Or really this mornings dream....most good dreams happen in the morning...this dream had a lot of things in it, pretty much everything that I have been dealing with.....my first memory of the dream is finding out that my 'mother' has moved my bedroom. It is now a large open room as in open on one side...only 3 walls, that has been painted a nice shade of bright orange and saffron.....I am upset because it is not 'my' room, it is new and unfamiliar and I have no privacy. The room is at the end of a street....an urban main street...like a downtown street....of a large city.....not alot of traffic and the like....more people...cars aren't in this dream...as I reflect...it feels to me like a San Francisco street....more alternative types....as I am trying to come to terms with this new space....various things happen.....I find a young streetwise man in my closet...turns out it is where he usually meets people to do a deal....drug deal...I think this is my latent interest in smoking pot....getting high...I still like to do it everynow and then but don't actively seek it out.....later I am walking down the street....and I pass by two women who look to be in their early 60's...in good shape and as I pass them one asks the other "Is this a raw day" and the other replies "No....its' too...something don't remember exactly what she said...but today was not going to be an all raw day",......as I am walking around I am getting used to the idea of this new space being my space...where I live...and think. "a bicycle would be good to have", and then at some point I am in this new space, and I notice the colors...the orange and saffron and think that even if my mother didn't ask me about this change, that at least she painted it in colors that she thought I would like (and I did like)...and I am back in the space and a large group of people stop by...dressed kind of in an India Indian fashion even though they are not Indian...more ashram types...and one of the women...older definitely in her 60's wants some tea and she asks me if I have any ...xyz tea...and I can't make out what exactly she is saying...so I ask her to say it again, and again I can understand everything except the type of tea she wants...we do this about three times and she gives up....these people feel like they are taking over my space a bit, as if it is their space also, as if they were the previous owners, possibly still own it....and they have children with them who are climbing up a rope lattice ladder type thing up onto a wooden platform which is next to my space..and I worry that they might fall....but they seem capable and there is a young man who is watching over them..helping them..so it's okay....and then I am trying to find something to wear, in a closet of clothes that are familiar yet not...and my17 yr old son comes in the dream and he is looking in this large mirror in the room complaining that it makes him look fat, and I look at myself in the mirror and I think the same thing....
this is all so very telling about so many things...things which I will go into later but I have to go...just wanted to get this down...will be back later...a very cool dream...
Monday, August 22, 2011
Sunday, August 21, 2011
AAAH ROMAINE JUICE DY6WK1BLK1
Woke up around 8am....and was 1.5 pounds down from yesterday. hmmm...good. Washed my face, got dressed, let the cat out, and sat out in the morning sun for 20 minutes. Then came in and started making juice. First I had to clean my juicer as I didn't clean or use it after yesterday morning. I did it the fast and easy way by pouring a half gallon of warm water through it while running it, and then ran a carrot through to get out any remaining stale bits. And ready to go. I started by juicing the usual bunch of parsley, dandelion greens and kale, I plan on making alot of juice this morning to see me through the entire day. Yesterday I didn't have time to do that, (and there was the stinky juice debacle) and when I got back to the house in the mid-afternoon, I did the fun thing, the easy thing, and made the cantelope dream. Not exactly juice, but it was raw and it was liquid. But it was also sweet enough for my candida to raise up like the devil, smiling, and thanking me for the sugar, while my leg lesion itched and the fissures on my feet widened. I even got one in the thick part of my sole near my toes. That is mean. I don't understand this except I do know what makes it happen.....and this latest torture started with the nasty juice to which I added lots of carrots and apples to try and tame it. No such luck with that, and all those sugars....sigh. But it could be worse....time to go buy more spackle.
After the parsley, dandelion and kale, I juiced 2 cucumbers, and dumped it all into a giant glass measuring cup (thank you pampered chef) and made some romaine juice which I am drinking by itself...I love straight romaine juice. I have 3 large heads of romaine and I just may juice them all as I want some in the main juice but I also want to just drink some. They need to do celebrity ads with romaine juice...it makes me think of milk (only way better) and it is much better for you. Romaine juice.....it does a body good!
