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The Yum Diet!

The Yum Diet

This year, one of my goals is to follow the “yum diet.” The yum diet is eating and enjoying any and all foods that solicit the yummy feelings and sensations and delights of delicious food. It’s as simple as that. If your not oooing and ahhing and completely delighted when you’re eating then don’t waste your time! Eat the foods and drinks that really bring you joy and satisfaction.

In times past, I’d resign not to eat sugar, or bread or cookies. If you’ve ever done this, you know that when you try to give something up, you tend to give it power. Then your craving for that food intensifies so much that’s all that you can think about. Then you find yourself over indulging in the forbidden food. After years of trying to give up “bad” foods, I’ve resigned to eat what feels good and brings me pleasure.

The beauty of the yum diet is that some day’s you want to eat brown rice and kale and other days you want to eat fish taco’s and chips or you may want to snack on chocolate. On the yum diet, as long as your happy and feel good about what you’re eating, your body and mind will feel good too.

The yum diet is the best diet because you get to simply enjoy your food without guilt, fear or anxiety that you’ll gain weight or get sick. This is the year to get in touch with your body.

On the yum diet, you learn to listen to, trust and respect your body thus empowering you in ways you never dreamed were possible. For example, you won’t need to try any more fad diets, or compare your way of eating to your friends.

Sometimes I get in the habit of eating chocolate or a cookie every day. I realized that I was eating them out of habit not because I really loved them. The chocolate didn’t bring me joy or make me go yum instead it made me anxious that I was going to gain weight. Maybe you can relate? Do you habitually eat a food or drink wine or coffee because you think you like it? Ask yourself next time you’re eating a habitual food, “does this really bring me pleasure?” If the answer is no, don’t eat it! If you answered yes, then enjoy it to the fullest!

The yum diet gives you the freedom to get rid of the foods that don’t make you go “yum” and replace them with foods that make you jump for joy!

This week focus on adding in more foods that bring you joy and make you squeal with glee! At least one meal a day get vocal about the yumminess of your food. It’s really fun to yum your way through a meal. It’s contagious too or you could really annoy someone but at least you’re enjoying your food and feeling free!

Love,
Amanda

April is Gratitude Month-Meeting with Lee Brower from the movie the "Secret"

Hello My Friends,

Happy Friday Blessings to you! April is a lovely moody month with abundant blessings of rain, flowers, sun, snow, warmth and joy.  For me, I'm dedicating April to sheer gratitude. Will you join me? It all started two days ago, when I met the amazing Lee Brower -featured in the movie the Secret. He is the "gratitude rock" man who shared his story of his friend in Africa's son healing from a serious illness from the faith and belief in the "gratitude rock.'" (I hope I'm remembering  it all right:).

Lee has the most amazing infectious energy which you can feel the moment he walks into the room. He spoke about Vision and leadership and gratitude and love.  I left with my heart warm with joy and set on making gratitude my primary energetic state.

It works and it feels SO GOOD! I am feeling so grateful for every THING in my life. Before bed last night, I journaled several pages of all that I am grateful for, I woke up with butter fly's in my belly feeling light and very peaceful and happy. We have so much to embrace and to be thankful for in this very precious moment.

Prior to meeting Lee, I had been very FUTURE focused on what I wanted to accomplish, my goals, my dreams and vision. The problem was that thought process kept me in an ego state of  "wanting" which means lack and it also kept me comparing and contrasting.  I placed a lot of value and self worth on attaining my goal and if I did not attain my goal my self esteem suffered. Has this ever happened to you?

I decided that this energetic roller coaster of attaining or not achieving a goal had to go. My value and who I really AM in not dependent on achieving or NOT achieving. In fact we are all born perfect!

Think about an 8 month old baby. What kinds of qualities do they posses? They radiate JOY, they are happy, fun, curious, fearless, free, open, unconditionally loving, trusting, kind, sweet, pure, persistent, determined, adventurous, innocent and the list goes on and on. Little babies are the best! And YOU were a baby once so you have all of those same qualities within you.

My coaching challenge for you this month is to embrace gratitude every day.  Start with the small and then let it expand. What a miracle and blessing that you have running water, a hot shower, a refrigerator, a cozy bed, sheets a pillow and not to mention your angelic children (or siblings), your gorgeous spouse (or best friend!), your beautiful body that loves you and the hundreds of thousands of abundant blessings in your radiant life.

