thanks garfield22.

just thought i'd post my progress. on thursday i strayed and had cooked food for dinner and lunch on an outing for a friends birthday, so the 30 days is not 100 percent but i will try to be from now on especially after sergei's talk last night which was great! i really feel that is the sort of person i want to be. i feel more resolve about being 100 percent raw and i think i am just going to say no to friends and explain to them what i'm trying to do, so i am not going to make any plans that will involve food with anyone from now on. i really want to do 30 days at 100 percent and try and change my lifestyle and always be doing things outside. after learning more about greens, i think i have learnt more about what i need. sergei said how on green smoothies the body will naturally crave better food. also when he said about eating greens and feeling bloated after due to a lack of hcl to digest properly, something cliked immediately. i think that's what i've felt sometimes after salads so i am going to have green smoothies everyday and hopefully my digestion will improve and alot of other things. today at work as i often do, it came to lunch and i didn't have time to prepare anything before work. i get very wierd about buying fruit or raw food from coles at surfers. i just find the produce really bad quality and unripe. all the organic stuff is refrigerated so i need to wait before i can eat it but today i thought i have to stay raw. so i bought non organic produce for a change because i realised if it keeps me raw i should do it. i got organic macadamias, and a punnet of non organic rasberries and blueberries and a bunch bananas. what an expensive lunch it was at about 32 dollars but i don't care i think you always get what you pay for. it was so nice, i'd never really had rasberries before. my boss was amazed at how much fruit i eat. she thinks you should only have 2 pieces a day or else the sugar will convert to fat. i think i'd be pretty fat then if that was the case. (sorry it must be hard reading my posts, i have not concept of writing, i just chop and change things out of nowhere, i am now remembering something about this morning i wanted to add) i had a green smoothie this morning with lettuce, red oak lettuce and mizuna with a banana, goji berries and apple and it was quite big, two big cups full. after i had it i felt really good. like i was high or something, (i don't do drugs but i think i can imagine) my head felt great. i remember harley saying along the lines of how people do drugs because it gives an alkaline hit to the brain and if they ate raw they wouldn't need to. is this what happend to me? i don't know but it felt good. i've never had that sort of a good reaction with food before.

hi jen. just wanted to say thanks for all your work last night. it went really well and i really enjoyed sergei's talk, very entertaining and definitely a huge inspiration to stay raw. i was suprised to see you wearing glasses. very sophisticated. 

hi zak. good work on choosing raw. good luck with it. i am trying to go 100 percent raw at the moment too. maybe you can tell your friends at school you just eat what you like. you don't have to tell them you eat only raw food. that salad you at sure sounds nice, you're lucky your mum can give you nice healthy food. good luck!

i've seen here and there that there are rawbies in nz. so there is a raw movement in nz. i know this doesn't really help since i can't tell you where but you should be able to get some things. the internet is so good for looking. just google raw and nz maybe.

today was the best day ever for me. i went for a run and did kung fu. had my first green smothie. i don't have work. i found a website on raw food in japan and it's even growing over there.

they are good i just went for a run and did some kung fu fuled from my gs. they are a good combination, real organic salt and real organic sugar. i guess guilt isn't entirely useless it does tell us something but we can't dwell or else the negativity just breeds. how is the fasting going? i just noticed your chinese characters down the bottom. godess isn't it. is it japanese or chinese reading?

wow freelaraw. great pictures. looks like you had a great day. i might be heading to sydney in a couple of weeks, could you tell me the where abouts the raw restaurant you mentioned?

i have some bad news. after 5 days of one hundred percent raw i had a beer last night at the concert. i told myself it was ok. i keep tossing up how raw i should be. i don't feel that bad about it though. i think i've learned that guilt is a useless emotion (quoted from sergei boutenko). after some muesli this morning and a tofu burger last night i jumped straight back on this morning with a green smoothie (my first one ever and i liked it, it had silver beet, a whole pineapple and some goji berries and water) and i'm not craving any more cooked food and i feel good. i've heard people say how its a good thing they venture into cooked food and i sort of agree because i realised after how stupid it was and how much i didn't need it and i've been thinking alot this morning really clearly about what i want and where i am heading. after that green smoothie i think i'm going to start having them mid morning now. they seem to be so good for energy.

i agree with harley. each to their own. it's great your boyfriend can accept what you have to do. it's also great that you can follow your intuition. i'm thinking about taking some time away for me to do something similar while i'm on uni holidays thanks to you.

just out of curiousity, who is going on the 9th?

well done jen. i bet its been a great year. i hope i never go off bananas though. dates i could handle but not bananas. don't you go off a food when you have enough of it because your body is telling you to go to another food for different nutrients? i think i've heard that somewhere before.

does anyone ever get organic cherries or peaches also on the gold coast? i really want to try them i've never really had them.

i think i'm up to day four or three of my challenge. i find it's hardest at night. like last night i was working till ten and coles shut at 6 and i got hungry and had to just bear it. i get really bored at work. last night was terrible. i think i was getting very emotional or hormonal because i was just angry at all the customers not too them but in my head i just kept getting angry. i really started to feel like i need to get out of there soon, it's like it really is torture. i always think of doing other things like just being outside there and feel like i'm trapped in there. i had my first sunday off in god only knows how long. it must be like six months. i really have realised that i need more time to myself and that i take on way too much. a while back during uni i got a bit lazy and even though i wasn't eating raw i felt really good because i had time to myself to do yoga and exercise ect. (not that i can justify eating cooked food) i think though when i am mentally clearer i switch off and can relax. today i was got rid of some worry and fears i'd been having after my yoga session. things like why should i worry about straying from raw at a social event. i'll just deal with it when it comes. and how i'll stay raw in japan and all those trivial things.
oh and jen if you're reading thanks for dropping off the macadamia butter today.
4th day it is just saw my last post.

isn't it annoying how the government adds fluoride to our water. why can't they just leave it alone? it's sugar that's rotting children's teeth not a lack of flouride. do they add it in qld? i'm not sure if they do or if they were talking about it. the only thing i've heard is distilled water lacks minerals so you shouldn't drink just distilled water. read it in pavo airola's how to get well (has anyone else read this book?). he says you can add sea salt to distilled water to add minerals to it.

hey jen. no offence taken there. how do i remind you of yourself? i agree that leaving smoothies ect out is not good. fresh is best as they say. i'm on day three of 100 percent today. i'm feeling kinda tired at times and then very clear and energetic at others so i'm resting alot and doing some gentle exercise. sometimes i feel bad to sleep too much but then i realise i should just listen to my body if i want to sleep. i really want to keep going on this 30 day challenge to see the results at the end. even after 3 days if i can feel better 30 days must be so much better. i am a bit worried because a friend's birthday with a bbq and dinner is coming up and i might stray. we're doing a huge day of fun. we're pretty much acting like kids again because we'll be doing putt putt, bowling, timezone, karaoke and i forget what else. i actually think the bbq will be ok because i'm bringing lots of fruit and a raw pie but we're going to hooters (very unclassy i know) for dinner at mermaid and i have no idea what i'm going to do on the menu there after my brother told me he couldn't get anything as a vegetarian even. i'll just ask them to make a salad. surely they must have lettuce or some salad they put on their burgers. i'm not going to try and make much of a fuss and hopefully nobody will notice. because it's such a big day i'm sure at the end of it i'll be the least tired after everyone eats cooked food all day and drinks. i might make some raw mocktails too.