Macrobiotics and Me

Hello

Breakfast

An umeboshi plum

Lunch

Buckwheat with tahini & shoyu (mmmm I love this)

A dessert made of oat milk (home made) with a splash of apple juice concentrate – mmm this was amazing!

Genmai chai (green tea & roasted brown rice tea)

Dinner

Barley cakes with onion & carrot

I won’t post tomorrow but back on Sunday!

Au revoir!

Love, love & more love

Sharlene

Greetings!

Breakfast

No breakfast for me this morning as I wasn’t hungry.

Lunch

Mochi with shoyu & brown rice vinegar

Dessert made with cornflakes, raisins & tahini

Dinner

Oat pasta with white miso, a kind of soup made of brown rice, onion, carrot, miso & hijiki

Macro love

Sharlene

Howdy!

Breakfast

Brown rice (leftover from rice cream) baked in oven with shoyu

Lunch

Carrot juice

Brown rice porridge

Dinner

Corn, rice cakes

Corn flakes with raisins & tahini mmmm!

Love & light

Sharlene

Hello!

I’ve just got back home after an extraordinary Alexander Technique lesson. It is the first one I’ve had all year which I can’t quite believe but the distance or break from it seems to have allowed me to experience a flash of real knowingness and understanding. I find this concept (of not being able to see the wood from the trees, if you know that saying) very interesting.

I also had a moment tonight where I felt as though I could understand what I need to do in order to experience deep healing in my body. It’s as though I need to make my yin yang and my yang yin. Sometimes, you know when you understand something and you just can’t put it into words? Well, my knowledge and understanding doesn’t quite allow me to put this into words that will be able to convey the true meaning of what I understand but one day I will explain!

Breakfast

Rice cream with shoyu

An umeboshi plum

Lunch

Rice cream – straight!

Dinner

Rice cream – straight!

A macro fudge & some bancha tea (I really experienced feeling more yin after this, which was useful to feel. It seems I know what it feels like to feel yin, but I am not as familiar with the feeling of being yang. It is much easier to be or change your body into a yin state than what it is to accomplish a yang state).

OK, now my bed beckons!

Sweet dreams

Sharlene

Good Evening!

This is the first chance I’ve had to post after a hectic couple of days.

Day 10

Breakfast

Toast and butter

Lunch

Brown rice paella

Amazake pudding

Dinner

Corn chips

Brown rice paella

Beer…I went out in the evening and had lots of beer a shot of vodka, followed by some fast food (chips and sweetcorn!!! (I think the people in the takeaway shop thought I was a bit  of an oddball as I asked for a load of sweetcorn!!). I then had some chocolate too which I really enjoyed! 

You know it kind of feels quite liberating eating other foods! It’s so helpful for learning, especially if you can really pay attention to how it makes you feel afterwards. It  is easy to start labelling what you eat as good or bad or righteous or sinful but I’m not sure that is wise approach. It is better to view things in terms of what effect they have on the body, that is what macrobiotics is about. It’s not about judging yourself, it’s about judging the effects on your body. When you master that I think you’ve got it!!! But I am certain that takes many years of thoughtfulness, experimentation and mistakes!

Day 11

Breakfast

1 umeboshi plum & 1/2 a cup of kukicha

Lunch

Grain coffee with amazake

1/2 a cup of twig tea

Dinner

Brown rice with onions & peas, buckwheat noodles with white miso

Beer

Nachos with kidney beans

Day 12

Breakfast

No breakfast today as I wasn’t hungry

Lunch

Ditto! (apart from 1 umeboshi plum)

Dinner

Ditto! (no plum though!)

Ahh, it feels good to fast, especially after a rather indulgent weekend. I really felt that I was sooo yin today. I am looking forward to waking up tomorrow and feeling more centered!

Love & light

Sharlene

Hey!

Breakfast

A delicious oat flake porridge with shoyu. (mmm!). My 18 month year old niece really loves sharing my breakfasts and other macro food with me. It’s amazing how she seems to gravitate towards me each time I am cooking!

Lunch

Brown rice with roasted shoyu sunflower seeds

Mid afternoon snack

Amazake pudding with ground almonds & halva

Dinner

Brown rice paella (with seafood and fish)

Beer

Corn chips

Whenever I visit my family there is always soo much junk food and I find it very difficult not to notice this or be mindful of it! It’s so interesting going food shopping with my Mum and seeing all the food (I’m not sure I’d even call it that!!) that she (and other supermarket shoppers!)  buy(s). Sometimes I wonder how it is possible that people can actually survive eating that kind of stuff!! It makes me feel so fortunate to have discovered macrobiotics and to be able to see some things that others can’t.

Now it is time for me visit the land of nod…zzzzz!

Goodnight!

Love & blessings

Sharlene

Good Evening

By lunch time today I felt better and hungry so I had some brown rice & gomasio.

Dinner

Sprouted spelt bread with white miso

Brown rice & gomasio

Grain coffee

It’s been nice to eat so simply the past few days. It was really nice to drink today too!

Love & light

Sharlene

Hello!

There is not much to share with you about food or drink today because quite simply there hasn’t been any for me! I woke up with a sore throat and I am not eating until I feel better!

Have you every had that feeling when you feel like energy is bursting out of you cells and when you wake up in the morning you leap out of bed feeling sooo inspired? I know that this feeling is possible because I have felt it many times, but I am not able to maintain or get back to that so easily…yet…one day, one day! That is when you know you that your practice of macrobiotics is just right!

OK, time for zzzz’s

Much love

Sharlene

Evening!

Breakfast

Lotus root tea & two little delicious barley cakes (made with barley, carrot, lotus & onion)

Lunch

Barley cakes & brown rice with hato mugi & gomasio

Sprouted spelt bread and white miso

Dinner

Barley cakes & a very VERY generous helping of cornflakes and rice milk (oops! that wasn’t so wise!!). I think I’ll be skipping breakfast tomorrow morning!  

Sweet love

Sharlene

Hallo!

I’ve spent a much needed day at home today & it’s been a reminder to me that I really need to have more of this in my life!

I did a bit of spring cleaning and decided that it was time to go through my wardrobe and get rid of any clothes that weren’t 100% cotton. I’ve always known that it is better to wear natural materials but I put my hands up and confess that I’m guilty of  falling victim to fashion so I’ve always turned a blind eye in this area of my life (oh man, what else am I turning a blind eye to in my life I wonder?!!…). But today was the day when I decided to wake up and take some action in the clothes department!

Hmmm, actually I realise (and I am realising more and more!) that  it is too easy and an inevitable part of modern society to fall victim or be blind to so many things. Thankfully, macrobiotics is helping me to open my eyes and see many things and I really look forward and eagerly anticipate many eye opening moments in my future. I guess those blind eyes will gain vision as my consciousness develops.

Breakfast

Mochi with shoyu & rice vinegar

Lunch

Brown rice & hato mugi cream with shoyu & sunflower seeds

A dessert made of roasted oats, roasted shoyu sunflower seeds, steamed squash & grain coffee. This is my first every grain sweetner & fruit free dessert & I’m feeling rather chuffed with myself!! It was really yummy and satisfying too!

Twig tea

Dinner

Baked brown rice & hato mugi leftover from cream with shoyu & oat pasta with shoyu, tahini & rice vinegar & a rice cake with miso

Love, light & vision

Sharlene