I don't miss coffee

I thought I'd just state it, for the record. I last had my usual yummy filter coffee on Sunday, and I haven't missed it!

Perhaps I've missed the early morning smell and sound of things percolating (which I've always enjoyed). But I haven't had any weird no-coffee headaches or gotten very irritable or anything like that!

I'm amazed, to tell the truth.

The eating is going well too. I thought I'd starve, but haven't been overly hungry. I've had Weetbix with honey and almonds every morning (still with milk, but minimal - can't think of a decent replacement, and Weetbix is the least harmful of the things in the cupboard), and that's lasted well through the morning. Also a handful of strawberries. Lunch has been veggie full. Supper tends toward the light with a handful of cashews, another of raisins. Or a big pot of home-made mega-veg soup with dried lentils. Chammomile or honeybush or rooibos tea and honey later instead of milo and milk.

In a way I'm trying to only eat food where I know what's in it. Cutting out on sugars and fats (other than olive oil produced literally next door). Leaving off the "plastic" margarine - haven't had our usual staple bread lately either, but am thinking about trying to make sprouted bread myself (sometimes known as Essene bread).

A few days ago I read an article on the dangers of soy. A lot of folk think it's a good product, but not if it's modified and changed and genetically altered. It's a long read, but you can find it here. Of course, the flip side of reading such things is that you start to wonder if anything you eat is safe! (And then you start to wonder about things like your man-made fibre carpets, your laptop, how much pollution you produce when you go to the shops... a vicious circle, I tell ya! :) )

Food safety is one of the reasons I enjoy having a veg garden. I know what's gone into it, can get it as fresh as possible, and grow it without killing other life (yup, even them pesky snails - find other places for them or give them a share - everything has to live).

I like the phrase "mindful eating". Thinking about what you eat, like "mindful living" - thinking about how you live. Yes, it takes a lot of work. We often take for granted just how convenient our foods have become, and never read the lables on things ready-packaged. We have no clue how far it's travelled to get to us, or what the producers have done to it along the way. We don't know who grew it, or who made any of the other ingredients included. To shift that mentality to living with the seasons, eating locally, sticking to organic and things grown with care - that takes work. To consider how you prepare your food is, to some, an act of worship and thanks. And many believe that mindfulness shows up clearly in both taste and nutrition.

I'm merely beginning. I'm likely to slip back into bad habits now and then, but I do want to make the effort to consume wisely.

Not missing coffee is a step on the right road! :)

::update::
Just thinking that it's been a year since I ditched the injection. That one act resulted in some amazing stuff. Not only did my body swing back into it's lunar cycle with ease (and rediscover its hormones... eish!), but I dropped weight, lost some stress reactions, and am finally free of a trichotillomania curse that plagued me for 15 years or more. This week's good hard look at what I'm eating could be simply the next step on my slow journey toward the healthiest I can be. Seeing how my body responds to small changes is more than enough encouragement to keep going!