I was sharing with another about my excitement when I first opened the door to my office this morning and saw that I had leftover pizza ... YAYYY!  How does it get better than this??? 

His response is that he's not crazy about pizza ... but leftover pizza?  That just tastes like cardboard!  **whaaaaaaaa?????**

... A little bit later ... while walking to the kitchen to make a cuppa tea ... I began to chuckle while smiling ... cardboard eh?  OH ME OH MY!  **smiling** ...

It was freshly baked (yesterday) ... room temperature ... not reheated ... **double thumbs up!** ... and I didn't kill it in the microwave.  If you've ever heated any bread item in a microwave ... you've tasted cardboard! 

Then my mind wandered over to using the microwave ... and how we have all been told that molecularly changing the food we put into the machine to "nuke it" ... still makes it a "food" ... OK ... have you truly thought about this?  If I were to dowse, "is heating my plate in a microwave serving my highest good?" ... OH! and this one "is using a microwave to heat food in anyone's highest good?" ... Yup ... that's also a resounding "NO"!

And yet ... that person thinks my leftover pizza will taste like cardboard!  Imagine that!  :-)

I had this tune in my head but with different words and I just became aware!  So here goes:  "The numbers on the scale go up and down, up and down, up and down .... "

And by no longer resisting the fact that they do ... go UP .... and DOWN ... I look around and realize that it's all gooooood!  I look at my lifestyle and I'm content with it!  I have the energy that is necessary for me to be me.  I have the strength that I need.  I have the nourishment that I need.  It sustains me.  Now how does it get any better?

I have been paying attention to what the body is asking for ... have been curious and it's led me to some interesting revelations over the last month or so.  I am finding that my body requires very little in the way of fuel ... but it also enjoys other things for the sheer joy of the energy it gets from the food ... whether it might be considered "healthy" or not.  For instance, last week I was craving a personal pizza ... I usually get two, pepperoni and Hawaiian ... my body likes to enjoy a couple slices of each ... and so I am able to make several meals out of it.  But last week, I went thru all the things that were "wrong" about the ingredients ... how "bad" they were for the body ...

The dough is most likely not made with organic flour.

The tomato sauce most likely has sugar and other undesirables in it.

The pepperoni probably has nitrites and other undesirables in it.

The Canadian bacon or ham has ... oh! see above ...

The cheese is most likely not organic or raw.

OK ... so I did not eat any pizza ...


..... well .... for the next few days, I was trying unsuccessfully to recreate the "feeling" that I "get" when I eat pizza ...

Making it with gluten free crust ... meh!

Making it with a nice pizza sauce ... meh!

Making it with a combination of nice cheeses ... meh!

Making it with veggies ... Double Meh!

... it just did not satisfy ... and all this time I was beginning to think of the ingredients as separates and whether they are good for the body ... when I really am looking for how I feel with the experience of enjoying pizza ... it is the Energy that my body wants to experience when I eat pizza ... not the ingredients!  Whoaaaaa **tilt** ...

And then it smacks me right in the forehead ... earlier today when I was multi tasking and didn't realize it until after ... that I was unconsciously thanking my body for being so strong ... and here I thought it was "triggered" by my boss putting his back out ... a strapping young man who appears to be a healthy person who eats "right" and "works out" ... 

I have no idea the correlation between my boss's dilemma and the energy in food ... maybe it's just about following the energy ... whether I deem it good for me or not ... to accept that the body is always in tune with what it needs ... and to pay more attention to my gut (pun intended).  :-) 

Think I'm going to order those pizzas ... and enjoy part of them now ... and then again at a later time ... I can always have my organic milk and green powder drink later in the afternoon (of course the green powder is organic, raw, with ♥chocolate).