Radhi Devlukia On The Surprising Habits That Are HARMING Your Digestion

hey everyone welcome back to onp purpose the place you come to to become happier healthier and more healed I'm so grateful that you're back here today and I'm so excited to introduce you to my guest this guest has been on the show more than anyone else she was the first guest ever on the show and she's the cutest most beautiful most incredible guest we ever have had on the show I'm of course speaking about the one the only hardest guest to book of all all time longest commute to the studio of all time my incredible wife rad devlukia for those of you that don't know RI is a clinical dietician nutritionist and always learning cook RI brings a modern approach to the ancient principles of holistic well-being and earned her ayurvedic health counselor one degree at the California College of ayurva right now I couldn't be more excited or more proud of rad because her book her first ever book is out right now it's called joyful it has more than 125 plant-based recipes and it's all about cooking effortlessly eating freely and living radiantly obviously I don't think I've ever wanted you to get a book more than this one even more than my books this is the most important book that I want you to get this year please go and grab a copy we put the link in the caption in the comments wherever you are right now go and order joyful welcome to the show my amazing wife and the love of my life Rad deia Rad thanks oh my God you're so professional doing this I mean we've been doing it for a bit it was better than the first time you came on like five years ago this is amazing thanks for that intro really appreciate it much I'm genuinely so proud of you like looking at this book and obviously I've had the inside track of watching you work on this book for the last three years I know the amount of energy the amount of effort the amount of love the amount of devotion that's g into this book is amazing and it's so beautiful and for those of you that don't know when you do get it you can take off this part even though R's face take my face off you can take my favorite part off and look how beautiful this is yeah I made it that way stunning stunning book I wanted people to be able to have a coffee table book but also know that it's my cookbook but um I like the part where you can just take my face off and leave it on your table for little surprises inside uh I have so many questions for you because even though I've seen you work on this book I find that when you get inside someone's mind and heart you understand so much more about what they've created and even though I've watched you from the outside I don't always know all the inside so I want to dive straight in and one of the things I love about this book is the beautiful pictures you have with your family your ba who's your grandma your mom your dad I'm in it as well of course I got one picture uh but what I love is that your family have been such big Inspirations for you in your cooking journey and I just wanted to go through your grandma mom sister family dad like you know just the people in your life that have inspired you and I wanted to know what have you learned from each of them or what have you gained from each of them in your cooking journey I would say that because one both of us gr up in an Indian family food is literally always has been and always will the center of everything whether it's celebrations whether it's making sure that we eat dinner every single day together and so I think I've learned to form connections through eating because of having grown up with it that is my place where I feel I can connect to someone the most when we're sharing you know a delicious meal or a nice dessert together um and so there's that but also you know both our moms had full-time jobs growing up but she still managed to make breakf like homemade breakfast lunch and dinner every sing single day and so watching her do that for us with so much love and also eating her food and feeling her love through the food I think my deep connection with food comes purely through that to having experienced that from her my grandma's the same she passed everything down to my mom in that way my mom was cooking with my grandma from the age of like 12 and she gets her love for it from her as well and so I definitely think that it feels like something generational that's been passed down into me my dad my dad is someone who you know my dad he's so quiet he's so sweet and whenever my mom would go away for work or anything he would always step in and be someone who he wouldn't be like let's just order out he would find something he could make mac and cheese really well so my dad's mac and cheese is in the cookbook that's like my one memory of growing up when my mom would go away he would make this mac and cheese and we the one time we'd get to sit in front the TV and eat and we'd eat mac and cheese and sit in front of the TV and so I really I feel like I mean which is the same as everyone I'm sure I I could not have created this book without all of the inspiration that I've got from them like all the recipes are so inspired by where we're from like from India from our heritage of things that we've grown up eating and then my mom and all the things that I feel like are my comfort Foods when I think about her and so actually a lot of the recipes are connected to memories and things that I can I can make and then feel the love and the energy of the person that I ate it with or that I cooked it with or that cooked it for me it's completely weaved and and just created through family like that is what the book is about and that is that is what I hope people feel when they read it yeah no it comes across and it's so beautiful because you see all of those influences and all of those energies that come in and one of the most interesting things about you is that you obviously trained as a nutritionist and then a dietician both of your degrees and then you've become an ayurvedic health counselor and studied irasa as a big part of your Learning Journey and I know you consider yourself a continuous student and wanting to develop those skills but walk me through how those two things have impacted your understanding of food I started off doing my degree as a nutritionist and a dietitian and so then I was working in hospitals where I was seeing everything from diabetes clinics to the elderly who are malnourish to um little children like pediatric clinics trying to get little fussy eaters to eat a little bit more and so I actually loved working in that environment I loved being someone who could be patient facing seeing them every week trying to see their progress and feeling like I had a direct impact to them but the only part I kind of struggled with was naturally when you're part of a system you have to recommend what the system recommends and so that was a bit difficult for me because I always wanted to be food forward versus supplements or um you know some anything in a bottle um but but sometimes that's not you know the easiest or most efficient way and so I definitely loved it but I felt there was a slight disconnect and then when we moved to New York I threw myself back into study and I found ayurveda and for anybody who doesn't know what ayva is a means life V means knowledge and it's basically the science of life and it as soon as I learned about it it clicked everything felt like it made complete sense and it would it felt just like when you go to a place and it feels like home when I learned about areda I felt like I'd found my home in the practices and the rituals and the understanding of my body the differences between the two were incredible like you know Western medicine and Western healing is all about Curative like you get to the point of disease and then let's figure out how to cure it whereas in ayurveda it's all about how can we start understanding our body how can we start noticing the symptoms the things our body is trying to tell us and how do we tunee into that so that we catch everything a few steps before disease so we can actually have an opportunity to prevent it and on top of that it's so individual like a lot of the time with Western medicine it's one size fits all um and I really appreciate so much of Western medicine the Diagnostics like how we're able to figure things out through so many systems that we have but the one thing we kind of lack is this individual nature of the way you eat a tomato which we know you eat a tomato and I eat a tomato whenever I make a meal it affects you so differently to me and so I love the individual nature of healing our body as me like not what this person online is telling me not what this book is telling me but let me observe and be an active participant in my health every single day so that when I eat something I'm not eating this salad because this person told me it was the best thing for their body I know I'm eating it because it's the best thing for my body and I feel it through the way my body feels through how my digestion is yeah those are like a couple of differences that I found and then I just started learning more and more about this holistic practice and start practicing it so now I know how it feels and I can share it with other people having practiced and lived it I love that point that you just made about being an active participant in how you feel yeah and I didn't start with this but I wanted to say it now sadly you had to give up all those patience and everyone you worked with to only have one patient