May 22nd, 2010
Hey!
Yesterday & today have been really busy hence my late posting. We’ve spent the day cooking lots of lovely (I hope!) food for a jam packed macro day in London tomorrow (yay!).
Day 21
Breakfast & Lunch
I decided to fast until dinner as I knew I wouldn’t be hungry
Dinner
Brown rice pie, sauerkraut sandwiches on homemade wholemeal bread
Twig tea
Ale & corn chips
1 nut truffle & some oat flake biscuit
Day 22
Breakfast
A sample of tofu cheesecake, this was an unintentional breakfast!
Lunch
Brown rice, onions, carrots, kidney beans (I had a craving for kidney beans today!! was that my kidneys trying to communicate with me?!) with miso & sauerkraut (I had this all in the one dish, it might sound a little strange and it did look a bit odd but it was beautiful!)
Dinner
A little bit of this and a little bit of that (testing and tasting and tasting and testing)
Some apple juice
It’s almost midnight and I better get myself into bed as there are many things I have to do for tomorrow. I hope I will be able to post some photos tomorrow from the macro day and of the food we prepared.
Love, light & laughter
Sharlene
May 20th, 2010
Hey!
I woke up feeling hungry this morning but now I am going to bed feeling completely full (oops!) and I don’t like that feeling.
Breakfast
Oat porridge
Lunch
A beautiful red lentil & vegetable pie with watercress & sauerkraut salad
Dinner
Miso soup made with wakame, lenils & onion
Brown rice pie with cucumber & radish salad
A crunchy nut & raisin dessert
Twig tea followed by some mu tea
It seems I ate two fairly yang meals today and it left me craving yin (liquid!). Hmmm. There is always much to learn!!
Sending love & light your way
Sharlene
p.s. I can now post some photos again so I’ll try to post some of our wedding soon & to get some food ones on here too 
yay!
May 19th, 2010
Hello Hello!
Today was another day in macro paradise! I feel that I am being spoilt at the moment as my husband is doing most of the cooking for us & he is an amazing macro cook! I wouldn’t feel right if I didn’t cook though so I am fortunate that I can cook macro food for other people, otherwise, I’d just have to do some cooking at home!
Breakfast
Nothing
Lunch
Miso soup made with mung beans & wakame
Millet & buckwheat with gomasio, carrots & sauerkraut
Dinner
Brown rice milk
Brown rice cracker
Rice cakes
Twig tea
I love having days without over eating and without dessert. It seems that I am overcoming my overeating pattern for the moment which is really great. Yay!
Rays of love & light
Sharlene
May 18th, 2010
Another very Good Evening to you!
My head is in a spin right now as I’ve just been learning Serbian and it is pretty mind boggling. Arghhh! I love that feeling when nothing makes sense in the beginning, but in time, with effort & practice, it will become clearer and clearer. That is the beauty of learning and of life. Nothing makes sense in the beginning, but as we go on, we gain experience, we practice, we learn, we grow, we come to know, we evolve & voila! :O) I love learning!
Breakfast
Breakfastlessness
Lunch
Miso soup made of lentils & arame
Brown rice with gomasio with carrots & sauerkraut
Cous cous cake for dessert (aahh, my eyes lit up when my wonderful macro man presented me with another dessert today!!)
Dinner
Millet balls with sauerkraut, pasta with carrot & umeboshi plum sauce
Grain coffee
Corn chips
Now it’s time to rest my body & give my soul a chance to explore other worlds zzzzzzzzzzzzz!
Love & learning
Sharlene
May 17th, 2010
A very Good Evening!
I have just returned from dancing this evening, and after not having danced for some time, I am feeling very happy to have started again. Yayyy!!
Breakfast
A lack of hunger meant no breakfast for me this morning
Twig tea
Lunch
The most delicious miso soup made with celeriac, aduki beans & kombu (ahh, my macro man is a wonderful & he cooks amazing food too! (that makes me one incredibly lucky woman!)
Brown rice with gomasio, onion & carrots & salad of watercress & radish
A really delicious creamy and sweet dessert made of squash, oat flakes & roasted almonds
Dinner
Same as lunch
Now the land of nod awaits.
Love & warm wishes
Sharlene
May 16th, 2010
Good Evening!
I didn’t feel so good when I woke up this morning & I have resolved not to drink any alcohol for a while. I have drank far too much lately and now it seems my body cannot handle it so well so I must be careful and take care.
Breakfast
Nothing!
Lunch
Buckwheat & millet with onions
Dinner
Oat & barley pasta with carrot & onion sauce, sauerkraut, radishes with umeboshi plum, squash tempura
Grain coffee with homemade barley milk
Loads of macro love
Sharlene
May 16th, 2010
Good day!
Day 14/Friday
Breakfast
No breakfast due to a feast the night before!
