How to avoid cravings

Hello everybody. I hope you enjoyed your holidays as much as I did. I had my entire family over, this is why you haven´t heard from me in a while. A two-and-a-half-year old can keep you quite busy.

Anyway, with  everybody gone I can go back to my normal morning routine: hot lemon, juicing and looking at pretty pictures on Instagram.

I don´t know why, but I love doing that in the morning; inhaling my coffee and looking at inspiring pictures… until this morning.

This morning I was faced with the picture of a plate with a mango and three grapes and the title said: #lunch

LUNCH??????

Are you kidding me???

In my world this doesn´t even qualify as a snack!

Speaking of snack, I started looking at more pictures of this user and found a lot of lovely pictures with “healthy snacks” to “avoid afternoon cravings”.

Within a nano second, this is what came to my mind:

1. Obviously you have cravings, all you eat is fruit and soy milk…
2. Shit! I forgot to prepare my goji berries for work
3. Ballet. I really don´t miss ballet. Ballet was that time of my live where I was surrounded by girls with eating disorders who considered an apple as actual lunch. How the hell are you supposed to train 30 hours a week with only apples and Weetabix in your stomach? And you can´t even imagine that psychological pressure that comes with “just” eating an apple.
4. Boy, do I love butter and cream. (the salty butter, very important detail)
5. Speaking of eating disorders, how healthy can it be to starve your body?
6. Boy, do I get cranky if I don´t get my food on time…
7. Dear instagramers, if you keep doing this, in 10 years you´ll look haggard, probably have fructose intolerance and start to feel your kidney drying up like prunes.
8.  I think I´ll have pizza for lunch…

Anyway, I am a big fan of healthy meals, superfoods and anything that does me good.

But like everything in life, you need to find the perfect equilibrium. It´s not called a balanced diet for nothing.

So to everybody out there, your body will tell you what it need anyway. Just learn to listen to it and you´ll be able to keep it as healthy as it can be.

But this is just bullshit!

So stop craving and start eating!

PLEASE!!!!!

Homemade vitamin and protein shake

For Lukas… as requested 😉

I told you last week, that I have decided to have a healthy breakfast every day. But as breakfast isn´t always easy for me, I find a liquid version always works.

After doing a lot of research on super foods this is what I ended up with:

• 2 Ts of oak flakes
• 1/2 Ts of oatmeal
• 1/2 Ts of wheatgerm
• 1/2  Ts of linseeds
• 1 ts of hemp seeds
• a few drops of linseed oil
• a few almonds
• a few goji berries,
• 1 ts of maca powder
• 1 ts of Acai berry powder
• 1 ts of spirulina and Alfalfa powder
• 1/2 ts of guarana
• vanilla extract and agave syrup for taste
• 1 banana
• 200ml of rice milk

Just mix everything with a blender.

I love this shake because it contains: vitamins A, B, B1, B6 and E, calcium, zinc, iron, magnesium, beta-carotene, protein, minerals, fibres, Omega 3, 6 and 9, antioxydants…

Seriously, that´s ore vitamins in one shake than used to eat in a month.

But I would like to remind you that this shake is specially adapted to my needs. If you are lacking in iron you should add super foods which will increase your iron intake. Or if you need more vitamins you can add more fruit… or yogurt for more protein.

More links to this topic:

http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-4114/9-Superfoods-for-a-Beautiful-Mind-Body.html

http://www.koraorganics.com/blog/live-in-my-skin/all-things-organic/organic-certification/a-really-nice-healthy-alternative-for-breakfast-or-a-snack-at-any-time-of-the-day-if-you-wish/

 

PS: In order to gain time in the morning, I blend all the cereals, goji berries and almonds in advance an keep them in a glass jar.