This Sunday morning, I am sitting at my favorite place to work.  A cafe in the Garden’s district of Cape Town, South Africa where I am currently living.  And life is good.  A view of the Table Mountain, a frothy beverage and the promise that I may glimpse the azure waters of the Atlantic in the afternoon.  Hope in my heart and the feeling as I sit writing this blog post that I’m living my purpose.

Blip.  Wait.  Blip again.  What’s that interrupting my all is calm morning?  It’s my tummy!  Good morning tummy!  Seems I was so involved in my passion that I forgot to feed you!  Nutrition to the rescue.   Waiter?!

I bring this up because it’s a recent development in my life that I’ve managed to get so happy that I sometimes forget to eat.  Maybe happy isn’t the right word.  Purposeful? Closer.

As someone who grew up with an Italian mother,  all joy centered around food.  Food equaled love then, and to a large extent is still does now.  I’m a bona fide foodie and there’s nothing I love more than gathering around a table with loved ones and enjoying a wonderful meal. But I’ve learned how to enjoy the non eating parts of life to.  To feast so fully on each moment that I feel satiated by a different kind of sustenance. I think it’s called inspiration.

This doesn’t mean by any stretch of the imagination that my life is perfect.  Far from it.  I have the same relationship struggles, financial stress and just random low moods that I’ve always had.  But I’ve learned something that has made all the difference.  It’s so simple, I don’t know how I didn’t see if before.  I’ve learned to watch.

I’ve learned to watch the sensations of my body as they arise and to differentiate between what I experience as physical hunger and what I experience as emotional hunger.I notice when I’m feeling hunger in my body and when I feel a type of hunger that doesn’t arise from my body. I call it my Authentic Hunger.  Or, the hunger in my soul.

That sounds pretty dramatic, doesn’t it?  But there’s a type of hunger that no amount of food can conquer and unless it’s fed with the right type of nutrition, it’ll go on screaming forever.  Authentic Hunger comes from deep within and calls forth from within us our drive to live life in a way where food just becomes the icing on the cake.  

Sometimes your Authentic Hunger may be to feel loved, to express love, to create something, to connect with nature, to feel purposeful.  And it’s important to not mistake those types of hunger with the body’s need for nourishment.  To insert a small moment of awareness between that hunger feeling and the action that follows so that you can make a conscious choice will enable you to differentiate between the physical hunger and this thing we’re calling Authentic Hunger.

Feeding your hunger appropriately really is so empowering and can make all the difference to someone who has known themselves to have a tendency to eat compulsively like I have.

What do I do personally do with these different hungers?  I feed them appropriately understanding that no amount of food is going to fill the hunger in my spirit.That requires a different kind of food.   Sometimes, it’s a walk on the beach, a talk with my best friend Mary or just the awareness that that’s what it is lessens it’s grip on me.

And sometimes I just feel downright sorry for myself in a way that only chocolate cake can fix.

And so I eat cake.  Guilelessly.  And I feel better.

As an actor by day, I meet a lot of photographers.  Alexander Hart, of Wild Hart Photographic, has begun taking principles from my ebook, Breakthrough Fasting, and using applying them to his services. Go figure!

We were discussing how we both deal with some very similar things in our professions, confidence and body issues.  He even lost five pounds himself working the program.  And he didn’t even fast!  He just learned to listen to his body, eat when he was hungry and appreciate his body for the amazing job it was doing on a day to day basis.  Here’s what he has to say about the ebook.

5 Reasons I love Kate’s Juice Fasting eBook.

1. I love the way she speaks from her own experiences and from authority.  She is an authority on the topic because she’s really been there.  Kate knows what it’s like to have an unhealthy relationship with your body and she knows what it’s like to be transformed.  She knows the contrast first hand so she really gets what you’re going through.

2. I love the way she makes you feel inspired to *breakthrough* in such an important “life issue”.  Breaking through doesn’t just mean losing weight, but getting on with your life’s purpose, of which is juice fasting is just the jumping off point.

3. I love that you can’t find this insightful information anywhere else.  Kate’s method is as unique to her.  She’s adapted an ancient technology, juice fasting, and made it accessible to the modern woman (or man) and the challenges they face today.

4. I love how she is living proof of the effectiveness of this way of juice fasting.  Anyone who knows Kate knows how passionate she is about helping other transform. She sees in them who they know they want to be and she helps them realize that they already are just that!

5. I love how I can actually see a difference in a person when I photograph them.  Not just in terms of any weight they may have lost, but in terms of their overall confidence.

If you’d like to being transforming your weight issues today, like Alexander’s clients have,

check out my ebook, Breakthrough Juice Fasting. 

I look forward to seeing some photos of YOU loving your body and loving your life!

I was inspired by this quote in a newsletter I received in my inbox from Brendon Burchard today.