I suggest that you really hone in on how grateful you are for your body. What a gift to be able to walk! Thank your heart for pumping your blood and your lungs for nourishing you with life force. Thank your belly for digesting your food and for being the seat of your intuition. Thank you legs for dancing, walking, running, and carrying you through your adventurous life. Thank your arms for hugging your loved ones. Keep going with this list.

Love your body and it will LOVE you too (hint: excess weight will melt off, you'll get energized and feel lighter and more confident.) Everyone of us thrives when loved, why would your body be any different?

I'll be sure to keep you posted on my gratitude journey this month!

I am GRATEFUL for you! Thank you and bless you a thousand times!

Love and gratitude,

Amanda

http://www. AmandaMoxley.com

Living in this Precious Moment

What if you knew this moment was the only moment you had?

Many of us are focused on the future and/or living in the past.

The time is NOW.

Today practice living and fully BEING in the present when you eat your food.

When you are fully present with your food, you eat less, taste more and are more apt to listen to your bodies signal of being satiated.

Practice preparing your food mindfully, connecting to the source of the food, imagining who grew your food, harvested it, packaged it, trucked it to your grocery store,the produce person, the checkout person, etc.

Give a silent thank you and a blessing to all of the hands who made your meal possible and you will feel more connected to your food and body.

Chew your food mindfully and release the need to multi task or distract yourself with tv, magazines, the phone etc. Try eating with your spine straight!

Live in the moment and cherish every precious moment you have been given.

Love,
Amanda

Does Your Scale Make of Break Your Day?

By Amanda Moxley

Have you ever gotten on the scale and were devastated by the number staring back at you? You thought you were lighter, or thinner or eating so well and then the scale gave you a different reality? You felt like you should have lost five pounds but NO the scale is screaming at you that you actually gained weight or didn’t lose any weight at all.

How do you feel in your heart when the scale does this to you?

What kinds of thoughts do you assault yourself with? Do these sound familiar; “just give up, eating healthy doesn’t work, you’re fat, you’re a loser, you’re never going to lose weight, you’re going to feel fat forever.”

How do you eat the rest of the day? Do you continue to eat healthy or do you sabotage your efforts, get in a funk and eat crappy food all day?

If you fall into this trap, rest assured that you are not alone. The majority of women I speak to about the scale report the same negative love/hate relationship that brings them down and makes them feel horrible.

Years ago, I’d obsessed about the scale. The number looking back at me would either make me feel happy or ruin my entire day. It wasn’t until I hired my first Holistic Health Coach  (a former dancer who had to weigh in before dance practice) and she suggested that I throw away my scale. At first I didn’t believe her, but one week in between our sessions I tried not weighing myself. Instead, I declared my weight at 118 and have never weighed myself again. Now I feel absolutely FREE! I feel confident and know no matter what, I weigh 118 now. This mindset gives me a sense of innate confidence, self trust and calmness about my body that nobody and especially no scale can take away from me.

If you want to end the moody scale roller coaster like I did here is what you can do.

1. Decide that you are FINISHED with allowing the number on your scale to determine your mood and steal your peace.

2. Declare your ideal weight.

3. Tell everyone who asks your new declared weight, when you get your driver’s license use your declared weight. From this point forward act, live, eat and breathe like you are your ideal weight and never look back.

4. Never weigh yourself again because you know you don’t want to get back on the moody scale rollercoaster.

5. Continue to eat and drink the highest most nutritious foods and drinks you can afford. Continue to exercise and be grateful for the beautiful, healthy amazing body you have been given.

6. Trust this process. I promise it works! It’s been over 5 years since I weighed myself and I feel amazing inside and out.

Love,

Amanda

Introducing the Radiant Body Soaring Spirit Program

Happy weekend to YOU!

What an incredible day after the best teleclass of my entire professional career! Were you there? It’s not too late to get the recording. Here’s the link.

WOW – with over 150 people registered for last nights  call, my heart is filled with gratitude and appreciation. Thank you! If you were on the call you know I covered a ton of amazing body and life changing content to get you jump started to having it all.

AND I released details about my all new 8-month exclusive Radiant Body Soaring Spirit coaching program.

8 Incredible Months to Transform Your Body, Expand Your Creativity and Step Into Your Power as a Woman to Manifest All You Desire!

I’m so excited I can’t sleep!

Imagine having the radiantly healthy, energized body of your dreams that plays to your strengths AND being wildly abundantly successful in your career and creativity!

This program is for you if you Want It ALL-the Radiant Body, Total Success, Peace and Prosperity!

