Whole30 Recipe // Sooooo Much Better Than an Egg McMuffin

Sooooo much better than McDonald's egg mcmuffin. 2 eggs, sausage, guac & pico. To get eggs this shape, I crack one in the bottom of a kids Ikea bowl and microwave it for 60 seconds.

Guac is 2 avocados mashed with the juice of one lime and salt to taste.  Easy and delicious! 

Whole30 Recipe // Antipasto Cups

Antipasto cups: bake salami in muffin tin at 400° for 10 min to get cup form, add chopped artichoke hearts, olives, cherry tomatoes, and fresh basil. Enjoy!

Whole30 Recipe // Carne Asada Fries

Carne asada fries! what a way to kick off another round of Whole30! I'm hopping on board with my health buddy @jennaskitchen no cheats (including no diet coke, #tears) this time, 30 days- lets go!

Let's start from the bottom up shall we!?

Sweet potato chopped length wise, tossed in 2 tblsp oil (I used avocado this time) and sea salt. Bake at 400° for 20 min, flip fries, bake 20 more min then switch dial to broil- to crisp up (keep a close eye so they don't burn). Steak was cooked in avocado oil with garlic & salt - cooked on the stove top until well done. Pico- 1 handful cilantro, 2 handfuls cherry tomatoes, 1 onion, chopped and tossed with juice of 1 lime and 1 clove garlic. Guac- 2 avocados mashed with juice of 1 lime, and salt to desired taste. Who's on board??

Negative thoughts that hold us back

Negative thoughts can hold us back and ruin our health! We all get them though! So here are some tools on releasing them. Whenever we think negative thoughts we can choose to entertain them or to let them go. What works for me is imagining any negative thoughts and bad feelings to go to the light, a place of total stillness, lightness and love where negativity is transmuted and dissolved into star dust! You might also imagine sending negative thoughts to Heaven, angels or to God for transmutation. 

Negative thoughts effect our health. I write about this in my new book. Our body is bathed in chemistry of either love emotions or negative emotions depending in which state we are in at the time. Dr Bruce Lipton, a fellow Hay House Author, I love his lectures because he gives presentations on scientific evidence of how this works. And basically negative thoughts lead to stress in the body which causes acidity which is a breeding ground for cancer, disease, aches and pains, weight gain, sluggishness, anxiety, addiction and depression. 

So see its very important to release our negative thoughts rather than keep them inside. For great health of bodies should be in a state of love and peace majority of the time, well at least 50% of the time! 

I know it's easier said then done, especially if you suffer with depression because then the majority of thoughts are negative. I hope these tools will help you as they help me everyday. Here are some negative thoughts I may have or ones that are very common among all human beings: (so whenever you catch yourself thinking these or whatever bad feelings you have, send them to the light to be dissolved and dealt with so they are not stuck with you!) 

- I suck

- I will never have the health I want 

- I will never lose weight I can't 

- It works for other people but not me 

- I can't change I'll stay the same for the rest of my life 

- No one can help me 

- I am so alone 

- I need money and I'll always be broke so I can't ever be healthy and afford good foods and lifestyle 

- I will never lose the last 5 pounds that don't want to budge 

- I will never live my dream life it's just not possible 

- I am not good enough 

- I don't matter 

- I deserve a shitty life 

- No one cares about me or likes me 

- Life will just get worse for me

- I am so unhealthy I can't possibly fix it 

- I give up 

- I am so stressed 

- I don't see a way out of this situation 

- I hate my life and my self 

- I hate where I have gotten myself too 

- I eat way too much I can't stop 

- I've done way too much damage to be repaired now 

- I can't do it

- I wish I could start over again 

- I wish I could die 

- I hate what I look like 

- Why didn't I know better? 

- Why did I wait to hit rock bottom? 