You have to have organic, really good organic romaine for it to really taste like milk...and I know that sounds like huh? no way, but when it sits in mouth on my tongue....it feels/tastes to me much like milk...only better. '
I am drinking it out of a champagne glass.....it is as good as champagne, as good as gold. I love glasses and dishes...especially smaller versions or unusual versions....I saw these great French juice glasses...that were small, smaller and smallest. I am craving them....I want to buy them though we have no room in our cupboard for them....time to make some room! And I saw these cool espresso cups with saucers that I love ...especially that they come with saucers. And I like japanese ceramic bowls.....the traditional not the commercial....have a fair number....but with a houseful of boys to men.....sigh. Actually they don't break all that much stuff, but with my special dishes....any is too much. But dang if I didn't break one of my favorite japanese bowls the other day. ooh la la la.....hah!
So, decided to add some chiogga beet to my green drink.....very pretty beet...reminds me of a radish...just like turnips...they ain't anything but white radishes. Don't really care for radishes, though they are good for you. Good vermifuges.......some time I will tell you my daikon radish story.
So...chiogga beets....where did they come from, what are they? They are an Italian heirloom beet.....
The chioggia beet came from the Italian coastal town of Chioggia, near Venice. It's been around since the early 19th-century. It tastes just like regular purple beets, maybe a little sweeter. The skin is a hot pink/fuchsia color, and when sliced open, the inside has beautiful pink and white stripes. Like any other beet, it can be prepared the same way; steamed, sauteed, roasted, and pickled. The greens are also edible. Sadly, the beautiful stripes fade when the beet is cooked.
After the parsley, dandelion and kale, I juiced 2 cucumbers, and dumped it all into a giant glass measuring cup (thank you pampered chef) and made some romaine juice which I am drinking by itself...I love straight romaine juice. I have 3 large heads of romaine and I just may juice them all as I want some in the main juice but I also want to just drink some. They need to do celebrity ads with romaine juice...it makes me think of milk (only way better) and it is much better for you. Romaine juice.....it does a body good!
You have to have organic, really good organic romaine for it to really taste like milk...and I know that sounds like huh? no way, but when it sits in mouth on my tongue....it feels/tastes to me much like milk...only better. '
I am drinking it out of a champagne glass.....it is as good as champagne, as good as gold. I love glasses and dishes...especially smaller versions or unusual versions....I saw these great French juice glasses...that were small, smaller and smallest. I am craving them....I want to buy them though we have no room in our cupboard for them....time to make some room! And I saw these cool espresso cups with saucers that I love ...especially that they come with saucers. And I like japanese ceramic bowls.....the traditional not the commercial....have a fair number....but with a houseful of boys to men.....sigh. Actually they don't break all that much stuff, but with my special dishes....any is too much. But dang if I didn't break one of my favorite japanese bowls the other day. ooh la la la.....hah!
So, decided to add some chiogga beet to my green drink.....very pretty beet...reminds me of a radish...just like turnips...they ain't anything but white radishes. Don't really care for radishes, though they are good for you. Good vermifuges.......some time I will tell you my daikon radish story.
So...chiogga beets....where did they come from, what are they? They are an Italian heirloom beet.....
The chioggia beet came from the Italian coastal town of Chioggia, near Venice. It's been around since the early 19th-century. It tastes just like regular purple beets, maybe a little sweeter. The skin is a hot pink/fuchsia color, and when sliced open, the inside has beautiful pink and white stripes. Like any other beet, it can be prepared the same way; steamed, sauteed, roasted, and pickled. The greens are also edible. Sadly, the beautiful stripes fade when the beet is cooked.
Saturday, August 20, 2011
SATURDAY DY5WK1BLK1 YEAH!
Okay! Today is a totally awesome wonderful day! It feels like an Indian summer day out there.....warm but the breeze is nice and you can just sense fall peeking around the corner.... I need to get back outside. So, I am doing juice today and doing it well. But that nasty sprout juice just keeps on biting. I finally had to put it down. Down the drain that is. I made an awesome green juice today, 2 beautiful quarts, it is 1 full bunch of parsley, a full bunch of dandelion greens, a full bunch of dino kale, 6 skinny carrots to push the greens through (my juicer tends to get a bit clogged up if I do lots of leafy greens) 1 cucumber, 1 head of romaine lettuce and 4 large outer stalks of celery. It is good!! And I thought it's goodness could tame the badness of the sprout juice, but that sprout juice was just incorrigible....so I put dumped it down the drain, unfortunately I mixed an entire quart of my lovely green juice with it first....and lost all of that as well.
