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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.

Day 4

Had a good day today. The wraps came out too chewy, not as good as the coconut ones from yesterday! For wraps anyway. I ate avocado today. YUM. I am going to try having some fatty fruit but limiting my fats as much as I can still especially nuts & seeds. I think I may have to cleanse alot before I can eat any raw fats without gaining a ton of weight. I just feel like dammit avocado is a fruit and I want it!! lol We'll see how long it lasts. I keep trying to fight eating 811 even though I know it's the best for me.

I weighed myself at the gym today, I lost pretty much all the weight I had put back on going back to lots of cooked foods there for a minute. I am right back where I left off! 198 lbs. I was 195 I think. But that was with fasting.

I can tell I ate too much salt (nama shoyu) and not enough fruit. Head hurt a bit. Didn't have as much energy & wellbeing, still feel wonderful but I can tell the difference when I eat pure.

I signed up for this today:
http://rawfoodtalk.com/showthread.php?t=27473

I am totally devouring the this site, what a great read:
http://www.rawfoodexplained.com/

Today I had:
spring rolls
mushroom w/fixins
sapodilla
star apple
blueberries
raspberries
sweet corn
cacao d'arco tea
dandilion root tea
peny drink

Went to the gym & lifted weights for about an hour.

10 minutes cardio on the elyptical, about an hour DDR on heavy mode

Vietnamese Spring Rolls!

I made these today:




http://gliving.tv/greenchefs/vanessa-sherwood/Vietnamese-Spring-Rolls/

They came out better then I expected honestly! I mean I knew it would turn out good but WOW these are GREAT!! I even made one of them a low fat version with an orange/mango tortilla! I think a banana & hot pepper wrap would actually go really good because of the sweetness with the spicy! I am going to play around with different 'tortillas' and sauces & fillings now! The possiblities are endless! I have prune tortillas & also an apple/tamarind tortilla drying now! I added a mix of this psyllium/flax & other stuff to the coconut tortillas so that's why they look brown.


Today I had:
peny drinks
spring rolls
salad
jackfruit ice cream
tamarinds

Reflecting

Yay! Day 2! No cravings either! I made one of my favorite cooked foods for my family, the smell was soooo good, but I didn't want to actually eat it!

(this is actually May 24th)

I have spend some time today reflecting on what causes me to reach for cooked foods when I do. My number one issue is that I don't eat enough calories from fruits. When I eat enough fruit and then have a big salad for dinner, I do fine. My problem is that I don't like common fruits like peaches, apples, bananas, grapes or anything that I have constant access to. I would have no problem whatsoever if I had constant access to mangosteens, lychees, figs, cherimoyas, jackfruit & stuff like that! Heck even if I had constant access to good tangerines year round I would be ok! But alot of the played out nasty usual stuff just isn't for me. So then I end up eating only a bit of fruit and trying to live off greens which dosn't work caloricly and I crave fats and starches & cooked foods! For the past couple days I have not been tempted in the slightest for cooked foods or fatty heavy foods because I have a good supply of fruit I like. I still eat my greens every day but it's usually a salad and/or a juice.

Today I had:
tamarinds
jackfruit ice cream
cherimoya
oranges
salad (napa cabbage, spinach, cucumber, tomato, fermented veggies, dates.. dresing was a splash of sweetened nama shoyu)
wraps (kale, celery, fermented veggies, dates, tomato)
peny drink
vanilla ice (lol)
raspberry leaf tea

Back to 811

Today was officially day one back to low fat raw vegan! I cannot even begin to describe how phenominal I feel today. Words just can't do it justice. It is amazing how fast my body responds to the right kind of food (read RAW!). Everyone around me can see the difference too. I have so much energy and I get so much done! I find myself humming and singing throughout the day and just in such a wonderful mood.

(this is actually May 23rd, i'm just copying it in here!)

Today I had:
jackfruit
cherimoya
tamarind
tangerine
tomatos off my plant
e3live
durian/coconut smoothie
pennywort drink (peny leaves, agave, water blended with ice)
green juice (kale, watercress, peny leaves & apples)
big salad (butter lettuces, napa cabbage, baby bok choy, spinach, bean sprouts, cucumber, red pepper, spiraled beet, celery... in a dressing made from yellow heirloom tomato blended with a dash of agave & nama shoyu)

Doing My Best At The Moment

Yesterday I wasn't able to post but same story. Great day. Cooked dinner. I worked out at the gym and stayed in the sauna until I was dripping pretty good. I did a workout dance video twice.

These past two days I ate other than organic whole vegan foods and boy did I pay for it in many ways. My skin broke out so bad all over my face I look terrible! My skin was looking absolutely amazing recently eating minimal cooked whole vegan foods & high raw trying to be low fat as much as I could. I think maybe I will just stick to that a little longer.. I just can't seem to stick to all raw right now.

I was happy to find that I did lose weight this week even despite my 2 cheats!

Stupid freaking cravings

I did fantastic today! Untill this evening again.. Man I feel SERIOUSLY ILL now. Yuck. It's so easy to say I will never do that again when I feel this bad, but dammit if I wont get huge massive cravings again as it leaves my system. I know what a heroine addict feels like. Seriously.

Tomorow is a new day & I am so determined to make this my permanent all the time way of life. SOMEDAY I will stay raw. Hopefully someday real soon... Please help me Universe. Thank you in advance.

Day 3 of 90 Day Challenge

I ate about half raw today.. I think there are going to be a few whole foods I allow just in the very beginning as I transition into this. I dunno.. I need to just go for it but I have SEVERE food addiction. :(

Anybody have any ideas on dealing with extreme food addiction? My only thought was to start growing my own highly mineralised foods to see if that would help..

Day 2 of 90 day Challenge

I did great today until dinner time. I had a baked potato & brussel sprouts. Other then that I ate salad & fruit. Went to China Town & got a durian, a jackfruit, a bag of mangosteens, a bag of longans, a bag of ranbutans, fresh ginko, chirimoyas, peny leaves and a bunch of other goodies! I already ate most of the mangosteens & longans. Yum.

I'm not going to worry about the cooked foods I had, I would rather give in to my cravings with whole plant foods rather then processed soy or something out of a box or bag. As long as I stay high raw & low fat for the most part I should be ok for now. I do want to try to be as close to 100% raw as possible though. It is totally the way to be, the results speak for themselves. So now that I got that out of my system, back on track tomorow!

Day 1 of 90 Day Challenge

If I stick with my plan here for the next 90 days.. I will look like I did in my picture! Actually better cus i'll have that raw glow goin on!

