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Go ahead and try to stop me!

When I was the size of the little girl in the photo, my dad tried to get me to hand over my chewing gum before I went to sleep.

I refused.

His argument that I was going to wake up with gum in my hair was reasonable.

I swallowed MY GUM.

I feel the same about my food. Don’t even try to tell me I can’t have a candy bar.

So what about you?  Who is running your food show?  Is your inner rebel  a stubborn two year old? a snarky teen?

As long as you and your rebel are happy, stop reading.

If you would like to change, and could use some help, keep reading!

You have probably heard that the most lasting change is from the inside out.

That may seem like a lot of work. And EVERYONE wants a magic pill.

There is no magic pill.

Science now backs up what hypnotist, healers, and shamans have accepted for years.

Think of your brain as malleable plastic. You could create neurology for twenty years by reacting the same way every time you see a dog, a spider, or a candy bar.  You may believe that your brain is hardwired and that you cannot change it, but you can.   Your thoughts actually change your brain.

By negotiating with that little girl in the picture, I can have a candy bar any time I want, but now I only  occasionally want one.

This is not really a recipe. This is intuitive. You toss it together to please your taste buds and give your tummy that happy, satisfied feeling. And we love that to be easy, right?

This salad was inspired by “Oh my gosh, Robert is here and I want to feed him something delicious and he is totally vegan.”  And it turns out that everyone loves this salad.

Ingredients

1 cup of cooked quinoa (red or black)  *Easy recipe

10 oz of cooked and cooled lima beans

Chopped cooked beets. I used fresh, however you could use canned. Be sure to drain them really well.

2 T Sesame Seed Oil.

Rice vinegar to taste

a  pinch of sugar

This salad is beautiful.

Mix Sesame seed oil and rice vinegar in the bottom of the bowl.

Add lima beans and quinoa.

Garnish top with beets.

Day 2. Mix leftover bean salad with fresh greens. You may want to add more sesame seed oil and rice vinegar.  Yummy!
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The easiest way to cook quinoa:

Rinse one cup of red or black quinoa.

Put in a saucepan and add 2 cups of water and bring to a boil.

Put on a lid and turn the stove off.

The quinoa will be perfect in about twenty minutes.

Quinoa is really handy to have in your refrigerator. It is a complete protein which you can easily add it to many things. I enjoy it beneath a fried egg, with a little cottage cheese in the morning.

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Summer comes in two flavors. Ready, and Ready or Not?

Ready is the pink of petunias, youth, and freshly manicured toes.

Ready or Not is the color of toe jam, oh bother, and only your shoes fit!

I think the male equivalent is either last year’s shorts fit or they don’t.

Men don’t have the same number of temperatures as women. Ok. I don’t have any science to back me up. Go ahead and argue, I’ll give you a hot flash!

Ready is when you gladly don your swimsuit and dive into the pool, appreciating how your arms cut through the water. Not ready is the dreadful thought that you have created your own pool of sweat and how are you gonna get up gracefully.

Not ready? Take a baby step…and then another…follow the things across the room that excite you!

Thank your body for everything it does for you.

Shedding extra weight is putting the puzzle pieces of healing together.

I wanted those fresh organic lemons. They called to me in the grocery store and I answered.

I took them home and rolled one in my hands. I googled lemon recipes. Lemon bars…best lemon Lemon bars ……talked about being a lemon bar snob.

Yea, that’s me. The crust will be perfect. I will wait until it cools to add the lemony food of the goddesses topping. Yes. I too like the crust and the lemon to be separate events.

Discussions on different varieties of lemons. All I know is that I got out my handy dandy electric juicer and squeezed those yellow gems. I quickly measured out what I need for the best damn lemon bars in the world and then I drank the rest. DELICIOUS!

I was almost happy enough to drink it all and not make the lemon bars, but NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. Now, I had to have them.

Organic flour. Organic butter. Sugar from Mexico. It is not pure white and they list the trace minerals on the bag. Organic fresh eggs. Beautiful eggs with life in them!

The next morning I had just one with my coffee.

I know I know. Then after lunch I was even….ing out the cut piece, looking to make things symmetrical. I KNOW YOU KNOW WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT!

I was there,You was there,We was there. If you have never been there, stop reading now because we may not understand one another!

I have read Sugar Blues. I know the history of sugar and the rise and fall of armies and nations on its behalf.

I have taught classes and heard about the baby who crawled out of his crib and into the kitchen to get to the sugar bowl!  Hell, I have enough family stories to entertain you for a loonng time.

The world is full of sugar whores. They will crash your party so they can have some cake.

I clearly understand that when the  neurons start yeahing over sugar and they cross paths with emotional memory,you gotta do some work or  SWEET is gonna win!

HellsBells, I have done lots of work.

My favorite ice cream can crust over forgotten in the freezer. The dark chocolate in my car can bloom before I remember it is there.  I can eat just one cookie.

Somehow I forgot to remember that the combination sugar and lemon is CRACK ……….for me.

I dropped some off at my daughter’s. Five minutes later my phone rings, “Mom, my friend wants to know what kind of sugar you used. These are really good!

AAAHHHHH! Now, I ‘m a dealer!

Does Your Relationship with Sugar Need a Little Tweaking?