Paul Nison & John Kokler @ Go Raw Cafe

Went to see Paul Nison at Go Raw cafe last night.. John Kohler was there too.. Man what a blast! I didn't get home till 10pm! I ended up getting there a couple hours early and talking with Paul awhile. I saw him last year when he came and I got this really cool GOT DURIAN? shirt from him! He was sold out of his books or I would have got one. He has a new one coming out in 2 weeks.

Paul Nison http://www.paulnison.com/

John Kohler http://living-foods.com/ Paul sneaking in the pic LOL
Lu & Sonja playing around (one of the owners Go Raw Cafe)

New Shirts In The Works!

Hope to have some for sale soon on the site!
I have several other designs in the works too!
Check em out!

My cavities HEALED!! & Fasting Day 22!

I felt a major shift take place in January and I now only have desire for things that keep me feeling phenominal at all times. It's not about taste anymore, it's totally about how what I do or eat makes me feel. But it just so happens that the foods that taste the best to me ARE in fact the ones that make me feel great all the time! I love raw! :D

I have been fasting as you read from the title of my blog post.. day 22 of 40 now. I am fasting for Lent even though I am not 'religious'. This is a spiritual fast more then anything else although of course it's a health thing too for me. Jesus, Ghandi, Buddah and all the greatest people, fictional and not, fasted for 40 days. It was after the 40 day fast that Moses recieved the commandments and after Jesus's 40 day fast that he started his ministry at age 30. I am turning 30 in October this year and this is just to great of an opertunity for me to pass up. Again, I am not religious. But with Lent being these 40 days and my breaking my fast on Easter, the day the light officially overpowers the darkness (anyone seen Zeitgeist?) this is just the best time ever by far to do a 40 day fast!

I have tried waterfasting on several occasions now and I am just not able to do it for even a week just yet (and not because of hunger, because of an intense acid detox issue that is just totally unbearable and I am not a wuss lol I expect intense discomfort!!), I do plan to at some point and I am looking forward to it. So for my fast I am trying not to drink very much and I am doing mostly water, medicinal teas like chanca piedra, cats claw, nettle, schizandra, chuchuasi, pau d'arco, dandilion etc. I have juices but not every day and usually just one or two at the most. Green juice is the dominant juice right now but I also do blood orange ginger limeonade or grapefruit juice. I sip the liquid from fermented foods like saurkraut, kimchi & atchara. I sip a probiotic liquid on occasion. I am taking MSM, DMSO, Magnesium oil, Ormus Gold & Marine Phytoplankton as well. I just got my Terminator 2 Zapper and I have zapped 3 hours so far today even though i'm supposed to start off slow lol. I don't follow directions well huh? I was taking some parasite cleanse capsules & tincture for a bit too and I started up again today. Oh and I do my superfood coffee drink strained and sometimes a little almond milk with maca extreme (tastes like marzipan!) but I find them too heavy to drink much of after the first quarter of my fast.

So how do I feel fasting? AMAZING!! Absolutely amazing! I have so much energy that for the first week or so I couldn't even sleep more then a few hours in the late afternoon! I have been to the carnival with the armband thing so I can ride as much as I want for the past 2 days, I have taken my daughter to the childrens museum and I had as much fun as she did! I feel like a kid! We went sledding on Mt Charlston a few days ago and going to the gym and playing DDR and I have just been so busy and having so much fun! I don't know if I ever want to go back to eating very much. I can see now why people who eat less live longer. I did have some detox symptoms but not really much at all. My skin broke out a little bit at first and I even had an alien come out of my leg! I was walking around in WFM and suddenly the inside of my thigh started burning REALLY bad. So after it kept bugging me I went to the bathroom and looked at it to see what the heck was up. A big pimple looking thing was in the center of all the burning and I tried to squeese it but it was NOT a pimple. Some kind of hard thing with tenticles came out but it was holding on for dear life and bled a bit. It was like a chunk of something came out of me. That was a lot of fun. I was itchy for a couple days at first also but I have plesent stuff to report too! Besides feeling phenominal & having tons of energy, my body odor is totally better and not even half of what it was. My skin looks great and i'm getting a nice tan too because I seem to be craving sunshine... so woot for good symptoms!

Something really neat happened while I was fasting.. My cavities HEALED!! Like totally healed like they never existed! I had 2 cavities at the very tops of both my front teeth that i've had for around a year now from eating cooked foods for too long.

Daniel Vitalis SECRETS OF WATER!

Watch it before it's GONE!! Phenominal stuff folks!



To view the rest:
http://therawpath.com/secrets_of_water.html

Fasting, Foraging, Superfoods, ENERGY!

Here is my most recent picture, Jan 08. Mouth full of ginseng root haha!

Been a minute since I updated this blog, I have been keeping my blog going on my board instead because I like the layout so much better, vblogetin is much nicer to use then blogger.