I had a GREAT day today! My mom really wanted an omelette and so we went to Blueberry Hill. I was all set to start my challenge tomorrow instead of today! mmm.. pancakes. So I sat down & looked at some of my favorites on the menu, we used to eat there alot once apon a time. I just couldn't bring myself to order anything and searched the menu for some sort of fruit plate instead! I didn't see it on the menu but the waitress said she could bring me a bowl of watermelon, honeydew & cantaloupe! I got it and the watermelon was rotten & old & flavorless. So bad I spit it out. The other melons were hard as a rock with only a few of the tips sweet & juicy. I ate what I could and left the rest. The waitress ended up taking it off the bill it was so bad. Now I know why the thought of eating 'just raw food' makes some people say they could never possibly do that! It does sound terrible if you think about the food they serve in common restaurants and even the traditional produce in some grocery stores is so bland and tasteless.

I was proud of myself though. I ate fruit for breakfast even despite the smells and temptation! I came home and cut open the best mango ever (organic too) so that totally made up for the sucky restaurant fruit! :D It was still nice to go out to eat with my family. It even rained! What a beautiful day!

Today I had about 1000 calories, stayed within 80/10/10:
Few bites of mixed melon
mango
orange
tomatos
few bites of peach/banana ice cream
cacao d'arco tea
veggie lovers salad mix dipped in sweet chickpea miso dressing
blueberry stuffed raspberries

Excercise:
45 minutes DDR on heavy mode, aprox 300 calories burned

811 & Back Again!

I'm totally feeling like going back to eating 811 and easing into being a fruitarian. I will be blogging each day starting tomorow May 5th.

Wish me success!

THIS AFFECTS YOU BIG TIME. PLEASE READ.

FDA Trying to Kill Natural Medicine- Take Action NOW!

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The FDA is using legal maneuvering to end your access to natural health products (like vitamins, minerals and herbs) and natural health therapies of all sorts. Again. This time, their ploy is to declare the therapies are "Medicine" so any non-physician who uses them will be practicing medicine without a license. Since these practices are "Medicine", any products used would be untested drugs and therefore forbidden.

ORMUS - What is it?

http://www.subtleenergies.com/ormus/

ORMUS - What is it?

An overview by Barry Carter There are many mysterious and magical things that have been recorded in history. ...The Biblical manna, the Philosopher’s Stone, the Fountain of Youth, Orgone energy, prana, chi, the Holy Grail, the Great Pyramid and the Ark of the Covenant are a few of these things. It looks like these things and more might be related to a new class of materials that have been identified and described in the last few decades.

In the late 1970s an Arizona farmer named David Hudson noticed some very strange materials as he was doing some gold mining on his land. Hudson spent several million dollars over the following decade figuring out how to obtain and work with these strange materials. In 1989 David Hudson was granted patents on these materials and methods for obtaining them.

Other researchers were also making similar discoveries around this same time but Hudson was the first to get information out to the public about his discoveries. During the early 1990s Hudson toured the United States giving lectures and workshops about what he had found. Transcripts of portions of three of David Hudson's lectures are available on the Web. The most complete of these transcripts is the transcript of his Dallas lecture and workshop.

Easter Bunny Eggsposed

http://www.eggindustry.com/

Interesting Thing Happened

Ok so my plan was to stay high raw and mostly low fat since I finished my 30 day challenge.. so yesterday I ate some split pea soup, only a quarter cup was left so I made a small cup of black bean soup after that. These were favorites of mine a month ago and both simple & low fat & cooked. About 15 minutes or so after I finished eating I sat down to work on my site some more when all the sudden I felt my energy sink. It was indescribable! Like my aura was 6 feet around my body for the past month and then in an instant it sucked back down inside me. I got emotional and felt like I was about to cry. I didn't like how I felt at all. And it was so strong! I felt like I was in a bad dream and I wanted it to go away! In that few hours before I went to bed I realised exactly why I got panic attacks and how important it really is for me to stay raw. I felt so awful energeticly and my stomach was heavy and I lost that light free bliss feeling completely. In that moment I swore I would never touch cooked food again! I just cannot live like that. I was so not myself all night.

So I am back to fasting now because honestly I was not ready to break my fast when I did. My body is not cooperating with food right now. Nothing tastes good and I am craving the things I was drinking while fasting. Nothing else tastes right. I will be doing blended foods like soups & smoothies at first then just liquids tomorow or so. I got a few unplesent symptoms from eating too because I really feel I was not ready to when I did. It was spur of the moment that I ate because I wanted the taste of Go Raw Cafe's salad bar and not because I was hungry at all. Plus I didn't want to waste that sapote! Which felt ripe enough but ended up not being quite ready lol. I ate most of it.

RAW SPIRIT FESTIVAL!!

Day 30 ~Results~

WOOHOO!! Weighed in today at 189!!! My goal was to lose 28 pounds in this 30 day challenge and I did not quite do that.. but I did lose 21!! So I am thrilled!

I am still fasting, starting day 8 in like one minute!

I went to the gym & worked out for an hour, full body. Swam laps for a bit, layed in the sauna for a bit. Everyone else is sweating like crazy & i'm like dang they need to turn the heat up in here! I am tolerating heat so much better now! Played DDR all morning.

Had Flor-Essence in the morning & evening. Orange juice for lunch. Chai almond milk later on. Double shot of fresh wheatgrass a couple hours ago at Whole Foods Market, made me so sick.. I still feel ill actually. I threw up. Yuck. I will stick to the powdered alfalfa/kamut instead.

Ok so I made a warm chickpea miso soup with a dash of shoyu & maple syrup and a floating piece of kelp I wont be eating but hopefully will add some nutrients to the soup! It totally settled my stomach YAY

Day 29 ~One Day Left!~

OMGosh!! I can't believe tomorow is the end of my challenge already!! I am planning to still be raw for the most part, but maybe have steamed brussel sprouts or a baked potato sometimes too! We'll see! I feel so good and I am still fasting! I'm going to the gym tomorrow to see how much I lost in 7 days of fasting! I know I lost a bit more! That wasn't my goal with the fast, just a spring cleansing!

Day 28 ~Ahha~

So I figured out why my body didn't want to break my fast yesterday, it's that time again, you know that thing that happens to women every month? Well as usual I lose my appetite completely the day before it starts only since i'm fasting I didn't notice it! I just knew I didn't want food! I'm curious to see how it goes this time because it only lasted one day last month and was very light.

Well I am officially on day 6 of my fast now! WTG considering I only planned to really do one day! Now I plan to go at least 2 more days so I can go to the gym & weigh myself, curious to see how much I lost in a week of fasting!