But I went to the Farmers Market and the greengrocers and got some more lovely things....lovely ripe peaches, fresh peaches and cream sweet corn, more kale, some lovely striped heirloom tomatoes, more parsley, more romaine and some lovely chiogga beets. Not sure what chiogga beets are other than a lovely red color (lighter than regular beets)...less purpley...should make some fine juice. I have incidentally eaten a few small things today,..a lovely yellow cherry tomato...a piece of yummy cantelope and I unthinkingly ate a small piece of carrot at a picnic. But I am good on just juice today....I can tell I will get through the day with flying colors....I had some great thoughts last night as I lay in bed falling asleep...but they are lost now...
Time to make more juice and get back outside!!
Ciao me lovelies.....love lovely yah...lovely is the word of the day.
But I went to the Farmers Market and the greengrocers and got some more lovely things....lovely ripe peaches, fresh peaches and cream sweet corn, more kale, some lovely striped heirloom tomatoes, more parsley, more romaine and some lovely chiogga beets. Not sure what chiogga beets are other than a lovely red color (lighter than regular beets)...less purpley...should make some fine juice. I have incidentally eaten a few small things today,..a lovely yellow cherry tomato...a piece of yummy cantelope and I unthinkingly ate a small piece of carrot at a picnic. But I am good on just juice today....I can tell I will get through the day with flying colors....I had some great thoughts last night as I lay in bed falling asleep...but they are lost now...
Time to make more juice and get back outside!!
Ciao me lovelies.....love lovely yah...lovely is the word of the day.
Friday, August 19, 2011
DAY 4 BLK 1 OF 7 WEEK 1 OF 6 ~ JUICE VACATION
Hopefully I can drink all of this juice. It's quite a bit. 3 quarts...and it's ok. Not great. But it's what's for juice today!
So that is how I started this day....but first, I got up, said good morning to everyone, pooped and went back to bed. Before I went to the bathroom, I was lying in bed and my left shoulder was aching in the liver spot. oh. My liver still hasn't forgiven me for my birthday transgression (it was rather much) and it still hasn't completely recovered from the cedar oil poisoning of a year ago. That was quite major. Seriously major. So I have to be nice nice nice to it. Good to my liver. Good to myself. After I went to the bathroom that pain went away. good. And then I took off all of my clothes and weighed myself which is my morning routine. I am fortunate in that I usually poop shortly after waking. I weighed....oh this is big..I never reveal this...but I don't care as much anymore...hmm..anyway, I weighed 187. Down a pound and a half from yesterday. I am 5'11" so I carry this weight quite well, except for looking like I am 3-4 months along. So I was pleased with that, especially since I thought I had eaten a fair bit yesterday, late in the day, but I was hungry and ate good things. But here is the strange part. After sipping on all of these juices, just sipping, taking small tastes of each, I have pooped 2 more times...so I went upstairs and weighed myself again and I now weigh a half a pound more than earlier! This is bizarre as you would think the matter that left would more than outweigh the little liquid that has gone in...but I swear sometimes weight comes and even goes, like magic. As in losing 3 pounds overnight...which can happen. ie weight before bed and weight upon rising....wierd...but whatever. So now I am going to see if the apples have made the juice decently palatable, and then clean out the fridge, and then go out. I need to get more yummy, luscious produce so I can make more yummy luscious juice!Between my candida heel fissures and my liver in need of healing, I have more than enough motivation to juice. Enjoy your day!
Just finished cleaning up the kitchen, pooped again...looks like last nights dinner...tomato skins in it. yeh I know...tmi.... Put some almonds in water to soak for almond milk later, and making up my shopping list. Hope I can find a nut milk bag without going online. It is a nice cloudy day....cool...so different than yesterday which was hot and sunny and nearly 100 degrees!
Now out and about for some adventure!
