day 29: 100% raw- nearly a month raw- review

hey
I cant believe its been this long! Not only has it been ages since i blogged, but Ive done nearly 1 whole month raw!

I feel great and this is defiantly something that i am keeping to. You have probably gathered that from my other posts, but i though id review everything after a month, and well its nearly a month so i thought 'what the hell, 2 days arnt going to make a difference!'

Ok, so here goes.
Pro's
Clear glowing skin
weight loss
never going hungry
never dieting
amazing energy
happiness
connected to the earth
healthier
making positive choices about what i eat and put in my body
being more aware
amazing blood sugar control
learning things all the time
trying new foods ( pomegranate, parmission, papaya, custard apples, hazel, walnuts and Brazil nuts, goji berries, raw cacao, medjool dates, kale, flaxseed, beetroot, sprouts etc)
Learning the amazing things your body can do
learning to love yourself for who you are
your taste changing
the feeling of serenity
feeling different from those around you, because you have felt the power of raw food, and you can see ill health of others

Con's
The boyfriend moaning about not being able to go out and eat (although everywhere does salad!)
The cost of fresh food (although the markets provide amazing, cheap food)
Eating too much still
So as you can see, the pro's pretty much outweigh the con's!

Many people ask, or say, 'but your missing out on this' and i say 'it depends what you see as missing out!'
If a smoker offers me a cigarette and i decline, and that person says 'your missing out' i think most people will agree with me, that actually, I'm really NOT missing out!
Or if an omnivore said to me, ' your really missing out on this McDonald's burger'......
why? because I'm not eating some processed, sterilized, awful identical remains of a tortured, ripped apart, diseased, chemical laden animal?
Ha, i hardly call that missing out! In fact, id call that utter torture! why would i want to feed myself that? its not food! my body cant process and get life giving vitamins, minerals and compounds from that!! Its just like drinking and smoking. Its poison. Why would i purposely try and poison my body? its insane.

So its the same with cooked foods. it offers little to no nutrients and life giving force for my cells and body, so why am i going to eat it? So if my body cant use it, its just poison really. Fat, stodge, toxins, free radicals, poisons.

I want to eat life giving, nutrient packed, vitamin and mineral rich, live, raw, healing, cleansing, body and life friendly foods!

Its so weird how my taste has changed too. Before, i hated nuts, not i love eating them, especially brazil nuts. I also cant eat that much fat, it makes me feel yucky.
Talking ofyuvky, i have not stopped eating tonight and i havnt even been hungry. Ive been eating just to fill time. I do it, its one thing i am very guilty of doing and i feel sick right now because i have eaten too much and combined badly!

I bought 2 'raw bars' the other day and it was only when i ate them that i realised they were only 75% raw. This really pissed me off. IF ITS NOT RAW, WHY SAY IT IS!!!??? 75% isn't raw, its high raw, not raw. Raw is 100%....it wasn't 100%, so it isn't raw, FUCKING TWATS.
Don't advertise something to be raw when it isn't raw. This really gets to me, trying to make something out to be what it isn't.
Well Ive learned my lesson. No more junk food. just fantastic fresh and occasionally dried foods.

Ugh i feel sick............ NOT SO MUCH EATING CHERRY!

Day 9: 100% raw- i'm in love!

Hello all!
I'm in love!
I have just received a food processor- FREE, off freecycle and i love it! Ive had a little play with it and grated 1/2 a beetroot, 1/2 swede and 3 carrots. It taste so yummy!
Now i have that, i can do so much more with my food. I can now fit tonnes of greens into 1 meal! Hello high greens!!
So for lunch tomorrow i have grated swede, beet and carrot, with blended lettuce head and red pepper, with 1/2 a bag of bean sprouts all mixed together. Think of all those nutrients!!

I have created some more recipes like my fruit cobbler which taste yummy. here is the recipe:

Ingredients
*1 banana
* 1 apple
* handful raisins
* Pinch of Cinnamon
* 1/2 cup of soaked sunflower seeds
* Small handful pumpkin seeds
* 1/2 cup crushed, soaked almonds
* A small palmful of flaxseed

Preparation
1) Mash the banana and Cinnamon together
2) Dice the apple into small pieces and mix with the raisins
3) Get a bowl and layer the banana on the bottom, followed by the apple and raisins
4) Cover the fruit with the nuts and seeds.
5) Enjoy!

I hope you like it.
The banana adds a moisture to the meal, like a built-in custard!
I'm starting to get a bit more energy now. I feel like my diet has finally caught up with me and I'm starting to feel the benefits of it- thank goodness!
I still haven't had any detox symptoms which is a bit strange, i was looking forward to going through detox, because then id know that it is doing some good to my body and that there was a change going on.

I know my diet is the best it can be anyway, so I'm not too worried, what will be will be!
i know i am starting to get more sensitive to chemicals now- Ive just moisturised with nivea and my hands have just started burning and have come up in rashes which has never happened before!

I feel good. Even better now i have my food processor. Things can only get better!

peace x

day 7: 100% raw- a shift has happened

Hello all!

For the 1st time in this so far very short raw journey i feel like a major shift has happened in my thinking, eating and way of being. I can now look at the future and see myself 100% raw, rather than thinking, 'I'll be raw for as long as i can but i don't know how long that will be.'
Something has changed and i see cooked as a different world almost. I can see dis-ease and toxins in people, i see fat people and can only imagine what torture they are putting their bodies through, and it makes me sad, and even more determined and happy to be doing this.