and that person's been me for the last eight years that you've been ing me and you've been my health coach and my health Guru and you have helped me with so many things whether it was really working on my sugar addiction working on my addiction to soft drinks fizzy drinks what do they call them here sodas so many things I had that I thought I'd figured out so I loved meditating and reading and working on the mind but I didn't want to physically work out I didn't care about the body and you helped me understand that you probably switch my sleep schedule around I thing when we met I was someone who could sleep a lot later and now I sleep really really early and that was a big part of what you changed and all of those have made me feel healthier and happier every single year because you've helped me build these habits and I just want to add none of that was done through Force none of that was done through telling me what to do but you were always patiently coaching and guiding me as in how I showed enthusiasm or what I wanted to learn and so what I love about this book is that you've taken all of that and you've now made it accessible to anyone who wants to change their habits and that's what's so amazing about this book it's not a cookbook in that yes it does have 125 recipes and it does have it does have recipe it is a cookbook guys it is a cookbook but it really has all of these day-to-day guides on habits and how to change your rituals and your morning routine and your evening routine and practices with food and with without that improve your life and so as someone who's being a recipient of your coaching and of your guidance I'm so excited that everyone gets to have this now through joyful you've been such a good student I feel like I haven't even had it hasn't really been you being a student you've always wanted to make yourself better in some way and I think that's the difference right like you can we know this from having parents and you know having different teachers in our life that I've learned best through observing someone or experiencing how amazing they are through the practices that they've done and so when I was writing the book I knew I wanted it to come from a place of love and knowledge because I think that is the place where people learn the best and make make sustainable change it's like I can tell people that eating a certain way is terrible for you and you're going to die early and like whatever it is that you know you could say to really scare someone into it but that just makes them either want to hide from themselves or it makes them want to curl up into a ball and kind of be like I need to ignore this because this is too much information and it's overwhelming and I do think what you said about you know me teaching you you were an active participant in your health and I think that is actually the key like for me I've intertwined I said when I first wrote this cookbook I was like I do not want it to just be a cookbook I love sharing food with people it is my love language but what I want more is food is just one aspect like we all know food is just one pillar of our health and then to be able to intertwine throughout your day all of these micro these micro habits that create such Major Impact and that's what it did for me like one of the things in there is breath work and I think about this so much and I just took a deep breath now because breath has honestly saved me from being someone who has mass anxiety going into things that I find so difficult and by the way not even difficult things things that I find difficult so going into events where there's lots of people being coming on to interviews and speaking in places where I don't have full control over it like having all those M minor things which actually impacted me so much breath work has been the one thing that's allowed my mind to slow down for me to collect my thoughts um for me to energize myself in the afternoon for me to help relax me in the evening and so I've shared breath Works to like really take people through their day to to tackle and and handle everything that comes our way and so from breath work to the way that we eat and the way that connect to our food all of that helps us create more joyful moments throughout the day and the more joyful moments you have throughout the day the more joy you end up with every single day like it it accumulates throughout the day I want to dive into some things in the book now because I want to give people a sense of how this cookbook is shaped and curated in order to help people and I wanted to start off by asking you this question about the modes because you break down the modes as like a big part of your book and you talk about the three could you walk us through these three modes and how we think about food when it comes to these three yeah so the three modes in areda essentially they the um energies of the world of everything that we eat of everything that exists externally and internally and so there's the mode of goodness the mode of passion and the mode of ignorance and so I've spoken about it in the sense of our lifestyle and our food that's how I focused it in the book and so mode of goodness are basically foods which make you feel good like on a basic level it's foods that nourish you deeply that that nourish your body that that are filled with Prana now Prana is life force and what that means is um having the most amount of Vitality and energy in that in that produce and so a simple way to explain it would be you pick an apple from the tree at that point that Apple has the most amount of nutrient value it has the most amount of life and it it's just been taken from the tree it has you know the most it's the most abundant in that form and then you take it home and you leave it out for a couple of days and you leave it out and slowly slowly the quality externally starts getting bad you see these brown spots that come up um and then slowly it starts getting mushy inside and so the thing is you could eat something in its purest form or it can end up degrading and becoming something which can move through the mo down to something that's no longer beneficial for you but the point is trying to eat the most amount of foods that that form within this that fall within this mode of goodness and so the types of foods would be fresh fruits vegetables grains beans um you know like avocados and like just all the foods that come from a fresh natural place and so if you possibly can by organic way you can the less chemicals the less um things that are put onto your foods that are unnatural the better and then LIF style wise mode of goodness are again the things that don't just make you feel good in the moment but actually bring goodness to your life long term and so a lot of the time we mistake our temporary joys for things which are good for us I think is learning how to differentiate the two so you know that for me when I'm eating um a sugary donut in the moment it brings me joy and sometimes that's great but actually in the long term it may ruin my sleep it may make me listen algic in the morning and so the foods that actually bring energy and good digestion all the things that make your bodily systems feel good those are the foods in the mode of goodness and also the activities are the same um and then when you get to the mode of passion so all those foods that you eat that give you immediate gratification so the sour the salty the um the chili all the things that you would put into your food to create that kind of burst of flavor into it those are still okay to have but again in moderation mode of goodness being the larger amounts of foods and activities that you do mode of passion will be a really intense workout that gets you sweating and you're like oh at the end of it you know it really gets your aggression out so that's a mode of passion activity and the foods would be what I just said like chilies and sour foods and spices that are really intense and they have their place as well of course they do all of these have their place by the way they all have their place but as we go down you have to have less and less of those foods and then um the last one is mod of ignorance and those are the foods that essentially make your body feel lifeless and lethargic and make your digestion feel sluggish um and those type of foods end up being foods which are deep fried because it's so dense and heavy in oil leftovers foods that have gone bad in the fridge that have been there for a long time basically food that have lost their life and um according to IA also meat and and foods which no longer have life in them like animals that have have died and then they they no longer have that vitality and so yeah it's just being mindful about all the things that fit into those mes and how they're affecting you and it's not just on our body it has the ability to affect our mind and our Consciousness too because everything carries energy so whatever energy that food has when we're digesting it it's also assimilating into our blood and then our bones and then our entire being and so it can also affect our mind so a lot of the foods in those categories they also will affect our mind in the same way they affect our body and I love this because I know you've done this for yourself before you keep and I've been you've recommended it for me to do as well is doing like a food di or a food audit for a week and actually just testing it out because I think sometimes we don't realize how subconsciously some of these things work and how subtly they