Welcome

Welcome to the newly renovated Mrs Cuppy. She still has her Facebook, Insta and Twitter accounts – but sadly due to inattention and lack of direction all the blogs the recipes th e heart have been lost to the depths of cyber space never to be returned

Over the coming week – in the lead up to my knee surgery  this blog will take an about face. I wish to stay true to me and what I do best. I will create and share my recipes and my journey with you. I will blog about the incredible renovation that my home has undertaken in the last 12 months and I will endeavour to share with you my styling and fashion finds ( and I also wish to encourage Little Miss Cuppy to blog her own emerging style which is incredible and I support her and Im proud of her).

Some 12 months ago I had in depth discussions regarding the direction of the Blog Formerly Known As Cupcakes and Yummy things and with failing health – due to my knee crisis was seeking medical guidance on as to how to best deal with a bad situation.

I was once active and vibrant. I loved movement and for a while movement loved me. I had discovered that my body was intolerant to certain foods and I was coming around to being OK with that. Until I stated to read labels and realise that the conveniently packaged food for gluten intolerance was actually packed to the hilt with chemical and sugar and that sugar was slowly killing me. But I hadn’t yet discovered the true secret as to what this meant to me. I was distracted and had two major insurance claims due to storm and water damage going on, a child in a last year at primary school and all the associated running around – plus add to that dealing with a knee that was degenerating literally before my eyes.

I have fought hard to eliminate refined sugar from my diet and I am going to admit – being human I slipped, several times. But being unable to do things you love that help you enjoy life can actually lead you to other things. And my addiction was sugar. Once I start I obviously can’t get enough of the sweet poison. And I know that after a 12 week foray into the refined sugar free world, how good  my body feels and how great it is to have lost almost 10 kilos and 4% body fat prior to what will be one of the most major surgeries in my life.

Just knowing for every kilo my body sheds I take 4 kilos of pressure off my joints, just knowing that cross everything after a long stint under an anaesthetic I will wake up and have no difficulties breathing and that I will come home to my family is a great feeling.

The last time I had a surgery I was attached to oxygen and monitored for over 24 hours as my body – so abused and ravaged by my neglect wouldn’t play.

I go into this surgery now in 11 days time – knowing that I have done the best I can to aid my recovery to come back to my family and into the warmth that is the love we share.

My dream I discussed 12 months ago was to become a point of difference in a market place filled with confusing healthiness. I fear in the last few weeks I personally have added to confusing the issue with food at times with my recent blog creation. I wish to create without bastardising real food in real time that real people can consume without feeling guilty  and like they are eating the wrong thing if they have one bad day where once glass of wine becomes two and you don’t say no to the dessert.

Being born in the 70’s I grew up in the revolution of margarine and no added fats. Not knowing then what I know now, I watched my Mother buy the low fat items – the light items were in the fridge and shopping cart and this is the way I lived what I knew.

I was taught you don’t drink the milk with the cream – cream is an indulgence. Fat is an indulgence and fat means you will get fat. Not knowing nor understanding that the low fat ( hidden sugar) was going to be my undoing in the future.

You see not all fats are created equal. The manufactured fats – the trans fats – combined with the low fat/high hidden sugars were the undoing of a generation. And its hard when this is your way of life to get this into your head.

I have discussed at length with colleagues this “sugar addiction” one confessed that she used to cover her daily bowl of oats ( oats wholegrain are good yes?) with a thick blanket of white crunchy sugar. And watch it melt into the hot hot oats. And GUILTY as charged – I remember placing a crust of rich brown sugar on mine and possibly even golden syrup and watching it melt.

Todays society consume up to 46 kilos of sugar per year. Our bodies do not need this amount of sugar. And the sad thing is most of it is consumed via foods marketed to us as healthy and convenient.

If there is one thing I have learned in my research lately is that its not convenient to take care of your health you need to work for it. And you need to work hard. I am inspired daily by people around me who fight the battle to become a healthier version of themselves. I would name them – but Im sure as I work on this blog and it grows, they will be willing to share their stories.

You see the journey to healthy is not about how much you exercise, how much sugar you eliminate from your diet or poking holes in anyone else’s insight into life. Its about finding what suits you and what is sustainable. What makes you work to be the best you can be so you can then be of assistance and inspiration to others. Its not about working yourself into a frazzle so that you suffer – because Ive been there. Complete emotional and adrenal breakdown. And I never ever want to go there again.

So this is me – my journey. My recipes that I develop. Some I have been creating for years. Some are now modified to suit me – because I am important and I do count and I have people that count on me.

Much Love, Mrs Cuppy

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