Hey, lovely peoples! Ok so today, I’m going to expose how your perception of what a treat is can really determine what you eat, then how you feel and how you look! Yeap, totally true!
If you think a treat is cake, ice-cream, soda, alcohol or candy as opposed to divine berries, home made low sugar desserts and other pleasures like flowers, a good massage, a big hug or a beautiful cup of organic tea, then your view of a “treat” could be the one thing that is threatening your wellbeing.
I share my idea of treats; a clear ritual and action I take to truly nourish mind, body and soul. My treats are really good for me! They don’t make me feel sick ½ an hour later! I don’t kid myself and pretend that having a cocktail each day or ½ a block of chocolate is a treat. It’s not. Rather, it’s a potential threat to rocking health and emotional stability and stable rocking glowing energy. Least we not forget the hot bod you want right? So, remember each decision you make can either be loving or not so loving.
HOTNESS in BODYLOVE LAND:
Now, let me be clear HOT goes beyond the physical and the word ‘HOT’ is linked to METABOLISM and powerful digestive FIRE = HOT, HEALTHY & HAPPY! The moment we honor the body with good food and a self loving juicy Bodylove mindset, the body transforms. More to come on that! It’s quite a spectacular thing!
So do yourself a favor and start to review your own perception of what is good for you. Write down how you treat yourself and then come up with replacements. Try it out for a few weeks and see how you feel and look improve big time! I challenge YOU!
Remember if you want a different result you need to do something different! A great way to do that is to evaluate your beliefs. In doing so, we start to cultivate AWARENESS and the path to change will come more easily. Perhaps you can try treating yourself with something far more nourishing? Come on give it go and let me know!
There is no time like the present to enter into a new sassy mode of living! I just love living the good life and I’ve dedicated much of my time to the pursuit of nirvana or heaven on earth, as I like to call it. So with my passion for all things juicy, I’m launching Bodylove Beauty Food with me, Miss Bodylove A.K.A Ingrid Arna, in the kitchen.
You see, I’m on a mission to help women heal their bodies, on both an energetic and physical level! So to support your journey, I’m going to cook up a storm bringing you divine food to nourish your body, mind and spirit. With Bodylove Beauty Food and The Bodylove Diet ( launching in MAY – a ground breaking myth busting program), you will gain a whole new appreciation of food, sex, love, beauty and your body.
You will receive lots of juicy information on mind- body rituals, energy clearing, healing foods, releasing fears, weight loss tips and juicy delights to inspire self love, pleasure, weight loss and YES, least we not forget a beautiful rocking and healthy body.
Many of us have been told that we need to deprive ourselves and suffer to reach beauty but that is absolutely not the case and quite BOGUS actually! In other words BS. I love to curse just to get my point across! J
To live in beauty we must be beauty. So how to we BE BEAUTY? Simply by learning to love and nourish the divine sacred bodies that we have. This is the beauty that is limitless and never ending. So if your 20 or 70, this kind of sacred beauty lives on! Now, how gorgeous is that? Woo Hoo! The health – happy – beauty revolution is finally here!
Some of you know me well and others of you don’t know my full story. Here is a brief snap shot. I used to have a whole truck load of fears around food and it caused me great pain. I’ve had chronic health issues including a life threatening illness and an eating disorder. I starved my body from 12 years of age to about 25 before heading to hospital for four surgeries. I had blood poisoning from a bacteria infection, my immune system was completely shot and my metabolism was pretty much non-existent after torturing myself in an effort to be a success in the world of entertainment and modeling. After being a diet pill addicted stressed out skinny mini for ten years, I gained about 20 kilos (45 pounds) the minute I started to eat again. Expletives could be heard world wide as I keep piling on the weight!
I decided that my life was too hard and that in order for me to really live in beauty, I had to create a mega shift, if I was going to have the pleasure filled live I wanted. I literally got down on my hands and keens and prayed for guidance and that is when the word “Bodylove” came to me. I got my groove on and set about creating a new reality for myself. In the process, I healed my body and my relationship with myself and with food. As I surrendered into my pleasure path, I began to reveal a new way of living that recreated my beliefs, then reshaped my body on a spiritual, cellular and physical level. Then from that point, I reinvented my entire way of living and relating to live. I filled myself with love and then in turn became a magnet to love in all areas of my life. I met the man of my dreams, got rid of the toxic relationships and attracted a new juicy, sassy, loving possy of empowered friends and business partnerships.