The day was good but I was tired today. It wasn't until later this evening when I made some pesto with lots of garlic and had it on some sprouted grain toast, that I felt better. And yes I know it bothered me yesterday, but I only had 1 slice....not 6. And, Yes, I didn't do juice all day. I did it til around 4 or 5pm then I caved. I bought this really yummy boutique granola when I was out, had that. Also had a few corn chips...and a few soaked skinned almonds. I did not drink all of my juice....only drank 1 quart of it. I did have also the juice of a large fresh young coconut when I was out.....that was good...but I think I need to do only green juice...without carrots or apples. My body doesn't seem to deal well with too much sugar right now....not a good sign, but also a sign that having straight green juices would be good. So tomorrow, I start again, with green juices. I bought 2 large heads of romaine lettuce, a thing of celery, 2 bunches of parsley, a large bunch of dino kale, a small red cabbage...I also bought 5 lbs of carrots and 2 bags of small, very nice looking apples, one granny smiths and one pink lady....will make juice for my boys with those. I was thinking that perhaps what happened was the usual self sabotage....but don't really think so. I think it was the carrots and apples that I had to add to my juice to counteract the biting radish sprouts. I don't like radishes, watercress, anything that 'bites'....yet I do love hot spicy foods...jalapenos, etc. It's a different kind of bite. I found some red clover seeds for sprouting and bought a hemp bag that is going to be my nut milk bag.....so not entirely successful today, not what I aimed for, but overall a good day.
Thursday, August 18, 2011
DAY 3~ WEEK ONE OF SEVEN ~ BLOCK ONE OF SIX~(42 WEEKS)
Another very good day. It is strange...yesterdays post says it was posted on Thursday, which is today, and I know I was not up that late....wierd. Today I had my green smoothie....made with 2 ripe peaches, an orange, 2 med bananas, 10 small strawberries, 4 handfuls of mixed greens and 2 tbsp of nutrient dense powder. which is made with almonds, sunflower seeds, ground flax, hemp seeds, spirulina, psyllium powder nutritional yeast and cinnamon. Also had some almonds, some Garden of Life raw greens powder, 1 tsp of maca, a small salad with a few slices of hard boiled egg and a little bit of cheese...I was hungry today...for something not sweet, which my smoothie seemed to be...took me all day to finish it. Then I went to the gym, came home, had 3 toasted pieces of sprouted grain toast with mayo, avocado (1 avo total) and Mrs Dashes Chipotle seasoning yum, 1 orange tomato (med smallish), then still feeling hungry or something I had 2 more pieces of sprouted grain toast with raw almond butter and banana slices. hmmm..not sure if I needed all that...but did do alot today.
It was good at the gym. my work out was fueled by maca and chocolate and the raw greens powder...and music...today I was listening to George Harrison's Concert for Bangladesh...great songs on there....and later, when I was in the steam room I struck up a conversation with a young woman, who had a bit of a cough....and then she told me she also had had bv (bacterial vaginosis) something I know something about, so I was telling her all these alternative, natural ways to deal with it, told her it was a sign of an imbalance and to avoid alcohol and sweets for a while til things were back in balance, take alot of probiotics, eat plain yogurt. etc......when she'd had enough of the steam room she left saying "thank you goddess" to me as she left. sweet....so sweet. love it that she said that. I also exchanged a nice smile and namaste hand greeting with this older Nepali man who comes to the gym with his son. I just find him to have nice energy.....but perhaps he is a bit simple too...not really sure, but his son noticed that he likes me (in a friendly way I would hope) and seems to try and keep him away from me. I have never overtly tried to be friendly with him...but have smiled at him and he was in the steam room once when I was in there....anyways...it was nice to exchange that greeting...I don't think he speaks any English.
I am trying to be very circumspect, yet friendly...don't want the old man to get any ideas (which I don't think he should but not sure why the son thinks his interest in me is bad...I only say this because one day he did choose to use a treadmill right next to the one I was on.....and while I didn't really interact with him, I was aware he was there and was a bit amused by him....anyhoo it was after this that I noticed his son seemed to keep him far away from where I am in the gym...I am not trying to make this into something it is not.....just find it curious. I like to be friendly to people, like people from other countries....but want to be respectful also. It is no big deal....just one of those curious things that keep your brain tied up a bit....but I don't necessarily need to understand or know what's up with it....just let it be. as. it. is.
So...tomorrow starts 4 days of juice...and 4 days of good times...I can tell I am not all that resolved to do this...so don't know if I will keep to it...but if I just remember how wonderful my last bit of juice fasting was...I will be inspired to do it properly...not mess it up.
My first juice of the day tomorrow is going to be a hodge podge...not sure what I have around, but do have greens, carrots, apples, parsley if it's not gone bad, cucumbers ,broccoli, celery....should be okay.
Then later I will go out and get lots of greens, romaine lettuces, kale, more parsley, dandelion greens, I want to do some straight green juices. Maybe all straight green juices. I am also going to try juicing my sprouts.