- I have to do this all on my own 

- I have to just be grateful for what I get I can't possibly live my dream life 

- I am aging and getting worse 

- I just want to binge one more time

- I don't know what to do 

- I am helpless 

- I am a pathetic loser 

- I am so busy I don't have time for myself to be healthy and heal 

- I can't have what I really want 

- I have to starve myself to lose weight 

- I have to deprive my body and work really hard to be healthy 

- I have to suffer to be healthy 

- I don't have enough money to buy what I need because I am worthless 

- I hate this world 

- I am clueless 

- I will never have the job I want or earn the salary I want 

- No one appreciates me 

- I am so unloved 

- I do not love myself 

- I am so ugly and weird 

- I feel so sick and disappointed with myself 

- I wish I could start my life over 

- I can't be present there is too much pain

- I am in so much pain 

- I wish I was someone else 

- I wish I had more money then being healthy would be easier 

- Why can't I just get more money? 

- There is no hope for me I will suffer until the day I die

- My family sucks 

- I am stuck 

- Nothing good ever happens to me 

- I am the worst person 

- I have to work really hard and sleep less to achieve what I want 

- I have to suffer because I've been cursed 

- I can't stop sabotaging myself 

- I am stuck in a vicious cycle and can't get out of it 

- I am an addict and will never be free 

- I will never feel healthy in my life 

- What's the point to anything? 

- My life sucks 

- I will never be truly happy without some kind of food or drug or stimulation 

- My mind sucks 

- I can't help but think negative thoughts 

- ahhh I am so frustrated with life, myself and other people! 

- People suck 

- Being on Earth sucks! 

- I am not as good as other people! 

- I am dumb 

- People don't get me 

- I hate where I am right now 

- I can never find peace 

- Something good happens and then something bad happens right away 

- I don't believe in miracles 

- I believe people came here to suffer 

- I blame my parents 

- I blame others for betraying me and taking advantage of me 

- I hate my life, body and self! 

- I will never look good again 

- I have to work really hard to look good and suffer my way there 

- Ahhh I can't do it anymore! I give up!

- Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? 

- Why can't I just have the health I want? The body I want? The relationships I want? The career I want? 

- People hate me 

- I will never be as attractive as so and so 

- Why do bad things always happen to me? 

- I expect more bad things to happen to me 

- I don't expect to enjoy the rest of my life 

- I don't get to enjoy my favorite foods if I want my dream body 

- My dream body is not achievable 

- Money money money if I had more more I would be less stressed and be healthier 

- I am a bad person 

- I don't make much money because I'm a loser 

- I am not valuable 

- No one acknowledges me or my gifts! 

- Life is too hard 

- Life is not easy for anyone 

- Being healthy is hard work

- I will never change 

- I don't know how I can achieve my goals 

- It's too late for me 

- I need to completely transform if I want peace, and that is not possible 

- I don't know how I can ever be free of suffering 

- majority of the people are bad and dark and depressed and unhealthy 

- What's the point to me even trying? 

- I wish I could give up 

- I am desperate 

- People think I'm desperate 

- People think bad thoughts about me 

- I am nervous and anxious all the time 

- If only I had more money I could afford things that would help me be healthier 

- I can't do it I just cannot do it 

- I'm overwhelmed, it's all too much 

- I need help like serious help and have no idea where to go or what to do 

- Life is too stressful 

- My situation sucks and is so stressful 

- I am so so so so so stressed! 

- I don't do enough 

- I am too lazy 

- I don't work hard enough 

- I'm just not there yet, I don't know if it will ever happen for me, I hope it does but I doubt it 

- I doubt myself 

- I am so unsure of myself 

- I am not confident at all 

- I am socially awkward 

- I freak out over the smallest things 

- I've suffered so much in my life it will take a lifetime to fix it 

- I need fixing 

- I've done far too much damage to be corrected I just have to live with it 

- there is no escaping my pain 

- I have post traumatic stress disorder and will probably never be like I was 

- I wish I could go back to my childhood 

- I am so scared 

- I feel so alone 

- I wish I knew what to do 

- I will never make it 

- I do not believe in myself 

- If I achieve anything I will be surprised 

- I expect the worse 

- I don't expect to feel good majority of the time that is impossible 

- I am not happy 

- I deserve to suffer 

- I feel so much guilt 

- I feel guilty after everything I eat 

- I am doing the wrong thing 

- I am wrong totally wrong! 