Today I Drank:
Cream of mushroom soup (almond milk & blended/strained mushrooms, sea salt, pepper)
Vegetable broth (added more juiced veggies to the mushroom soup)
Chai milk

Cardio:
DDR on Standard & Heavy modes for close to 2 hours, aprox 800 calories burned.

Strength Training:
A bunch of stuff at home, going to the gym in 2 days!

Day 27 ~Still Fasting~

On day 5 of my fast now! I wanted to break my fast today or tomorow and then start up again for the 3days before Easter. But my body has other plans! Looks like i'm still fasting lol!

Today I drank:
Juice: tomato/celery/red pepper
Soup: creamy tomato (juiced tomato, blended & strained sundried tomato, sweet almond milk)
Soup: cream of celery (juiced celery, sweet almond milk)
Milk: chai (almond, lucuma, maca, date, peppercorn, vanilla, cardamom, anise)

Day 26 ~Found My Dream Home~

Ok so my body doesn't really want the milk anymore.. dosn't really want much of anything at the moment.

I juiced some pomegranites that were in my fridge since last year and they were so delicious!! I amazed they were still good! I am having a young coconut too.

Not much to report today except that I found my dream home/business:
http://tropicalparadisefarm.com/welcome.html
I want it more then any person has wanted anything in the history of the planet!

I think i'm going to go dance awhile after I finish my coconut. Maybe go lay out in the sun again. Lazy day today. Oh I saw that dragon movie last night, Eragon, it was really good! Better then I expected.

Day 25 ~Easiest Fast Ever~

I can hardly believe how fast my fast is flying by! I'm on day 3 already! When I started I hoped to get through one day! After the first day it became a breeze! Yesterday all I really had was the juice of 3 grapefruits but I didn't really want it, I could've totally done without! Same with the milk, I didn't need it but it tasted good! The green juice I made I ended up giving to my mom after 1/2 a cup or so. I do love love love my Flor-Essence and I would fast off that alone if I had more of it!

Well yesterday I ended up getting a haircut.. more then I had planned too, I cut over a foot off! It looks much healthier now and it does grow really fast, but it sure feels like I am bald LOL!

I got a really nice compliment from my mom yesterday, she said she hates me! Because my skin looks SO GOOD! rofl

I still lay out most days for at least a half hour.

I think I may be doing a milk fast instead of a juice fast ROFL! It's what I want!!

Today I Drank:
Flor-Essence
Tried to drink tangerine/kumquat juice but dumped it
Tried to drink apple/carrot/purple kale but only drank half a big glass
Lucuma/almond/maca/vanilla bean/date/cardamom milk!!!! OMG! YUM! Tastes like chai!!

Day 24 ~I Feel Like I Won The Lottery!~

It just kinda hit me a minute ago that I have lost almost 60 pounds in the past almost 4 months! If I lose only 40 more I will weigh what I did after I lost my pregnancy weight eating raw in the summer of '04! I felt & looked great back then! I seriously already feel like a whole new me & I am really making my goals happen! And fast!

So yesterday I figured I would commit to one day of fasting and see how I felt after that. Today I am feeling so good that I really want to continue another day! I am feeling like my outsides need to be more in line with how I feel on the inside so I am cleaning house today & organizing & getting rid of clutter & excess.

I feel SO INCREDIBLY GOOD!!!

Look how much weight I lost:

This was me in Nov 06 just starting high raw:


I closed my old ezboard forum and moved to a shiny new SMF board which I am liking more & more every day! I love the new features but I am still having a time customising some parts. I love coding so i'm having alot of fun with my new challenge! Keeps my brain happy when i'm learning new things!

The picture is of my 2 chickens, Chickie (black silkie chicken) and her adopted baby named Sunshine who is twice her size now! This is an old pic from when Sunshine was still little! Everyone should have at least 2 chickens! They are the best! It is amazing how much grass & greens they need to eat! I feel so sorry for chickens in factory farms.. :(

Today I drank:
Flor-Essence
Grapefruit juice
Honey apple accidophilus probiotic liquid
Green juice: mostly cabbage with celery/parsley/watercress/cucumber

My fav drink on earth is the sourkraut juice at the bottom of Go Raw Cafe's sourkraut!!!! OMG it's DIVINE!!

Day 23 ~Equifasting~

Happy Equinox!

Last night I started a fast. Don't know how long I will go for but the minimum is one day! I also don't know how it will go this time because each fast I’ve done has been different. I am going to be continuing my Flor-Essence in the morning and evenings for now. I plan to drink lots of water and probably wheatgrass, green juice, fruit juice and Nature’s First Food. We shall see how it goes.. Wish me success and good cleansing!

I have lived in Las Vegas for at least 12 years now and I am so beyond ready to move on. I have spent my whole life moving around and I am not used to staying in one place so long. I feel like there is just nothing holding me here except the small handful of people, 5 people, that are my family and close friends. And Go Raw Cafe's salad bar of course! I long to be somewhere GREEN not brown & dusty. I have had quite enough of this desert and it's extreme heat that gives me heat stroke & nosebleeds all summer. I usually hibernate durring summer months, I sleep through the hottest part of the day & am up all night. My ideal teperature would prolly be San Francisco, but they are going loopy out there in CA and denying people their constitutional rights. As a gun owner I am NOT giving up my right to bear arms.

So anyway where I was going with all that is that summer is coming and I have been dreading it as usual. Especially since it has been too hot for me already this past month. So I've decided to change my belief about this summer. My new reality is that summer flys by so quickly now and the heat is not so extreme when i'm eating raw! It is perfectly tolelrable!

Last night I was ill from eating too much fats & combined stuff. I felt HORRIBLE. But I adjusted my thoughts to it moves through me quickly and all is well, and about an hour later I felt fine!

I get to go to the gym today! *does happy dance*

A little something to ponder over.

a. The number of physicians in the US is 700,000.
b. Accidental deaths caused by Physicians per year is 20,000.
c. Accidental deaths per physician is 0.171.

Then think about this:

a. The number of gun owners in the US is 80,000,000 (yes,eighty-million!).
b. The number of accidental gun deaths per year (all age groups) is1,500.
c. The number of accidental deaths per gun owner is .0000188.

Statistically, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous than gun owners.

FACT: NOT EVERYONE HAS A GUN, BUT ALMOST EVERYONE HAS AT LEAST ONE DOCTOR.

Please alert your friends to this alarming threat. We must ban doctors before this gets out of hand.

As a public health measure I have withheld the statistics on lawyers and polititions for fear that the shock could cause people to seek medical attention.

