♥ Day 75 Mono Orange Juice ♥

♥ Day 75 ♥

I believe that Mother Nature is an orderly soul; she keeps a tidy house and garden. And if we have respect for her laws and the laws of Natural Hygiene, which seem very congruent with her own maxims, then I believe we can achieve a certain flow in our lives.

This flow may also be known as synchronicity; whereby events in our lives seem linked and very relevant to each other. And special 'co-incidences' occur which enhance and bring joy into our lives.

I find that a fruit diet, comprised of mostly sweet juicy fruit, brings a beautiful flow and harmony into my life. This seems even more enhanced when I am on a mono diet.

All the most beautiful moments of synchronicity in my life seem to have occurred during mono diets.

I find Natural Hygiene and Mother Nature both very logical and rational. One reason that I am greatly attracted to the writing of Arnold Ehret because I find his words and ideas to have this same ring of truth and rationality.

A raw diet, for me, has to make sense on every level.

There is always the unknown in life, that we ever strive to fathom, but the basis of my life on a fruit or mono diet seems very rational and easy to understand.

It seems to me that the truth, including dietary truths need to be simple and easy to understand; they need to make sense at a very basic level.

Mother Nature's laws are not complex, the animals who live in harmony with her do not need a manual or detailed instructions to survive. Some of them may need a parent's care for a time in their lives but after this time they live by natural and simple instinct.

So I feel that one reason why things in my life seem to flow when on a mono diet, is that I am in a certain level of harmony with the Natural Laws, and so flow and synchronicity are part and parcel of this natural state of living a Hygienic lifestyle.

Sometimes because synchronicity seems 'strange' or unusual; something we are not so used to having in our lives, we may try to close ourselves to it, or not accept it into our lives, but I find that if I have faith and I open myself up to synchronicity then it flows ever more strongly.

There are so many connections on all levels in our Universe that we may have no comprehension of or find difficult to understand; therefore, the fruity journey is definitely a bit of an adventure— often into uncharted territory.

Fruit Pirates headed out on an exciting adventure ♥

Fruity Fare ♥

Morning—12 Syrup Balls, juiced with a spoon, 2 Syrup balls, juiced in my mouth

Midday—12 Syrup Balls, juiced with a spoon

Afternoon 12 Syrup Balls, juiced with a spoon, 2 regular sized Organic Valencias, juiced in my mouth.

Fruitful Exercise ♥

40 minutes workout

20 minutes leg exercises and stretching.

Have Delicious Days ♥

Love and Peaches XX.

♥ Day 73 Mono Orange Juice ♥

Day 73 ♥

My second longest Orange juice mono diet ended after 52 days.

But I ended it not because I was listening to my own body, but because I was listening to the concerns and considerations of other people.

I accept that those who were concerned for my welfare were only acting out of love and care.

They saw a loss of weight and that was what they focused on.

I had lost a lot of weight (28lbs) but I was stronger and had more endurance and felt as well as I have ever done.

And when I stopped my mono diet, I knew that I had ended my Orange juice diet prematurely because the wonderful fruits that I broke my diet on (my fathers fresh Greengages and then a beautiful Mango) tasted only like ashes in my mouth after my beloved Orange juice.

On another Orange juice diet in 2008, I broke it after 40 days, and the Persimmon that I ate tasted like nectar.

So the big difference was that  the breaking of the 52 Day Orange juice diet, was due not from messages within but without.

And on the 40 Day Orange juice diet, my body was ready to stop.

So the message I am trying to relate is that one skill which is vitally important on any kind of raw unprocessed diet is Listening to Your Own Body.

We are taught the importance of listening to others, and how to be good listeners; but also equally vital is listening to your own body and its very important needs.

I truly believe that on a raw unprocessed diet, where most of the food is eaten totally unaltered and mono, your body will give you very clear signals of its needs and desires.

We have the internal 'ears' to hear our bodily needs but it is not always easy to listen with these ears.

Why is this?

I believe that a big part of it is that most of us have not been raised to listen to our own bodies, and also we have not been raised on a raw unprocessed diet from birth.

We have been told to listen to our parents, listen to our teachers, listen to the 'experts' and nutritionists, and listen to the Television, and listen to the doctors.

But who ever told you "Listen to Your Own Body".

And it is hard on a mixed, cooked, and processed diet to listen to your own body because the instinctive signals from raw unprocessed foods are not there.

There are so many mixes and de-natured foods that how could your body possibly be getting any clear signals as to what food it really needs.

So, I believe,one huge advantage of eating raw mono meals is that your body has a far easier time seeing what works for it personally, and then it also has a far easier time letting you know. The message is not lost in a barrage of other bodily messages from mixed, cooked, or processed foods.

So I am listening to my body regarding the stop point of my diet.

I am trying to listen with my internal 'ears' to my physical, mental and spiritual needs.

On the physical side, I do the same workout every day, so that is a good benchmark for me of how my body is doing physically.

And at the moment I find this workout to still be easier than when I am on a mixed fruit diet.

So this is one indicator, another is my general energy levels and my weight.

I am still losing weight, but I still have not lost much muscle mass. I accept there will be a point where I do not want to go any lower weight wise. And I think that this will most likely be an influence in my decision to end the Orange diet, if the weight loss become an issue and my body tells me it has lost enough weight.

The emotional and spiritual signals may be more subtle than the physical signs, but I believe they are still there if we listen to our internal 'ears'.

To be able to listen to others is indeed a great and valuable skill. However, also vitally important is the skill of being able to listen to yourself ♥

Fruity Fare ♥

Morning— 14 Organic Valencias, juiced with a spoon

Midday—9 Organic Valencias, juiced with a spoon, and 3 Organic Valencias, juiced in my mouth.

Afternoon—7 Organic Valencias, juiced with a spoon, 3 Organic Valencias, juiced in my mouth.

Fruitful Exercise ♥

40 minutes workout 

20 minutes dancing.

Have Beauty, Fruity Days ♥

Love and Peaches XX.

End of The Local Oranges ♥ ♥

Day 9
'Tis the end of the special local Oranges. They have been a true blessing.
So now to the organic ones, and also Cappi and I are off to Maleny tomorrow on (among other things) an organic Orange hunt.

—Breakfast, the juice of 4 local Oranges and 3 organic Oranges, juiced in the mouth.

—Lunch, the juice of 10 Mandarins, juiced in the mouth.

—Tea, the juice of 2 local Oranges, juiced in the mouth and 4 local Oranges, through the Breville Juicer.

Love and Peaches XX