The Food Goddess and Gigi Foodie… Taking on the World, One Slab of Cake at a Time
So now that you are here, check out my friend Gigi Foodie’s blog (see the left side of this screen). She and I go back and forth- she loves food but struggles with her weight, I love food and want to help her. She’s really honest and funny and it’s totally worth a look. You might even learn something. Here is my latest comment to her last post:
Gigi honey. Bend your Elbows for goddess sake. You look like a plastic freakshow. No one wants to really be a Barbie- her boobs are size 44 DDD and her waist is 10″ or something unholy like that. Eat the darn brie. And the cake. But here’s the thing: start listening to your Inner Goddess- the one that KNOWS, deep in her heart, that three pieces of cake are going to send her pancreas running up and down the aisle like Marge Simpson on a jet plane (read: let me off! let me off! let me off!). Your Inner Goddess knows that a lovely, creamy wedge of brie may not be great for your hips, but it may just be what your soul needs. So eat it. And yes, then go for a walk. Why? Not because you need to counteract a certain amount of calories by walking a certain amount of steps, but because, again, that Goddess inside that respects you and loves you WANTS your body to walk, to swing your arms, to breathe fresh air, to detoxify a little. Joyful movement, all the time. Oh, and one more thing. There’s nothing wrong with loving your cake, I think I already said that. BUT. There is a chance that your body is overrun with bad bacteria that feed on sugar. This is very common, and very hard to control. You might consider a cleanse, if you are really finding that sugar obsession is totally taking over your life. NEVER cleanse without guidance from someone like me. There is a chance you can totally do it wrong. Anyway it’s just a thought. Oh- and one more thing. Entertain the idea that perhaps you don’t know how amazing you could feel if you DIDN’T eat that kind of food every day- refined flour and sugar are energy sappers. Once you get off that stuff, and start to feel how REAL energy serves your body, you don’t have such a desire to have it all the time.
This is life, though, and this is Canada, and what would a Canadian girl do without her cheese? I myself just had some fresh chevre that was made by a chef friend of mine. It was so amazing I just about replaced my husband with it. But I didn’t feel the need to eat the whole shabang, because I knew that my gut would be unhappy with me after. Balance.
So eat your brie, once, this week. And eat your salmon (wild, pacific) more than once, if ya can. Fill up on veggies first, and go for a little walk after. A good start. Simple. xo