“…Learn to distinguish REAL emergencies in other people, from perceived ones before you divert from working on your priorities. ….Your life and your projects are important. You have an important life.  Practice being in the cycle of your priorities first. Don’t get caught in the cycle of other people’s agendas and false emergencies.”
– Brendon Burchard, www.brendonburchard.com

What does this have to do with juice fasting?  Everything.

Juice fasting is really all about managing energy efficiently.  When you abstain from eating solid food, you’re giving your body a chance to take the energy it would be using for digestion and use it for cleansing.

When you load up on enzyme rich juices, you’re infusing your body with energy that it wouldn’t ordinarily have, to scrub your cells clean from the inside out and create a radiant you.

As it is within, so it is without.  Just as your body can become clogged with toxins that saps the energy it would use for creating and maintaining radiant health, so can your life.  Other peoples demands can be super draining for us, when we are depleted of energy for our own projects and our own sources of joy. 

There’s no better time than during your juice fast, to ask yourself these questions.  What can I eliminate that depletes my energy?  And what can I do to fill up on energy? In a juice fast, you eliminate the need for digestion which depletes energy and you fill up on energy in the form of juice.  How can you mimic this in your life?

For me, I care so much about my friends and family, that I often put their needs before my own.  I mistake their overwhelm for suffering, causing myself overwhelm, and forget that they can actually take care of themselves and that my help often doesn’t help at all, but just makes things worse by adding energy to the problem, similar to the way oxygen stokes a fire creating larger flames.

By asking myself if the emergency I see in another person is a real emergency or a perceptual one and if my taking time and ENERGY away from what I’m focused on is going to really help them and me, has been a huge way I manage my life’s energy.

And let me tell you I’m not very good at this.  I still put my needs last and give far too much of myself away.  But I’m getting better every day.  My friends and family know I love them whether or not I choose to rescue them from every situation.

Think of how much more you’d get done, how much happier you’d be and how much more joy you’d have to spread if you managed the energy of your life and relationships better.

Letting other people know you’re serious about you creates boundaries that will teach others that your energy is important to you.  And after awhile, you might also get the hint too!

I’m bragging again!  Not really.  But Kelly’s doing so well on her juice fast that SHE should be bragging!  I knew from the moment she emailed me that she was in it to win it!  And I’m both inspired and humbled by her transformation.  Sharing it with you here:

“Hi Kate! Please use my testimony! I am on day 16 an I have been doing so great! I have been juicing, drinking kangen water. Only when I went on a road trip where I couldn’t take my juicer did I buy Naked juice, the green goods smoothie. Full of fresh greens! I am so blessed an will share your link with many! The Lord brought you into my life to supply me with the RIGHT teaching and information about juice fasting! I was invited to a church who held a health conference for one day, and I told them how I got your teaching an educated them on what I learned! It was so amazing!

Thank you so much!  I will be intouch with you an will send u pictures of my before an after. I will also juice fast one day a week for the rest of my life even after I finish my 30 or more day fast.  I am listening to my body just like you said.

Bless you Kate!”

Kelly Marie Gore, North Carolina

I can’t wait to see her before and after pictures!

To get started using the same method Kelly is using to transform her health, check out my Breakthrough Juice Fasting guide TODAY.

Guest Blogger, Alexander Hart, photographer at  www.wildhartphotographic.com, shares his insights into what makes us beautiful:

As a Pro Actor and Headshot photographer at Wild Hart Photographic I am very aware of our societies perceptions of beauty, and I’ll tell you a little secret. Even the most celebrated models feel insecure at times.  But it doesn’t matter what the subject thinks of themselves, the best shots have this radiance shinning out of them, grabbing your attention.

Its quite amazing how we are the most critical of ourselves when it comes to our own photographs.  I always seem to roll my eyes when beautiful people tell me:

” I look fat”

“I hate my chin”

“My hips look heavy”

” My skin looks awful”

What I find most fascinating however is that the the most beautiful photographs I take are when I know my subject is actually smiling from their heart.

I know this may sound silly, but there is truth in the saying that beauty is only skin deep, smiling eyes and smiling hearts really capture attention.  Why?  Because they are authentic.  And authenticity is beautiful.

In reviewing some photos the other day I remarked that the most beautiful people are not perfect by societal standards. If their eyes were smiling and their hearts joy was coming through, any flaws they might have perceived about themselves simple disappeared.

My simple message is this: STOP Judging YOURSELF.  Find your Inner Happiness and Peace.  It’s what makes you beautiful.

Part of feeling good about yourself lies IS  FEELING good about yourself, its really as simple as that.

What I love about Kate’s method of juice fasting and cleansing is that is isn’t always about results. Even though results are evident, they are more the side effect than the main goal.  The main goal is to cultivate a self appreciation so deep that weight becomes an irrelevant factor in how beautiful you are.  Any weight you lose is the icing on the cake.

To learn how you too can find your authentic beauty using the power of juice fasting and cleansing, click here.