Reversing Diabetes Naturally, Raw For 30 Days!

Six McDonalds-munching Americans eat 100% vegan live foods for a month. Medical results are fantastic. Doctors and experts are interviewed including Gabriel Cousens, MD and David Wolfe. Raw for 30-Days Raw for 30-Days will document the journey of five Americans suffering from Adult Onset Type II Diabetes, who undergo a radical 30-day diet and lifestyle change in the hope of reversing or reducing their insulin dependence. The film will show the eating habits that led to the development of this disease and will posit an alternative approach to living and eating, one in which foods can heal and hold the potential to reverse Diabetes. We will recruit subjects who have been subsisting on a standard American junk food diet and who are now insulin dependent and Diabetic. Those selected will journey to the Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center in Arizona to undergo a 30-day health regimen consisting of 100% raw organic living foods that are purported to heal Diabetes. We will select a diverse group of subjects, representative of the different segments of the population most affected by this epidemic. Examples include a Native American from a Reservation, an African American from an urban Northeast city, a Mexican American living in the western US and a Caucasian person from the mid-west or a Southern city such as Chattanooga, TN.

Day 22 ~I Believe It!~

So I was listening to the 2006 Dr Bruce Lipton interview on thebestdayever.com..

MUST WE AGE?
You will be SHOCKED by what we discovered.... Three anti-aging experts share their remarkable insights!

Program One:

Is It Possible to IMAGINE or "THINK" Ourselves to Eternal Youth? Author Dr. Bruce Lipton is a former medical school professor (University of Wisconsin) and research scientist (Stanford University School of Medicine) discusses how our beliefs, true or false, positive or negative, affect genetic activity and actually alter the ways in which we age.

Dr. Lipton's profoundly hopeful work, being hailed as one of the major breakthroughs in the New Sciences, shows how we can retrain our consciousness to create healthy beliefs, and by doing so create a profoundly positive effect on our bodies and our lives! Fantastic Stuff!

Our beliefs tell our cells exactly how to respond. He get's into epi-genetic control, control above the genes. Basicly our environment influences the cells, we are not controlled by our genes AT ALL. This program is FANTASTIC!! He even talks about how there are people who drink strychnine without ANY effect & walk across hot coals without getting burned because of their strong beliefs that they are safe.

So I am still doing my Flor-Essence in the mornings & evenings. I am about to brew another batch. I flipped my onion bread and it's going to be ready in a few hours! I made it pretty thin this time. I have a bunch of eggplant bacon, that stuff keeps forever it seems! I made it so thin last time it actually melts in your mouth! YUM. Ok i'm off to sample yesterdays magic! Might update more later. Tomorow is my weigh in day & I get to work out at the gym! Yay!

Day 21 ~PHREAKIN PHENOMINAL~

DUDE. I love food!

I just spent like an hour or so in my kitchen today off & on.. I have a batch of sweet onion bread in the dryer making my house small PHENOMINAL. I recreated a few of the dishes on Go Raw Cafe's salad bar as best as I could. They do not taste quite the same but OMG one actually tastes EVEN BETTER then theirs! Who woulda thunk it! I made this carrot dish with currants & sunflower seeds, oriental stir fry & beet slaw! I prepped enough for several days. OMG I RAWK.

Did I mention that I freakin love food? Raw food tastes better then ANY cooked food. I mean that. If you don't think so, just come to my house & i'll prove it.

Go Raw salad bar:


My mom & kid outside Go Raw Cafe west location:


Sonja being silly in the cafe:

Day 20 ~Belief System~

Wow a shift has happened in me today!

I realised that my previous belief system was just not working for me. I was not getting the results I want. So I am letting it go. Done. I don't know what was going on in the past but I don't need to waste time concerning myself with it now. Moving forward!

(ETA: I looked back at my blog & I see on day 14 I stopped creating my own reality & all went downhill from there for a bit! That's what happened!!)

I now eat the best food ever and maintain my perfect weight EFFORTLESSLY!

WOOHOO!!!!!

Live is GREAT!!!

The picture above is my daughter's chocolate cheesecake at Go Raw Cafe today!

Today I ate:
THE BEST FOOD EVER!!!! And I LOVED IT!!!

Cardio:
I danced to lots of my favorite songs and didin't concern myself with how long or how many calories!

Day 19 ~What happened? lol~

I am so off track on eating low fat now.. And it shows big time. Not only am I gaining weight & losing my energy, but my skin is breaking out. At least i'm raw though! I am proud to be able to say that! Gotta look for the positive in evrything right?

Havn't felt like working out for the first time in months.. I havn't been keeping up on the housework as much either. Just barely getting by lately instead of having the whole house clean & looking for things to do to burn my energy like I do when I eat low fat... sigh. Now I just want to sit infront of the computer..

Sounds so easy to say well why don't you just go back to it then? Duh! lol.. it's just not that easy when I am so addicted to the fatty things I love the taste of! Once I get inspired & go for it again I will have to be more careful not to treat myself. I get a taste of that stuff & it's like crack!!!

Today I ate:
Fat
Fat with more fat
Fat with a side of fat
Some jackfruit
More fat

Cleanse:
Flor-Essence in the am & pm

Cardio:
I managed 10 minutes of DDR on heavy mode, 50 calories burned

Day 18 ~I'm DOOMED!!!~

So like fat tastes sooooo good! ROFL!~ I just finished up the salad from Go Raw yesterday & then made myself a garden vegetable dip that was OMG yum. My tastebuds are trying to get me to resign myself that i'm doomed to be fat forever. I am arguing with them & trying to convince myself that I can just excercise for 6 hours a day so I can eat avocados & nutbutters!

Last time I was raw for 6 months & kept gaining & gaining to the point where I started hating my body & hating God because it was some kind of cruel joke that everyone else lost so much eating date nut tortes & all sorts of high fat stuff. This time, even though it is upsetting, I am not going to let it drive me back to cooked stuff! I'll be fat either way so at least I know I will feel better eating raw. sigh. Why do I have to like food so much?!!!! If their was a pill I could take to make me not like food I would actually take it. And I am the most anti-drugs & meds person i've ever known.

So enough whining..

My mom told me something funny today. She said fresh juice in her new addiction & that it's totally replaced the Starbucks addiction! She says the whole time she is at work she can't wait to get home & make juice! She says she can almost taste it! hahahaha that's so cool huh?