- I have made so many mistakes I am a failure! 

- I have failed at life

- Its definitely to late for me 

- I don't know how to reinvent myself 

- I am so far from my dream life

- I am so needy 

- People just do not like me! 

- People can sense I am needy and they are repulsed by me! 

- I am disgusting 

- I am gross 

- I am so so so ugly 

- I will never be loved 

- the weather sucks 

- I wish I was a different person who knew how to do it right 

- I just wish I could make more money that would solve all my problems 

- I don't understand why it's not working for me because I work so hard 

- I don't understand why I have to suffer everyday 

- I don't understand why I can't just be happy 

- I don't know what it's like to be healthy 

- I will always be the same I can't ever change 

- It is just way to hard 

- It is impossible! 

- I am not ready 

- I am so nervous 

- I can't do it 

- I'm too tired 

- I have made too many mistakes 

- The damage cannot be healed 

- It's too hard 

Just simply send these thoughts right out of your head as soon as they get there! 

If you like try writing all negative thoughts out on paper and as you write imagine them leaving you and being dissolved in the light! It is light offloading major heaviness! 

Remember when I was stuck in a vicious cycle of addiction to junk foods for 5 years, I did not release any negative thoughts and feelings! I did not know how to! I did not have these tools! In fact I believed I was the only human to suffer the way I was by eating junk foods and not being able to stop! As soon as I started this blog and shared with the world what I was going through a HUGE weight lifted off my shoulders! 

Enjoy a positive body! 

219 days to book launch! 

Love Liana 

Earth Diet book at Barnes and Noble - the largest book store in USA

In 220 days the new Earth Diet book will be out! Hay House are publishing it and they are sending it to Barnes and Noble to be sold! Barnes and Noble will release the book on Tuesday October 28th! Just in time for Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year and whatever other fun holidays will be happening at that time! The book will still be fresh for Valentines Day and Easter for making chocolate and sweets!

Could this be the Holiday Food Book of the year? There are so many recipes in the book that are Holiday worthy! Mac 'n' Cheese, Cauliflower Popcorn, Cupcakes, Cashew Cheesecake, Chicken Nuggets, Fries, Smoothies and Juices, Raw Burgers just to name a few! Chocolate, Sweet Potato Fries, Peanut Butter Cups!

My favorite thing about the book is the recipes, how delicious they are and yet provide us with nutrition!

Oh another favorite thing is that the book is being sold at Barnes and Noble. It was not possible to do this with my first book as it was self-published, but Hay House and Barnes and Noble have been working together for some time. Barnes and Noble reach millions of people each year with their store, and I am looking forward to doing book signings, appearances and lectures there! 

So I did some research on Barnes and Noble, I wanted to know more about this popular USA bookstore where the Earth Diet book will be hanging out! 

So here are some fun facts:

• Their headquarters are in New York City - perfect! That is where I am located! 
• Barnes and Noble is built from a superstore concept with an in-store coffee shop and spacious areas to read books! Sweeet! 
• Barnes and Noble stands as America's last remaining national bookstore chain. 
• There are 675 stores across USA! Wow! 47 of those are in New York (as of 2013). 6 stores are in Manhattan! 
• They also operate 686 college bookstores that serve more than 4.6 million students and faculty members across the country. Whatttt in colleges?!!! That is awesome! 
• They employee 30,000 book lovers to operate the business. 
• Michael P. Huesby is the CEO of Barnes and Noble. He was originally the Cheif Financial Officer in Barnes and Noble. 
• I am thinking they could serve the Earth Diet Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups in their cafe section! Yum I would get that with tea!
• Barnes and Noble have a lot of community involvement! They organize in-store events (where I come in!), such as author appearances (yes!), and children's story times and book groups. It would be awesome if I can do a quick 3-ingredient chocolate ball demonstration from the book, and show people how to make chocolate! Then people can buy the chocolate cups from the cafe if they don't want to make it themselves - or if they can't wait to get home to make it lol. 
• Barnes and Noble hosts bookfairs, which raise funds for schools and libraries and an annual holiday book drive to collect books for disadvantaged children. 1.16 million books were collected and distributed in 2007! That is so awesome! That must be such a highlight for a child to get a cool book! I would love to work with Barnes and Noble to do a holiday book drive (see Earth Diet comes out at the perfect time haha!), and donate books to disadvantaged children, or children in hospital, or healing, and also for children you love food and making it! Love it. 
• Barnes and Noble seem to have taken on the role of providing America with the best books and community encouragement of reading! They are a great beneficial company I think in the education of children and adults :) ! 
• Barnes and Noble may just have the world's largest bookstore on Fifth Avenue! Oh boy I need to  check this store out! I have been to their store at Union Square and also Upper West side but not Fifth ave yet so there we go - I have a new adventure to embark on to check out this one!
• If plenty of Earth Diet books are sold here when it comes out - I can be a NY Best Selling Author! Let's see! ;) 

I got my research from Google, Wikipedia and Barnes and Noble website. 

I am not exactly sure what I will be doing the day of the book release, but I do feel that I will be spending some time at Barnes and Noble! And I really do hope to see you there also to celebrate the launch of the book for the holidays! It will be a healthy holidays! 

I am building the team to help with the book launch, there are paid positions and volunteer positions! The most important thing I have learned from building a team is that each person should be DOING WHAT THEY LOVE MOST! That makes a great team capable of anything! Check out this web page if you want more info on being part of the team: http://www.theearthdiet.org/join-the-team.html

Love Liana 

How to break a junk food habit

I was addicted to junk foods for 5 years. I felt so guilty about it, and I would eat and eat and eat junk food until I felt sick. Sometimes I took laxatives to help digest it (although of course it wasn't really helping). Then one day I got the wake up call of my life when a tumor popped in my throat. I knew then I had to stop eating junk foods and start putting nutrition back into my body! 

My advice to people is don't wait to hit rock bottom before changing your health! If you are really addicted to junk foods it may seem impossible at this point to break the habit, but it is possible and you can do it! 

Here are 2 important things to remember: 
1. it is a process !!!!!!! Be kind to yourself! You must! Beating yourself up does not work and only makes you feel worse. 

2. Find foods that fulfill your cravings BUT that are also healthy! 

Here are some of my favorite "Healthy Junk Food" Recipes: 
Cookies: http://bit.ly/1ciihj5
Raw Chocolate: http://bit.ly/1jwVDrL
Cashew Ice Cream: http://bit.ly/1gwJyQl
Cashew Cheesecake: http://bit.ly/1bfap3v

A life without junk food is bliss! Junk foods deprive the body of nutrition and cause us to feel guilty!!!

There is no way to eat your junk food cake and have it too! But there is a way to eat your natural cake and eat it too! The trick is making natural ingredients taste exactly like - or better - than your favorite junk food flavors.

I know from my experience of being addicted to junk food for 5 years and telling myself every day "this is the last day I binge on junk good" can be a living nightmare! Breaking that vicious cycle has saved my life!

Junk foods do not provide us with nutrition, they make it harder for the human body to feel good and well. Junk foods are so hard for the body to process alas the human body does it because it is brilliant!

I say who needs junk foods in this day and age? When we have natural foods that we can make taste exactly like our favorite junk foods.

If you want to break a junk food addiction you could try my 21 day Nourishment e-program available to download now: http://bit.ly/1gO736Z OR hire me as your mentor! I will be there to hold you accountable as well as give you recipes, tips and guidance until you are free of junk foods! More info on that here: http://www.theearthdiet.org/mentoring.html

I am here to help you! utilize me! I am so grateful that I am free of junk foods! When I was addicted I said to myself often, "if I could just do one thing, one thing, in this life, I would want to be free of addiction to junk foods!" And now I am! I did it! At times I did not think it was possible! I also said if I could break the habit that I would be grateful for the rest of my life and I am so so so sooo grateful! 

