Fit, Lean & Beautiful #54: “The Serwah Diet” based on attention to culinary joy, establishing health and a fitness regimen
By, Afua Serwah Osei-Bonsu
Morning objectives:
Make sure you get your calcium
Either from a bowl of cereal with milk or a supplement
Nice varied high joy culinary breakfast sweet or savory
Some kind of fruit and fiber richness
Nice teacup and morning dishes happy start to the day
Other things: iron and OJ (red blood cells), Zinc (white blood cells/immune), Ensure (all needed vitamins), carrot juice (high energy)
Clear colon methods-tea like oolong or a cup of tea
Sometimes you may want a sport or high endurance breakfast like rice cakes with peanut butter, banana and chia or sunflower seeds or other seeds
Open drapes and blinds, let light in (Circadian Rhythm)
Lunch or Dinner (a varied culinary diet for maximum joy and maximum health)
One meal vegetarian ( a nice salad, or soup and salad etc., veggie platter, hummus, should be high energy, low calories and low fat, nuts, seeds, beans) eg. Subscribe “Vegetarian Times”
One meal high protein ( nice piece of meat, especially red meat has the highest protein, rich blood)
Evening around 8 or 9 p.m. yogurt and a probiotic (Dancer recommended)
To assimilate foods
To pass BM in the morning
Assists with weight loss
Take biotin for hair and nails
Important Drinks:
Ensure, Gatorade (potassium), Joint juice, Cranberry Juice, Carrot Juice, Orange Juice, fresh squeezed juices or live juices, teas, fresh fruity and herbal teas, lemon and honey, mint and rose water, sage, rosemary, smoothies, beer for relaxation especially after driving tenseness and Starbucks Cold Brew for alertness and studying, sparkling waters, fresh squeezed sangrias and fruity mixed drinks
Weight loss 3 things
- Colonic
- Liposuction
- Exercise
Main Dietary Objectives:
Establish health!
Establish a limber spine (yoga)
Stretch
Roll out thighs for aging with a massage or exercise stick
Physical Therapy
Targeted exercise
Swim
Walk on a treadmill or around neighborhood or on a track or in a nature reserve or with a dog
FITBIT watch for steps
Motion is lotion
Have a selection of exercise tapes or attend classes
Pilate’s ball as if “the world” is in your hands
Sauna
Dance
Relaxation music
Strap to stretch out thighs and back
Weight resistance training for lifting and firming
Heart rate up to rev up metabolism and have an active and alive system, high anima
Enough rest
Salacyn for hands and feet, peel for hands and feet
Salicylic washes for face (Neutrogena) and microdermabrasion, Mandelic peels (healthy complexion)
See a plastic surgeon for sculptra and shaping and removing of scars, tattoos and hair
Buttocks-clench butt or gluts and release daily several times, do marching in place with ankle weights and yoga
Thin fingers and prettier hands-play piano or musical instruments
Sharp mind and improved memory leads to better intellect-music
Watch out for high acid diet, with preference for a more alkaline body
Eating 10 salads can be a natural colonic
Ayurvedic products for hair and skin (Himalaya Products, http://www.Iherb.com)
Infusium hair tonic as hair food for shiny healthy hair
Use “Refresh” eye drops for your eyes to sparkle and be lubricated
Keep Triple Ointment in the bathroom to tend to any burn, scrape, cut or wounds
Worry about your little “pooh bear” when you are in need of a colonic and you are looking like a bear filled with poop in your colon
Occasionally fast with a maple syrup, lemon, cayenne pepper and water drink in very short periods like one to two days depending on what’s healthy for you, consult a respected fasting book
If your knees and legs are healthy enough, be able to run 2 miles fast like a police officer for optimal health
Also for good mental health and to fight depression: keep brain chemicals balanced, stay active, fill life with positive activities, the more active the less time for depression, work with circadian rhythm and light, work out/exercise to increase positive endorphins, propel yourself with goals, have a North Star
The above is based on the author’s work with nutritionists, physical therapists, personal trainers and management of a health food store. Author had a life-long intellectual investigation into health and fitness especially after her health was disrupted with an injury and more acute attention was needed to restore health. Being more of a “demolition” gave her strange insight into what it takes to restore, achieve and maintain optimal health. This author’s idea of health pertains to diet, fitness and attention to joy. She believes culinary is integral to joy and would not forsake culinary for a diet, but intends to create a scaffolding that includes it.