Just wanted to share some of the testimonials that have surfed their way into my inbox this past week.  If you ever wonder if juice fasting is really all that it’s cracked up to be, well, the proof is in the pudding!

“Kate thank you so much for your book!!  I have just read the beginning and I am so ingnited in my heart to begin this journey!!!  Some things you have shared truly educated me, and I was so aazed at the new things that were so simple yet life changing for me! God bless you!  You are truly and answer to my prayers!!”

Kelly G.

“As a professional photographer I have found it amazing how Kate’s method can transform a models self image.   I have literally watched clients become comfortable in their own skin and transform the way they look at them selves in a matter of weeks.  This translates through the camera lens as they are able to be confident and let their inner light shine. “

Alexander Hart, Photographer

www.wildhartphotographic.com

Hi Kate…It’s Michael….Well I’ve made it thru day three and am amazed at how I felt today…..I went for a 4 mile walk, thru hilly terraine and am feeling more energy in the afternoon and early evening today.  I was only planning 3 days but might just keep going as it’s been such a positive experience…..also did your mineral broth which was a refreshing change…..thanks for the smoothy tips, I think I’m heading there…and haven’t been on the scale but feel thinner already….Thanks so much!

Michael V.

I’m not afraid to brag!  With messages like this in my inbox, I think I’ve earned the right!  (wink)

To get started today transforming your body (and life!),

click here!

Okay, I admit it.  Weight loss is not the real reason I promote juice fasting.  I actually have a hidden agenda:

I want you to fall in love with yourself! 

Yup. That’s my main goal.  And if you’ve struggled with weight then you know the self loathing that weight gain and “failing” on diets results in.  And juice fasting is the quickest way for you to experience a radiant body and rekindle that long lost phenomenon called self love.

When you eliminate toxins from your system, you experience how magnificent you are.  You get closer to your natural state, which is love.  You won’t need me or any other guru to tell you how amazing you are.  You KNOW it because you feel it in your cells.  You’ll forget about your struggle entirely and move on to living the life you were born to live.

This is the miracle that you ARE.  And it gets better! 

Once you experience how your body supports you, you will be well on your way to honoring the magnificent Self that you are in every choice that you make.  As you’ve heard me say a thousand times you will begin to naturally move toward what supports you and away from what depletes you… NATURALLY.  No will power required.

I lived for too long in a body that stood between me and my full potential.  But I learned just how mirculous I am by watching my body transform on it’s own when I got out of it’s way.  It was that spark of self love that turned into a burning flame that fuels all that I do now.  I truly live the life I never thought I would.  I live a life that I love.  And I want the same for you.

You don’t have to wait weeks or months to begin your transformation.  You can witness the miracle that you are right now.  Self love starts with a healthy body.  A healthy body lets your light shine to radiate through the natural joy that is you.

True health begins with self love.  End of story.

Sound airy, fairy?  Try it and find out for yourself!  The proof is in the pudding… er, juice!

Click here to get the RIGHT information about juice fasting and cleansing

and get results TODAY!

When most gurus are advocating a slow and steady method of weight loss, why do I advocate something like juice fasting?

First, lets be honest… who can get excited about being thin in a year from now?  Personally, diets that advocate loosing a pound per week bore me.  Not to mention, demotivate me.  There’s nothing more thrilling than watching your body not just become smaller and the way it was born to be, but to feel radiant and energetic so you can stop the weight struggle and get on with what you were meant to do in life… THRIVE!

Tell me something.  When you experience that will you be more of less likely to eat well?  Exactly!  Your newfound vibrant state is the motivator that draws you TOWARD the life promoting healthy choices, instead of having to use will power to avoid them.  We all know how well that works.  Errrr…. not!

Second, juice fasting uses the body’s own inherent magnificence to accomplish the goal of creating a radiant new you.  It uses your own magnificence to reveal your magnificence to you.

Can you see why I’m so enthusiastic about it? You literally have within you all you need to be healthy, energetic AND thin!  You don’t need gimmicks!  YOU are ALL you need!

And thirdly, for the trifecta, when you cleanse intuitively and intelligently as I outline in my Breakthrough Fasting ebook, you do it in a way that cultivates listening to your body so you learn to respect her clues and can live in harmony, happily ever after as you bounce off the walls with energy and delight in leaving that all behind.  You actually learn techniques and tools during your fast that will stick with you for life and enable you to move forward with awareness of whether or not your choices are going to move you closer toward your goal of being a life force for good or away.  And these tools you can use in all aspects of your life.

So, why wait another three months or a year to experience your brilliance when you can start to feel it RIGHT NOW?  We need you to radiate your best self on this planet.  Call me a glutton for instant gratification, but I choose life today .  Hope you will join me!

Please excuse the look of our blog, we are busy moving in!

Soon this will be the hub of where you will find info, tips and tools on cleansing your body, mind and spirit of anything that holds you back.

See you soon!

xoxo