A single mother since I was pregnant, I was looking for a solution for my lack of energy, winds of depression and stubborn baby fat.
When one does everything alone, one is constantly on the go and pushing the acceleration pedal to the max. Without energy, everything gets very complicated.
I used to look at huge garbage bag, the shopping car, my son and a few other items that all needed to be carried out of our kitchen to wherever outside and I used to think: I wish I had at least another pair of arms! I could not see the creative solutions any more. I saw just the ENORMOUS QUANTITY OF THINGS I had to do RIGHT THERE AND THEN.
One afternoon I stumbled upon a video on YouTube. A sweet lady was sharing her own "tips for wellbeing" (and how bad did I need that? One gazmillion percent!). Her first tip was about never ever-ever-ever complaining again and how one can do that. I loved it! She also said I would probably loose all my actual friends by never complaining any more, because, let’s face it!: people (love to) complain! Most of them.. Many of them all the time!
My friends at that moment? Not so many, because I was already in the midst of huge changes and with such occasions “losing” can happen to friends.. They kinda got lost because they did not recognize me any more. Sooo if I wanted to keep my still available friends and only support system available , I’d better postpone that first advice..
Let’s hear the second one!, I thought to myself..
When one does everything alone, one is constantly on the go and pushing the acceleration pedal to the max. Without energy, everything gets very complicated.
I used to look at huge garbage bag, the shopping car, my son and a few other items that all needed to be carried out of our kitchen to wherever outside and I used to think: I wish I had at least another pair of arms! I could not see the creative solutions any more. I saw just the ENORMOUS QUANTITY OF THINGS I had to do RIGHT THERE AND THEN.
One afternoon I stumbled upon a video on YouTube. A sweet lady was sharing her own "tips for wellbeing" (and how bad did I need that? One gazmillion percent!). Her first tip was about never ever-ever-ever complaining again and how one can do that. I loved it! She also said I would probably loose all my actual friends by never complaining any more, because, let’s face it!: people (love to) complain! Most of them.. Many of them all the time!
My friends at that moment? Not so many, because I was already in the midst of huge changes and with such occasions “losing” can happen to friends.. They kinda got lost because they did not recognize me any more. Sooo if I wanted to keep my still available friends and only support system available , I’d better postpone that first advice..
Let’s hear the second one!, I thought to myself..
and then..!
Her second advice has at once lit my eyes! I say “lit my eyes” because I SAW IT before I heard what she was saying.. I saw this big GREEN glass of something that she was sipping from. I WANTED THAT! WHAT WAS THAT??? It was a green smoothie! So before I even heard about her third advice (I’m not so sure I’ve even heard it, given I do not remember it.. sorry!) I was collecting the things she was talking about (which I, not very coincidentally coz me-fruit-addict, had in my house) and making my first GREEN SMOOTHIE!.. Yuuuuummy! And that color, oh MY GOODNESS!! It is goodness in all those little small green cells.
A lot of time passed. Within only one month of drinking every day GREEN GOODNESS (GodNess!) I noticed that my skin was resembling to that of my little boy, my eyes started shining (all the time, not only while seeing GREEN :-D), my hair got curlier than it was and I started having mountains of energy. I could not remember any winter when I wasn’t cold all the time with many layers on.. Suddenly it was warm everywhere I went! It's amazing. I used to be dehydrated and needed to drink at least 0.5l water a night. Not any more am I thirsty and drooling when I see a glass of fruit juice..
Also, I "released" 8 kilos of extra weight in the first 8 month, or rather, I gained lightness! I now inhabit my body instead of feeling like I have to carry it around liker I used to feel. To be completely honest, I feel better than I ever remember feeling!
A lot of time passed. Within only one month of drinking every day GREEN GOODNESS (GodNess!) I noticed that my skin was resembling to that of my little boy, my eyes started shining (all the time, not only while seeing GREEN :-D), my hair got curlier than it was and I started having mountains of energy. I could not remember any winter when I wasn’t cold all the time with many layers on.. Suddenly it was warm everywhere I went! It's amazing. I used to be dehydrated and needed to drink at least 0.5l water a night. Not any more am I thirsty and drooling when I see a glass of fruit juice..
Also, I "released" 8 kilos of extra weight in the first 8 month, or rather, I gained lightness! I now inhabit my body instead of feeling like I have to carry it around liker I used to feel. To be completely honest, I feel better than I ever remember feeling!
… getting informed..
