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Re: trying transitions

« Reply #30 on: Thursday 13 April, 2006 »

hmm thats fantastic,comes out at around 69kgs our weighing system,you must be so pleased,good for you?

do you feel more clarity of mind,not eating so many heavy raw foods?interested to know,how was the gs today?
mine was very simple today,bananas some water with loads of baby spinach and red lettuce,just drank a litre..mmmm..

how's the itchy rash? have you tried elimating salt? that may help the itch?just a thought..


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« Reply #31 on: Sunday 16 April, 2006 »

never thought about the salt being the issue... the rash is clearing up- seems to be taking the same amount of time as it took to form. 69kgs sounds way better than 153lbs!!! i must learn the world's system...
clarity of mind... lol. i had to chuckle as just this morning i rinsed the baby's pot then left the br with the water still running! LOL
i think i got too much sleep rolleyes

i'm not used to getting any!
my gs was awesome this morning! my hfs had the baby spin so i bought a big bag and cleaned out their supply of atualfo mangoes... you should see the fridge! oh, i love grocery day...

had tomato soup for supper last night- perfect. just what i wanted with leftovers (so, guess what lunch is today

) had a bunch of grapes for my fruit and my carrot juice. got some veggie spring rolls for my lunch yesterday... removed the rice paper and didn't use the sauce. rather expensive raw lunch ($5.99/4 or 5 rolls) but they are too good to pass up.
i'm really timing it right on for the oj! again, i have gotten it the day of juicing! fantastic!
breakdast this morning was a bb/nana/oj and flax smoothie that i shared w/the oldest and a spin/nana/mango gs (that i shared with no one! evil

okay, i let my parents have a small glass to share...) what an awesome green! my fave shade... i'm off to see what the boys are raiding from the fridge and to make their lunch, eat mine and dye easter eggs (ah, yes- the real thing!) happy easter/ostara!!!


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Re: trying transitions

« Reply #32 on: Tuesday 18 April, 2006 »

i have made it through a food/sweets-laden holiday!!! cheesy

my lunch consisted of a pear, an apple and a nana. my supper was veggie burger boats (raw veg "burger" stuffed into a peeled/seeded and halved (lengthwise) cuke. of course i finished off the mango in my gs yesterday morn'. my Ry loves gs! this morning i made my gs with oj, baby spin, nanas and frozen blueberries. all 3 of the elders had a cup or 2 and have no idea there was spin in it

usually, i am all for divulging ingredients... Ry refuses all greens (except for the crunchy romaine hearts and leaf centers) and Sam and Ian both fluctuate in their tastes regarding greens... so, this time i find myself keeping it under wraps. alas, we are almost out of nanas- 4 bunches in almost 3 days!!! yikes... my lunch today is gb "subs"- gb and tomato slices wrapped between 2 romaine leaves. i'm definitely going to have another in a few minutes...
i have ordered baby greens and boutenkyo's green for life as well as some raw carob pdr, cashew butter and a qt of agave! mmm... pretty decent uses for my b-day $$... there is a mail order place right here in maryland! i had no idea... i found out when i was looking through Rhio's website.
saturday i made some raw choc truffles that the fam really enjoyed. i'd like to make some more but i don't think i have enough dates... i think dates are fantastic! what wonderfully sweet little things

anyway, able-baker Sam wanted to help me roll them and dip them and was disappointed when i told him no. his disappointment was replaced by elation rather quickly when i let him have the bowl all to himself... very rare in our fam, to get the leftovers in the mixing bowl to yourself! i weighed myself the same day= 151lbs. i have tried to lose weight (that i really didn't have in the first place) unsuccessfully in the past and here i am, eating incredibly, exercising through housework and childrearing and shedding an average of 2lbs/week. if the world only knew. or could know.
it is a chilly, drizzly day outside. the vibrance i feel and see in my food makes it much easier to deal with. color, aura, life... gorgeous.


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Re: trying transitions

« Reply #33 on: Tuesday 18 April, 2006 »

What a beautiful birthday bounty YAHHHH!!! Did you have fun with it all?

Here's an idea for you.. a little chocolate cup I made yesterday.

1 spoon nut butter
1 spoon agave
1 spoon carob/cacao
1-2 spoons finely chopped nuts
1 spoon cacao nibs (optional)

Stir together and form into little cookies - eat!!

