Sandra Smith |

Jewel Juice

This gorgeous juice helped fuel a fun day exploring Bryce Canyon with Andy and Sylvia. I made it by juicing three cucumbers, three stalks celery, two small beets and their greens, an apple, a lemon a small knob of ginger. I try to use organic produce as much as...

Raw Pumpkin Pie Cheesecake

So this is the orange “glass” I made from a dehydrated orange slice. Isn’t it pretty? The cheesecake was quite short, more like a bar, since I used a 9″x9″ pan. For this photo I stacked two layers and decorated it with the orange. I...

The Bod Pod

This is me, smiling because I am not being strapped to a chair and S-L-O-W-L-Y lowered into an unforgiving tank of water for an excruciatingly slow, panic filled weigh-in. This is not me but this looks just like the contraption I was in years before. This girl looks...

Chia Porridge

This was my breakfast this morning. It was DELISH! I made a batch of almond milk yesterday afternoon. Youtube has zillions of good videos on how to make almond milk so I won’t bother except to say I like it thick and creamy. I use one cup of almonds to only...

Optimum Health Institute-One Month Later

After one week at the Optimum Health Institute I got home with the best intentions. I slid down the slippery slope and ended up in a rebound love affair with sugar. Within a week I had gained back all but one of the nine pounds I’d lost. That is a long, hard week’s...

Saturday at OHI

I felt good when I awoke this morning. Renee and I slugged down our wheatgrass juice like pros then got ready for breakfast. Everything is winding down and I’m excited and nervous to be going home tomorrow. I’m not sure I’m ready to leave this place and venture out in...

Toning at the Optimum Health Institiute

Vocal toning– an ancient vocal exercise that uses simple sounds to reestablish a natural flow of energy through your body. Use this simple, yet powerful technique for creating harmony from inside out to reach a meditative state. (From the class description at...

Walking Off a Craving

In my last post I mentioned how we got through juicing days with relative ease. When I reviewed what I wrote in my journal during that time I remembered struggling a bit one evening. I’m a little embarrassed to write so much of sugar cravings and my seemingly...

Juice Days at OHI

It’s Juice Days at OHI! Eight meals in a row of streamlined, refreshing, green goodness. We tried not to talk about how nice it would be to actually CHEW something. We were both amazed at how “not hungry” we were. The juice is so packed with...

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