So onwards and upwards..so looking forward to enjoying the next 4 days...and now it's time for bed.
ciao bellas!
Back again......couldn't sleep...lots of phlegm...drainage, pain in elbow joint (typical of my candida crap) and I have painful fissures in my heels.....shit. I think it's the bread. It didn't used to do this to me....but I do think that must be it. More reason to go 100%. These dang heel fissures are like cuts....deep cuts...and they hurt and are unsightly....I cover them up with coverstick...even put it into them like spackle...it seems to help them heal a bit.....but damn I wish they would just fricking leave and never ever come back! Sick of them. Those and the circular lesion just above my right ankle on the outside of my leg. Red and itchy.....feh! I wanted motivation to keep me juicing....there it is. Also found out getting another $500 put into my HSA account....that will help buy some produce. Best medicine in the world.
It was good at the gym. my work out was fueled by maca and chocolate and the raw greens powder...and music...today I was listening to George Harrison's Concert for Bangladesh...great songs on there....and later, when I was in the steam room I struck up a conversation with a young woman, who had a bit of a cough....and then she told me she also had had bv (bacterial vaginosis) something I know something about, so I was telling her all these alternative, natural ways to deal with it, told her it was a sign of an imbalance and to avoid alcohol and sweets for a while til things were back in balance, take alot of probiotics, eat plain yogurt. etc......when she'd had enough of the steam room she left saying "thank you goddess" to me as she left. sweet....so sweet. love it that she said that. I also exchanged a nice smile and namaste hand greeting with this older Nepali man who comes to the gym with his son. I just find him to have nice energy.....but perhaps he is a bit simple too...not really sure, but his son noticed that he likes me (in a friendly way I would hope) and seems to try and keep him away from me. I have never overtly tried to be friendly with him...but have smiled at him and he was in the steam room once when I was in there....anyways...it was nice to exchange that greeting...I don't think he speaks any English.
I am trying to be very circumspect, yet friendly...don't want the old man to get any ideas (which I don't think he should but not sure why the son thinks his interest in me is bad...I only say this because one day he did choose to use a treadmill right next to the one I was on.....and while I didn't really interact with him, I was aware he was there and was a bit amused by him....anyhoo it was after this that I noticed his son seemed to keep him far away from where I am in the gym...I am not trying to make this into something it is not.....just find it curious. I like to be friendly to people, like people from other countries....but want to be respectful also. It is no big deal....just one of those curious things that keep your brain tied up a bit....but I don't necessarily need to understand or know what's up with it....just let it be. as. it. is.
So...tomorrow starts 4 days of juice...and 4 days of good times...I can tell I am not all that resolved to do this...so don't know if I will keep to it...but if I just remember how wonderful my last bit of juice fasting was...I will be inspired to do it properly...not mess it up.
My first juice of the day tomorrow is going to be a hodge podge...not sure what I have around, but do have greens, carrots, apples, parsley if it's not gone bad, cucumbers ,broccoli, celery....should be okay.
Then later I will go out and get lots of greens, romaine lettuces, kale, more parsley, dandelion greens, I want to do some straight green juices. Maybe all straight green juices. I am also going to try juicing my sprouts.
So onwards and upwards..so looking forward to enjoying the next 4 days...and now it's time for bed.
ciao bellas!
Back again......couldn't sleep...lots of phlegm...drainage, pain in elbow joint (typical of my candida crap) and I have painful fissures in my heels.....shit. I think it's the bread. It didn't used to do this to me....but I do think that must be it. More reason to go 100%. These dang heel fissures are like cuts....deep cuts...and they hurt and are unsightly....I cover them up with coverstick...even put it into them like spackle...it seems to help them heal a bit.....but damn I wish they would just fricking leave and never ever come back! Sick of them. Those and the circular lesion just above my right ankle on the outside of my leg. Red and itchy.....feh! I wanted motivation to keep me juicing....there it is. Also found out getting another $500 put into my HSA account....that will help buy some produce. Best medicine in the world.