So what's new with me? Let's see.. I ended up fasting for 4 days on water right through Christmas. I was having a hard time sticking to raw and felt like the fast would set my head right for the changes I needed to make. Well it sure worked! I really didn't want to end my fast but that same horrible acidy feeling came back and I couldn't deal with it. I'm thinking 3 days on water is about my comfortable limit for now. I may have to get cleaner inside before I can try for longer. I do love waterfasting more so then any other type of fasting i've tried. I consider it to be 'true' fasting.

After I broke my fast I tried a little cooked food on Christmas eve and it was a no go. Let's just say it did not hit the spot! I have been raw ever since with the exception of the dressing, hummus & dolmas from the WFM salad bar twice. The last time I had them, a few days ago, my body totally rejected them. I find now I do not desire any cooked foods anymore. And pain is no longer my motivating factor! It used to be that I would get a taste of one cooked food and it would lead to eating cooked in excess for a while until my body was so upset that I actually HAD to go back to eating raw for awhile. Now this last time, I felt the energy drop and the dull headache and that was enough to let me know that it's not working for me. It seems I have gotten used to feeling GOOD all the time and having plenty of energy. The cooked food just lost it's appeal.

I have decided to seek out the most nutritious foods possible, superfoods and super herbs. I really believe that is what has made this shift possible for me. I have so much energy and I have been existing on about 4 hours of sleep for days now and having no issues at all with it, whereas I used to need at least 8 some days up to 10! I have so much energy that I was out buying a bike at 2am and riding till 3 the other day! I have started walking daily plus playing DDR and working out at home with the mat, resistance bands & free weights. It almost seems to easy to be raw now. I am not a total purist (yet haha) and I do include things like B grade pure maple syrup, organic extracts, organic seasoned rice vinegar, 'healthier' 'natural' BBQ seasoning and things of that nature for flavoring like spices & honey. But I only use them to flavor my foods, I do not eat actual cooked foods anymore. I'm sure my diet will go through many changes over the years and I do see myself eating very simply eventualy. I have done it for periods of time and I see it is optimal. I also know I can feel even better if I can get my fat intake down to 10% or less again. But for now I do feel wonderful and am getting phenominal results! I really feel like I am raw for life now. I feel a shift has taken place, I can't explain it but I feel it strongly. I have been on this raw path for going on 6 years now and it is time for me to just stick at it.

I have also taken up foraging for foods in my neighborhood. I have seen pomegranite, mesquite, fig and several types of cactus. I made jerky from one of the cactus and it was other then the best ever. Store bought tasted better. So i plan to go off in the nearby desert and try some wild instead. I live pretty close to Sunrise Mountain so I will try that first.

I am seeking out fresh water springs in my area to collect drinking water from. Have you seen the Daniel VItalis H2O Magic on youtube yet? I will post a seperate blog for it, you can also go to my site to view them:
http://therawpath.com/secrets_of_water.html

Grand Opening of the NEW FORUMS!!

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What day is it? lol

I'm tired! Been working on the new forum day & night for days now. I'm really happy with it so far even though it won't be perfect for awhile yet. Soon as I get the blog feature uploaded it's ready to go public! If all goes well that will be tomorow afternoon!

I am so tired of sitting at this computer! Couple hundred dollars & I don't even know how many hours of sitting infront of the computer later the board is still not finished! Ah but when it is...

I've been raw again for 7 days! I can feel my body changing shape! I lost some weight. Will find out in the next day or so how much.

Food:

peny drink
pina colada
blueberries
a spring roll
avo buttered herbamere'd sweet corn on the cobs
an orange
few bites of jackfruit ice cream
crystal manna bar (blue green algae)
durian/coconut smoothie
cacao d'arco tea

Exhausted again lol

I can't believe i'm still awake! I have been working on my forum since I woke up this morning! I'm not even going to say what time it is right now :eek: But I finally got it working! :D I am playing with settings now and trying to get the blog feature set up. Then I just need to set a nice new theme and it's ready to go public! I don't think I am going to be able to import the posts from the old board though, looks kinda over my head complicated at this point. We'll see. First things first & that is to get it functional & perdy!

I had a Vietnamese Spring Roll today, an orange & a bunch of avo buttered corn with herbamere! Also leftover salad from yesterdays salad bar. Peny drink, coconut durian smoothie & a cacao d'arco tea. Yummy day!

Exhausted

Too tired to post really, but wanted to say that yes I am still raw!

Ate all kinds of good stuff today.. few bits of my daughters blueberry cheesecake at Go Raw Cafe, salad bar there, peny drink, avo buttered sea salted sweet corn on the cob! Good stuff!

I had a very frustrating day today though. I have been working on installing the new forum for my site and I just cannot figure out how to get it to install. The file I have to edit slightly is so beyond simple, I just can't get it to work for some reason. Been trying for a week now! Opened a support ticket, posted on the help forum, asked a friend for help.. it just isn't working. I am at a loss what to do. I paid alot of money for this thing and I can't use it.

Anyway, tomorow I am making Watermelon Pizza, I will post pics!

Played DDR on heavy mode for half an hour today.