When we release our fear of food, we can embrace eating for pleasure and self love, which reconnects us to the wisdom of the body. We then begin to trust in life and in love which taps into our inner radiance, divine beauty and intuitive guidance. We come vessels of love and then the world around us changes to match our new energy! – Board certified health counselor, Ingrid Arna
So this is my contribution and gift to all women (and you too boys!) to inspire a healthy, happy, beauty revolution! So the truth is if I can heal my body then you can too! I now have over 12 years of intensive study behind me. I know I look so very youthful but in actual fact, I’m 36!! Yeap, you see the great thing about eating for self love, pleasure and rocking health and body, is that it has anti-ageing benefits too! How super is that!
So, please join me by posting your questions here at my Blog or on Facebook @Ingrid Arna. I would love to hear from you! Also if you like my blogs and video please share the beauty of Bodylove my forwarding to your friends and loved ones. You can do it in two seconds by sharing below!
My first guest is beauty and cosmetic entrepreneur, Lydia Jordane otherwise known as my MUM. We cooked up a storm last night for you! African fish cooked in coconut oil which was to die for and Sexy Spicy Chicken Curry served with Garlic Infused Green Vege Medley! Yummy in my tummy!
If you want to lose weight, radically improve your health and feel groovy baby tune in to gain a whole new appreciation of food, sex, love, beauty and your body.
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Much Bodylove, Beauty and Bliss,
Ingrid Arna x
Ingrid is a board certified holistic health counselor with extensive expertise in mind-body healing, integrative nutrition, women’s health and body image. Endorsed by celebrities like Kate Winslet and featured in numerous magazines including Cleo, Cosmo, Instyle, Grazia and Body & Soul.
On my days off, I love to lounge and when lounging I love to eat healthy snacks. If your looking for great salty snack ideas check out the yummy foods for you to enjoy whilst still living healthy.
Tomorrow I will post the sweet snacks I love! Enjoy good food and put yourself in a super great mood!
• Olives
• Pickles
• Oysters
• Sardines
• Sweet Potato Chips – check out recipe below!
• Fresh lime and or lemon juice as seasoning or in a beverage
• Salted Edamame ( the green Japanese peas)
• Small amount of organic cheese or my favorite goats feta!!
• Avocardo with a dash sea salt ( creamy and salty!)
Baked Sweet Potato Chips Recipe
I love foods that are good for me including great carbs that don’t send my sugar soaring or send my body into fat storage. That is why I love sweet potato, it is low GI or low sugar and these baked chips rock. This recipe is a great alternative to regular potato chips.
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: Approximately 20 minutes on 200 degrees!
Ingredients:
1 sweet potato
3 teaspoons coconut oil
1 pinch sea salt
1 pinch of cayenne pepper
Preparation:
Preheat oven to 200 degrees
Take a large sweet potato, wash and dry off.
Then peel potato length ways to remove skin.
Next, you need to use one of those larger style peelers to cut very fine round slices, so almost like a thin shave.
Place 2 teaspoons of olive oil into bowl, add a pinch of sea salt and a pinch of cayenne depending on how spicy you like your food!
Then add super thin slices of sweet potato and mix well.
Line baking tray with alfoil and spread another teaspoon of coconut oil on alfoil to avoid sticking.
Evenly place sweet potato on the tray
Bake in oven for 20 minutes, keep an eye on it because you don’t want them to burn! These chips are super fine so you should babysit and check in every 5 minutes the first time
Remove from the oven and set aside for 10 minutes or for as long as you can manage without tasting. Personally, I find it hard to wait too long
A great way to fuel your body and to keep your energy balanced through out the day, is to eat 5- 6 small meals or snacks to stay on track. If you want to feel great then snack to stay on track and experience the difference; boost your energy, develop focus and mind power, lift your confidence and improve your health.