DAY 2~ WEEK ONE OF SEVEN ~ BLOCK ONE OF SIX~ (42 WEEKS)
I am very excited about my life right now........which is how I always am when I am at the beginning of anything...which is how we all are....the thing is, to keep it going when it gets old. I am not so very good at that, Gemini that I am....however, I have a plan on how to deal with that as well...at that is....keep the beginners mind...and also keep things new....exciting....by doing new things, trying new things...learning new things.....and keeping my dream, my goal, my vision of my life in front of me, in the front of my mind. I've had 2 good days...still not 100% raw, but very good days overall.....yesterday I had only 3 small squares of the organic dark chocolate, my awesome green smoothie with the NuDe (nutrient dense) powder added, some grapes, some crackers (only a few...Back to Nature), almonds, then I went home and had one piece of toasted sprouted grain bread with half of a very yummy avocado on it, with mayo and some Mrs. Dashes Chipotle seasoning sprinkled on top. We went out to the Farmers Market and I had one yummy vegan spicy tamale with spicy vegan green chile sauce....very good...but I think it made me tired a bit...corn. hmmm
Then later on at home having a late dinner with the family, of salmon and fresh awesome corn on the cob I had just a nibble of the salmon and 1 1/2 ears of corn with butter and salt. yum.
Just before bed I ate 2 heel (end) pieces of the sprouted grain bread toasted with some coconut butter (the kind that uses all of the coconut), stevia powder and cinnamon on them. Yum Yum.
Then I brushed my teeth and went to bed......have lost a bit of weight...don't have a ton to lose....10 pounds would be good, 20 would be really good...and 30 is maybe more than I need to lose, maybe not. While I am into the weight loss....don't like this bit of flab around my middle, I am more into the energy and the natural high of eating raw....that is the reallllly good part.
I got Sarma Melgailis's book, Living Raw Food, at the library and read a bit of it last night. I really like her take on it all, and love it that she is not letting herself be bound by labels....she will eat meat if she wants...but she prefers to eat mainly a raw vegan diet. But she allows herself options...and she is into the quality of the food.....and how good it is for you...so she has a good little article about soy, refers to canola oil as an industrial oil, which it is...not good for consumption, and gives us the dirt on the new 'pasteurization' of almonds...they use this chemical......which is a carcinogen....shit. I don't think I can afford to buy the imported truly raw almonds, and while I am closer to CA than many people, I am not close enough to be able to try and do some back of the shed deals with almond growers. However, I do know some people in CA who may be able to hook me up...but dang. What to do.....some things you just can't worry about??? More on this in the future...need to do some research.
Also got my New Mediterranean Diet Cookbook...looks very good, but I kept falling asleep while trying to read it.......will have time over the weekend...taking Friday and Monday off...and my hubby will be out of town...so my time will be mostly all mine!!! love that. And that is when I will do the 4 day juice fast. Not because he is gone, but because I will have the time!
ciao bellas!
Also, Joe Cross of the movie "Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead" which is so awesome by the way and Netflix has it as an instant download...so watch it! He has a website....um... http://www.jointhereboot.com/ Join The Reboot and you can sign up and be in community with others who are doing juice fasts, and get advice, support, etc. I signed up...I like connecting with others....esp others who are into the whole raw and juicing thing...and I love giving advice.....and alot of these people are new to the whole juice and raw foods thing and appreciate what I share..other places people already know alot...so I am just one of many......just another cog in the wheel....I like helping people learn how to be truly healthy....and stay out of the doctors office... 3rd leading cause of death in the US? Medical treatment. Need I say more?
Then later on at home having a late dinner with the family, of salmon and fresh awesome corn on the cob I had just a nibble of the salmon and 1 1/2 ears of corn with butter and salt. yum.
Just before bed I ate 2 heel (end) pieces of the sprouted grain bread toasted with some coconut butter (the kind that uses all of the coconut), stevia powder and cinnamon on them. Yum Yum.
Then I brushed my teeth and went to bed......have lost a bit of weight...don't have a ton to lose....10 pounds would be good, 20 would be really good...and 30 is maybe more than I need to lose, maybe not. While I am into the weight loss....don't like this bit of flab around my middle, I am more into the energy and the natural high of eating raw....that is the reallllly good part.
I got Sarma Melgailis's book, Living Raw Food, at the library and read a bit of it last night. I really like her take on it all, and love it that she is not letting herself be bound by labels....she will eat meat if she wants...but she prefers to eat mainly a raw vegan diet. But she allows herself options...and she is into the quality of the food.....and how good it is for you...so she has a good little article about soy, refers to canola oil as an industrial oil, which it is...not good for consumption, and gives us the dirt on the new 'pasteurization' of almonds...they use this chemical......which is a carcinogen....shit. I don't think I can afford to buy the imported truly raw almonds, and while I am closer to CA than many people, I am not close enough to be able to try and do some back of the shed deals with almond growers. However, I do know some people in CA who may be able to hook me up...but dang. What to do.....some things you just can't worry about??? More on this in the future...need to do some research.