Upon feeling the amazing effect GREENS had on me, I started studying about the green smoothies and eventually ended up reading all the books out there on this subject. I saw every video and documentary on the Internet. I listened to workshops, webinars and summits and I visited all the websites that ever mentioned the word GREEN. You know, all the good people, David Wolfe, the Boutenko’s, the Raw Food World, the raw food eaters as well as the gurus. I loved all this great information! But most of all I started to experiment with all the green fresh organic I could buy from the market. And I listened to my body.
After a few months my preference started gravitating towards (lighter) green juices and again I studied a mountain of info about it. It is great what the green is doing to any-body! I believe that it is a great solution for a lot of problems that our society and we, face..
One morning I stared at myself in the mirror while brushing my teeth and I.. LOVED MYSELF!!. Never did I really have soft feelings towards myself, so obviously (not to me at the time, but you know what I mean!) I did not really know how to love other people completely and unconditionally. Like, I am and always was totally in love with my son every since he was one-cell-old but before the GREEN entered my life I never knew ADORATION. Now when I look at him I realize, every moment each day, how lucky I am that he is my son, how lucky to have this child around! I am in awe and gratitude that I may share my life and love with him. I am in tears that I am his mom and my beautiful body gave birth to such a perfect being. I love I love I love.
After a few months my preference started gravitating towards (lighter) green juices and again I studied a mountain of info about it. It is great what the green is doing to any-body! I believe that it is a great solution for a lot of problems that our society and we, face..
One morning I stared at myself in the mirror while brushing my teeth and I.. LOVED MYSELF!!. Never did I really have soft feelings towards myself, so obviously (not to me at the time, but you know what I mean!) I did not really know how to love other people completely and unconditionally. Like, I am and always was totally in love with my son every since he was one-cell-old but before the GREEN entered my life I never knew ADORATION. Now when I look at him I realize, every moment each day, how lucky I am that he is my son, how lucky to have this child around! I am in awe and gratitude that I may share my life and love with him. I am in tears that I am his mom and my beautiful body gave birth to such a perfect being. I love I love I love.
..sharing..
While noticing the effects GREEN had on me (and reading countless stories that said the same) I started wanting to share this with the world. I felt like walking the streets and giving people the GREEN STUFF to drink. I felt like talking about it with everyone. I felt like saying: just try it! Just start with DRINKING GREEN and you’ll see what I mean!
I see these hunted people walking swiftly on the streets, I see people with a greyish color on their cheeks and I want to go to them and whisper in their ears: GO GREEN! But, mostly, I see mothers too tired to speak, too tired to play with their children, with too much “to do” on their list to even have the patience to look their child or children in the eye and smile... If you are one of these mothers, please let me bring the GREEN into your life.
GREENS have prote-ins and vitam-ins and most of all the *–ins your body needs! They're one of these things you hear about and you say: it cannot be true because then, why is nobody talking about it?! Why do we talk and hear and see about eating a whole cow and not hear about spinach? Why pork and not mint? Why chicken and not cucumber?
Well, I am talking about it now:-) And there are others. The thing is, it’s such a simple solution that people are putting it aside just because of its simplicity! You know, like “everybody complains”? Well, something else that everybody seems to be doing (besides yourself and me?) is: making things complicated. And believing that if it’s not complex and complicated it’s not true or right..
I see these hunted people walking swiftly on the streets, I see people with a greyish color on their cheeks and I want to go to them and whisper in their ears: GO GREEN! But, mostly, I see mothers too tired to speak, too tired to play with their children, with too much “to do” on their list to even have the patience to look their child or children in the eye and smile... If you are one of these mothers, please let me bring the GREEN into your life.
GREENS have prote-ins and vitam-ins and most of all the *–ins your body needs! They're one of these things you hear about and you say: it cannot be true because then, why is nobody talking about it?! Why do we talk and hear and see about eating a whole cow and not hear about spinach? Why pork and not mint? Why chicken and not cucumber?
Well, I am talking about it now:-) And there are others. The thing is, it’s such a simple solution that people are putting it aside just because of its simplicity! You know, like “everybody complains”? Well, something else that everybody seems to be doing (besides yourself and me?) is: making things complicated. And believing that if it’s not complex and complicated it’s not true or right..
it's good for you and me!
It’s very simple: GREENS have most of everything you need. You could eat them, of course, but let’s be honest: how much salad can you chew-n-swallow a day?? (though, if I look at the amount kale chips that me and V can eat..) To get as healthy as you possibly can be, you'd need enormous quantities of time (maybe the whole day?) just to eat your salad: you'd need to chew and chew and chew, baby! (that is how brother monkeys do it but I bet they do not have to go to work!)..
