to the Bali hut with my iPad for playing, my iPhone for music, a bottle of water and a towel.

The first hour was spent sitting on the lounge playing on my iPad and listening to 70s music, enjoying the mild weather with the gentle breeze.

The second hour was spent in the pool. I dived down to pick up a few leaves that had settled on the bottom after those strong gusty winds that we experienced in the last couple of days. I meditated in the pool nook for about twenty minutes, swam a few laps, floated for about twenty minutes and then lay in the big pod seat for about ten minutes enjoying the sunshine.

It was absolutely perfect and left me feeling completely energised.

I threw a load in the washing machine, changed into dry clothes and decided to give my studio a good clean out.

I took me about two and half enjoyable hours to tidy up and reorganise my 'stuff', of which I have a LOT!! I could almost open a shop selling art supplies!!

I feel excited to get in there tomorrow and throw some paint around. A lovely clear space to start making a new mess!

Adoring Husband and I teamed together to make dinner which was kangaroo fillet with salad. He cooked the kangaroo beautifully on the barbecue, but still it was a little chewy.

We left ourselves half an hour to get ready for trivia.

Even though we were disappointed in our poor performance, it was a good night and we won a special prize for providing a ridiculous answer to the big baffler question. We got a few good laughs and snorts during the night.

Now it's already 11.30pm so I'd best get to bed.

Tomorrow I hope to tell you all about 'lectins', my new discovery in the area of health.

Nite all.

I’m a Winner

I sat in bed this morning practicing some EFT/tapping.

I tapped all the points on my head, face and chest while reciting how open I was to receiving money. I  announced how welcome money would be and that I deserved to have extra money in my life. I tapped for about eight minutes.

I won $120 on the Melbourne Cup sweeps! I still have a keno ticket to check so you never know!

I had been looking forward to spending today with friends, but as the time drew near to get ready, I could feel my energy levels lagging and I struggled to not only get ready, but to even be social during the 2.5 hours that I was there.

The Motivator closed the shop early so that she could join us and the customers sure kept her busy right up until the very last minute!

I didn’t realise that everyone was arriving at 11am so I didn’t lob up until almost midday! Lady Lynn very kindly saved two seats for TM and I. By the time I got money out of the ATM, bought raffle tickets, sweeps, put keno on and bought myself a drink, we were being called in to get lunch.

The $40 that I paid for the event didn’t go very far. All I could eat was 4 prawns, 2 pieces of calamari and some salad. I didn’t like the barramundi and due to my dietary requirements, I had to be selective of the salads.

I bought $34 worth of sweeps tickets, $20 on keno and $8 for my one and only drink.

So I actually finished the day $12 in front - but that depends on whether Keno was kind to me.

I didn’t get any photos of myself or of me with anyone else so there is no proof that I was there! I didn’t have the energy or the motivation to move around the table or around the room to chat with the people I knew.

I did feel good in my new top!

At 2.35pm I called Adoring Husband to come pick me up because I had hoop dancing to get to at 3pm. This gave me just enough time to go home and change into more comfortable attire, grab my hoop and for AH to drop me at the hall.

At first we couldn’t get into the hall because Elders Real Estate, where The Gypsy collects the key, had closed for the day (for staff to attend the same function as I was at), so after an initial panic, we were able to locate another key and the hall was open for just The Gypsy and myself!

It seems our hooping group were all enjoying Melbourne Cup celebrations, but most failed to let anyone know.

So I received a very intense one on one hooping lesson that once again left me dragging one foot in front of the other to reach the car at the end.

When I arrived home, I had to bathe Psychotic dog Ruby’s eyes before I could sit down briefly before preparing dinner.

I cooked up a couple of lobster tails for dinner and served them with salad.

I sit here now, realising that I haven’t had coffee today and there is a headache building in the back of my skull. Perfect.

My pillow is calling my name.

Nite all.

Finished Business

Today was spent finishing all the incomplete business from Friday.

I picked up the photos from the printers, dropped them into the framers, got the price of the metallic photo, took my iPad to get the SIM card (and it only took 27 minutes instead of 3 hours!), bought some bras and a new pair of white pants to wear to the Melbourne Cup luncheon tomorrow then did a quick grocery shop.

We sat down to some GF battered snapper, bought a coffee via the drive thru and came home.

I think it was about 3pm when we arrived home.

I did nothing for the remainder of the afternoon, while Adoring Husband read his new book about Paul Gallen. The silence in the house was quite lovely.

The pool water was warm but I still didn’t go in. I don’t know why.

Dinner was super easy because we’d bought a roast pork from Coles so no effort required.

It’s now just after 9.30pm and the rain has started. I’ve been watching this system on the BOM and it started way way out west and has got weaker as it got closer to us, but there is still some nice wet stuff falling out of the sky. We need it.

Well I hope you all have a fun Melbourne Cup day. I’m off to bed now.

Nite all.

Seriously?!

Missed it again.

Doing my blog post that is.

😳

I spent Saturday morning at the shop with The Motivator and we tried on all the new clothes that arrived on Friday ...

Two of those tops now hang happily in my wardrobe.

It was around 1.30pm when I arrived home with a bag full of groceries and my new tops.

I tested the pool water but chose not to go in and I wasn’t in the mood for art so after I prepared lunch, it was time to veg in front of the TV.

After a good night’s sleep on Saturday night, my Sunday was a bit disappointing.

Adoring Husband gave me breakfast in bed and soon after I got up to again test the pool water - it felt a bit chilly so I decided to get artistic.

I was disappointed in both of my efforts and have decided to give my studio a good clean out before I attempt more art.

It feels so messy and cluttered - one cannot be creative in a cluttered environment!! 😳😳😳

AH and I watched Netflix all afternoon.

So productive!

Now I’m off to bed. We have to go into The Bay tomorrow to do all the things that I couldn’t do on Friday.

Nite all.