work and if you hadn't taught me in how to spot these things where it's like well did you sleep badly oh wait a minute what did you eat the night before right often we think it's so mental but so often it is physical it is biological it is to do with what you consumed yeah we've I think we've tuned out of our body so much you know when they say about your own inner voice of when your inner voice when you've got too many voices that you have allowed to be louder and louder around you your inner voice becomes you know quiet or it becomes dampen in the same way our inner cues our inner intuition about our own body we kind of end up using that because we're constantly hearing avocados are amazing for you so you end up being an avocado every day even if it's making your tummy feel bad these salads are amazing for you so then you end up eating those salads and slowly your body is screaming at you well first of all it starts to whisper and it's like oh it's a bit I feel a bit uncomfortable and then you ignore it and then you're like oh my skin is breaking out and or I'm losing my hair or you know your external symptoms start to come and still you're like it's nothing to do with my food you know I'm going to keep eating this and so you slowly slowly stop quietening your own bodily cues that you completely start to deteriorate your body just because you've stopped listening to it and then your body stops communicating to you and if it does it will scream at you until your body gets to the point of breaking down you get IBS or you you end up getting gut issues you end up getting skin issues and so we don't seem to be able to catch ourselves in the point of oh I'm feeling a little bit uncomfortable today I wonder what it was that made me feel uncomfortable and so the diary is really important because if you do with any physical you know problems at the moment digestive issues whatever start doing the Diary of this is what I ate and this is how it made me feel 2 to three hours after that's usually how long it will start taking to digest your food and then start pairing that up with okay this didn't make me feel good so I'm going to cut that out and let me see how I feel it's a process of elimination and it does take a little bit of work but it makes such a difference because then you're not then your body will start talking to you a little bit more the more you listen to it yeah it's like what I told you last night where where I've been exercising I've been meditating I've been feeling really great I've been sleeping really well and then for the past four nights I've just had such a busy schedule that my morning routine evening routine everything went out of whack and then last night I was like I just need to eat sugar and I know exactly why and I was like I literally haven't turned to it whereas last night I literally weeks yeah for three weeks I was I had no refined sugars and I was absolutely fine but then the last four nights my schedule was crazy and so last night ordered a chocolate fudge cake a turiso and had a scoop of ice cream and it was amazing and I'm really happy I did it but at the same time I noticed why I was craving it because for three and a half weeks I've not craved it at all and again I'm not making I'm not trying to food Shain people or make people feel bad I I really enjoyed that food that I had last night but it was a recognition of how much my body didn't need that when I was doing all these other things and how much I resorted to it as well yeah well it's a wrecking you have no notice what your triggers are for wanting foods that are just there to give you a hit that you need and so you already know that when I have lack of sleep when I don't have time to rest when I don't get my weekends when um I'm going from one thing to another to another slowly it's deteriorating me and then I get to that point and so um I think what you've done is you've recognized it so you know where you're leading you know where you're going and then you'll have to you know you have your sugar dose which is fine like everybody loves having a little bit of something but the fact that you're able to recognize that the I know this is going to happen like this is what's going to it's going to lead to if I continue down this road yeah Donuts tonight yeah definitely I wanted to dive in there's something beautiful that you did in your book and I thought these were really well written and explained and super unique as well and things that I don't hear people talk about all the time so I wanted to dive into it you have nine tips for living joyfully and the reason I wanted to ask you about some of these my favorite ones is because I think they're underestimated and they have a huge impact on the food we eat and so I'm just going to pick some of the ones that I like so number two is called eat until satisfied not stuffed and I was thinking that until I met you I definitely believed that I would eat till my limit yeah and now I'm like wanting to know what's made and how much there is and everything else but walk us through why it's important to eat until satisfied not stuffed yeah in ARA it says that you should eat until you three4 satisfied not full and so what that means is not getting yourself to the point so there's such a fine line between eating enough to fuel our body and then eating so much that it then makes us feel drowsy lethargic afterwards and so learning what those cues are for your body is really important and so it's easier for our body to digest when we haven't over stuffed like think of your stomach as like a uh a furnace where you constantly keep putting things on top and so naturally there's only a certain amount of digestive juices that are flowing in your digestive system so it's like it produces enough for the amount that you should be eating and then you end up overdoing it and overwhelming it where your digestive juices aren't actually allowed or arable to digest everything that's in there so then what happens is your food remains undigested your undigested food ends up fermenting in your stomach you then get gut discomfort you then feel a bit slothy after your meals you feel bloated feel bloated so then those those Foods end up fermenting producing toxins in the body then you start getting headaches and just feeling really groggy or then you're like I wonder why I feel this way I just ate a full meal I felt energized but for I I thought I would get energy from it but instead it's made me feel worse and so the three4 full thing is you will know when you've eaten too much when you instead of feeling energized by the meal you're eating you feel the opposite you feel lethargic you feel um under the weather you feel groggy and so that's a good indication to you that maybe you've either eaten the wrong Foods or most likely you've eaten a little bit too much and so the way to actually make sure you do that is conscious eating and like mindfully eating because the fact is when you're distracted you've got a burrito in one hand you're typing on the other you're talking to people on like you're all over the place so what happens is when you end up um eating your food you haven't yet prepped your body to say hey by the way food's coming and so when your body knows that by the way you may not have even looked at what you're eating food start your digestion starts as soon as you look at food that's the beginning of when our digestive juices start flowing our tongue knows to produce the enzymes it needs to start you know digesting the food from the mouth and so when you don't give it enough notice you start eating and your body's like oh I wasn't ready to digest all this food and so the taking looking at the food you know having a prayer of gratitude just before you eat a second with the food to tell your body food is coming to nourish you now then taking a bite slowly eating it you'll notice that when you eat slow slowly and by the way I don't mean you have to Long out your meal for like an hour it's just taking bite at a time instead of eating a bite before the last bite's finished um when you do that you'll notice oh I actually only made it through like 3/4s of this burrito and actually I feel actually great like this this feels good for me this feels like enough um whereas if you eat that fast your body doesn't even get to tell you oh okay I'm stuffed now until it's too late absolutely and then the next one that you were kind of leading on to is this idea of chewing your food like the importance of that but before I do that I want to talk about the one you just said like I think it's so so so interesting to hear about how the digestive process starts like until I met you I'd never heard that in my entire life of oh wait a minute my body actually has to be ready to eat but that actually makes so much sense it's like when you go to a restaurant you order what you want and then they have to prepare it yeah and then you're being prepared to eat it but we almost want our body to respond like technology where it's like on off like do this now do that now and it's almost like well no your body needs to through the scent through the sight through as everything else like needs to actually feel ready and that's such a powerful point it's such an important point it's like when you put a kettle on to boil water like everything takes a little bit of time and our body is a system like it takes a second to gear up just like when it's rested for eight hours at night and then suddenly you're waking up and you're throwing in your coffee and you're throwing in all this