Today I ate:
Jackfruit
Salad from Go Raw Cafe
Lucuma/almond milk
Garden veggie portabella platter
Cucumber circles with garden veggie dip

Cleanse:
Flor-Essence in am & pm

Day 17 ~Inspired~

I do NOT want to gain all the weight I just lost over the past few months, so I am going to do my best to eat low fat again for the most part. Maybe one or two days a week I can treat myself to something at Go Raw Cafe though! YUM.

I think I will increase my cardio too. I know that helps a lot & allows me more freedom with eating.

I am thinking about liquid fasting for a day or two each week as well. I just know if I make it through one day I won't be able to stop for at least a week though LOL!

On a positive note, at least I don't feel like I gained back alot this week! My 'pants I bought last year hoping to be able to fit into someday' have now become my 'fat pants'! I don't even need to unzip them to get them off or on!

My mom is back to high raw right now & only eats a cooked vegan peanut dressing & the occasional tortilla. She just got off all Starbucks, I am so proud of her! That was a major accomplishment! So yesterday she said to me "I feel so liberated not having to be dependant on Starbucks everyday now" She loves listening to my downloads from thebestdayever.com too! My mom rawks! Her skin cancer is shrinking away again already too! She had it removed a couple times & then after it kept coming back she decided to go raw & leave it be. We watched it shrink away in a matter of weeks! But then after awhile she went back to SAD & it came back again. Now it's already shrinking away again & she's not even 100% raw!

Picture in the corner is one of my tomato plants!

Today I ate:

Wheatgrass

Nature's First Food

Eggplant spread wrapped in coallards with fermented veggies, maitake & sprouts

Juice: apple/celery/beet/beet greens

Shot of beet juice

Salad bar from Go Raw Cafe

Cleanse:

Flor-Essence in the morning & evening

Cardio:

DDR on standard & heavy modes, over an hour, 400 calories burned

Day 16 ~I GAINED WEIGHT! (grrrr)~

Today was my weigh in day at the Gym... every Wednesday I do this since like November.. so anyway I gained for the first time since November!!! Why? Well if you look back over my last few days you will see that I went back to eating the fattening 'eat what you want as long as it's raw' way :(

I so need to get back on track before this gets out of hand. :(

Today I ate:
Celery/orange juice
2 Salads from Go Raw Cafe
Half cup of kombucha

Cleanse:
Flor-Essence in the morning & evening

Weight Training:
Full body workout at the gym.

Swam laps for 15 minutes & layed in the sauna for 15 minutes.

Day 15 ~Half Way Point~

Daaaaaaaang.. half way through my 30 day challenge already! Tomorow is my day for going to the gym & weighing in. I'm hoping to have broken that 200 pound mark. Wish me luck!

I am still eating high fat at the moment. My medium term goals are to get back to low fat raw and then to start reading up & learning about fruitarianism. I am so drawn there & always have been so I know it's just a matter of time before my head convinces my taste buds lol. I so resonate with the idea that nothing, not even a plant, has to die for me to live.

I started a cleanse today. Flor-Essence in the mornings & evenings. I just brewed a batch this afternoon & had some before bed. Tastes so good, I love the stuff!

Today I ate: 1147 calories, 61.1% carbs - 13.3% protein - 25.6% fat
Banana/lucuma/coconut smoothie
Mushroom in sweet shoyu sauce
Fermented veggies
Natural pickled sushi ginger
Soaked goji berries
Cacao powder in yacon syrup
Bee pollen

Cleanse:
Flor-Essence this evening

Cardio:
DDR on standard & heavy modes, 1 hour, 400 calories burned

Day 14 ~Going With The Flow~

I pretty much just ate whatever again today, seems to be a trend lately lol. I don't feel as vibrant as I could. My energy is not the same. I'm not as inspired or motivated right now. It feels like I detoured back into cooked foods, only not neary as bad. I think I will just go with the flow for now & get back to low fat when I am inspired to again. Right now I just really want to eat mushrooms with lots of avocado!

Staying raw is totally not even an issue anymore, I love raw foods! Now my issue is staying mostly low fat. I know my body feels better that way but I just love food LOL! I want to make fancy recipes & try all sorts of stuff! I am so afraid to gain back any weight though, so I will see how it goes when I weigh myself. I do NOT want to be heavy anymore, I am SO done with that reality. It's holding me back in many ways & I want those chains off me.

Today I ate:
Duruan/coconut smoothie
Carob bars
Lucuma bars
Mushroom with avo & sweet shoyu sauce
Wheatgrass powder
I forget what else now.. I picked at stuff here & there

Cardio:
DDR on standard & heavy mode, 1 hour or so, 375 calories or so

Day 13 ~Best Day EVER!~

Wow what a great day! I got to eat breakfast at Go Raw Cafe and I had the best salad EVER!! I went to the other location where they have an actual salad bar.

I decided to try some lucuma powder in my almond milk this morning.. I used less almonds and some vanilla bean & medjool dates. It was the best milk ever!

I went to a buffet for dinner and played a few rounds of DDR at the arcade. A kid came up to me & handed me 1.50 worth of tokens & said have fun I have to leave. That was pretty cool.

Later I went to China Town and got a cherimoya, a huge jackfruit & a durian.. all fresh!! I took some pictures of them for my desktop background too! They came out good! :D Sonja had to go to the bathroom while we were there and so I had to leave the produce section & go to the back by the meat counter.. well they had tanks full of live animals to eat! It was awful! They had different clams, some things i've never seen before & don't know what they are from the ocean, trout, giant shrimp and the most beautiful giant bullfrogs i've ever seen! I almost cried! Sonja was like why do they have them here? I told her because some people actually like to eat them. She got very upset & told me we have to rescue them!

Today I ate:

Tangerines

Cherimoya

Lucuma almond milk

Salad bar at Go Raw Cafe East location

A bite of Sonja's blueberry cheesecake at Go Raw

Buffet, brought my own dressing

Raspberry leaf tea

Spirulina

Wheatgrass

Cardio:

1 hour DDR on standard & heavy modes, 400 calories burned

Day 12 ~Super Nutrition, 92 Minerals, Ormus etc~

I conquored another buffet today! I brought my own salad dressing & wow I was so content!

I have decided to start eating some 'superfoods' everyday like bee pollen, spirulina, maca, goji berries, etc. I want to get ahold of some ormus products too.

I bought a couple organic strawberry plants that are blooming. I have a couple tomato plants also. I am going to start sprouting and also growing & juicing fresh wheatgrass. My plan is to use diluted ocean water on my plants so I can eat highly mineralised foods everyday.

Today I ate:

Goldden Nugget tangerines

Banana milk: banana/coconut water/vanilla bean

Small melon

Salads with Chickpea miso dressing

Bee pollen

Sun dried tomato

Spirulina

Apples

1/2 avocado

Eggplant bacon

Cardio:
10 minutes DDR, heavy mode, burned 75 calories.