They were really yummy! I love making little dessert for 2 recipes!

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Re: trying transitions

« Reply #34 on: Tuesday 18 April, 2006 »

whooo hooo..68.6kgs gal!! rock on raw baby.... kiss


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Re: trying transitions

« Reply #35 on: Friday 21 April, 2006 »

i feel incredibly gross right now. i ate some cooked food. my stomach hurts... :angry:
the most ridiculous thing about it is the fact that i weighed myself yesterday and was 147.5lbs! now my nose is stuffy and i feel like i'm going to be sick (which would definitely be a good thing since i'm sure i haven't digested any of it yet...) well... that was pure stupidity. i'm ashamed. :angry:
hubby's not going to know about this as he won't let me forget it.
okay. one mistake is nothing to worry about. you pick up and move on... and that's what i shall do.
i do feel like it would be so much easier to have a support "goup" in the area! there appears to be a raw potluck going on somewhere in baltimore soon. maybe i'll sign up for that.
i haven't wanted anything elaborate or heavy lately- i don't know what came over me... honestly, i feel like such a jerk.
didn't i say i was going to move on? lol... alright! enough of the self-deprecation!
ahem ((((((bloominganew))))))
received my order the day after i placed it and finished Boutenko's green for life yesterday. i've been having gs every day of either water/spin/mango/nana or oj/spin/bb/nana. last night i tried one of the g4l recipes which was water/celery/bb/nana. i found that i need to double or even triple the nanas in her recipes presently. this morning's gs consisted of water/romaine/red grapes/orange/nanas. i'm definitely going to miss having a working vitamix for these!
this morning i also made a recipe from the baby greens book- sunflower seed cereal. Ian and Sam enjoyed it but Ry wouldn't even try it. i thought it was good and was happy that i soaked a cup of seed instead of the 1/4 it called for. there's some leftovers- i'll have that for my snack. well... that or another gs...
i didn't have my carrot juice yesterday! i have one qt left in the fridge. i need to call the hfs and place an order.
i'm off to nose around that webstore (in md! can you believe it?)
i still can't believe i did something so dumb... rolleyes


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Re: trying transitions

« Reply #36 on: Friday 21 April, 2006 »

Oh Motherwytch! Don't beat yourself up, hon! It's over now. And because it was an unpleasant experience you probably won't do it again in a hurry (I know when I ate some cooked food 2 weeks ago I was in enough agony to not contemplate it again...). And if you do, so what? You're doing great! 147.5LBs (where's Neet with her trusty converter?) is amazing! Well done!


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« Reply #37 on: Friday 21 April, 2006 »

Yep, I'm with Missy M on this one.

Motherwytch - I'll take your hand and sit in the 'why did I eat that' corner. I did the same thing today.

The beautiful boys that do the catering for work know I'm vegan, and they're so sweet - they made little veg things for me, bypassed all the greedy little 'give me give me' hands, made a bee-line for me and gave me a little risotto cake. Next thing, I'm eating my body weight in vegetarian spring rolls. rolleyes

I honestly thought I was going to be sick on the way home in the bus. Nausea. Blah. And now I am just so darned tired, I can't even make chocolate with my freshly melted cacao. Now THAT'S tired!

But, that's ok - a new dawn cometh. I love new days. You get to start over. Let's bloom anew together tomorrow!

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« Reply #38 on: Friday 21 April, 2006 »

darling motherwytch...never fear dear friend...it will pass,it is past,it's history,you pick up you move on..hey hey! you are now 67.04kgs,awesome well done to you kiss

just think how much better raw is going to taste now,after all your tummy pains,it's all good ,another learning experience...all is well,don't be hard on yourself...

the gs will make you feel so much better,so much quicker,be sure to alternate your greens each day,very important,as you can get a build up of oxalic(sp?) acid ,and it's just much healthier to alternate them anyway...

keep us posted,hope you're feeling better miss giggles after your spring rolls debarcle,poor love...tomorrows fresh food shopping will have you rockin again love....


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« Reply #39 on: Saturday 22 April, 2006 »

Motherwytch, its so annoying when u eat the cooked and feel so crap. Our inner wisdom knows better, but we do it anyway! I know, ive done it the last couple of days, and i get pain! What an idiot am i! Tongue

So big hugs cos i know the feeling...