heavy food and your body's like oh my gosh I just got up give me a second it's like someone's screaming at you when you're waking up and so that's how our body feels too chewing your food chewing your food oh okay so I have this memory of my D my granddad every time we would sit down for a meal he would be remind all of us you have to chew I think it was like 32 or like some 32 times like chew your food and so everyone would have to sit there chewing their food like 32 times you don't have to do it 32 times that's like the recommended amount because the fact is the more you digest in your mouth which is what our teeth are for the more that you break it down the less work our stomach has to do so if you're eating food even if it's small even if it's big it's like our teeth were made to break down the food our tongue was made to release the enzymes to break it down you skip that part your stomach's doing double the work than it needs to chewing your food so if you're having digestive issues one of the simplest things you could do is chew your food a little bit better because if your digestive juices or your gut is a little bit weaker it's going to find it even harder to break things down so whether it's raw foods you know sometimes cooked foods you can get away with soups you can get away with of course but the things you have to really pay attention to chewing more are the things with roughage around it so like more fiber around it the beans um salads when you're eating salads especially chew it well so that it gets broken down I I mean that's such a simple yet huge point I know as as someone who eats very fast and you've slowed me down so much but I always found that I had to eat quick because when I worked in the corporate world you didn't really get a lunch and so you'd quickly eat and you didn't want to be seen eating because you always being judged for not working hard enough and so I got into this habit of like eating really really quick and what I realized was yes I could eat quick but it's exactly what you said I wasn't chewing my food properly obviously I'm then getting cramps or feeling bloated or whatever else it may be and you don't feel good and now you're not working or you're not alert at work not feeling great anymore true and so it sounds so simple but that ability to chew your food effectively and I love what you said about how the stomach's doing double the work again we don't look at our body as a system and so we don't recognize that oh that's what's putting pressure on my stomach and that's why I'm feeling pain because I could have eaten food that's good for me but I'm not chewing it I'm not breaking it down y exactly yeah I love that one okay I'm picking some more cuz these nine methods of eating joyfully are living joyfully are brilliant so that's a couple of them I wanted to pick a few more this one was intriguing to me because you put eat and cook with your hands yes you know I mean in our culture in Indian culture and in many of Eastern Traditions you eat with your hands and again that's another way it's another sign to your body because we've gotten used to holding metal things so our body doesn't actually know it could think that we're about to saw something it could think that we're about to write something you know there's no connection it's it's dead material that you're holding on to and so you start cutting your food up and your your body's looking at it but it doesn't quite understand like so I can see the food but I can't touch the food and then suddenly you put it into your mouth and it's like oh we're eating now so our hands have nerves and as soon as they start feeding the food um you know even with children if you think about it touch and texture is such an important part of your body recognizing what you're doing and so that's just another indication to your body that you are about to eat um and also a connection to food again we have such a disconnect to the food that we're eating it doesn't kind of allow you to do anything else your hands are a little bit dirty you're connecting with the food that you're eating um and so one it removes distraction and you doing other things and two it just allows you to reconnect back to the food that you're eating it helps when your hands are a cooking pan like you can hold really you can hold really hot like I'm I'll literally throw something into the air and you'll just be like sat standing there going what is your issue yeah my mom calls him es asbestos hands I don't know what that means but she's always called it that I think it's like a thing when they were younger like espo but um my mom has it to I think it's just a cook thing you just get like numb at the at the uh tips of your fingers you just pick anything up uh one more that I wanted to focus out of all of these like I said there's nine I'm just picking some of my favorites was and this one I think is a big one for people and this one was a big one for me avoid cold drinks and iced beverages this is one that whenever I've shared it with people who have had gut issues without fail they've said oh my God my gut has changed so much since I stopped drinking cold drinks Game Changer and the reason is your body when it is starting to eat is creating heat like if you think about a furnace you think about a fire for it to burn something our digestion is like a fire it needs Heat heat so there's your body trying to build up this heat and and take all its energy towards your stomach and then you're going and then dampening the fire dampening the fire over and over again as your body's just heating up the acids are just building up and then you're like oh let me dilute the acids and let me dampen the fire the digestive fire that's happening one part of it is the cold drink like the cold part of it that's dampening the fire and the other part is too much liquid when you're eating is diluting your digestive juices what's recommended is like a half a cup of warm water or some a warm tea that you can maybe with some spices for your digestion um drinking that slowly sip at a time as you're eating your food and then like half an hour after or half an hour before you can if you really want you can drink a drink yeah yeah no it's such a and it's so common right like I grew up in a house where I would have a can of sprite yeah chilled right next to my meal Pizza yeah fries whatever else it may be and you get so used to it or like you know we have a friend who will just put loads of ice into water when they're just about to have their meal and it's so normal it's a normal part of culture yeah but it's not necessarily good for you yeah which is the same as everything that we see it's like there's so much just because it's the most common thing to do doesn't mean it's the right thing to do for us yeah absolutely absolutely and and so those were some of my favorites like I said there's so many more but I thought those were so unique and I'd never heard them anywhere before I've obviously learned them through you but they're so simple and what I love about them is you don't need to you don't need to learn a new skill you don't need to develop a new habit these are things that you can start practicing right now yeah what else you learn from my book H I wanted to ask you about I mean I learned a lot from your book but I learned it from you and now the book is going to help lots of people so I think one of the biggest things for people these days is a lot of people are missing meals yeah and skipping meals and often what ends up happening is then your first real meal is dinner like your first real meal like substantial meal and naturally we end up overeating or we end up you know we're trying to get all the nutrients from that meal what's your take on skipping meals and how does that affect us and what can we do if we find that to be a pattern in our lives yeah um I would say that you know it's it's a very specific thing to your body type and you will know just by doing it whether you are the body type that can take it or not I have a body type where I can not eat in the morning till I've worked out I work out on empty stomach I then will have my meal maybe at like 10 11:00 I I will Fast for a long period of time and my body thrives off it you with your body type your digestion is so strong and fiery and your body type is such that you have to have your meals on time when you wake up you're ready to eat you're hungry by the afternoon like clockwork you are hungry like every meal has to be at the right time otherwise you feel that negative effect you feel your stomach getting acidic like you feel all those effects right and so I would say you really need to I mean I know I wish I could give a direct answer but that would be that would be wrong um you have to see if when I am waking up and if I'm hungry straight away your digestive system is ready to eat if you're waking up and you're like I could go another 3 hours without eating test out test that out for yourself and so there are certain body types where especially if you're quite a slim build you lose weight quite often quite easily you generally are quite ravenous and and hungry all the time you probably need to be having your meals regularly and if your digestion is suffering when you don't that's an indication that you need more regular meals for me if I end up skipping a meal my body actually is is good with fasting and it and it actually feels better sometimes and less lethargic when I do do that so sometimes I will last off like two meals and I'll be okay with it but I think