Day 11 ~Coincidence?~

I'm still very dizzy today. I have a huge thing on my neck, I can't see it, but it feels big & hard. I have body odor for the first time in a while. I woke up with crusty eyes this morning.

Is it all just coincidence? Or could it be because I have not eaten low fat in the past couple days? I almost feel like I ate SAD! My energy is just not the same. I had a sip of almond milk so far, but I think I really want to go back to low fat now. Party's over lol. No fleeting temporary taste of food is worth not feeling phenominal.

Today I ate: 1298 calories, 81.7% carbs - 8.6% protein - 9.7% fat
Almond milk
Kiwis
Beet slaw
Juice: apple/beet/carrot/celery/cucumber/kale
Salad with veggie lovers mix & chickpea miso dressing

Snacked on some eggplant bacon & onion bread

Cardio:
DDR on heavy mode, 60 min 499.780 calories burned

DDR on standard mode 30 min 150 calories burned

Strength Training:

14 excercises; 2 sets, 15 reps each one

Day 10 ~As long as it's raw~

I noticed after eating "whatever I wanted so long as it's raw" on day 9.. today I have heartburn & I am dizzy.

I also decided to eat whatever I wanted so long as it's raw again. Those carob squares were tough to resist! I also had a huge salad with chickpea miso & cashew butter dressing. Some onion bread.. what else? Oh a half a jar of olives. Almond milk. A lettuce wrap with cashew butter, avocado & fermented veggies. There is no way I can log all this stuff over at sparkpeople.com!

Cardio:
10 minutes DDR on standard mode- ankle didn't hurt after, but was sore to the touch again.

Day 9 ~CELEBRATION!~

I totally splurged today! I ate whatever I wanted so long as it was raw! Celebrating is fun sometimes! I had strawberry cheesecake from WFM, portabellas in sweet shoyu sauce & carob bars at home, Mediterranean wraps, spicy olives, beet slaw & a durian/coconut shake at Go Raw Cafe! What a day! :D

That's what I love about going low fat raw... besides the results LOL! It's like before I would eat anything so long as it was raw, then cheat with cooked foods or give in to cooked cravings or go back to it for whatever reason. Now cheating for me is having a whole avocado or carob bars and eating whatever I want so long as it's raw! I love it! :D

Ok so here are my results so far at less then 10 days:

The bottom of my right foot has been itching like crazy since yesterday lol

My skin is looking amazing!

I'm starting to get a nice tan!

Still clearing quite a lot of mucous.

I'm not stiff when I wake up in the mornings now, I can get right up & do physical work now! It used to take me 2 hours or more to "wake up" and I would usually sit at the computer during that time all stiff & sore before I could do anything!

My endurance is so much more then it used to be!

I have energy for whatever I want or need to do, it's just always there when I need it.

My attitude is so much more positive! It takes a lot more to get under my skin now.

Only had one minor panic attack & it was only from the caffeine in the kombucha!

I can be around sick people & not have to worry about 'catching' it. Mom's been sick for days now from eating really crappy lately.

I have lost 8 pounds since I started this challenge 9 days ago!

Oh! Check this out! My period only lasted 24 hours this time!!! It used to be 5-7 days & AWFUL! Then I went vegan &amp;amp; raw off & on & it became 3-4 days, then lately 2-3 days. Now it's ONE DAY! I don't have pain or even notice it's there! So much less trash too :D

I go to bed earlier & wake around 8am everyday naturally now! No more insomnia!

I'm sure I’m leaving some out, I’m tired lol

I heard from a friend that a new raw cafe is opening on Sahara & Rampart I think it is. I am looking forward to checking it out!

I have added a daily shot of wheatgrass to my plan for now, this is one of the kinds I’m using:

65% organic kamut leaf juice, 35% organic alfalfa leaf juice.

"Green Kamut® Wheatgrass is premium 100% pure, certified organic green food powder! Our non-hybrid guaranteed non-GMO seeds are grown high in the mountains of an ancient volcano lake bed brimming with nutrients, watered with mineral springs and harvested at the peak of nutrition. Green Kamut wheatgrass is processed within minutes at low temperature (86º F) yielding a 100% pure, non pasteurized powder."

Today I ate:
Wheatgrass, Green Kamut Powder
Nature's First food probiotic/superfood blend
Portabella mushrooms with sweet shoyu sauce
Strawberry Cheesecake
Spicy olives
Mediterranean wraps
Beet slaw
Durian/coconut shake
Carob bars

Strength Training:
Went to the gym & did a full body workout.

Swam laps for about 15 minutes & sat it the Jacuzzi. Layed in the sauna for about 15 minutes.

I weigh 202 pounds now!

Day 8 ~Goodbye Clutter & Excess~

I had 2 small kombucha drinks for breakfast. I didn't think the caffiene would affect me, but it did. I had a panic attack and didn't feel good most of the day. I had a ton of energy though LOL. I decided to make good use of it & clean out my closet & go through my drawers & boxes of clothes. I got rid of a bunch of old stuff that no longer resonates with me. Even my sock drawer is organised now! I feel the need to make my outsides look like my insides are starting to... clean & free of clutter & excess!

My ankle feels lots better but is still very sore to the touch & I have to be careful with it.Going to the gym tomorow & will record my new weight!

Today I ate: 740 calories, 88.8% carbs - 6.5% protein - 4.7% fat
Kombucha
Juice: apple/beet/ginger
Salad
Orange juice
Pepitas
Nature's First Food in water
Incan berries
A bite of mango with lime
A bite of mixed sea vegetables

Day 7 ~Red Flag~

Well since I have to stay off my feet so my ankle can rest, I ended up eating for amusement today. I did not stick to my low fat plan and ended up eating an avocado, maple syrup & Nama Shoyu which I was previously staying away from due to not being whole foods & high in salt & sugar, low in minerals, or in the case of the avocado, limiting to smaller less frequent portions. I can FEEL that my cleansing has weakened considerably! Also I did not want to stop eating & wanted more & more. I have a taste for it now. I had no cravings until I ate that & now it's unplesent to be wanting something so much. Red flags are going up. I smell chemical addiction.

I'm looking forward to watching Heroes tonight, we finally get to see who Linderman is! Looks like a good show.

Someone nearby is BBQing.. smells good. I'm getting better at enjoying the smells instead of wanting the actual foods.