This is an intimate exclusive group program which includes two live retreats, one in the mountains near Salt Lake City and the second in Kauai, Hawaii, plus monthly topic  and coaching calls on cleansing your body, creating space for the new, Vision work, breath work, embracing the feminine, conquering your fears, and much, much more taking you through all 8 steps of my Radiant Body Soaring Spirit program.

I need to let you know, that I am only accepting 8 women into the Radiant Body Soaring Spirit program and that’s for a reason. I am committed to creating a powerful “tribe” of women who are ready to play big on all levels, women who want it all- the hot and healthy body and to be radiantly successful in their business and creativity so that they can go out and share their brilliance with the world.

You can learn all about the Radiant Body Soaring Spirit Program here

http://www.radiantbodysoaringspirit.com

It is vital to you and the other women in the group that you are a good fit for the program so it’s by application only so that I can hear your sincere desire and interest for wanting to be in this exclusive program which will catapult you to the body and life of your dreams (yes, dreams DO come true!) I promise you’ll benefit by applying since the questions will make you dig deep and think about where you desire to go, the application process will give you a boost of energy and will ignite a fire within while calling you to step up in a way you may have never done before.

If you want this, act now!

http://www.radiantbodysoaringspirit.com

I’m so excited to work with you! Bless you and have a radiant weekend!

Radiantly yours,
Amanda

Imagine-Climbing Everest Blind?

By Amanda Moxley

For several weeks now there’s been an inspiring billboard near my house of a man climbing a mountain with the side note “Vision – Climbed Everest Blind” (perhaps you’ve seen the same billboard in your town?).

Can you imagine climbing Everest blind (or even climbing it with 20/20 eyesight!)?!?  I want to play with this idea and get it into your head how VITAL having an energizing VISION is to your ultimate success!

In a world where most people are walking around asleep at the wheel, you have to stand above the crowd and think, be and act differently if you want to have an amazing radiant life.  It all starts with your Vision.

What the mind can perceive, the body can achieve!

Your mind is powerful beyond measure but you have to USE it in a way that takes you where you want to go!

When I’m coaching my clients it always surprises me how cloudy their vision is when we first start working together. But after they are complete with their coaching package their eyes are laser beamed focused on their goals 99.9% of the time.  Every successful person on the planet uses the power of a focused vision to create the life they desire. And so can you starting right now.

A mind is a terrible thing to waste!

Do you know where you are going? You need laser beam focus to get what you want out of life.  Otherwise you’re just flailing around like a ship with no destination.

Play with me in this visualization.

Close your eyes, take a few deep, long nourishing breaths, relax your face, jaw, shoulders, belly, hips and just be in your body. Focus your attention on your third eye in between your two eyebrows (the Chakra-energy center).  Relax and be still.

Now imagine the body of your dreams that plays to your strengths. See it.  Then with your inner vision, take note of every detail of your body – your strong legs, curvy hips, see your belly in your bathing suit (the belly you desire!), your toned and beautiful arms, your radiant face, your eyes.  Stay here until you can see every square inch of this beautiful body.  Keep breathing, relaxing and picturing your ideal radiant body.

Next feel this body, meaning how does this body FEEL walking down the beach? Or sitting at a cafe?  How does this body FEEL while it’s practicing yoga, hiking or swimming? FEEL IT!  Actually imagine that you are in this new body.

Visualize yourself eating healthy foods that nourish, uplift and energize this body. See yourself choosing healthy snack foods, preparing delicious and nutritious home cooked meals and easily digesting all the food you eat.

Feel the lightness, flexibility, ease and grace of this body.

Great work! You’ve done the fun part, now it’s time to get cracking on this vision!  What’s one action step you can take today that will bring you closer to your vision?

Write it down and then commit to it.

Your coaching assignment:

For the next 21 days, close your eyes and mentally envision your ideal body, feel the way it feels for at least 68 seconds every single day. (Hint: You can wear an eye mask over your eyes to really withdraw your senses and go deep within.)  If you forget a day, please start over. It’s crucial that you stick with it for the full twenty-one days because that’s how long it takes to shift your energy on a cellular level!  (I promise it works! Don’t give up!)

If you liked this inspiring article and want MORE, then definitely join me for my FREE teleclass on March 25th! And bring your friends too!

http://amandamoxley.com/teleclasses/5_juicy_secrets.html

Love and radiance,

Amanda

WOULD YOU LIKE TO USE THIS ARTICLE IN YOUR EZINE OR ON YOUR WEBSITE?