I personally was never a fan of eating huge salads. Liked them some but I had in the best case "some leaves" a week before I was conscious about how good the greens are. And maybe while walking in the forest I would pick and eat some wild leaves.. (that is, if I was not running after my 40km/hour walking friends:-) )
The advantage of drinking GREENS, either as a juice or as a smoothie, is that I can incorporate big quantities of Chlorophyll in my diet without making much effort and without becoming a cow! (..please excuse my French! the cows are chewing and re-chewing, you know?). I can put a lot of GREEN in my glass: it’s delicious, it’s partly “pre-chewed”, I get super healthy from it and I feel like wanting more and more! It is addictive in a great way. Plus: it’s beautiful, don’t you think?
Now I buy weekly literally some 4-8 kilo’s of every green (fresh and organic) thing available! In the summer I go hunting the wild greens out there. I cultivate my greens at home (wheat grass juice or sunflower greens, anybody?). I buy lots of Chlorella, Spirulina, Macha and blue-green algae and all the green raw powders .. I drink it all, sometimes together with my son! (he especially likes "green ice" or "green macca-mix").. Nowadays I do not even have the patience to wait until I blend or juice and I go to the fridge and eat some leaves "on the go". Do you know those fridge magnets that say: “the answer is NOT in the fridge”? :-) I used to think it’s true but since I am ON THE GREEN I am starting to doubt it.. Now I believe that if you are keeping in your fridge a lot of: spinach, kale, mint, parsley, cilantro, celery leaves and sticks , cucumbers, green paprika… well, your answer may very well be in the fridge:-) That is, if you need and want: more patience, great health, great skin, shiny beautiful hair and huge energy! You can even get the feeling that you have more time:-). You'll feel like a million.. leaves! (ehhmm, like a tree? :-D).. Most of all, you will bathe in LOVE. And all that just your length away, on the surface of Mama Earth.
Please sign up for my (gre)E(n)ZINE and let me tell you more about the GREEN stuff:-) I believe you will want to become greener and greener, not from envy, but from LOVE:-)..
Ehmm.. What on Earth are they talking about when they say that envy is green??
To me, LIFE is GREEN and GREEN IS LIFE!
I personally was never a fan of eating huge salads. Liked them some but I had in the best case "some leaves" a week before I was conscious about how good the greens are. And maybe while walking in the forest I would pick and eat some wild leaves.. (that is, if I was not running after my 40km/hour walking friends:-) )
The advantage of drinking GREENS, either as a juice or as a smoothie, is that I can incorporate big quantities of Chlorophyll in my diet without making much effort and without becoming a cow! (..please excuse my French! the cows are chewing and re-chewing, you know?). I can put a lot of GREEN in my glass: it’s delicious, it’s partly “pre-chewed”, I get super healthy from it and I feel like wanting more and more! It is addictive in a great way. Plus: it’s beautiful, don’t you think?
Now I buy weekly literally some 4-8 kilo’s of every green (fresh and organic) thing available! In the summer I go hunting the wild greens out there. I cultivate my greens at home (wheat grass juice or sunflower greens, anybody?). I buy lots of Chlorella, Spirulina, Macha and blue-green algae and all the green raw powders .. I drink it all, sometimes together with my son! (he especially likes "green ice" or "green macca-mix").. Nowadays I do not even have the patience to wait until I blend or juice and I go to the fridge and eat some leaves "on the go". Do you know those fridge magnets that say: “the answer is NOT in the fridge”? :-) I used to think it’s true but since I am ON THE GREEN I am starting to doubt it.. Now I believe that if you are keeping in your fridge a lot of: spinach, kale, mint, parsley, cilantro, celery leaves and sticks , cucumbers, green paprika… well, your answer may very well be in the fridge:-) That is, if you need and want: more patience, great health, great skin, shiny beautiful hair and huge energy! You can even get the feeling that you have more time:-). You'll feel like a million.. leaves! (ehhmm, like a tree? :-D).. Most of all, you will bathe in LOVE. And all that just your length away, on the surface of Mama Earth.
Please sign up for my (gre)E(n)ZINE and let me tell you more about the GREEN stuff:-) I believe you will want to become greener and greener, not from envy, but from LOVE:-)..
Ehmm.. What on Earth are they talking about when they say that envy is green??
To me, LIFE is GREEN and GREEN IS LIFE!