August 16th

Is this getting boring? Yeah, kinda. It's really helpful for me though! I just posted on my other blog about food, so check it out if you want to read something other than this: *yawn*

Breakfast

-tea
-almonds
-HUGE green smoothie (two glasses worth)... (spinach, banana, pineapple, orange juice)

Lunch

-tonnes of blueberries
-big green salad of mixed greens, kale, grated carrots and beets, and balsamic/olive oil dressing
-small slice of banana walnut manna bread

Snack

-carrots and cucumbers
-almonds
-watermelon

Dinner

-not sure what these were, but let's call them Asian rolls (sprouts, avocado and cashews stuffed into and rolled up in a big huge green collard leaf) dipped in sauce (peanut oil, soy sauce and garlic). Yummers. They dripped down my arm while I ate 'em... the classic sign of a good meal.

Dessert

-medjool date, some more watermelon

August 15th

Breakfast

-tea
-smoothie (banana, blueberries, spinach, orange juice, hemp seeds)
-handful of almonds

Lunch

-salad (greens, with leftover salsa that I made yesterday)
-handful of cashews

Snack

-cantaloupe
-iced green tea
-raw food bar

Dinner (we were at a wedding)

-salad (just plain greens and vinaigrette)
-tomatoes and onions in balsamic vinegar
-plain veggies (broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, cucumbers, yellow and red peppers)
-Greek salad without the feta

Dessert (stashed in my purse)

-dried pineapple and mango and papaya

August 14th

Breakfast

-2 cups tea
-green smoothie (spinach, peach, 2 medjool dates, banana and orange juice)

Lunch

-big salad (greens, tomatoes, red onion, garlic, jalapeno pepper, cilantro, grapeseed oil and avocado)
-slice of date manna bread

Snack

-blackberries (picked on side of the road)

Dinner

-big salad at a restaurant (greens, pecans, cashews, figs with an olive oil dressing... YUM)

Dessert/Snack

-rooibos tea and a slice of manna bread
-2 glasses of orange juice

Thoughts

The biggest most major difference that I notice since starting this raw food thing, is that I don't have that 3 o'clock eyelids-stuck-to-my-eyeballs feeling anymore. And, I don't need as much sleep either. Before, I'd need 10 hours of sleep to feel the way I feel now with only 8 hours of sleep.

Drinking so much coffee woke me up, but it would also give me that constant cat-darting-in-front-of-my-feet feeling. My movements were always super! charged! and now I'm way more chill.

I love feeling chill. I was slothing through the Old Navy parking lot today, and I almost annoyed myself at how chill I was. Chill people used to tick me off, because I was jealous I guess. I wanted to light a fire behind their butts to see if they were really alive or not. Must stop saying chill.

Chill.

I can't even obey myself.

Anyway. So. That's the big difference, is that I'm not exhausted and needing caffeine anymore.

Today I ate less greens and I feel a difference. I feel more bloaty and blech when I load up on too many nuts and dates and stuff like that. I can certainly tell when I don't have a green smoothie, so I make sure I have one before I eat anything else. Ideally, it feels really good when I have a green smoothie, and a big green leafy salad later in the day. Those two elements are a must-have for me for sure. I'd like to keep that going forever, even when I add back my precious double tall latte and my king-size Coffee Crisp.

Oh, I must add that I still get zits. Why? Because. I don't know. I was kinda hoping that this raw food cleansing thing would free me up in the teenage face department but apparently not.

It doesn't stop me from saying "chill" though. Chill chill chill.

Chill.




Chill. Chill.



Chill.

August 13th

Breakfast

-tea with almond milk and honey
-half a Lara bar
-green smoothie (spinach, 2 peaches, apricot, frozen blueberries and a bit of orange juice)

Lunch

-other half of Lara bar
-watermelon
-2 apricots
-handful of almonds

Snack

-avocado sliced and dipped in Braggs soy seasoning
-a really small cup of soy chai tea at a coffee shop

Dinner

-2 slices of Manna bread (not technically raw, but it's made with sprouts and cooked at very low temps)
-raw corn on the cob
-2 cups of orange juice

Snack

-raw food bar (mainly dates and nuts mixed together)
-orange juice
-tea

August 12th

Breakfast

-a cup of tea with honey
-banana with almond butter
-4 dried apricots

Snack

-dried mango
-some cashews and almonds
-watermelon

Lunch

-watermelon
-raw energy bar
-grapes, blueberries, pineapple
-carrots and cucumbers

Snack

-a soy green tea latte from Starbucks (not raw, but I needed somethin' somethin')
-more dried mango

Dinner

-a big leafy salad with mixed greens and a bit of kale (last time I had kale, I had major stomach cramps... I'm a bit nervous...) with dressing (Balsamic, olive oil, garlic, salt, Braggs seasoning, and a bit of maple syrup)

Dessert

-a few of these

Snack

-half a Lara Bar and a glass of orange juice

August 11th

Today was a strange meal day in that we spent the day packing and then driving 5 hours for home, so I pretty much munched on whatever we had around. Here's the list:

Tea
Pineapple
Cantelope
Raspberries
Papaya (not very much though--it wasn't ripe enough)
Grapes (a LOT)
Avocado
Blueberries (a LOT)
Frozen edemame beans from a bag, a bit thawed while driving
An apricot
Some smoothie
A salad of iceberg, cucumbers, tomatoes, and banana peppers (from Subway)
Some raisins and a couple of glasses of orange juice when we got home