I love eating raw and i don't want to eat cooked again. Ive finally realized that I'm actually not missing out on anything by eating 100% raw, and i just see cooked as something completely different, not even something that is edible to me, i can cook a meal for my bf and not feel a thing towards it. I can go into a supermarket and see all these processed foods i used to eat and be so excited to get home because i have in the fridge, a fruit i have never had before.
A fantastic realization that:
I don't miss cooked food
I don't crave cooked food
I don't need cooked food
I don't like cooked food
and most importantly of all..
I don't WANT cooked food!

it feels so good, so liberating. I feel liberated, excited, amazed, in owe, proud, beautiful, happy, grateful and extremely strongly about this lifestyle.

THANK YOU RAW!!!!!!!!!!!!

raw day 6: 100% raw weekend!

Hey there,
A year ago, when i first started experimenting with the raw food diet, i was eating raw during the week and then cooked at the weekend. The reason why i did this was because i loved the way raw made me feel, but by Friday i was really wanting, and looking forward to my 'treats', so i carried on like this for a while until attempting to embark on a 30 day 100% raw challenge, which then to me was forever. I wanted to try it, because i was passionate about raw foods. It lasted a grand 12 days and the weekends were the worst. i couldn't have popcorn, cake, cereal, mash, tofu- nothing i loved eating normally.
So at that time i pretty much abandoned hope of being raw until a week ago, when i decided to fast my last weekend being sad, instead of stuffing my face, in welcoming of my new raw lifestyle that i felt i was totally ready for and committed to doing.

So, to me, today has been a land mark. Its Saturday and i am still amazingly and fantastically enjoying being 100 percent raw and cant wait for every day, as its another day to enjoy, learn and live my new, amazing lifestyle.
I have had no cooked cravings since the first day, i am not bored or sick of being raw, i don't feel like I'm missing out on anything, and most of all, my friends and work mates are trying my raw foods and berries, that they have never tried before, and loving them! <3

I have been to my local city today and went to my health food shop and bought seeds, coconut oil, cacao nibs, and apple cider vinegar which i have never had before so i am really looking forward to using it in my next marinade. I went to the market aswell and got kiwis, figs, apples, pears, bananas, peaches, nectarines, passion fruit, papaya, mangos, raisins amongst other things. I have never had papaya or passion fruit before, so i am really looking forward to trying them.

Ive made quite a few things tonight with my new ingredients. I melted some coconut oil and mixed some cacao powder with it and made chocolate covered raisins, banana and goji berries,and then i put them in the freezer- yum! I also mashed a banana and mixed it with the melted coconut oil and cacao and had warm banana and chocolate pudding with cacao nibs, raisins and goji berries. It was so nice and actually quite rich. :)

Im feeling really excited about the coming weeks in my journey and i am wondering if they will get harder. Im also wondering when detox is going to start! I haven't had any signs of detox yet, when last winter, id be raw for 3 days and get massive breakouts.

anyway, i'll keep you updated about my weekend!
peace x

A 2 day waterfast before jumping right in

Hi!



Its been a quite exciting few days, i have been thinking alot about the coming weeks and im thinking about going into raw 100% instead of gradually. Doing this will be quite hard but it will pay off (if im successful!) because i will have less reason to reach for sad food if i am not eating it at all and my detox will be more powerful and quicker.

Another thing i decided yesterday was that i was going to do a 1 day waterfast on sunday to help prepare me for monday, and then my boyfriend told me his next tattoo sitting was today (saturday) so i thought hell, il do a 2 day waterfast! An opportunity like this doesnt come along often, im normally doing something at the weekends, so its great to do this while i am able to take a break.

So im sitting here, its 12.27 in the afternoon, a little hungry, nothing major, but excited. Im going to potter around and do some cleaning, blogging, research and im going to pop to down to town and buy aload of bananas so i can make lots of ice cream for next week.



Ive only ever done 1 fast before, and that was a 1 day waterfast. It was so hard. I was constantly thinking about food, BUT i didnt actually get THAT hungry all day! I LOVED the fast, i learned so much about myself. I learned that i could go to bed and sleep without having a full stomach, that just because i am not full doesnt mean im hungry. I have a big problem with boredom eating and i realised during this fast how much more time i have on my hands if i dont eat!!!



I know this fast will be VERY hard for me, i dont have a strong willpower when it comes to food. A few of the things i may go through:

Bad: Hunger, temptation, confusion, sad, low, no energy, lost, and my gemini sides will come out and argue with each other.

Good: Liberation, moments of high energy, freedom, excitement, discovery,



These are some of the feelings i had during the 1 day waterfast, and 1 day is just the tip of the iceberg, as is 2 days. I would love to try a 10 day waterfast in the future, god that would be hard, but amazing!

For now 2 days is enough of a challenge for me!



I am actually a little suprised at myself at this decision to fast before i go raw because normally i would buy a load of bad sugary food and refined carbs and stuff my face before hand because i will no longer be 'allowed' these foods.



Another thing i have a problem with is i often think

'i will no longer be able to eat these foods, or do this again' and i start missing it, instead i need to change that though process to:

'i'll never want that poison again, i cant believe i used to eat that!' It will take time, but i'll get there!!!!!!