You are what you eat...

Hmm...that seems to be a true statement.  I'm reading a book my co-worker brought me called "You Are What You Eat:  The Plan That Will Change Your Life".  It's VERY interesting so far.  The doctor that wrote this book isn't a raw foodist but she does talk about the goodness of raw food and that it can be healing to your body.  I was reading this section about tongues and it was SO cool.  Here's what it said:  "The tongue is an important indicator of health so I'd like to start by focusing on it in some detail.  I always think of the tongue being like a window to the organs.  The extreme tip correlates to the heart, the bit slightly behind is the lungs.  The right side shows what the gallbladder is up to and the left side the liver.  The middle indicates the condition of your stomach and spleen, the back the kidneys, intestines, bladder and womb.  A healthy tongue should be smooth, supple and slightly moist.  It should be pale red in color with a very thin, white film.  The most common tongue indicators I look out for are cracks, ravines, coatings, lines, swellings, patches of red and cuts."  If you have a "crack" down the middle of your tongue that indicates that you have a weak stomach and your digestion is not what it should be.  Also, if you have teethmarks around the sides of your tongue that's a sign of nutritional deficiency and more than likely you have a spleen deficiency.  I just thought I had a small mouth and that's why I had teethmarks on my tongue!  That's so crazy that it could be something completely different.  Evidentally my body is trying to tell me something and I just wasn't interested enough to find out what.  I'm just finding everything in this book so very interesting.  It's so weird but so cool at the same time.  My co-worker brought me 4 other books today and I'm really excited about reading those as well.  :o)  She's all about me changing my eating habits.  Not only for the weight loss but because I won't be putting all of these toxins in my body anymore.  Another co-worker brought me a quart sized bag of frozen smoothie that she made.  She makes it in bulk and freezes it all until she's ready for it.  That's such a good idea!  Well...I tried a little and it wasn't terrible at all.  It was more tart than I normally like but it didn't taste bad.  It had romaine lettuce, bananas, pineapple, blueberries, strawberries, and spinach.  You can't taste the lettuce or the spinach at all.  All of the fruit being in there covers that right up.  I know it sounds digusting but you will never believe how it tastes.  I've also found this blog about raw cupcakes.  I think my roommate is gonna try and make some of those as well.  I hope they're good!!!  I'm really excited to start this next week.  I really hope I fall in love with it.  For real.  It would be so amazing if I did.  Either way I have an amazing journey ahead of me.  I can't wait to get started.  A couple of weeks ago I started exercising again.  It had been way too long.  I've only gained like 2 lbs. of my weight back so I'm still down 36 lbs.  I plan on losing at least that 2 lbs. this week...hopefully it will be more than that.  This is going to be amazing.  I'm convinced I will be successful.  I can SO do this.