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« Reply #40 on: Sunday 23 April, 2006 »

oh, how wonderful... cheesy

support even on my darkest hour! lol
thanky all! (and good, tho sad, to know i wasn't the only tempted this past week!)
well, i have been good since then- just the one dish on the one day (and miss g- oh, can i ever understand the spring rolls!!!!)
aaannnd have been giving hubby a qt of gs daily- going to try to do so for 30 days straight (like boutenko's study) and see if there's any difference in how he feels... it seems, tho, that the better i try to eat and feed the boys, the worse he eats and feeds the boys. i just wish we had the same desire to better ourselves. i fear i would have left by now if it were possible. sadly, he'd never understand- or try to- why...
anyhoooo....
feel like weighing myself today... i'll do so later.
the boys & i were supposed to go to the farmer's market today but hub left w/my van huh

Ian was so looking forward to it... the only thing worse than letting down one of the kiddos is when someone else makes you do so. hopefully, we can make it next weekend.
i made some "save the tuna" salad yesterday and had it in nori & romaine leaves (from baby greens). served it to the boys on burger buns w/lettuce/tomato. Sam really liked it but Ian and Ry wouldn't bother. they had leftover tabouli...
i am out of carrot juice but remembered that my uncle gave me his juicer after his partner passed away and it's been in the van this whole time (!!!!!!) so i'm going to try to juice my own from now on

Will is super fussy today... haven't had a gs yet. maybe that will calm him....


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« Reply #41 on: Monday 24 April, 2006 »

hang in there MW,try not to feel overwhelmed by situations,one little step at a time...

you are doing an awesome job,of eating raw and feeding your children such wonderful food....perhaps just try to go with the flow a little more,and not see your hubby as trying to sabotage your raw food eating,it is alot for most people to get there head around,and he may be making the food and not even thinking about it too much?? perhaps...just playing devils advocate...


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« Reply #42 on: Tuesday 25 April, 2006 »

so, i weighed in at 150.5lbs... funny thing is, i immediately felt heavy after eating the cooked. i'm feeling lighter now

been craving gs! so been consuming like crazy... hubby is enjoying his daily smoothies. he requested one with kiwis last night so i made another from Green for Life. i had a half glass... been w/o carrot juice forever! okee, not "forever" but miss it badly... i really need to clean the juicer and get on with it! of course, 1st, i need to clean the kitchen... ah, always something! went to the hfs yesterday and came home with a bounty! plus FREE STUFF! ooooo... my favorite! so nice to have friends in the hfs cheesy

got 2 coconuts for free (& there's still 1 in the fridge from last time!) all my nanas for less (super ripe, smoothie/pudding nanas... mmmmmm....) a mess of other stuff plus a new green for gs... meche, with an accent over the first e. a bit like baby spinach only smaller. if anyone's had this before let me know! need to get on with the laundry ((((sigh)))) that hasn't been done yet. and the kitchen- carrot juice today come H-E-L-L or high water!!!


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« Reply #43 on: Tuesday 02 May, 2006 »