um yeah there's there's so much where it's like intimate and fasting is amazing and then someone does it and they're like I felt awful but like they said it works for me but I feel so bad doing it then don't do it it's not for your body type the active participant thing keeps coming up in my mind but it is work to figure out yourself just like when you're figuring out your partner and you're figuring out you know your relationship with them your body is the same it's waiting for you to listen and learn from it and and it will tell you what it needs yeah and I I think what's been my personal experience is that when you don't listen to these smaller initial warnings the body just gets louder and harder and harsher and we think there's something wrong with our body when actually your body's been doing the right thing all along which is telling you to be an active participant and listen to me it's like your partner that just gets louder and louder and louder if you're not listening or your alarm clock gets louder and louder and louder when you're not listening you're not waking up yeah exactly and so your body's trying to get you to do the same yeah yeah all right one question I want to ask you is on a busy day what's one practice you can Implement to make sure you slow down what's one thing you do and one thing people could do cuz I feel like eating fast it sounds like drinking fast we we do a lot of things fast and that seems to cause a lot of issues for me because as you know my mind the way I talk everything is quite this and then this and then this and I'm all over the place and so I can relate to being someone who's very fast minded and constantly feeling like I'm all over the place I have to just say breath work again breath before you eat take three breaths before you go into something that you're worried about take three breaths like really feel deep breaths going into your body because we take such shallow breaths your breath is the anchor between your mind and your body it brings you back into your body it allows you to reconnect with yourself um and so it sounds really simple but I guarantee you like take a breath right now like take a breath and feel what happens to your body it automatically slows down every time I've gone from in this podcast from where I'm speaking fast I've taken a breath and then I slow down I've taken a breath and I've slowed down and so my cure to having a fast mind and having the habit of being like that has been just taking a breath and it's like as simple as it gets right like breath is is there for you it's it's ready to be used and navigate your emotions your day um and and help you in some way if you allow it to yeah definitely it's a great natural tool that's built into the body yeah in order to help you set a pace for life oh my God that's so true and if you think about it every single one of your emotions is monitored by breath like when we're nervous and we're anxious our breath gets shallower and quicker and when we're calm and focused our breath becomes deeper and slower and when we're stressed or we're under pressure or we're late for something and we're worried our breath gets shallower and gets quicker yeah and when you're feeling like you're in the right place and you made it on time and all of those things your breath gets deeper and slower again and we also I've always said to people we also say things like that takes my breath away like when something's really beautiful it's breathaking and we also say things like let me just catch my breath or let me take a breath because it's linked to our emotions and so we've learned to realize that our breath changes but we haven't learned to realize we can change our breath and what you've just described is you can choose to change your breath totally in order to feel a way you want to feel I completely agree yeah you can really navigate your emotions through it like I think about when I'm crying like depending on how I'm crying my breath changes completely you know if you think about when you see someone really intensely crying they're they're breathing so shallow they're feeling so overwhelmed and suddenly their breath is getting faster they can't even speak because they can't you know the they can't catch their breath to actually say something and so um yeah breath can navigate your emotions your day uh your mind everything what's something you've changed your mind about this past year when it comes to your mindset around health or the way you eat food protein I grew up a vegetarian and um my sources of protein being from Indian family as well was lentils and beans and um you know those are actually the main sources for us and then um when I started learning more about while I was working out and the amount of protein my body needs you know my book I talk about how the average American I think it was something like has over 75% more protein than they need so there's one side where because of the foods that people are consuming they're actually overeating on protein to a point where it can harm your body but then I find where vegetarians and if you're plant-based you actually can get the right amount that you need and I've been managing to do that but it does take a little bit more work to get it to navigate and get it into your food but I've noticed what a difference it's made like everything from hair fall hair shedding I when I started increasing my protein my hair was shedding less my skin was getting better um I was feeling more satiated and more full in my meals because sometimes I realize my meals were focused so much on carbohydrates that they were being digested so fast and I was hungry even though i' had such a large meal I was still hungry so often and then I started introducing protein and I could last 3 4 hours 5 hours between my meals and I felt satiated I feel the same way it's changed right it's made such a difference and so um you know some of the for anybody who's plant-based or thinking about having more plant-based days and they want want protein I would say Obviously beans and lentils are great sources of that but then also you know I kind of want to dispel myth around tofu being bad for you because there have been so many studies that have been done yes to say that when you have you know they talk about soy and how it affects your hormones and your estrogen levels those studies were done on people who are having such an excessive amount of of soy it was like imagine having five or six blocks of soy every single day and say blocks you mean I mean like blocks of tofu let's say so naturally anything in excess not chunks large blocks large blocks yeah any anything in excess of course that's going to cause negative effects on your body everything has that there's a there's anything in excess even water in excess you can have too much water and so I would say that if you are Health having a healthy um natural amount of of tofu or sawy in your diet it's not going to affect your hormone levels and I mean I'm happy to share the studies at some point you know about about that but I really researched it cuz I was scared of it too um so soyer is a great source of it another great source is is from your nuts and your seeds hemp seeds flax seeds like you know in two tablespoons I think there's nearly like six grams of protein now you may think that's a small amount but you add that into a few dishes every single day um like throughout the day and you can gain so much from it um and then obviously you've got your your uh meat Alternatives which do have that I try to avoid that as much as possible and get it from natural means um but there are so many great ways to get protein into your diet and it that that for me this year has been I've really been focusing on that and it's been a game changer yeah it's amazing I felt the difference as well for sure I think it's been huge what's the biggest change you've made in your health Journey that has changed your relationship with food eating to make my body feel good not look a certain way because I realized that you know a lot of my book is is to do with the journey I've had to go through with food where I remember when we met I was so conscious about the way that I was being perceived um and the way my body looked that I would want to eat away that I thought made me look better and especially this last year last couple of years I've been trying to improve my relationship with food because I didn't realize how much it was impacted by the way I wanted to look versus the way I wanted to feel you know a lot of the recipes in this book and a lot of the things that I've shared are helping people to connect back to their body but create a better relationship to understand that food like you don't have to choose between food that um between food that makes you feel good and food that brings you Joy food can be both and you can learn how to do that and the way to cook to make it make you feel that way like we normally associate if I want to look a certain way I have to eat salads and things just leaves and I can't have any fun when I'm eating because anything that brings me joy is going to be bad for me like it's going to be something that that doesn't make me look a certain way but actually how you feel when you're eating and how you feel in your life is so so feel is so much more satisfying when you nurture that versus constantly living to figure out how you're going to change the way you live externally both can be true you can want to change your external body but at the same time thinking about how is