The secret is the following:
1. A STRONG DESIRE TO FEEL FABULOUS.
2. SELF-CARE.
3. PREPARATION.
4. AWARENESS.
Eating a yummy snack every three hours keeps your metabolism burning and your body powering along, avoiding energy slumps and potential binge behavior when your absolutely starving. If you want to have bread, eat sugar free whole grain bread 3 times a week in the morning so you burn it off during the day.
Limit pasta and potato at night and remember the motto is quality not quantity. If you can have grass fed beef once a week, chicken a few times a week and fish a few times a week with ONE glass of wine that would be a great start. Perhaps you can splurge on two glasses on Friday night!! WooHoo.. just remember one glass is good but much more than that is not so great. Each glass has about 4gms of sugar which is pretty low but you would be cutting out quite a bit over say a week and then a month. It all makes a difference and it all adds up!
Here are a few suggestions for you. To save time and to ensure that you are organized, it might be best to prepare some of these snacks at night to take to work. This makes it easy to grab a bite when you feel you need to. Another great idea is to save a portion of your dinner or make an extra meal at night to keep as a snack or meal for the following day. Charcoal or roasted chicken is another option if you hate to cook or don’t have time. Free range or organic are great. They have great chickens (including salt free) at Wholefoods in the States at most Coles and Woolworths in Australia. You can also request them too. For easy eating, cut the chicken into quarters then wrap small portions and take to work or store in your fridge for quick snacks. As soon as your starting to feel hungry take the time to have a 5 minute nosh to eliminate any energy slumps. If we can take sugar breaks then I am sure we can take a nosh break to refuel. If you get over hungry your blood sugar levels tend to plummet which can make you feel tired, irritable and unfocused. It has also been proven to drop productivity and memory by over 30%. You might want to avoid that from happening!
Make sure to always eat breakfast to jump start your metabolism to supre charge your energy for the entire day. Not eating breakfast is one of the worst things you can do deplete your energy. While sleeping, you’ve been fasting over night and your body needs food in the morning to operate effectively. So if you have to get up 15 minutes early to make time for breakfast, do it. Your body will thank you.
Binge Busting Snack Ideas:
1. 200 grams Grilled Chicken & 1/4 Avocado
2. Protein Bar / Raw Food Bar (check to see that the sugar content is low and that there is no fake sugars and try to get an organic bar or raw food bar ) I like Horley’s Carb Less Bar and you can get them at health food stores, buy a box and keep at work provided you don’t eat more than one a day.
3. Boiled Egg with a touch of salt
4. Boiled Egg, 200 grams Grilled Chicken & 1/4 Avocado
5. Protein Smoothie (2 scoops protein, 1/2 banana and or berries, water, ice and soy milk – sugar free, delete banana if on low carb diet but having some carbs is good for you as in vegetables, fruit, salad, legumes and some grains)
6. 8 almonds and an apple, or half and apple and one teaspoon of almond butter or peanut butter.
7. Soup – you can buy at most food stores and eat when you feel like it. Go for low sodium options if you can.
8. Buy a whole chicken from Wholefoods / or any store see if they have free range, cut in quarters and keep at work to snack on. Also baking chicken legs takes less than 5 minutes to prepare, see recipe below, point 10.
9. Limit soda or better yet delete it all together, keep a big bottle of water on your desk and aim to drink it all by the end of the day. Also sugar free iced tea can be purchased or easily made with a few herbal tea bags and lots of hot water. I store litres of it in my fridge and my favourite is herbal berry~ I add stevia to sweeten and I am good to go.
10. Chicken legs, l/4 cup of coconut milk, 1 tablespoon of curry powder, one onion chop finely, one capsicum, one zucchini, cut all vegetables finely, dash of sea salt and mix in bowl, then add to baking tray and back on 180 degrees for 30 minutes. Substitute with other vegetables if you prefer but no potato.
11. Keep frozen berries in freezer have a small bowl for dessert or ¼ of apple sliced finely so you savor it.
12. Iced herbal tea is great. Get a glass jug, boil water and add about 4 tea bags and add water and then chill. If you like some sweetness add stevia.
For more information on sugar in white check out this article:
These chips are super fine so you should babysit and check in every 5 minutes the first time