well, a few days ago, hubby and i got into it (spawned again by $$ issues, of course) and after he passed out on the couch i gorged and gorged on whatever i could get my hands on and none of it was raw. this lasted 24 hours. he doesn't know anything about it and "hiding" it from him makes me feel a bit like an addict or something... the good thing is, i fogave myself the following day and remembered every bite from beginning to end and how i felt with each one and simply don't want to feel that way anymore. carrotgurl, i believe, said that we keep doing it despite how crappy it makes us feel and that we know better- true! even if we don't consciously know that it's wrong, our bodies do and they respond.
so, since i hadn't done a ritual in who-knows-how-many-moons, i "ritualized" my self-forgivness. i took the boys outside and we planted wheatberries in organic potting soil in foam mushroom trays (except Iba- he planted grape seeds in a small terra cotta pot... we had to finish off the grapes we had in the fridge so he could have "enough" lol) then, yesterday we weeded, tilled and planted our garden (our "big garden" as the boys call it) with carrots, parsley, cucumbers, and romaine. i am saving the sugarbaby seeds for warmer weather and can't decide whether to add oregano to the big garden or pot it and gift it to someone since we already have a wonderfully healthy oregano in the herb garden (along with lemon balm, catnip, sage and peppermint--- mmm, peppermint-lemonade! i wonder if that could count as a gs? lol!)
how beautiful that i should find comfort in the earth as i always have and even better that i am enjoying her with the boys.
i have been making cashew cream almost daily... usually i can wait to slice strawberries to top with it but since it is getting more and more difficult for me to wait (aka- keep myself from devouring all 2c...) i've started washing the blender in stages (LOL) so it is less likely to be in one piece when the urge hits. isn't that slightly ridiculous? heee... i think it's funny.
so, i finally decided to plant the garden because we are staying here indefinately. my parents, however, are not. come september, we will be renting this property from them for the cost of the monthly mortgage payment (+utilities). i have already started moving furniture (lol) in more liveable ways and packing away things that don't have purpose in the house and unpacking things that do. for example, i have been using my juicer daily so i'm looking for ways to empty cabinet space so the thing has a home and isn't at the immediate mercy of the kiddos and kitties. i'm thinking of asking my parents if we can get rid of their (really scary) microwave to open up more counter space... the thing is around 15+ years old. i don't even want to think about what could be leaking from it! i'm also going to pack up my mother's cookbooks (which hubby uses more than she!) to open up space in the pantry. we have already come to the agreement that any changes we make (paint, etc.) are to come from our pockets and that major changes (ie: wood floors, additions, etc) will come from our pocket and will need to be ok'd by mis padres (well, duh... it is their home and all). our pockets because we do owe them for this-that-and-t'other and we'd be more than even if we paid for improvements ourselves. my father said he would like pictures of any work we do which makes me think that they will never be back in md once they leave. as such, the yard is, in essence, our yard and we can do as we please with it (per hoa rules, 'course... which i loathe but whatcha gonna do?) i'm looking forward to putting in a sitting area in the front patch of woods (something my father and i have been pining over since we moved here!). i also want to plant indigenous species along with some blueberry bushes and such. maybe the next owners will be able to see the magic in it that i always saw waiting to be encouraged. oh, boy... if we plant bb bushes i wonder how long it would take for the boys to eat themselves silly? lol! every outdoor adventure would become a night of baths and laundry pre-spotting... lol
my best friend hasn't taken my going raw very well... she sent me a link to articles (that, thankfully, didn't work) about raw foods from her yoga mag and told me on the phone the other day how strange it was... i reminded her that i didn't just jump in and stop eating cooked but that i did my research just like i do whenever anything interests me and that i am doing very well on a raw diet, thankyouverymuch. it is difficult to know someone for a quarter of a century and argue over things- especially when you'd think they'd understand (or at least be more willing to) more than anyone. oh, well.
there is a citrus juicer in the pantry that is still in it's box (that probably has never been used- oh, and it says it juices grapes, too... oranges, lemons, limes and grapes huh

i dunno...) that i would like to start using. things at the hfs that i shop at are getting sketchy and pricier (thanks to the gas prices) so i would like for us to be as self-reliant food-wise as possible. hubby actually got upset with me for even thinking of asking them for a 25lb bag of carrots and a case of oranges. he wants to ask one of the distributors near his work what they'd be willing to price us. i told him he may as well ask about nanas as we go through them like crazy (especially in the warmer months). he's going to go by next time he gets off at a decent hour... i'm also trying to get him to try out a csa for the summer but he's hesitant. i should call around and see if we can get a sample case. granted, it may mean we'd be up to our ears in greens occasionally but think of all the lower cost gs! lol...
we have yet to hit the fm. i'm hoping we can make it saturday. i need to remember to have hubby switch out carseats.
had delicious raw sunny burgers for supper last night with a big ol' slice of tomato between a couple green leaf lettuce leaves. i think i'm going to make a full batch tonight and bake some for the fam. my father tried it, then told me to make more next time so he could have a proper sample!
i've been allowing myself nutrional yeast and homemade cashew yogurt. any thoughts on these would be appreciated if anyone has any

i'm off to buy a book... against my better judgement
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Re: trying transitions

« Reply #44 on: Tuesday 02 May, 2006 »

oh, and my lil' used juicer has all it's paperwork and i was looking at it the other day while i was enjoying my homespun cj when i noticed the date on the receipt... 1969! and it works better than the juicer i had 10yrs ago!


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