I just love this journal idea - what a great way to stay inspired.

 Ok, well, I've been overweight and unhealthy forever and tried a few diets and detox attempts with mediocre results. I tried to go raw earlier this year, but just kind of drifted off track in the winter. I got inspired again a few weeks ago when I browsed through my favourites folder one day. This lead to a flurry of new web searching and browsing and we've been green smoothiing up a storm. My husband, James, is on board too after reading Storm's e-books so we're both really excited about our new way of life.

At the moment we do have to give ourselves some leeway with being 100%, these are our last few months in Taiwan (after 7 long years) and this time of year there's always a ton of foreigner farewell parties and so on. So we're going to allow ourselves one cooked meal a week when we go out and try to stay 100% raw during the week. That's the plan anyway.

Today we had:

Green smoothie with mango, banana, and spinach.
Carrot spaghetti with tomatoes and nut cheese.
Some avo

Tonight might have to be the cooked night cause we got to go meet some people at a Turkish restaurant, but hopefully there'll be some healthy options.

Have a good one!

Taiwan is right near the equator where all the tropical fruits are produce! Maybe the concept doesn't exist in the Asia yet, however there is lots of fruit all year round. Pretty much all Chinese veggie can be eaten raw. Your friend might give you weird looks. lol

Soon Taiwan will have durian and mangosteen popping off the trees. Join or start a raw support group!

Stay raw; Stay true!

The rest of the week has been pretty good for me. Yesterday was meant to be just a melon day, but it turned into a melon and carrots and hummous day - not all together, I just couldn't resist when james brought out the carrots and dip. I also found a guy selling watermelon from his truck just a few blocks down from my school - he chops it up for you and everything. I want to start just drinking watermelon juice in the evenings because I get home so late and never have time to eat between 2 and 8.
 Another bonus was that james remarked of the dip last night: "This is so tasty, cooked food couldn't be this tasty." Coming from my meat and starch loving guy, this is a major breakthrough!
 I have a birthday dinner for a friend tonight and we're all going out, I'll be able to skip the dinner part, but there's going to be no avoiding the alcohol - oh well, baby steps.