fruit, juicy fruit. My saviour

Hello!

The last 2 weeks has been quite confusing for me.

After making all my delicious gourmet foods i felt very ill. I ate too much, late at night, when i wasn't hungry and i felt sick and i had the runs.
For the last week my stomach has felt very heavy and bloated and i lost my appetite.
Ive had numerous comments about it:

'You need a hot meal inside of you'
- Yeah, like heat is going to make me feel better! Yeah, why dont i just cook my insides and eat dead food...this will liven me up a whoooole lot! Mum, if you dont have anything constructive to say..shut the hell up!

'You've poisoned yourself'
- Yes, i have eaten too much heavy, rich food, and my body didn't want/need it. I didn't poison myself... if i wanted to do that i would have cooked it first!

' You need to start eating properly'
- Yeah, eating fat, disease, cholesterol laden animal products, dead, lifeless veg, heavy grains, processed meals and junk food is going to give me the best life possible. You start to feel so good and become like everyone else... in pain, diseased, depressed, lethargic, constipated, etc etc etc. I could just go on.

For fuck sake, this is the second time i have been ill in 3 years! Give me a fucking break! How about we see how many times you get ill and then lets see who is calling the kettle black!?

I am feeling ok now though. A bit weak and tired. My blood sugar is fucking me around. going high all the time. Although i think it is because for the last week i have done no exercise at all.. which is never good, especially for me.
I am looking forward to being back to normal so i can cycle everywhere and run around as normal!

One good thing to come out of this though is i have been doing a lot of net surfing and reading up more about 80/10/10. I have been reading Freelees blog and i find it very interesting and also very true. Now that girl eats ALOT of fruit.. but she also exercises alot. She has a great, toned body and that is and always has been one of my biggest goals...to get washboard abs!

We are have been programed to think that fruit sugars are bad for us and in large quantities will make us fat, rot our teeth etc but as of yet, i have seen no sign of this in an 80/10/10 follower. I have only seen people get fat when they have combined fruit and fat.

So Here we are again...seems to be back where i was all those months ago...trying a high fruit LOW FAT diet.
Just properly this time, with guidelines! I think i know what im doing a bit more now... well, more than 5 months ago lets hope!

I love the idea of eating fruit, fruit and more fruit! I still have it in my mind that i will get fat (which is the last thing i want to do)but i need to trust myself and just go for it.
In Freelee's post she said she put on a bit of weight first for a few months (although this is guna be mostly water weight)but then it came off her.

Id like to gain a bit more muscle. Im fairly athletic anyway, i just have a roll of fat covering my otherwise AMAZING abs..and i want this GONE GONE GONE!!!!

Peace out x

I finally have my perfect body i have always wanted (muscle and sculpture wise) i just need to loose the fat now.

The sun brings out my creative side

Hello!

Its been lovely and sunny here in the UK and it defenatly brings out my creative side.
Its strange, in winter i feel like i want to eat light and simply, but as soon as the sun comes out and i get the summer bug, i suddenly want to eat heavier and get more creative food wise.

I decided to do a few gourmet style recipes this weekend which turned out very well.
I was going to make a chocolate sauce, which went wrong, and instead i got a fudge/brownie mixture!!!! it was AMAZING AND TOTALLY DELICIOUS!

So far i have just mixed it with goji berries but i have many different things i could make with it

Im looking forward to making a seed energy bar, which i think would work very well.

I made Nut balls, fugde/brownies and chololate and fig cheesecake. All of which are delicious if i do say so myself! (photos will be added at some point!)

I bought a spiralizer also, and made my first spaghetti and sauce today and LOVED IT! It has rekindled my love of pasta, and i love that i can made raw pasta that taste just as good as the bad kind!



My leg is getting better so im looking forward to starting to do more exercise. Its been driving me nuts not being as active as usual.


I hope to get some photos up soon

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Frost kills so why freeze?

Hey there :)

I cant remember where i read it but i remember reading a passage somewhere about not eating frozen foods. It wasn't a new piece of nutritional/raw literature written by one of the 'leaders' of raw living, but rather from an old text.
It mentioned something along the lines of not eating anything exposed/heated by fire or frozen and not eating animals. Very vague i know but you catch the drift! (if you know what passage of text i am on about feel free to post it to me!)

Now i know what damage heat does, which is of course is why i eat raw but i thought 'whats wrong with freezing raw foods? One of my favorite foods when i first turned raw was frozen banana, berries and raw ice cream, which i do admit, helped me enormously.
I haven't eaten anything frozen for a long time now, i haven't even thought about it.

It occurred to me the other day (yes, the light bulb just went off in my head!) why we shouldn't eat frozen foods.

If you are a gardener, or are at all interested in plants you know that frost kills alot of plants. Leaves and fruit die..which obviously isn't good! And a freezer is colder than a frost! So what is freezing going to do to the food? It is destroy and kill alot more of the goodness and life force than people think, so just bare this in mind when you go to freeze that lovely living fruit and veg!

FROST KILLS!

'normal' people think im crazy! Rawvolution

Hello everyone!

Sorry i haven't blogged for a while, i have been very busy job hunting and doing work for my NVQ.

Well i suppose its time for an update to let you know what has been going on!