Fill your body with more real foods, less junk foods!

Love recovered junk food eater - haha - Liana !

Book launch in 221 days! I hope to help millions of people who are in the same boat I was in. Life sucks when controlled by food!

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What do you think of Cameron Diaz talking about poop on Dr Oz?!

Do you think it's sexy? Or does it even matter?! Haha well poop is real life anyway. I love how vulnerable and open she is to talk about body things that well many people wouldn't go there... But I guess she did write "The Body Book" after all!

I love her tag line "24 hours to a better body" !!! ! 

Check out the video: http://youtu.be/BqNTSiQYUnI

In the video she also guzzles a lot of water! Hilarious haha she's like a women warrior athlete... Who now talks about poop! 

But haha she also talks about being totally cool with our own bodies! Like totally in love with our own body just the way it is, and relinquishing any guilt and confusion! Like releasing that heavy burden many women have, and just feeling better about our bodies, and then nourishing them accordingly (using recipes from my book). I think the best thing about me is my recipes. Haha that's probably been my greatest gift to the world as yet. 

Overall totally powerful message, loving Cameron Diaz and her body boldness!

And shout out to Dr Oz for using his platform to spread great healthy inspiring messages to the world! 

It's 221 days to book launch! 

I wonder when I'll be on with Dr Oz?! ;) 

Love Liana

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This guy saying 100% raw food diet causes eating disorder

This video came up in my Youtube news feed! I thought the title was interesting and I was curious about his opinion on why a 100% raw food diet can cause eating disorders. I have learned from working with people through the years, with mentoring through The Earth Diet website, that people who want to dive in and go raw 100% become overwhelmed and unfulfilled. That's why I am not fully raw; I am 70% raw (water, vegetables, fruits, smoothies, juices, seeds, nuts) and 30% cooked including rice, beans, lentils, veggies and meat. This works for me and is a great balance. That way I am fulfilled when I eat and excited for the next meal! I think they being excited to eat is KEY and something we have lost along the way, as food can cause so many people anxiety, like it did for me years ago when food controlled me.

This guy Matt has interesting views on how being 100% raw can lead to issues:

I know for sure a good balance for me is to be majority raw, and include some cooked. I am from the outback and I love to cook things using fire, and I believe that fire is one of earth's great elements that is so good for our well being. If you are stressed because you aren't 'raw enough', I suggest adding more raw and cooked into your life and finding your own balance.

TIP: One way to get more raw into your meals is by creating a hybrid meal. A hybrid is a cooked meal and raw meal combined. For example when I make a rice stir fry or a soup, I add raw elements to it once it is done, so I serve the soup in a bowl and then I add raw cucumber, raw avocado, cilantro and parsley. Now I have had more raw!

Today, for example An example of my 70% raw and 30% cooked day from today was:

Morning: a berry smoothie (cherries, blueberries, blackberries, almond butter, honey, cacao powder, water, bee pollen) 

Next meal: a Phresh Greens drink - powdered greens in water; kale, spinach, parsley, collard greens, broccoli etc 

Next meal: A delicious fresh sweet lush pear! 

Next meal: another berry smoothie! Craving! Had it and sooo happy about it! Loaded with antioxidants! 

Next meal: chicken wings with hot sauce! Yum! 

Now as you can see I incorporated both raw and cooked into my Earth Diet today! There is no use depriving ourself since eating delicious food is such a fun experience to have! My new book has soooo many variations for raw and cooked foods! 

I also drank lots of water and green tea throughout the day. And I had a glass of diatomaceous earth. 

The last thing I want to do when going to be is be starving and unfulfilled! I am seeing more and more that people are successful with their health when they eat what they crave, but with one rule, make sure it's as clean as possible - and ultimately only using ingredients that earth naturally provides! 

I will leave with saying choose what you want to eat, and then source it as natural as possible! 

It is the first day of spring today and 222 days to book launch! 

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