STRESS

I think I would be the healthiest person alive if it wasn't for that one little word s-t-r-e-s-s. Who needs it? Most importantly how do we deal with it? I am starting to give up, stuffing myself down during stressful periods in my life. I'm resorting to things like breath work, massage, and using my chi machine. Reading seems to give me a huge relief from stress. So what do you do to deal with the daily stresses that life throws your way?
Today's yummy intake!
Bigger than life Green goddess Elixir!
2lbs of pears and apples!
Luscious mixed green salad with radish, arugula, kale, and red peppers and figs! Avocado guacamole, a young coconut and carob date mouse!

My yummylisous day!

Today I indulged in fresh yummy mango's with coconut cream and a Sinful kale avocado salad with raw deliquata soup and a plate of locally grown vegetables with my sweet and spicy ginger dressing! All of this was followed by over two pounds of fresh local organic produce that was freshly juiced to alkalize my body, mind, and spirit!

Deserting desert!

I decided to ditch my desert tonight! Eating desert has become a nightly ritual for me. You name it, I can make it, young coconut pudding, raw carob fudge, raw chocolate brownies, raw pecan pies topped with raw banana sorbet! This has led to exuberant spending on costly items such as organic dried fruits, nuts, and coconuts, along with an extra hour in the kitchen a day. I also feel my "high Raw" is on a lower vibe lately. I have experienced being "high Raw" it is an AMAZING feeling of energy that is UN surpassed by anything else I've ever experienced. Tossing in denser foods and nightly deserts has grounded me quite a bit over the past year. Here is are a few pictures for you to salivate over of LUSCIOUS Raw concoctions!

coconuts do a body good!

YUMMY!

coconuts!

I love them and I eat at least one a day! I get dozens of calls every week from my raw food princess's asking "Andrea, how do I open a coconut? I'll give you a few hints. You will need a hammer (or a sidewalk), an oyster knife, and a little creativity to create a yummy desert or raw soup!

New photos/former model syndrom

My definition of former model syndrome. It's a syndrome that us former models get, as we age, gain three pounds, or simply have a hair out of place. PERFECTION DOSE NOT EXIST! Be kind to your self my little raw food princess's, appreciate and nourish the beautiful body GOD blessed you with! It has taken years for me to figure this out, now....you know! Love yourself and thank GOD for your blessings and everything else will fall into place. A photographer friend of mine came over and took a few photos of me for my new book, comments are welcome! Cilantro kisses, and remember Eat Raw Live Long!

yummy delicata squash soup

Patti's deliquata squash soup
This recipe is named after a girlfriend of mine. Several times during my raw food journey I have stumbled back onto cooked food only to find it tastes bland and lifeless and dose not digest well for me ( this is my experience, yours may be different). It takes years to get to the point where I am at. I simply don't have any desire for cooked food. I am so use to eating living foods that cooked foods taste dead and lifeless to me.
Back to Patti. After calling my friend Patti and letting her know that I had no taste for cooked food and was overwhelmed by a deliquata squash I had sliced open two days prior and left in the fridge. Never wanting to waste anything, I knew that Patti would have the answer she suggested I make it into a raw soup, to my amazement this was delicious and digested beautifully!
Patti's deliquata squash soup C V
4 Cups fresh carrot juice
11/2Cups peeled and sliced deliquata squash
3-5 pitted madule dates depending on sweetness use your (C)1/2 of a large avocado
1/2tsp pumpkin pie spice
1/2tsp Cinnamon
a pinch of salt to balance the sweetness

Miss Raw!

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Why do so many people criticize what is outside "the norm"? What is normal? How can people be so cruel to someone who is trying to better themselves, feel better, heal their body minds spirits and souls? I don't think anyone intentionally sets out to be cruel, to put someone down, to hurt someone.

A few months ago I went to visit my sister at a rental property of hers. As I pulled up I could already tell she was in her usual "mode". She was flailing her arms and biting her tong as I pulled up..."don't park there dam it...park here" a simple mistake that anyone could make, she was obviously over reacting.

The tong biting thing had gone on for years. It was something I could never understand. My sister actually gets so angry that she...well...bites her tong. I'm surprised she still has her tong, I've seen it bitten down on thousands upon thousands of times.

At this point I was questioning why I had came but decided to get out and greet her with a smile none the less.

I had brought her raw organic chocolates with goji berries in the center. As we stood in the kitchen she inhaled one of them (ate it in less than a second) without a thank you she tossed the wrapper in the gift bag I had brought them in. Needles to say I was not surprised.

I had been 100%raw for almost a year an occasional piece of fish when I felt that I was "lacking something" I now know I lack nothing from a dead piece of fish.

I followed her into the basement where she showed me the renovations that her and Tony (her significant other" were working on. Then it started...for no apparent reason. Her arms started flailing, tongbiting (I was sure she would loose her tong on this day) the cursing, shouting, and personal put downs followed. YOUR UGLY she shouted....skinny, bony, and ugly. You don't eat do you? You need help, you have an eating disorder. At this point I was questioning again why I had come....I don't recall waking up and feeling the need for abuse that day.

AHH, no, I don't have an eating disorder (recalling the huge avocado salad I had for break feast that was preceded by the 32oz live green vegetable juice with a heaping TB of flax oil. No, I defiantly don't, "then why are you so skinny????" answer me she shouted. At the time I didn't know. I bowed down to her ignorant thinking and agreed to get help (so I could escape from the basement who's walls were beginning to close in on me).

Yes, your right, I have an eating disorder and I need help, would you go with me (I knew this would get her to shut up, screaming was her forte, anything that did not involve chain smoking, cursing, or belligerent behavior wasn't).

As I left, in tears, I was so shaken. I had always been sensitive but somehow being raw, I was going through a detox period that made me even more sensitive. I was upset with myself. Here I was eating in excess of 3-5000 calories per day green juice, oils, 3-4avocado salads pounds of fruit, I could easily throw down 2lbs of fruit at breakfast and would think nothing of throwing down 3avocado salads with half a lb of hemp seeds or other nuts yet...it was going through me at lightning speed??? How could I say I had an eating disorder when I clearly ate more than her and her live in put together??? No...I wasn't choking down dead animals or stuffing myself with Cheetos but I don't crave crap....my cells are so clean that...I DON'T CRAVE CRAP!