go raw

I’ve been failing at this. I always end up getting these unavoidable cravings for fries or veggie burgers or something like that. So I’ve decided to give myself smaller goals and weening myself off the cooked food. I’ll try raw breaksfast and lunch and a cooked dinner. Then eventually 1 day raw. And then I’ll decide and go from there.

Tomorrow is my birthday. The big 30! I am going raw for my birthday, but with more leeway than last time. I refuse to give up coffee and cooked carbs.

I have lots of experience with this, so it shouldn’t be too hard. I may even do it permanently?

If you are 75% raw, you are still considered a raw foodist. Thank goodness it’s not a strict thing. I can still have pizza and everything else I love.

I would like to be 100% vegan, but I don’t think that is realistic for me. 75% raw IS realistic, and if you are 75% raw, you are basically 75% vegan! That is good enough for me.

10:40 I’ve had half a mango with half a glass of milk

Well, I ended up getting into a relationship and that has made it more of a challenge to eat raw. I have however, stayed commited to eating healthier than I ever have before. Most of the things I eat are vegetable-based and I take enzymes with my meals regularly. I found that eating raw can be expensive and I just don’t have the money to purchace any prepared raw foods. All raw stuff I ate I was making on my own. I still believe in the power of living raw foods and I still want to eventually go totally raw for a long enough time to cleanse my system completely and to be able to do 6-week long raw cleanses 3-4 times a year for the rest of my life. But I am going to “give up” on this goal for now and post a new goal of “eat healthy.” Once I feel strong in my habit of eating healthy, then I will come back to this goal. The time has to be right.

go raw! i want to put good stuff into my body!

I’m on day 7. My goal is 30 days…or longer.

:)

For dinner I had:
Organic Vegetable soup
with real salt sea salt
cracked pepper
cyanne

And:
a cashew cookie Lara bar
with a 4oz peach flavored apple sauce

I have been thinking about this for awhile and the more and more I read about it (just from various internet articles and forums), the more I like the sound of it. I think this goal will be easier to begin to pursue as the weather gets a little warmer so I’m going to more seriously start going raw when the farmer’s market opens in April (I mean it will be hard NOT to with all those fresh vegetables…YUMMMM)! I’m going to slowly start transitioning until then. I will make breakfast and lunch be 100% raw. Breakfast: mostly green smoothies (I have those a lot now anyway so that should be no problem) and I’m not really a big lunch eater but when I do eat lunch I’ll have it be mostly fresh fruit. As far as dinner…right now I usually have brown rice with steamed veggies which, if you think about that being my really only regular non-raw meal, is pretty good but of course I have other indulgences that aren’t raw :P So anyway I’m going to start making my own almond milk instead of buying soymilk, and I’m going to experiment with soaking different nuts and seeds. Once I’m done with the rice I have (I mean I’m not going to waste food here people), I’m going to start going for quinoa and wild rice which are more easily digestible and I guess closer to raw? And I’m going to start NOT steaming my veggies to go along with those (I just bought a bunch of frozen veggies so that’s why I’m steaming them). I’m not going to say my goal is 100% raw right now, that’s not completely realistic with my life at the moment. But I am going to aim for 80-90%. I have found that cauliflower has an amazing rice-like texture when you chop it up so that will be a good transition, and I am a fricking trail-mix junkie (I mean, really, my roommates make fun of me because that’s what I consider my “junk food”) so I think I can make this work. Anyway I’m just trying to find a healthier lifestyle for myself, lose a little weight, and just feel and be the best I can! So I will continue my research and build myself up until that opening day of the farmer’s market in April when I will give myself the final push to be as raw as I absolutely can :)

In all of my research over the past 3 weeks, I failed to find any recipes for regular potatoes. I usually find recipes for sweet potatoes. Well, I got 3 red potatoes in my CSA box this week and I deliberately went searching for a recipe and I found one. WOO HOO!! So, I dehydrated potato chips last night for 10 hrs on 105 degrees and they came out awesome. :) I noticed from other recipes that if you don’t coat them with fresh lemon juice, they will turn black. I sliced them with my mandolin and put them in a bowl with lemon juice to coat them and then put them on my tray and sprinkled them with a combination of sea salt, garlic powder, onion powder and cayenne. YUMMY!!! This morning I had awesome potato chips. The bad part is that I can’t eat them yet, but I did put them in a plastic bag and you know what I’ll be crunching on this weekend. ;)