I seem to have caught the 'exercise bug' I cant stop exercising! I have always been active and have done sports or gone to the gym, but now i just want to do and try everything. I love using my body to the best of its ability. I love to push myself to the limit. I have boundless energy and i want to use it! why not? my body is athletic and strong and can cope with it, in fact it is flourishing.
One thing which keeps me focused towards my goals is remembering that it is MY body, mine,i am the sole owner. It is the one thing i will have that is truly mine, so why not make it the best damn body it could ever be? You would have the best car and house if you could, so why neglect your body?

So what am i doing?
cycling ( hill work approx 10ish miles round trip to work)
physical job
Horse riding
Parkour

Want to try
Gymnastics
kick boxing
pole dancing
break and street dancing
fencing

Have done and want to start doing again
swimming
martial arts
boxing
squash
dancing
body balance
spinning
gym

The only thing that is stopping me is that i have to wait until i get a new job so i can afford to do all these things!

The Parkour aka freerunning (moving freely though out the city) is a new thing i am doing. Unfortunately during the warm up i killed my thighs so they have been VERY stiff for a week now which is a personal record! I have been taking it easy and resting. I have just started doing light exercising again. Once my legs are healed there will be no stopping me! Its been killing me not being able to exercise like i normally do, i want to practice my parkour so i am better for my next lesson, but with a week off its really put me behind.

I also bought a bike recently. its a carrera crossfire with 500c tyres. Its a hybrid bike but it is leaning more towards a road bike. It is my baby! I love him. He is called 'the green machine.' When i get a bit more money, i am getting a load of bumper stickers off the Internet. They will be advocating raw foods and vegan lifestyle so i will be sticking them all over my bike :)

Every one seems to think i am crazy and that i have a problem because i enjoy exercising so much...how strange! i am keeping fit and this is bad?


Back to raw foods!

I have been experimenting with my easting habits recently. I have been high fat and then high fruit and then back to high fat, before working out what i needed to eat.

High fat was very nice. I love avocado and coconut but it just wasn't something that i was able to keep up. It was having a negative effect on my body. I was always having the runs which obviously isn't pleasant and i also but on a few pounds which is the opposite of what i want really.
Its good to have 1 or 2 days a week where you have a coconut or a nice avocado meal, but to consume fat everyday is just something i do not think is healthy..well not for me anyway.

High fruit of course is great for a bit and some people can strive on this diet, but i think mentality has something to do with this as well.

I love eating fruit and when i go to the big market every week there is so much choice and amazing deals i cant help but get loads. What happens is i get fruit which i love and then i will eat it all within 3-4 days. It is not healthy to scoff fruit like i do. It makes me bloated, gassy and makes my teeth sensitive. I cannot eat the fruit i was buying sensibly because i can some times be a right pig and just stuff myself.

There are fruits which i wont scoff such as apples, pears, melon, grapefruit, pomegranates and plums, so when i went to the market i only bought these. I have loads of greens and these fruits so i will eat them sensibly and feel good. Its worked so far. I am not eating to the point of feeling uncomfortable and i still have tonnes of energy.

I feel good now and i hope that this will only improve my fitness.

anyway thats enough for one post!

take care
peace x

My package has arrived! super foods not so super?!

Hello!
My wonderful box arrived today from http://www.detoxyourworld.com/acatalog/
which included; 100g Maca root
100g Carob powder
1Fl oz Marine phytoplankton-- see for benefits www.thebestfoodever.com/oceans-alive
142g Natures living superfood-- see for benefits http://www.detoxyourworld.com/acatalog/nls.html
20g crystal manna flakes-- see for benefits http://www.ancientsuninc.com/crystalmanna

I added some NL super food and Crystal manna to my juice this morning, and i have to admit, it was a bit like drinking pond water..! Im sure the flavour will grow on me..well i hope so, im meant to double the dosage at some point!
I am pleased with the MPP (marine phytoplankton) i added 6 drops in a glass of water with some lemon juice and within minutes i got an energy rush. Im still buzzing now! I will have it in the morning and before bed i think. It will help the cells repair and assist my body in doing what it needs to do at night i hope.
I will not continue on with BOTH NLSF and CM as i cant afford them, especially with the price of MPP, so we will have to see which one i prefer. I must admit, i am taken back and impressed at the amount of ingredients in NLSF though.

Now the carob and maca are a different story!
Somebody should have warned me....and i wouldn't have WASTED £3.55 each on them both!!
I was really looking forward to trying them, seeing as i like cacao so much. I though these would be nice too...but oh no, my tastebuds dislike.
Now i have to find something to wo with 100g of maca and carob powder!


Anyhoo i also bought some PH strips to test myself. I was 7.5 (great!) and then 6.5.....and then 6! whats going on i thought..ive eaten nothing but green foods all day!
A bit taken back by this, i did a little research and some questioning and apparently fat can cause the body to go acidic. Now i am eating up to 2 avocados a day, which IS a lot of fat, especially for a raw foodie like myself, so next week when the avo's have ran out, i will reduce my fat intake and see where that takes me. Ive been wanting to do that anyway, so here's a good excuse!

I also have ordered a couple of books. David Wolfe's 'eating for beauty' and 'sunfood diet success systems' which i am really looking forward to receiving.
I also have received Enigma, the cross of changes. I just LOVE that CD so i have been listening to it at bed time and have been drifting off nicely into my sleep, where recently the oddest dreams have been awaiting me! You know what, ive researched them, and they are all mean bad things! great!!!!

anyway im tired and my enigma CD awaits!
Adios!

More food

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Filling (flaxseed powder, mangos, banana)

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