Crazy Sexy Diet – Book Review
Crazy Sexy Diet by Kris Carr; there is so much I loved about this book. Mostly I LOVED the sassy attitude of the author! Now that is a gal I could be friends with! And you will remember from this post here, that I couldn’t speak highly enough about the photos! They are so meditative and beautiful! I seriously love to just look through the pages.
Kris Carr has a type of cancer that never goes away, while at the end of the movie Crazy Sexy Cancer, her cancer wasn’t growing. She will always have it, and mostly it is a journey of maintenance, eating healthy and taking care of herself so her cancer doesn’t begin to grow. So far so good.
While I know a lot of this information as a health food store worker for seven years, and a nonfiction health food reader junkie, who doesn’t always do what she knows, I LOVE the accessibility of her information.
“Are you ready for the Crazy Sexy Truth about meat and dairy? Of course you are! You are a fearless Wellness Warrior full of rebellion and fire. So with that in mind, it’s party time and I’m gonna give you a big, phat prezzie. In fact, this treasure is so top-shelf that it’ll keep you young, cute, and alive! Going veg is one of the best decisions you can make for your health and the planet. Period. Your organs, blood, bones, teeth, and private parts will thank you. Private parts? Yes, sassy, I’m talking sex drive! There is no better way to light the night than to eat right.”
How cool is she? You know you want to hang out with her now don’t you? Even if through the pages of her book.
And I also did learn a lot about PH in our bodies and how that affects health:
“Okay, so why is this so important? Your brilliant body is designed to operate within a very narrow pH range. Optimally, you want to be a little on the alkaline side, with a blood pH of around 7.365. Blood is the most important, and therefore most protected, pH measurement. Even a minor fluctuation in your blood’s pH (either too alkaline or too acidic) creates distress signals. Symptoms generally start out small and then ramp up as the imbalance continues.”
Yuck.
The book focuses on all areas of our health, from what we eat, to how we relax and rejuvenate. I can tell you that so far, I am eating WAY less meat again, I was a veg head for 16 years, just not a very good one. I would say I have only eaten meat once in the last week or so. I have also begun to exfoliate my whole body. YES. Dry exfoliate. Apparently your body gets rid of toxins through your skin and if your pores are all clogged up, your body no can do. And where I live, the dry climate will make sure you have lots of dead skin cells. EWW.
I have also juiced TWICE in the last week. TWICE! I have a weak belly. Last time I did a wheatgrass shot I was laying on the couch for three hours. My stomach was so upset, so I gave up on the juice/grass thing. But she has some great advice to start with cucumber which is relatively mild on the belly. The first juice I had a hard time keeping down. The second? I thought, wow, I could actually see how you would begin to crave these little numbers.
I started easy with a whole cucumber, two carrots, and an apple. I will work my way up to less carrots and less apple, and add more spinach, kale, parsley and the like. But a sensitive stomach Mama has got to take it slow or I will put the juicer back under the counter and give up yet again. I don’t want to do that this time!
I have to tell you too, that the kids LOVE the juicer. Of course they only want apple and carrot. But who cares? My one finicky daughter who doesn’t like to eat anything except for fruit that is good for her, drank the nutrients in a carrot! That is progress! They actually made up their own recipe of two carrots, two apples, and a lemon. It was delicious!
Kris has a bunch of recipes in the back of the book, along with a 21 day cleanse as well. There are lots of tips and motivational talk to go along with the cleanse, cause lordy knows I at least will need the motivational talks everyday. I have not attempted the cleanse yet. I felt as if cutting down on sugar, juicing, eating more from scratch all while also doing the No {Mostly} Spend Month was enough to take on for now. I also get really cold easily, a lot of raw and juiced foods in the springtime when cold days still sneak up on us isn’t exactly my cup of tea.
But I plan on doing it in the summer, when the days are warm and I can pick all I want from my homestead garden and eat, eat, eat and juice, it.
So check this book out, I highly recommend it. With all of the people in my world who have had or have cancer in the last year, I think we could all take a note or two from Kris’s book and begin to take our health more seriously and rev up the already awesome lives we have!
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April 14th, 2011 at 3:16 pm
I think there’s no black or white answer when it comes to healthy eating.
I’ve been a vegetarian for years (and even a vegan during a spell) and I was constantly fatiqued, had very painful migraine headaches, irregular menstrual cycles and skin acne among other ailments.
It wasn’t until I discovered the Paleolithic diet that I began regaining my health again, seriously no migraines any more, not a single spot on my face and I had two children without even planning for them!
Of course I’m mindful about the source of my food, organic fruit and vegetables from our farmers’ market, meat from organic ethical farms and wild fish.
But it’d be great if the vegetarian diet works for you; the main reason for me going veggie was my love for animals, but then I decided that perhaps it’d be best for me to be in good health and choose to eat animals that had a healthy and decent life at least.
April 15th, 2011 at 8:45 am
You are right Evi, there is no one way for everyone! I am really just enjoying reading and getting motivated to take care of myself health wise. I do eat only organic which is quite expensive for meat and a family of four! lol. Geez, organic veggies and fruit for a family of four is expensive too! I think I am playing it by ear. I need to add the juicing and mindfulness and probably do a cleanse. Will I become veg or vegan? Don’t know. I can promise I WON’T be doing the enema’s, aka colonics, she recommends! lololololol…
Jen