Also got my New Mediterranean Diet Cookbook...looks very good, but I kept falling asleep while trying to read it.......will have time over the weekend...taking Friday and Monday off...and my hubby will be out of town...so my time will be mostly all mine!!! love that. And that is when I will do the 4 day juice fast. Not because he is gone, but because I will have the time!
ciao bellas!
Also, Joe Cross of the movie "Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead" which is so awesome by the way and Netflix has it as an instant download...so watch it! He has a website....um... http://www.jointhereboot.com/ Join The Reboot and you can sign up and be in community with others who are doing juice fasts, and get advice, support, etc. I signed up...I like connecting with others....esp others who are into the whole raw and juicing thing...and I love giving advice.....and alot of these people are new to the whole juice and raw foods thing and appreciate what I share..other places people already know alot...so I am just one of many......just another cog in the wheel....I like helping people learn how to be truly healthy....and stay out of the doctors office... 3rd leading cause of death in the US? Medical treatment. Need I say more?
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
I HAVE A DREAM.........I HAVE A PLAN......
I still have a dream, the same dream, and I have a plan. Another plan. I will keep at this until I get it. This new plan is 6 blocks of time, each 7 weeks long. Taking me right up to the cusp of my next birthday. I am an amazing vibrant and healthy vision of loveliness of love living my dream life. Each week I am eating as raw as I can and having 2-4 days of only juice. Today was day 1. I had a wonderful green smoothie for breakfast, oh, I lie, I had it mid-afternoon, 3:30-4pm...for breakfast.....I had 6 small squares of Black & Greens organic 70% dark chocolate. That took me up to 2pm...then I made some toast, and promptly got distracted and left it in the toaster while I ran to the post office. (Not far from where I was). Came back and had 2 pieces of sprouted grain toast with raw almond butter and slices of a yummy ripe banana. Afterwards I finished off my wonderful green smoothie, which was made with 2 ripe peaches, 1 orange, 2 ripe bananas, some frozen raspberries, 4 large handfuls of mixed greens and 2 tablespoons of NuDe...NutrientDense powder.... It was great. I also nibbled on a few almonds during the course of the day. After work I went to the gym and did a good 20 minutes on the stair stepper, followed by a good weight routine, then 30 minutes on the treadmill. Normally I do at least 45 minutes, an hour if I have time, but I only got 4 hours of sleep last night plus was a bit crunched for time. I came home, had 2 more pieces of sprouted grain toast, with a good bit of pesto slathered on each and a good bit of tiny ripe cherry tomatoes. That was dinner.
Yesterday I went to Barnes & Noble and looked at a whole armload of cookbooks, some raw, some not, then wrote down the names of the ones I like best, and came home and reserved them at my local library. I am so grateful for the wonderful library system we have here, as I found all of the books I was wanting.
They are, Living Raw Foods by Sarma Melngailis, RAWvolution by Matt Amsden, The New Mediterranean Diet Cookbook by Nancy Harmon Jenkins, Raw Family Signature dishes by the Boutenkos, Super Natural Everyday by Heidi Swanson and last week I went to a local independent bookstore, found some great books and also put holds on them.....Excuse Me Your Life is Waiting by Lynn Grabhorn, The Mirror of Yoga, Awakening the Intelligence of Body and Mind, by Richard Freeman, Inside-Out Healing, Transforming Your Life Throught the Power of Presence, by Richard Moss, and Law of Attraction Plain & Simple by Sonia Ricotti and a bunch of books, books on CD etc by Eckhardt Tolle.
All of this is really helping me to change...I am using as many things as I can....to seek change, to be change, to change my habits, to overcome my self-sabotage...which is my biggest block. I am getting there, I know what I am up against.....very consciously, ...I will do this. I will become a Raw Goddess, living a life fulfilling my dreams and potential. I checked out a program by someone else, and was very disappointed. Some of it was good, but the main thing I wanted....seemed so off to me...so money and luxury, materialistic focused. Not what I am looking for...yeah, I want a good life, abundance etc, but I don't want to have it by selling someone else's product which is kind of like chasing my tail....I don't want to have to sell anything. I can see getting paid for service.....but you will get more than your money's worth...and...the biggest thing of all...I am already living a life of abundance....I am already blessed beyond measure. I am so grateful for all of the wonderful people and circumstances of my life.....it is here now.