Lunch
Miso soup with dulse
Brown rice with cabbage & black sesame seeds
Grain coffee
Dinner
Homemade rye crackers with carrot sauce & brown rice
Day 15
Breakfast
Grain coffee
Oat porridge with corn cakes
Lunch
Sushi, buckwheat & onions, corn & rice pasta with squash sauce
Beer
Dinner
Corn chips
Beer
Chicken burger & chips…can you believe it?! (he he!) It was late and I was really hungry, especially after having beer. Evidence that strong yin creates an attraction for strong yang…
I found myself judging myself after eating this but I realise how it is so important to be mindful of becoming or being judgemental around food etc. It’s not so healthy or wise to feel guilty or bad just because of eating something. What I do think is important is to try to understand it from a macrobiotic viewpoint and try to use the experience to learn and to grow. Learn and grow, learn and grow – that is all we can do in this life
Much love
Sharlene
May 14th, 2010
Howdy!
I woke up feeling hungry again so it seems when I eat ‘properly’ (!) I wake up hungry. It’s a nice feeling & I have enjoyed leaving the house feeling full and charged for the morning!
Breakfast
Oat flakes with nuts & shoyu
Grain coffee
Lunch
Miso soup made of wakame & millet
Brown rice with gomasio & sunflower seeds
Dinner
Brown rice with sunflower seeds & umeboshi plum
Corn chips & homemade rye chips with a tomato & miso dip & brown rice dip
Nettle tea
Hot apple drink
I strayed a little off the ‘grain fast path’ with dinner tonight. It seems I can only endure about four days before I feel the need to move the goal posts and widen my diet. So now I am aware of this, in four days from now I can remember this and use it to help me move forward and keep on track. It would be easy to say ‘ok, well now I’ve eaten some other things I may as well continue eating other things’ but I’m not going to fall into that trap which I have done many many times before. I want to learn and grow and now I feel as though I have more consciousness and awareness around this pattern, it’s time to shine some light on it and change it. Yay!
Love & light
Sharlene
May 12th, 2010
Good Evening!
Today has been a great day & I am going to go to bed feeling very fulfilled and as though I have accomplished alot (I love that feeling!).
Breakfast
Can you believe I woke up feeling hungry? So I had a beautiful porridge made of oat flakes, water & shoyu – mmm! It was beautiful
Later in the morning I had some grain coffee
Lunch
The simplest miso soup made of barley miso & wakame
Brown rice & gomasio
Dinner
Barley, brown rice, sesame seeds & hijiki very lightly seasoned with white miso
Followed by a dessert made of roasted squash & shoyu. Oh my, this was sooo amazing! So sweet & nourishing. Sometimes I have a feeling after eating a sweet sweet dessert that it isn’t right but this just felt so right and it certainly hit the spot!
So it seems our grain fast isn’t so strict and I like that! It is but it isn’t if you know what I mean?! And that is how is should be…it should be and it shouldn’t be, it should be yin and it should be yang, there should be space and there should be no space…all at the same time
Do you ever wonder what macrobiotics is all about? What the point of it is? What’s the essence? Well, I reckon it is freedom, and the more you practice, the deeper you go, the more freedom you can attain. Bring on the freedom!!!
OK, a ginger compress awaits (yipee!!)
Love & freedom
Sharlene
p.s. I felt a little hungry still after dinner & later on in the evening on my way home & I was tempted to buy something from a supermarket (rice crackers or corn chips or something) but then I realised that it’s ok to feel that little bit hungry and in fact it keeps me feeling more alive and alert. I felt really great that I was able to resist my usual habit of finding something to eat at the slightest sign of hunger. Now I feel like I could eat something but it’s too late. I will go to bed knowing that I will sleep very soundly (my body will be grateful for the rest from food) and I shall wake up feeling revitalised and ready for some delicious wholegrains Mmmm! I love that feeling & I feel good that I have made a positive step forward! You can do that too. It’s so nice to start enjoying the feeling of achievement rather than listening to the habitual chatter of the mind & emotions!! It’s time to break free!!!
May 11th, 2010
Hello!!!
Today’s eating has been so simple & I can feel that my body really loves that. I am sure tonight I am going to sleep wonderfully and I am certain I will wake up tomorrow feeling refreshed and ready for the day. Mmmm, I love knowing this and being able to create this condition. It makes me feel so excited to think that it is possible to determine my future by what I eat. If I eat well I feel well, if I feel well my actions will be well, if my actions are well then it influences everyone and everything positively…and it all depends on the food that passes ones lips because what you eat determines your thoughts, your feelings, your blood, your condition, your future, everything!!!
Breakfast
Grain coffee
Lunch
Buckwheat with shoyu, gomasio & tahini
Dinner
Brown rice with gomasio & some seitan (the seitan had to be used!!)
Grain coffee
Ahh I feel giddy with excitement as I write this and I have no particular reason why! I have that feeling that I had when I first started eating macrobiotically. It’s as though something wonderful and magical is pumping through my veins. I just cannot explain what it is exactly but I do know that it comes from eating well and engaging in wholesome thoughts. If you have not yet discovered this, I hope one day you will. Believe in the magic of this life and it has no choice but to become part of you…
Love & magic & magic & love
Sharlene