my inside feeling too and doing both at the same time is possible and will make you feel so much better I was listening to something today and it was talking about self objectification and it was really interesting because it was talking about how we view ourselves constantly as other people view us we live our life as other people view us so for example on this podcast I may be thinking how am I going to sit in a way where I'm going to look the most flattering and how am I going to like move my body in a way where maybe they don't get the bad side of me and so your con living through other people's perception of you essentially objectifying yourself and so I feel like having a better relationship with food has allowed me to care less about those things and and live from inside out rather than outside in does that make sense so powerful yeah it's so powerful and that requires so much courage and going against the grain because society's conditioned us to think a certain way like I remember years and years and years ago I remember walking through a department store and the line above the kind of billboard above the makeup section said get the natural look yeah and and I just found that hilarious because I was like you obviously already have the natural look I'm not saying there's anything against makeup I have no issues with it I'm I'm I'm good with it it's great it's just it's interesting how it's being sold to us and so we're being convinced that the natural isn't good enough or there's a way to be more natural and each their own everyone's allowed to do whatever's right for them but I think the more we live our life through the lens of will people think I look good like this we'll always be disappointed because there are some people who think you look good and some people who think you don't like we talk about this a lot with fashion like I really enjoy fashion yeah but when you see my fashion trites you're like I'm not sure what you're doing mate and and then and then everyone else would think it looks great but the point is I'm doing it for myself yeah totally that's the only person that you can ever do it for because it's so hard to win like you could have everyone think you're amazing and one person think you're not or the other option where everyone thinks you're crazy and one person thinks you're amazing and at the end of day the one person you need to feel that way is you yeah right that's that's what I'm hearing from to and and you kind of Rob yourself of experiences like um I was talking to uh Liz Moody I was talking to this guy and she was saying how you know when you go to the beach and you look into the sea and you see the the sand underneath you and you like you're thinking oh I want to go into the ocean but I'm a bit worried about what people are going to think about me in this swimsuit I've had that I've I've robbed myself of so many experiences we've gone to pool parties and I've been like I'm not getting in the pool like just so you know I'm not going to get in the pool right now because I don't feel comfortable and I've robbed myself of so many experiences where she was like think about when you're 80 years old and you look back at those experiences and you're are you going to say to yourself so glad I didn't get in the pool that day because they would have seen my cellulite or are you going to think I'm so glad I jumped into that ocean and I felt that ocean around me and I created these memories and I felt the sand beneath my feet and I had the experience and so I've really been thinking about that a lot more of like having the experience because whenever I've gone into situations where I'm constantly consumed by other people's view of me I've not been present I barely remember the event I barely remember where I've what I've been doing or where I've been like there's so much so such lack of presence which doesn't allow me to even experience what I want to um and I feel like that's kind of changed um throughout the time I'm still working on it but it's it's definitely um yeah all of that fuels into everything like it really it really changed the way I was eating and connecting to my body too yeah I think you've also found this and this is why I'm excited for people to get the book is that you've found a way to make healthy food really tasty and I always say that to you like I find it so easy I'm so lucky to have you and I will say that to everyone when everyone's like oh wow you live a really healthy lifestyle I'm like you don't know who I'm married to right like and it's and now it's almost like everyone gets to have you in their kitchen through the book where they can also feel that way and feeling confident that when you're cooking for your family that you don't have to sacrifice taste in order for it to be good for you exactly and a big part for you with that is is the spices and the hers that you talk about so walk us through what you're fascinated with spices like our nickname for you is Spice Girl and because of that like in the actual sense like what walk us through the value of spices and why they make food flavorful and good for you I'm so glad you ask me because it's literally my favorite topic about this book um spices have you know been a part of our life our whole life because I remember even when we were younger I would be I would be coughing and sneezing and my mom would use spices in water to like boil boil a tea with spices to help me with that or you know when you get a cut or a bruise I parents are getting out this turmeric Patty and like putting it onto our scabs and you know we grew up with that but I didn't realize the power of them until I started studying the medicinal potency and benefit of them and so yes they make your food taste and look vibrant like it's amazing you can take like a humble potato and you can mix different spices together and taste different parts of the world through just the spices you're using so spices not only take you to different parts of the world and help you to experience different cultures and Cuisines they also allow you to buy really basic ingredients and Elevate them and make them feel so different every single day um and the benefits of spices oh my goodness well you know this for the past I don't even know how long 10 years I used spices in my medicine box spices have been my go-to if I have a headache essential oils and spices if I have a headache what do I go to yeah your essential oil my peppermint oil like if I have a cough what do I tell you I'm going to make you a Wayne seeds in water like and I have found when I've allowed my body to rely on natural means to heal itself and what I mean by that is like the spices the oils whatever I'm using the food that I'm eating my body's immunity has gotten better and better the way that my body reacts to um being in stressful environments has changed because I've allowed my body to heal itself through what I'm actually putting into my body and so I actually have feel my best when over the past few years progressively as I've done that and it's so easy because all you have to do is the spices you can buy ground or whole or in mixes of Blends that you can just add in you don't have to think about it you can put it into your hot water in the morning my one of my favorite things is CCF tea coriander cumin and fennel tea easy way if you're not used to using spices at all even if you don't cook at home add these three spices in equal parts a teaspoon of each into hot water beautiful way to add in spices without you even having to do much and then experiment with your food become like a play in your kitchen I really think you know the book is not prescriptive I actually want you to use the book and the recipes to play in the kitchen and sub things out and I've got so many things where I'm like if you don't have this use this if you don't have this use this because nothing about food has to be prescriptive and so um spices are a really fun way to do that so yeah one of the huge intentions in goals with my book is for you to have a spice cupboard that is full and and over full by the time you get to n and I've got a chart in there to tell you what the benefits of them are how you can use them um to your medicinal benefit but also to make a food taste way better yeah I think that's really important that you've got so many charts and graphs and things to make it really easy in the book for anyone to understand because a lot of people may be thinking God I've never really used totally that many spices I'm not really aware of them but you've actually made that really simple and accessible and then I'm like pick a spice a week and play with it pick a spice a week add it into different things like nutmeg add it into your milk your um your milk at night nutmeg is a mild sedative it helps with sleep um in the morning for your digestion you know for centuries Indians have eaten fennel seeds after their meal it's a tradition you go to Indian restaurant you go to an Indian house they will be passing around fennel seeds after their meal that's because it is amazing for gas for bloating for Digestive relief after you've eaten and so like try out fennel seeds in your you know water in the morning there's so pick one thing you don't have to be over whelmed with so many different practices and spices and things in the book pick one or two a week that you want to incorporate um and see how you like it see how your body reacts to it yeah I love that I mean you just mentioned two things there that I wanted to speak to you about people have always