So...today was a good day. A success. A few things I could have done better....had my smoothie right away, not had the chocolate...had more raw food available so I don't eat the sprouted grain bread. My goal is to wean myself away from it....but it is all good....I just do want to be 100% raw...for at least 6 months. Then I will truly know how great I can feel........I can feel the magic already.... I want more of it!
Tomorrow...no green smoothie for breakfast...unless...unless I take the blender to work and make it there, as I have no bananas at home (accidentally left my wallet at home so could not get to the store for more...) I do have some bananas at work, so if I bring everything else, I can make my smoothie there. That is what I am going to do as I just have to have my green smoothie.
I can't wait to get my books from the library. If I had had my wallet today, I would have gotten Sarma's book...she is very awesome, imho.....really like what she does, her recipes...she had a very good article in her book about soy, explaining exactly why it is not good for consumption unless it is fermented, explaining the awful things done to it to make it into things like 'tvp'...textured vegetable protein....which is a frankenfood if there ever was one.....I wish she had something in there about canola oil as well...she might..I was in a bit of a hurry so didn't get to read it all...will get it tomorrow! I am excited!!!
Tomorrow is going to be another awesome, rawsome day!
Yesterday I went to Barnes & Noble and looked at a whole armload of cookbooks, some raw, some not, then wrote down the names of the ones I like best, and came home and reserved them at my local library. I am so grateful for the wonderful library system we have here, as I found all of the books I was wanting.
They are, Living Raw Foods by Sarma Melngailis, RAWvolution by Matt Amsden, The New Mediterranean Diet Cookbook by Nancy Harmon Jenkins, Raw Family Signature dishes by the Boutenkos, Super Natural Everyday by Heidi Swanson and last week I went to a local independent bookstore, found some great books and also put holds on them.....Excuse Me Your Life is Waiting by Lynn Grabhorn, The Mirror of Yoga, Awakening the Intelligence of Body and Mind, by Richard Freeman, Inside-Out Healing, Transforming Your Life Throught the Power of Presence, by Richard Moss, and Law of Attraction Plain & Simple by Sonia Ricotti and a bunch of books, books on CD etc by Eckhardt Tolle.
All of this is really helping me to change...I am using as many things as I can....to seek change, to be change, to change my habits, to overcome my self-sabotage...which is my biggest block. I am getting there, I know what I am up against.....very consciously, ...I will do this. I will become a Raw Goddess, living a life fulfilling my dreams and potential. I checked out a program by someone else, and was very disappointed. Some of it was good, but the main thing I wanted....seemed so off to me...so money and luxury, materialistic focused. Not what I am looking for...yeah, I want a good life, abundance etc, but I don't want to have it by selling someone else's product which is kind of like chasing my tail....I don't want to have to sell anything. I can see getting paid for service.....but you will get more than your money's worth...and...the biggest thing of all...I am already living a life of abundance....I am already blessed beyond measure. I am so grateful for all of the wonderful people and circumstances of my life.....it is here now.
So...today was a good day. A success. A few things I could have done better....had my smoothie right away, not had the chocolate...had more raw food available so I don't eat the sprouted grain bread. My goal is to wean myself away from it....but it is all good....I just do want to be 100% raw...for at least 6 months. Then I will truly know how great I can feel........I can feel the magic already.... I want more of it!
Tomorrow...no green smoothie for breakfast...unless...unless I take the blender to work and make it there, as I have no bananas at home (accidentally left my wallet at home so could not get to the store for more...) I do have some bananas at work, so if I bring everything else, I can make my smoothie there. That is what I am going to do as I just have to have my green smoothie.
I can't wait to get my books from the library. If I had had my wallet today, I would have gotten Sarma's book...she is very awesome, imho.....really like what she does, her recipes...she had a very good article in her book about soy, explaining exactly why it is not good for consumption unless it is fermented, explaining the awful things done to it to make it into things like 'tvp'...textured vegetable protein....which is a frankenfood if there ever was one.....I wish she had something in there about canola oil as well...she might..I was in a bit of a hurry so didn't get to read it all...will get it tomorrow! I am excited!!!
Tomorrow is going to be another awesome, rawsome day!
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