You can, as long as you include this complete blurb with it:  Amanda Moxley, Body and Soul Coach, publishes the energizing and inspiring “Breath of Fresh Air E-Zine” every other Thursday for healthy people everywhere.  If you are ready to discover your perfect body in a way you’ve never learned how to before, get your FREE articles, tips, tools and recipes at: www.AmandaMoxley.com

Click here => www.AmandaMoxley.com

Join me for a *FREE* Teleclass -- "The 5 Juiciest Secrets You Must Know if You Want it All - a Radiant Body, Total Success, Peace and Prosperity"

I'm so excited I can hardly sleep.  I'm ready to pull back the curtains and let it all flow for you in a free teleseminar happening on

Thursday, March 25th at 7PM MST
(that's 9PM EST, 6PM PST, 8PM CST)

This call is for you if you've had enough of playing small, feeling stuck and wanting more out of life. Are you ready for a major break through?!

On this 75-80 minute awe inspiring call I'll be revealing for the first time ever:

* The 5 Juiciest Secrets you must know if you want it all - the radiantly healthy body, total business success, peace AND prosperity

* The crucial shifts you must make in order to joyfully have it all and step into your ESSENTIAL ease and abundance mentality

* The single most important action step you must take in claiming the body and life of your dreams (no it's NOT dieting, restricting or budgeting)

* How I completely transformed my body, business and bank account over the past year using these exact 5 Juicy Secrets

* How to live in the "sweet spot" so that all of life supports you

* Where to go next -- How to get the support you need and put what you've learned into a life-lasting action plan so you can start having it all.  Learn about the phenomenal life-changing opportunities I have created all for you and then take action!

I promise this teleclass is going to be **HUGE**! Get ready for a transformation!

Reserve your space here!

http://amandamoxley.com/teleclasses/5_juicy_secrets.html

I can't wait to 'see' you on the call!

Have a beautiful day!

Love,

Amanda

Happy St. Patty's! Lucky Green Smoothie Recipe

Happy St. Patty’s Day to you my friend!

I hope it’s a lucky, fun-filled, healthy day for you.  I wanted to give you my favorite “Lucky Green Smoothie” recipe to ensure that you get your daily dose of greens in today!

I also wanted to extend a very special invitation to you: next Thursday March 25th, I’m hosting a *FREE* teleclass on

“The 5 Juiciest Secrets You Must Know if You Want it All – a Radiant Body, Total Success, Peace and Prosperity”

This call is for you if you are ready for a major breakthrough in your diet, body, health, business and more. If you’re sick of coming up against the same issues and knocking your head on the glass ceiling and you are searching for MORE – be on the call!  I promise you will not look at life in the same way after you hang up from this ground breaking FREE call.

Reserve your spot here!

I can’t wait to ’see’ you on the call!  Be sure to eat your “Lucky Green Smoothie” today. You’ll feel AWESOME!

Love,

Amanda

This St. Patty’s Day be sure to get your daily dose of greens.  You’ll feel so happy you did tomorrow morning!

Ingredients:
1 cucumber
1 avocado
3 handfuls of spinach
1 banana
2 handfuls frozen blueberries

Directions:
Wash all veggies then blend in high powered blender until smoothie smooth.

Bless and enjoy!

Have a fun-filled, delicious St. Patty’s!

How Good Can You Stand It?

By Amanda Moxley
 
I just finished coaching my 21 Days to Feel Hot and Healthy program this week and we ended with the question, "How good can you stand it?"

This is a really big question that makes you stop in your tracks and see all of those crucial moments in which you choose between your ho-hum life now -OR- having what you REALLY want -- like the beautiful, sexy body, OR being super successful in your biz, OR having a balanced life, OR having an intimate loving relationship....!!!  You KNOW what I'm talking about!
 
Whoever said that you can't have it all?  Why have you been choosing to take ONLY the crumbs and scraps of the Walmart pie instead of choosing the full, divinely delicious sweetness of the organic raw vegan pie of Life?  I think it goes back to being afraid of your LIGHT and who you truly are (an unlimited infinite being!).

To quote Marianne Williamson, "There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that others won't feel insecure around you."

