Another good day

Hello everybody!

Today was a pretty good day. My husband did really good - he had the meals that I made and seemed to enjoy them! Amazing for him! Now if only he would wean off of coffee - he could give his body a truly alkaline environment and see what changes will happen! Unfortunately he still has his coffee and toast in the morning - and so this is going to make him crave acid creating foods - for example, he had a really healthy lunch - but then he had another gigantor coffee in the afternoon. Interestingly, I was watching TLC this morning and they had the veterinary show on - and a vet student was taking care of two dehydrated calves. She ran blood tests and determined that their blood was much too acidic and so she had to put them on a hydration + mineral/salts regimen to rehydrate them. I wonder why we don't run human blood tests to determine pH levels to help all the acidic people walking around!?

This morning I had my bowl of hemp granola with blueberries and soy milk.

For lunch I made greens (broccoli, rapini and spinach) with olive oil, served with my version of onion baja:

CJ's Variation on Potato Onion Baja:

3 cups hot mashed potatoes (made with rice milk and a little salt)
1 onion very finely sliced
3 heaping teaspoons of chickpea flour (to desired consistency)
1/4 cup rice milk
1 tsp finely ground coriander
lots of fresh ground black pepper
1 tsp celery salt

mix together and make into patties - I fried these in canola oil, but they might bake well also.


I am finding that this regimen really requires alot of creativity and alot of really fresh foods. I also have always done alot of cooking - but this time round it is taking more of my time because all the veggies take a lot of prep.

So for dinner, I decided to make pizza (or my variation on it!).

First, I made a spaghetti sauce of ground carrot, ground red onion, ground canned kidney beans, chopped green pepper, spaghetti sauce (probably has unwanted sugar and things in it - so in the summer I might make my own) garlic, italian seasonings and olive oil. Most of the spaghetti sauce I mixed together with cooked brown rice rotini and put in a casserole dish for tomorrow night's dinner (I also bought some veggie slices mozzarella and put some of those on top for a cheesy flavor).

For the pizza crust, I made the almond pie crust on Dr. Young's website: www.phmiracleliving.com/
However, I omitted the stevia, vanilla, coconut butter and spices from that recipe,
doubled the recipe and added italian seasonings, onion powder, celery salt and 4 tbsp canola oil in place of the coconut oil.

I used 3/4 of the mixture - pressed it into a greased 9X9 glass baking dish. Covered it with a few spoonfuls of the spaghetti sauce, and then my topping:

Stir fry together until browned:
2 tbsp olive oil
1/2 cubed eggplant
1/2 zucchini sliced
4 mushrooms
1/2 red onion chopped
1/2 green bell pepper chopped
oregano
thyme
salt
fresh ground pepper

I put this mixture on top of the spaghetti sauce, and then topped it with some soy mozzarella slices, and baked it in the oven 350 degrees for 20 minutes. It turned out great and my husband really enjoyed it too.

With the rest of the crust mixture, I added some sesame seeds, some more celery salt and some more onion powder and seasonings, mixed these altogether and pressed together some little crackers which I baked on a greased cookie sheet at 350 for 10 minutes. My husband loved these too!

I also made more green goddess dressing (in a blender: 1 pkg silken tofu, juice of 1/2 lemon, 1/2 cup rice milk (to desired consistency), fresh chives and parsley chopped, 2 tbsp leftover pesto (which I had in my freezer), salt and fresh ground pepper.) I am thinking that this will be good to have on stand by in case I need salad dressing, something to dip veggies into, or something to top steamed veggies with.

The great thing about this regimen is that even though sometimes I do get hungry - I don't get wildly wicked uncontrollable cravings to eat/snack. Tony Robbins said that your body has cravings for acid causing foods, when there is alot of acid already in your system because the body is trying to cope (actually I forget the reason that he gave for why we have food cravings). But I do notice that with this way of eating, I don't get crazy food cravings.

One thing I have noticed is again, after only 2 days of doing this regimen carefully, the itching
on my ears has significantly died down. One thing I am trying carefully to do here is avoid yeast, sugars and wheat flour to try to cut down on the yeast levels in my system, which have resulted in me getting lots of little recurring rashes/redness (ears, scalp to name a few).

The other silly thing that I will mention is that while I was in the grocery store today, as I was walking by the meat department, I was repeating in my head "let's have some carrion", and when I was walking in the baking aisle "poisonous sugar laden chemical factory" - it is like a mantra to try to get me to not look at meat and baked goods in a way that will make me get the desire for them. You gotta do what you gotta do. I won't make these assertions outloud because most people have fully bought in to the system and I don't believe in forcing my opinions down other people's throats. However, if I do lose alot of weight doing this - if people ask me how I did it, I will tell them for sure.

See you tomorrow!