Balance Is Beauty

Hi Friends!

First things first – I cannot thank all of you enough for your sweet, wonderful and thoughtful comments on my last post. To be honest, I debated sooo much on whether or not to hit publish on the post as it was such a personal issue. It has been a part of my life that I have not discussed openly with many people, so posting my inner most thoughts and feelings for potentially the world to see definitely made me more than a bit anxious The reason I decided to go ahead with it was the thought of possibly helping or inspiring someone else to begin their journey of healing. In the past I have been so ashamed and embarrassed about my struggles surrounding my eating disorder and I think it is SO important for girls/women to drop the shame as this truly is one of the first steps in recovery. In order to start the healing journey you first need to be able to admit that you are struggling and drop any shame associated with it. I know for myself, it took a very long time for me to admit that I had a problem. I was definitely in denial, because my weight never dropped dangerously low,I continued to tell myself I was doing just fine, even though my body was telling me something very different. I truly believe that in order to start the recovery process you need to be honest with yourself – I know I used to come up with a million and one excuses to justify all of the unhealthy behaviours I was engaging in, I wasn’t being honest with myself. As soon as I started being honest and a bit vulnerable with myself, the healing process started. As I said in my previous post, it is an ongoing journey I learn something new everyday, some days are easy, some days are challenging but instead of submitting to negative thoughts on those challenging days, I now look to all of the things that inspire me and make me grateful to be alive – and ALL OF YOU are a big part of that So Thank You!

Moving on . . . I have a new food love in my life that has been making repeat appearances on my dinner table. I refer to it as the “steamed salad”. I take some form of green leafy vegetable (kale, spinach, swiss chard – or a combination) and whatever veggies I have in the fridge and steam them up. I have been topping the steamed salad with avocado and a veggie burger patty with a dash of Braggs and hot sauce. Let me tell you – this is H.E.A.V.E.N. in a bowl!!!

You all know how much I love my raw veggies – but with this C-O-L-D Canadian winter all I have been craving is warm, comforting veggies – and this is definitely hitting the spot! I usually include 1/2 a sweet potato, broccoli, cauliflower and zucchini and have a piece of toast on the side! Yum Yum – try this!

Another friend has been making repeat appearances this week – OAT BRAN! I have been making quiona flakes instead of oat bran, because I am trying to stay away from gluten – but I ran out and really felt like oats one morning. Boy did I forget how good oat bran is – the texture is a bit different than the quinoa flakes – and I adore it I even had savoury oats for dinner one night!

With none other than steamed veggies (shocking right??!!). I LOVED having oats for dinner, it was SO satisfying. For the most part though, I have been having my oats in the morning:

I know I can be such a repetitive bore – but I can’t help it – when I find something I love, it’s all I crave – and I just gotta roll with it – you can be certain I’ll find something new to obsess about soon

I’ve been grazing on lots of snack plates:

And of course, downing my daily Green Monsters:

As you can see, my belly has been very happy

I hope everyone had a Wonderful Weekend – I don’t know about you, but I’m wishing the weekend would last just a little bit longer, I’m not ready for Monday morning just yet!

xoxo

Krissy

Question: Do any of you get food obsessions like me? I wanna hear about some of your funny cravings!