been fascinated with your morning and evening routines I wanted to ask you what does your morning routine look like now and why have you chosen the specific things that exist in it m good question are you not part of my morning routine though what do you mean you don't know what my morning routine of course I do um what is my morning routine so I don't know what happens before I wake up that's true um so I wake up in the morning um and brush my teeth and also use my tongue scraper which by the way is an aurvedic ritual that if you don't do that is a must you do not know how clean your mouth can actually be if you haven't used a tongue scraper it's also really important to remove toxins that have built up over the night because that's the time your body starts to clean up and take away the toxins and one place that they come out is on the top of your tongue and so tongue scraping is a must and then I make my ccft in the morning sit down for my meditation and I have a month meditation practice as you know um and that's usually for about an hour and a half mixed in with breath work to help me refocus um and keep bringing my mind back to my practice and then um I usually get ready for my workout go for my workout and that's ranges from Monday Wednesday Friday a Weight Workout I love weight training it really helps to build strength and I feel confidence in my body the other days I'll either do running or like a heated yoga class other things that help also stretch out my body because I find weight training kind of shortens your muscles whereas Pilates and yoga really helps to lengthen them so kind of a mix of both and then I'll come back get ready and then what else do I do oh then I eat my breakfast yeah what do you usually have for what do I normally have for breakfast so at the moment I'm trying to do Savory breakfast after listening to glucose goddess um and really trying to incorporate more Savory Foods and I prefer savory breakfast anyway so I do everything from a Sourdough toast um with some sort of protein on it so either like having a good amount of hummus with lots of veggies I'll put like tomatoes and cucumbers um maybe doing and I'll sprinkle some sort of spices on top so whether it's you know toasted corander seeds um or cumin powder and then um a bit of hot sauce because I just love hot sauce and then I'll have that or I've been having these like protein Bagels you know topped with the same kind of thing and then I'll have a protein shake afterwards so what about your lunches when you don't want to feel lethargic after your lunches because so often we struggle to know what to eat because we still have a few hours of work left like what do you do for your lunches what do you enjoy yeah I try to keep it balanced in the sense of I will still have a carbohydrate at at lunch time and by the way um our body is so ins sync with nature and our digestion is the strongest when the sun is at its highest and so the sun is at its highest naturally in the middle of the day and so our lunch should actually be our largest meal of the day ideally because that's when our digestion is the strongest it's able to digest like the heavier things that we want to eat and so I will have like a larger portion of my carbohydrates if possible in the afternoon and then I will mix in lots of different veggies like eating the rainbow is no joke you have to eat variety of colors and so I will make sure that when I'm doing my Sharp I have a variety of vegetables with different colors because each of those colors represent different nutrients and different vitamins and minerals and so to make sure you're also getting enough of what you need in terms of vitamins minerals make sure that you have a variety of different colors on your plate so I'll buy like pink radishes I'll buy cucumbers I'll buy different colored carrots and um either I'll have them on the side or I'll just quickly sauté them have it with either some noodles or um throw some tofu in there scrambled honestly I just make sure I know the basics of like a really good way of doing is write down where your protein is going to come from what veggies you love eating and what carbohydrates you like and then just mix it all in I love doing a one pot thing so I'll throw in noodles I throw in my veggies I'll throw in some tofu mix it all up or I'll do a scramble like scrambled tofu on toast I just know that the areas I need to make sure I have in my meals and then I kind of just pick and choose between go between them and decide what I feel like um and what flavors I want and then what about dinner dinner um walking through the whole day I know oh my gosh uh dinner I mean you know it can be so varied I love for me a doll or a a soup or like a a beanie Curry I'll probably have I wouldn't have like as much like flatbread or rice with it just because I try not to have too many carbs at night uh or something too heavy at night but I love Indian spices are just my comfort food and at night especially when it's cold outside I love having a mixed lentil like Dal um and all of these recipes are in the book yeah yeah yeah oh there's a really good like red lentil dll in there there's also my mom's uh three bean curry with coconut milk and oh it's so good so much flavor in it so yeah I'll usually do that or a one pot thing because at night you just you just want to throw everything in one thing and and not spend too much time in the kitchen and so there are so many recipes in there that are like 30 minutes um and then other ones where maybe you feel like spending a little bit more time in the kitchen and so you can spend an hour creating a beautiful meal if you have time on the weekend yeah I'm so lucky that I get to be the recipient of you are the guinea pig yeah yeah I'm the guinea pig all of this has been tested on and what about your evening routine how has that been constructed for you my evening routine is usually I try to as soon as I stop working I usually go walk for a little bit I find it really helps me to wind down I would do an intense workout but I'll definitely walk go on the treadmill for about like 20 minutes half an hour listen to something um and then one thing that's really helped me is I don't like bright lights at night I really try to avoid Bright Lights it's made such a difference to my like Sarcan Rhythm the rhythm of your body that helps with sleep artificial life really messes with that and so whether it's using candles or really keeping the lights dim that for me has helped me notice that oh wow I'm actually really tired by 8:30 or 900 and it's time for me to get into bed rather than and by the way TV has the same light and so do our phones and so uh for me the bright lights are too intense for me and it and it really you know messes with my rhythm of sleep so I've started using candles and stuff a lot more and then we've been trying to read a lot more and so I'll if I'm by myself I'll I'll read um sometimes watch a little cheeky show of something which might be called love Island not going to lie and then um and then oh eat dinner and that before that and then one of my favorite practices which is like a self- love ritual for me is um abanga it's a really beautiful practice of abanga is about in the book yeah I talk about it in the book and it's it's um massaging your own body with oils that's as simple as it is but if you think about it how many how many times a day do we probably have a lot of negative selft talk and how many times a day do you give yourself a hug and like just it's literally like giving yourself a hug just as when someone's had a long day a hard day they come home and you give them a hug like you give them a cuddle and in the same way our nervous system wants us wants to hear from us and feel from us that I love you and I care about you and one of the most amazing ways of doing that is by just giving yourself a little massage and so whether it's is just the bottom of your feet putting the warm oils on your hands massaging the bottom of your feet that's where all of our nerves end and so bottom of your feet or even giving yourself a little scalp massage or if you have time have a warm shower and lather your body in those oils oils actually help to lubricate your nervous system they seep into your skin they basically act as a hug for your nervous system they help to soothe your nerves at night and so that's been one of my favorite rituals that I do before I sleep um yeah and I'll do that whether it's a two-minute one quickly or if I have a bit longer on weekends and I just kind of lather myself up till I'm really deep fried yeah I love it I love it no and I'm glad that we went through a whole day because I think so often we don't there was so much that just came out of that good like in terms of like you know like what to eat in the morning why you eat certain things in the afternoon why you don't eat them at night time like we just learned so much and so many practices and again for anyone who wants to understand them more deeply they are well explained inside joyful the book oh my gosh wait can I say one more thing of course you can I realized actually um you know I was going through a period where I was finishing eating by 5:00 p.m. like I wouldn't eat anything after that and what was amazing is I was using I hated you when that happen yeah yeah I was using a Tracker and for my sleep um I was using the whoop at the time and I noticed I was getting 100% I've never had this 100% sleep score wow on my work and it was telling me and and I'd gone from being 70% to having 100% every