Drink Your Veggies for Weight Loss and Health!

Raw foods contain something that cannot be found in any other food: live enzymes. Enzymes are the catalyst for every human function. We were born with the capacity to produce a great deal of enzymes and started life with a huge enzyme "bank account." However, the standard cooked American fare uses up enzymes during the digestion process without replacing them. Over time we become enzyme impoverished. We perceive this as our metabolism slowing as we age, but it is really because we are becoming enzyme deficient.

Enzymes are your body's workers. They clean up all the garbage and waste that slows your body down, makes you feel sick, tired and sluggish and pack on the extra pounds. The more enzymes you take in through eating raw plant food, the more fuel you will have to complete the chores that your body must do to keep you in a vibrant, healthy and youthful state.

Here's another way to look at the importance of enzymes. We are living beings. Although no one will dispute that, our civilization consumes food that is dead – or cooked. Ask yourself, how can dead food sustain living beings without making those beings less vibrant? Eating living foods makes us more vibrant-literally "full of life."

If you're skeptical about all of this, I invite you to try adding more raw fruits and vegetables to your diet and see for yourself how much better you'll feel. A simple way to start doing this is to start your day with a freshly juiced vegetable drink and a protein shake and then add a large raw vegetable salad to your lunch and dinner. Studies now show that drinking freshly juiced vegetables can triple your weight loss and women who have the highest intakes of phytochemicals had body fat levels that were 46 percent lower than those that took in the least! So drink up your veggies! Below is my favorite recipe.

Bonnie’s Veggie Juice
½  lemon
1 small apple
2 carrot
2 celery stick
½ cucumber
6 Kale leaves

Wash everything with "Veggie Wash" (I get it at Stop and Shop in the produce department) and then put it through your juicer. I find this juice deliciously refreshing and invigorating. I can just feel all those wonderful fresh enzymes going to work cleaning all the garbage out of my body!

If you've made a commitment to eat healthier and your best intentions keep going astray because of cravings for your favorite foods, check out my video - "Tap to Be Free" - EFT for Cravings

If 2013 Was the Best Year of My Life...

I love New Years’ Day! To me it feels like a chance at a fresh start, a new beginning. This day feels full of promise and excitement and an opportunity to create the best year of my life so far. I no longer make New Years’ resolutions. They never felt good to me, they just felt like another list of things that “I should do.” And so, usually by the time a few weeks passed, I stopped doing them. A few years ago I started something I called, “setting my New Years’ intentions.” “Setting my New Years’ intentions” starts off with a very general statement of me saying, “2013 is going to be the best year of my life so far!” And then I start asking myself how would I feel if I was having the best year of my life? This is what came to me for this bright and shiny new year of 2013.

If 2013 Was the Best Year of My Life…

• I would wake up each morning excited about the possibilities that this new day might bring.
• I would appreciate and focus on all the wonderful things that are good and are working in my life.
• I would look for the best in everyone I know and everyone I meet.
• I would expect good things to happen to me and those I love.
• I would trust that there is a greater plan and hand at work in all things.
• I would trust that everything is always unfolding perfectly.
• I would look for the best in everyone I know and everyone I meet.
• I would have more faith
• I would be kinder
• I would laugh more
• I would love more
• I would pray more
• I would play more
• I would remember that everything I have is everything I need.
• I would remember that I am never alone, always loved, eternally supported and everything is always working out for me.

I would remember that I hold the key and the power to create the best year of my life. I exercise that power by how I focus my thoughts. I would remember that whatever I put my focus on is what I get more of, and so I would be very careful about what I place my attention on. I would put my attention on the things that are good and are right and that I want to create more of and so allow myself to experience 2013 as the Best Year of my life, so far!

Happy New Year everyone! I wish you all the Best Year of your life, so far!