Today I ate: 943 calories, 71.1% carbs - 10.4% protein - 18.4% fat
Blueberries
Tangerines
Raspberries
Juice: celery/tomato/raddish/carrot/kale/lemon
Portabella in sweet shoyu sauce
Strawberries
Oranges

Strength Training:
10 Excercises, at home, have to take it easy still. Foot hurt pretty bad durring two of them.. sigh.. I miss DDR so bad! I bet I would lose easily double the weight if I were working out playing an hour or more of DDR everyday.

Day 6 ~Appreciation~

I am on crutches at the moment.. from one minute to the next my ankle went from bad to OMG I can't walk! I spent almost an hour on my kitchen floor with ice packs before I crawled back to my room. It was funny because I had just made a juice (luckily I finished making it) and made some food for Sonja so we ended up sitting on the kitchen floor & eating together while listening to a David Wolfe lecture that was playing on my iPod over the kitchen speakers. It was nice except for the pain LOL. I still can't figure out what messed it up in the first place. I assume it was either something I did at the gym or playing DDR or something. I really want to play DDR!!!! I used to take being able to walk for granted! You just don't appreciate the little things, like being in good working order, until they are gone!

I conquored another buffet today! I am proud of myself because it's my favorite one & I don't get to go as often as I would've once liked to! I had watermelon, honeydew, cantaloupe & I picked at a salad I didn't much like. I stayed on my plan and I had enough to eat! I left there feeling great!

Today I ate: 939 calories, 90% carbs - 5.6% protein - 4.4% fat
Watermelon
Cantaloupe
Honeydew
Cucumber
Water with lemon
Blackberry tangerine juice (golden nugget tangerines)
Blueberries
Pepitas
Salad of butter lettuces & hearts of romaine, bean & alfalfa sprouts, barhi & honey dates and Veggie Delight fermented veggies

Cardio:
10 Minutes DDR on heavy mode, 50 calories

Day 5 ~Sunshine~

I was able to lay out for an hour this morning! It felt so nice. I missed that the past couple days. It was actually still too cold to lay out, and I froze for the first half hour LOL but I just kept at it & it did get warmer towards the end there!



My ankle is still messed up so no cardio yet.. I look forward to being able to do that again soon..



Today I ate 631 calories, 89.4% carbs - 7.5% protein - 3.1% fat:
Water with lemon
Honeydew melon
Celery/orange juice
Buffet, stayed raw, had fruit & salad
Angel hair zucchini pasta with sundried tomato & fresh basil marinara sauce

Day 4 ~Garden of Eden~

I believe in what the bible says... that we were created in Gods image, and our home was to be in the Garden of Eden (eating). Original sin was introduced when we were tempted by an animal and ate the forbidden fruit, which I take to mean we introduced suffering into our consciousness by eating animals. After that we had effectively cast ourselves out of paradise, health and even childbirth became painful which doesn’t all have to be if we return to Eden by living in harmony with the earth and eating as we were designed to. The symbol of medicine is the snake on the staff representing that if we had not strayed from our garden of eating, medicine would have no place.

Yesterday when I ate that little dish of salad at WFM, I could feel my energy change. Even the tiniest bit of non-optimal eating can have such a strong reaction once the body has gotten a taste of health & well-being. My resolve to not do that again is strong!

I havn't really felt like eating much since the night before last. I prefer juice or small bites here & there. I actually feel like I am fasting most of the time. It feels good.

I have been going to bed earlier and waking around 9am. I like this so much better then insomnia and staying up so late!

I can't stop looking at my face, my skin is so much nicer now. It is unbelievable, even for me who knows the power of diet, that my skin is so much better in such a short time.

Today I ate 1001 calories, 92.1% carbs - 5.7% protein - 2.2% fat:

Juice: apple, carrot, kale

Pink grapefruit & juice

Romaine hearts salad with dates, fermented veggies in a citrus chipotle dressing

Orange julius

Strength Training:

18 excercises, full body, at home

Day 3 ~New Moon~

New moon is in 2 days, but my moon time is here now. (warning: TMI ahead) I had no idea it was even starting, though if I listened to my body yesterday I would have realised that it was a challenge to meet my required calories because I was just not hungry. The only way I can tell it's that time again, is that I lose my appetite the day before it starts. I like to start fasts on the day before because it's like cheating! I don't have an appetite or cravings & the first few days are a breeze! I never get any symptoms like cramping, back pain, emotional disturbance of any kind or even heavy flow anymore. Before I changed my diet a few years back, this time of the month was HORRIBLE for me. I would lay crying wrapped around a heating pad on pain pills. It lasted 5-7 days and I would be moody & in pain with very heavy bleeding resulting in accidents especially at night. I missed work many times it was so awful for me. It SUCKED!! Now, what a different world! It lasts 2 days, is so light I don't feel it, and I only need the super thin or liners, not actual pads, even at night! Even when I went back to SAD for a year, it still never got really bad again, it stayed 3-4 days & pretty light, minor cramping if I ate greasy or heavy meals right before & durring. I'm sure it would've gotten bad again had I not returned to healthy eating.

I woke up today & put Charlie outside (my blue quaker parrot). The sun felt wonderful on my back as I put him in his cage. I would love to lay out today but the breeze is making it just slightly too cold still. I heard it was going to be cold all week.

Wow I just looked in the mirror & my skin has cleared up considerably in the past 2 days!!!! NICE!

I just noticed that if we take the word HEALTHY, it can be broken down into two seperate words: HEAL & THY meaning healthy foods are foods that have the power to heal thy self! Just had to share that!

Today I ate 1395 calories, 92.4% carbs - 4.5% protein - 3.1% fat:
Water with lemon
Fruit salad: hearts of romaine, green leaf & butter lettuce with mango, cucumber, celery, strawberry, raspberry, in a mango lime cucumber dressing
Blackberry tangerine juilus
White grapefruit julius
Medjool Dates
Small salad from WFM Salad Bar, 99.5% raw (the honey & oil & salt & pepper were prolly not but there was almost none total, mostly just whole foods with a sprinkle of 2 that had oil or honey)

Day 2 ~Gratitude & Joy~

Ok since there may be some issues with people losing blogs & needing to keep a back up, I will go ahead & keep my 30 day challenge here!

Wow I feel phenominal! I felt great yesterday too until about 10pm. Then I was suddenly tired, from one minute to the next I had energy then suddenly I didn't! So I honored my body & rested. I went to bed early.
Woke up this morning and had that wonderful energy again! My default state of being has returned to gratitude & joy like it always does when I clean up my diet! Love that!

