2 dl of oats
1 dl of almond or coconut milk
1 1/2 dl of water
1 tsp of vanilla
Let sit over night and dress with berries, fruits, superfoods, spices, nuts and seeds. If you want it extra creamy add less fluids.
This was the favorit breakfast at Yogaakademins retreat. I also served buckwheat creams, sesame cream, plant yogurts and beautiful sweet fruit from the markets.
Water infused with hibiskus, lemon balm, basil and mint.
You know when you have that last swim of the summer. You enjoy it and it feels great but it also feels kind of bitter sweet. Like you know it won´t be the same tomorrow. You can walk to the same spot look into the water and turn around because now the magcic is gone. Summer has left the buliding. Like a lover has left you and you him.
All is like it should be you have new grounds pave and other paths to walk.
But it also feels a bit sad. Those feelings feelt will not to come again, you get reminded that life changes with the seasons and you have to follow along.
I always turn Miss. Melancholy when this happens. I want to turn around and throw in the towel no matter how good my life is.
To get out of this slump I do three things.
I meditate and practice yoga. I stare into a wall and daydream. I plan ahead and keep busy.
Meditation and yoga is a remedy that works well. Like brushing my teeth. It just does its thing. Staring into the wall and daydreaming I try to do when by myself….. People don´t really get this part. Plan ahead and stay busy was very easy this year. Things have finally fallen into place and I´m very busy.
Apart from my jobb this fall I`m booked to fly out on the 17th of september with Yogiakademin to Biarritz. I get to indulge in my passions yoga, food, be by the sea and also I get to bring someone I love with me. This will be my vacation this year. I´ve worked too much and need to breath a bit. At the moment I don´t feel happy. I feel kind of sad, tired and far away from myself. That´s what happens when you focus on one thing and loose the rest. That´s what happens when you leave to much of your life in other peoples hands. You should never have to prove yourself just be who you are.
MORE YOGA
Then in october and november I´m going to cover a few classes for AnneSophie/YogaKungsholmen when she is of to India. A-S was my yoga student and went on to be a great theacher on her own. Funny how life turns out:) I´m glad yoga is moving more into my life after a long absentness.
SOAP AND WATER GIRL
About beauty and all that shit. People think I eat cleaner than I do. My regime is my life.
I love my coffee, pizza, chocolate and I eat loads of it. I move around all the time but then when I rest I´ve learnt how to be still.
This is all I do. No fancy creams on my skin or luxurious workouts. I´m just soap, water and some simple stretches everyday.
Anyway as I always say let pictures speak more than my words
Catwalking
Getting my make up done at the Björn Borg fashion show
It´s important to get your fibers and protein. Or you´ll end up playing the “Hunger Games” like I´ve the past week.
In France it was easy to eat lightly. The days where filled with only plant food breakfasts, juice for lunch and something more foody after the sun had set. With the heat the most important intake of the day was water and minerals such as salt.
When I practice a lot of bikram yoga or if I´m exposed to warmer weather I use my Friway Well salt spray. Made with ionised water and mineral salt it´s a great little invention to keep your salt intake without adding the bad salts.
Also on vacation there is no stress and yoga everyday so my system gets pretty much balanced out from the city lifes overindulgence and work.
A clean body is more receptive to the food you eat. A little yoga everyday helps as well
But once I got back home and the heat diminished, I was back at work and my hunger kicked in. I´m pretty good at reading my bodies signals but this time my head was`t with me so instead of eating more and drinking less juice I just continued as the week before.
Cold, tired hitting the snooze button each morning instead of yoga before work I just didn´t get it. Untill a couple of days later I realized that even though loaded with nutrients I needed something more meaty and had to add more fibers to my diet when back at my regular speedy life.
So this weekend I´ve been making gluten free flat bread and eating fish. Carbs and protein.
ENJOY LIFE
Fishlys and oysters
More oysters…. Great for minerals and salt, maybe post yoga 🙂
Everyday is a new day and so are you listen to your needs move from there
For many years I didn´t eat meat due to yoga filosophy and not listening to my needs. I ended up totally depressed and just craving bad stuff such as too much coffee, sugar and bad habits.
For every coffee drink dubble the amount of water and up your intake of greens
And before those years I didn´t eat anything. So even though my mind and body can work on starvation mode my soul can´t anymore.
So from time to time. REGULARY, once a week or more I eat animals. I´m happier and more free this way and working with food I just couldn´t eat everything.
I mean why do we call it nut cheese, plant yogurt, zuccini pasta or raw vegan beef if we weren´t inspierd by the tastes and forms used in the more traditional cooking. Also it´s easier to explain the foods and a busniess to made money from, so easy does it.
It´s not only animal protein that is excluded from peoples diets but carbs, gluten and lactoes.
Pizza lover
Eat your carbs with flowers and cheese
Gluten free flat bread brunch
Get an expert to tell you what you can and can´t eat, don´t guess. There are many important nutrients in these products and to exclude them for random diets could be realy bad. To eat organic and local is also a great way to stay away from allergies and upset tummies, bad ph level and mood swings.
I tought I was allergic to gluten and lactoes but if I eat “lagom” and choose organic products there´s no problem at all. Veggies should come from the earth and soil. Meat should be grassfed and chickens roam freely.
Life is so much richer these days when food is not an issue and just something to enjoy.
SWISS CHARD
Swiss Chard
Beets are a great bloodsugar stabalizer
We got some beautiful Swiss Chard and beets to the work this week. Both these plants are great blood sugar stabalizers since they help regulate the speed of digestion and keep food moving at the right pace through our digestive tract.
Like beets, chard is a unique source of phytonutrients called betalains. The betalain pigments in chard have been shown to provide antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and detoxification support.
Take care if your pregnant you should stay away from these 2 and spinach. Also included in this family called the chenopod is quinoa.
