Winners Never Give Up
7 March 2022|Health, Nutrition, Recipes, Sustainability, Testimonials
The High Performance podcast joined our site this week and we loved listening to this episode. There are so many nuggets of gold here; the benefit of verbalising our goals, changing our self-talk, accepting failure, stepping out, stepping up and never giving up. Jake Humphrey is from my Hometown – that Norwich connection is strong – but the podcast and book are featured on merit alone.
Another sporting winner pictured here. The next time someone questions the quality of protein from a plant-based diet I’m going to point them towards Lawrence Okolie, who retained his WBO Cruiserweight title this week. Lawrence went from munching to punching; motivated to lose weight for his sport. ‘The heavier the weight class, the harder you will get hit, so I became desperate to get down my weight as much as possible.’ he says. He describes his diet as: ‘I eat all the wonderful fruit and vegetables out there, rice, grains, basically stuff that gives me energy to train but then it’s not as hard to process in my body.’
Another happy winner here: James (Healthy Living James) looks like the cat that got the (non-dairy) cream, as he proudly holds a copy of his first book which came out this week. A dream come true for this young man who was bed-bound for 11 months and has spent years clawing his way back to health after being diagnosed with ME/CFS. James was featured on our blog in February 2021 as ‘New Kid in Town‘. No more, he’s here to stay. Looking good young man! He attributes his healing to four things:
- Mindset/lifestyle
- Food (gluten/dairy/egg/refined sugar free)
- Supplements (now takes a probiotic, vitamin d and B12)
- Bowen therapy (a holistic remedial body technique that works on the soft connective tissue of the body).
Can’t believe James would be too impressed with this midweek lunch. Poor effort really. I’m distracted, like so many of us, by current world events.
Tough being a ‘Highly Sensitive Person‘ (an HSP as we’re known) at this juncture. We feel deeply, absorbing so many emotions from around us.
Trying to work out what we can do, what we should do, what we could do…
Home-made humous, sprouted grains and a very basic salad.
Laughter can be a wonderful coping mechanism and this book did it for me during one of the hardest experiences of my life: chemotherapy following a breast cancer diagnosis in 2017. Anything that can make you laugh out loud when you’re having the ‘Red Devil’ (an aggressive bright red drug) intravenously administered has to be funny.
I was gifted a copy, which I’ve since shared with a neighbour after his diagnosis, but it’s on offer on Kindle UK for 99p this month, lots of very cheap laughs.
Book no2 ‘Tales from Cancerland’ was released in June 2021, currently £1.99 on Kindle UK.
I thought this book would take me back almost 100 years to The Dust Bowl in America. I thought it would be emotional, as I’d found Hannah’s bestseller ‘Firefly Lane’. What I wasn’t bargaining on was a lesson on sustainable farming practices, which were sadly lacking and contributed to the phenomenon which caused so much hardship and claimed so many lives.
A beautifully hard read: 99p on Kindle UK, 1,39 euros on Kindle France this month.
(3 days, cover to cover – hooked).
Best apology for not making our first Gathering last week. With people wanting to join us in Europe, America, Aus and NZ we couldn’t find a time when everyone would be able to join us on Zoom. We’ve refused to record them too, to respect privacy – sorry Jess in Aus… But thank you for making me smile – an appropriately upside down one!
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