Do you have some ancient genetic belief lurking in your mind that tells you:  you don't "deserve" to have a magical, amazing, abundantly rich, successful, easy, delicious, life-like heaven on Earth?  If yes, (you are not alone) can you let that go and start living life as if it truly was heaven on Earth?  (I hope you are nodding your head, HE*L YES!:) 
 
It's high time to start living in your big "I" - some call it your highest Self, your expanded Self, your Soul.  When you align with your big I, you align your Soul with source energy or "I am" energy. This powerful alignment with Source crowds out your little "you" ego (edging GOOD/God out) - that which keeps you scared, doubting, comfortable, separate and fearful.

This little ego is NOT the one driving the car, YOU are.  Make no mistakes as to who holds the most power!
 
So, back to the question..."How good can you stand it?"
 
Can you stand having the hot and healthy body, unlimited abundance, positivity, fun, pleasure, intimacy, adventure, love, friendships, radiant health and more?

If your answer is No, then get to work on receiving, allowing, opening and connecting to your highest self.

If your answer is "Well, I can have one or two of those things but not all of them" then you are blocking all the good that is your birth rite.  This explains why you sabotage yourself when you start feeling too good.  You might choose to overeat, or binge on sugar, or blow off exercise, or overspend money, or stay in an fulfilling relationship.  It's as if you hit an invisible glass ceiling, the status quo from where you feel comfortable operating.  We unconsciously place these rules, boundaries and limits around ourselves because we are afraid of having it ALL!  You deserve MORE than status quo!   

Feel that!
 
If you're reading this, likely you are tired of hitting your head up against that glass ceiling and you are ready for MORE!  You are ready to bust through your upper limits and into a whole new frontier of unlimited potential and infinite possibilities.  Yes, YES!
 
Your coaching assignment:
 
Step 1.  Journal and daydream about your wildest dreams.  What would your body, life, bank account, relationships and business look like if you could have it ALL?
 
Step 2:  Awareness.  Notice when you start putting yourself into an "either/or" bind.  "I can have this but I can't have this" thinking.  Write it down, tell a friend, or your Body and Soul coach.  This awareness will blow you away!  You will start noticing how many multiple times each day you are choosing between having it ALL or having just the leftover scraps and crumbs of the pie.
 
Step 3:  Go after your wildest dreams in a really big way.  Do NOT hold back.  Say YES to your dreams and Go For It even if you are scared.  In order to grow you have to feel uncomfortable, you have to stretch and breathe into it.

Step 4:  Start living in the *AND*!  Let yourself have it ALL because you deserve it all.  You can have this AND this AND this....!!!

If you want to learn how to HAVE IT ALL then definitely join me for my upcoming FREE teleclass on March 25th! And bring your friends too!

http://amandamoxley.com/teleclasses/5_juicy_secrets.html

It's your time to Shine!  I believe in YOU!

Love and radiance,
 
Amanda

WOULD YOU LIKE TO USE THIS ARTICLE IN YOUR EZINE OR ON YOUR WEBSITE?
 
You can, as long as you include this complete blurb with it:  Amanda Moxley, Body and Soul Coach, publishes the energizing and inspiring "Breath of Fresh Air E-Zine" every other Thursday for healthy people everywhere.  If you are ready to discover your perfect body in a way you've never learned how to before, get your FREE articles, tips, tools and recipes at: www.AmandaMoxley.com

Click here => www.AmandaMoxley.com

March Goal Setting!

Hello and welcome to March!

You may be feeling the shift of energy in the air as we move closer to the Spring Equinox on March 21st. March is a wonderful time to clear out the clutter, reexamine your goals for the New Year, and continue to rest and nurture yourself with yummy foods, exercise and quiet time. We’re in the final weeks of winter so it’s important to prioritize self care, nourishment and rest in order to be fully energized and ready for the purification and renewal of Spring time.

What are you personal intentions and goals for March?

Coaching assignment:

Pick 3 food, body and health goals that you’d like to accomplish this month.

For example:

Goal 1: Exercise at least 4 times a week doing something I love.

Goal 2: Prepare 3 new easy, delicious and nutritious recipes this month

Goal 3: Sit quietly every day and VISUALIZE my ideal body. I’m going to use the power of my mind to focus ONLY on my hearts desires of having a beautiful, radiantly healthy body.

I suggest dedicating a special journal to your monthly goals. It’s vital that you review your goals every day to stay on track!

Optional: Share your goals with a friend who believes in you 100%. At the end of the month, check in with each other on your successes and challenges and make new goals for the next month.

So, what are your goals? What are you going to manifest this month?

Hint! Go big!

Love,

Amanda