I just finished a half hour of cardio & a mug of white grapefruit juice, then sat down to read some blogs here for inspiration! I am going to the gym later. I am planning to stop by Go Raw Cafe for a green juice on my way to the gym. I will prolly clean & move some fishtanks around this evening. Not much else on the menu for now. I was planning to lay out in the sun & listen to some of the stuff I downloaded to my iPod from thebestdayever.com but it looks like rain! I love rain!

Here we go again! My sense of smell & taste is so heightened! Last time I went low fat, high raw I had some weird sensory issues.. I could no longer drink water out of plastic water bottles because it suddenly tasted like juiced plastic. I started buying the more expensive glass ones, luckily I wasn't requiring nearly as much water due to the high water content foods! I could no longer eat with metal silverware and I switched to bamboo sets. I had to move my rat tank out of my room, which never bothered me before. Now this time around my fishtanks are bothering me! I am going to move at least two of them into the living room later.

Today I ate 1381 calories, 91.5% carbs - 6.1% protein - 2.4% fat:
White grapefruit julius: white grapefruits juiced in juicer with lots of white pulp left on to make it frothy
Corn on the cob
Medjool dates
Cucumber in lime juice, chipotle powder, sea salt
Veggie lovers salad with bean sprouts & alfalfa sprouts in a citrus chipotle dressing
Kiwis
Orange Julius

Cardio:
45 minutes DDR on heavy mode, 321 calories burned
10 minutes on elliptical trainer, 144 calories burned

Strength Training:
Gym, full body workout, 1 hour

I weigh myself at the gym on Wednesdays.. I am now at 206.4 lbs

Day 1 ~30 Day Challenge~

Today is day 1 of my low fat, raw vegan, 811, 30 day challenge!

I was doing really well over the past couple months, not all raw but eating lots of raw and staying low fat most of the time. But maybe about 2 weeks ago I started letting some dairy & eggs slip back in. My body is so not happy about it too. I'll spare you the details!

I am keeping a detailed blog over at Alissa Cohen's RawFoodTalk board if you want to folow the rest of my challenge http://www.rawfoodtalk.com/blogs/viewblog.php?userid=1358

I had a dream just before I woke up. I drempt that I was pregnant with a baby girl and I was so happy. I woke up and realised it was only a dream and felt sad.

It has been said that when we dream of others, they are really parts of yourself. So I take this dream to mean that I am becoming a new person. I am starting a new life. This feels like a powerful dream considering I am starting my challenge today! I also take it the new life is a much longed for one and I will be very happy, because of the feelings in the dream.

Perhaps this 30 day challenge will be the start of something much bigger for me. I originally planned to do 30 days no cheating, then add back a few lightly cooked veggies that I love.. like brussel sprouts! I don't know if I want to just give them up forever! But then who knows how I will feel 29 days from now!
My goal is to lose 28 pounds in 30 days. I see no reason why I cannot do this or at least get close! I lost about 30 pounds in just over a month eating low fat high raw in December. I am starting my challenge today at 210 lbs.

Here is me in Nov 06 about a day or so into high raw:

Here is me in Jan 07 about 30 pounds lighter:

Here is me this morning at 11:40am Feb 27th:


My recomended calories based on height, weight, activity level & goals is currently 1310 - 1660 calories per day. Every time I lose more then 10 pounds it changes I think, so for now this is what i'm aiming for.

Today I ate 1599 calories, 92.6% carbs-5.1% protein-2.3% fat:
Orange Julius: Oranges peeled with lots of the white part still on, juiced whole in juicer.
Mango with lime juice
Medjool dates
Corn on the cob
Veggie Lovers salad mix with bean sprouts & alfalfa sprouts & a banana, in a citrus chipotle dressing

Cardio:

Weight Loss Update!

Here is my most recent picture, I am trying on my Ren Faire garb for the upcoming faire in April!

Another 7 pounds down in the past week or so! Woohoo! I'm still not 8-1-1 every single day or even all raw, but wow the results are phenominal! I feel & look SO MUCH better! I'm still playing a minimum of 1 hour DDR a day plus I added more strength training to my program. I increased my weights 2 days ago also.

I have noticed that my senses are heightened and that I cannot tolerate the taste of drinking water out of plastic bottles anymore. Tastes like juiced plastic EW! Also I can no longer eat off metal silverware, tastes too strong like metal & is absolutely unbearable! I buy disposable biodegradeable bamboo sets now. Luckily I don't use much silverware or that could be kinda pricey!

I also feel HORRIBLE when I eat too much fat! I get so sick I have to lay down & if I overeat I can't bear it anymore. My tastebuds only like simple foods & my body is hooked on that light clean feeling you get from eating simply.

This way of eating simple has now started spreading throughout my house causing me to clean, organize & simplify my home. It's like i'm clearing away the clutter & the excess that built up in both my body & my house. I love it! I am feeling FREE!

80/10/10 Diet

So I am really doing it now! I am so proud of myself! I thought this was going to be more of a challenge then it actually is! So in keeping with the recomended guidelines, it means I can eat a minimum of 80% of my calories as carbs (healthy ones, ideally fruit & greens)and a maximum of 10% from protein & a maximum of 10% from fats. I do all my tracking at SparkPeople.com (see my website for info on SP, the link on Fitness!) and according to them I am supposed to be keeping my calories between 1390-1740 to meet my goals.

I started tracking for the first time on Jan 18th & my numbers were off that day, too much fat: 63.4/5.9/30.8 My calories were only 693! I didn't have to eat as much because alot of my calories were coming from fat so I felt satisfied. But no wonder why I lost weight in the past 2 months! I was taking in less calories & also playing alot of DDR! )Dance Dance Revolution- see my website under Fitness!) But I have never been able to stay raw because of my high fat content! Now it's a breeze! I am getting my calories mostly from healthy carbs and am not having cravings anymore!

Since that day I have had success! On the 19th my numbers were: 80.3/10.5/9.3 My calories were over at 2334! Because with less fat I constantly felt the need to eat & have that heavy satisfied feeling!

By the 20th I evened out & my body was starting to get used to the new diet. my numbers were 88.3/8.6/3.1 My calories were also in range at 1552! woohoo! I was still feeling light & not weighed down so I was a little hungry in the evening but not unbearably so.

Yesterday the 21st I forgot to eat dinner or snack! I just had breakfast & lunch! I was too busy working out! I did at least 2 hours cardio! I find I have much more energy & can't sit still so long anymore, it's like my body is craving movement. My numbers were great at 85.6/6.5/7.9! My calories were a little under from not having time to eat lol 1007! But I wasn't hungry! So I guess i'm getting this 8-1-1 thing down! And I already feel the difference!