single day wow and it was because my body was not working while it was sleeping and so yeah because when you're when you end up eating late at night when you're trying to sleep and your body's trying to rest and you know actually spend time having downtime it's actually still working digesting its food and so you can wake up after 8 hours sleep feeling so tired still because your body's actually been working half of the time to digest what you've been eating so that was like a big like aha moment for me where I was like wow that really does make sense having lighter meals at night affects so much um including your sleep I love that that's great no that's huge and and that's amazing I mean to have a 30% increase in your sleep score because your food is not being digested while you're sleeping cuz so many of us are eating so close to when we sleep yeah a little snack a little dessert little sugar yeah huge uh one thing I wanted to do I wanted to do something fun with your work so I'm ask you questions that I want you to link back to recipes that apply to those questions okay and you can look at your book if you need to to show us but give example of the question there's no example we're just going straight into so the first question I'm going to ask is if someone has had a long day at work they're really tired but they do want to make a home-cooked meal what's the easiest one that they can go to my rainbow noodle stir fry okay it's like super easy um what I would say is have your veggies cut up earlier then it's literally like a 10-minute meal amazing yeah it's got this really great sauce with it um you get your veggies you get everything all in one thing and it still tastes good and it feels like takeout yeah yeah okay good how do you how do you recommend people meal prep because that's an important part of all of this chopping takes up so much time my day my meals are cut down significantly when I've chopped my Peppers beforehand when I've grated my cabbage when I've you know everything that you possibly can I wouldn't say to do it too in advance because as soon as you cut up a vegetable it starts to spoil and so I'd say you can cut up Peppers 2 3 days in advance um same with like carrots cabbage and stuff Tomatoes go bad straight away you cut them up by like an hour later they're badoc avocados as well and so there are certain things you can chop up and I recommend doing that especially if you're someone who has been wanting to eat more at home but just don't have the time to cut up your stuff in the weekend because at least that'll give you a good 3 4 days worth of uh chopped up stuff that allows you to eat at home um and that's been a game Cher for me I've been so busy lately and I've still since I've got back here I'm actually so proud that I have not ordered out or eaten out once and that's been that's crazy for me because I've also been way busier than normal um but having things chopped up and also having planned what I'm going to eat usually we end up ordering out when you're like I've have got nothing planned and I just don't even want to look in my fridge and figure it out figuring out is half the battle so if you already know and you already have the ingredients it makes Mak it so much easier and then you've chopped it up you've basically done half the work I love it yeah okay so let's say another scenario I've got all these scenarios okay so someone's got someone they're dating coming over for the first time second time maybe they're making them something this time what do you cook for someone to impress them from your book oh my gosh you want to show off you know good question I would say my jalapeno cheesy dough balls you know why because they're those were we had them the other day they so good you can have like there's a masala topping to go on top too but the reason I say that is because it shows that you don't take things too seriously that it's a fun dish that's like a pull apart you didn't try too hard yeah you didn't try too hard your sh it's a sharing dish where you kind of pull apart the bread and um it's fun um it's also just a pop of flavor and Vibrance um and also who doesn't love a good bread dish yeah like bread is life love it yeah if you've got another scenario if you've got the girls coming over it's girls night you're hanging out what are you going to make okay so for girls night I would probably say the roasted red pepper tag lelli and then mixed with that we're not done yet yeah roasted red pepper tag lelli and then doing like the butter bean and tomato salad because you always want something a bit lighter on the side um and then having some sort of Veggie side because you always need I have a whole veg hero section so I'd probably do like the zucchini Baba Gan or the sweet and salty broccolini and then for dessert because for girls like you need dessert I have this decadent cake which is amazing it's like one of the best desserts in here I'd say um I made it the other day the triple chocolate brownie Black Forest celebration cake but what I do is I deconstruct it so it ends up being a brownie Sunday so that would be my ultimate girls night I love that or I do ultimate guys night oh ultimate guys night easy I would do my bean burgers okay I like that I like that I would do my bean burgers strong I then would do bean burgers with the side of my dad's mac and cheese um and then for a bit of balance I'd probably throw in some veggies which would be in the form of my golden caramelized fennel I think that'll be a nice like little refreshing side dish and then for dessert I'd probably have to go for cookies threeways M that sounds good or a crumble yeah I like that cookies threeways three way crumble is amazing I think for guys that yeah and last scenario date night what would you make me on Dat night I mean I've been really lucky cuz Fry's been testing recipes from the book every day so I've been spoiled every day but you know what date night I'd probably go with um it depends is this like a like a this is like a married couple who Liv together for a while they want to make a special day I probably do like my Mexican lasagna because that wasun and it's just so tasty and then I throw in maybe like my warm nutty superfood salad on the side um oh and maybe my caval the sweet potatoes with cavalino pesto so when are we doing date night um yeah I mean I can make it all tonight if you want straight off and then Bava cheesecake oh Bava cheesecake it all off or my chocolate mud pie for you cuz you love chocolate chocolate M both of those are amazing Ry I'm so proud of you thanks and I I'm so excited honestly for everyone to have you in their kitchen because I'm so grateful to have you in ours and like you all just heard there are obviously over 125 plant-based recipes in here and every single one of them sounds amazing and I can truly say someone who's eaten every single one of them multiple times I'm not bored of them they're incredible and I think anyone who gets this book and Cooks from it is going to invite so much joy so much energy so much vibrancy into their life and that's what I wanted to ask you as a final question around you know you call the book joyful you talked about cooking effortlessly eating freely and living radiantly like what is your hope for people because this isn't just about it isn't just about the recipes it's about inviting abundance and energy into their life it is three intentions one intention is reminding people that you do not have to choose between the food that makes you feel good and food that brings you Joy it can and should be both um two that every that life is about all those little joyful moments to accumulate to bring you more and more joy throughout the day whether it's through your practices your Wellness rituals or through the food that you're eating and three that you f you spice up your life like you fill your cupboards with the spices that spice up your body but also spice up your food too that really create Vibrance cuz spices are vibrant and create more Vibrance in your body and your life too um and actually I'll add on the last one um I feel like I am a seriously grateful student of many great teachers and it really was a way for me to be able to share so much of what I've learned from the people that have taught me so much from my mom to my aric teachers to my spiritual teachers everything I was able to accumulate that and pour it into this book and I'm so excited for people to feel the changes that I have felt in my life through everything that I've shared in there so um yeah that's my intention for it the book is called Joy for everyone more than 125 plant-based recipes by Rad devlukia cook effortlessly eat freely and live radiantly you know what I'm going to say go get it right now it would mean the world to me I love supporting you not just because you're my wife but because you're are so incredibly talented and so smart and I think this book is going to change so many homes families and relationships so it's definitely changed AR so thank you so much I love you for congratulations and uh so excited for you congrats thanks everyone if you love this episode you'll love my interview with Dr Gabel mate on understanding your trauma and how to heal emotional wounds to start moving on from the past everything in nature grows only where it's vulnerable so a tree doesn't grow where it's hard and thick does it it grows where it's soft and green and vulnerable

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Length: 72min 47sec (4367 seconds)

Published: Mon Feb 26 2024