You're both doing so well (shakes pom poms).

Thank you for the vid Jen. That's a far more sensible method than the one I resorted to. As for the seaweed, I'm just rinsing and soaking it and eating it with kale and tomatoes at the moment. Devouring huge quantities of it. I can see why you would find it lacking in flavour, though. I just love the texture and my body must need the minerals. I'm also doing lots of green juices and I feel better than I ever have before, in every way.


miss g this really sums up what this is all about for me.

ggxx

Hi lovely women  

I'm loving reading your success so far and thought I'd best join in on the festivities. It seems that when I crawled back to this wonderful forum after a few days of neglecting my health with cooked food it seemed there were a few others in the same boat and y'all inspired me to jump onboard the raw canoe where all the fun is at!

So count me in gals cos I'm done with straying from my raw path of truth.

Today is Day 2 for me.
Day 1 was a relief...after being lazy for at least 2 weeks (I was unable to walk because of injured foot for the first week!) I ventured out into a wild chilly, overcast weather and trusted we would be looked after as I just needed to walk to the fruit shop (a 2km round trip). I bought everything I wanted - ripe bananas, local passionfruit, local nashis, local organic white nectarines, a red pear to try and avocados. I had a great time at the shop being passionate about produce. It rained when we were shopping but cleared for us. I was blessed with a pretty cruisy detox but my eyes were rather sore and red. I ate about 7 bananas, a nashi/passionfruit bowl, a nectarine, a GS ( actually purple!) of 2 apples, blackberries and dandelion & beet leaves, I snacked on tomatoes and a handful of freshly cracked local hazlenuts (done with a hammer! us chicks get creative with tools huh...I use a hacksaw to get into young coconuts LOL goji girl  ) and dinner a raw soup of at least 1kg of blended garden tomatoes, a garden carrot grated, garden celery chopped, a couple of fronds garden parsley chopped and some spinachbeet leaves shredded. YUM!!!!! My new fave thing.

Day 2, Today, took bubba for a walk again and basically had a day of activity and feeling alive. Lots of garden work, spent most of the day outside which bub loves. Ate grapes right off the vine, a Purple GS of bananas, blackberries and spinachbeet and beet leaves, cherry tomatoes off the plant, a big garden apple, 2 huge bananas, 2 nashis, 2 nectarines, a few little garden cucumbers, another garden soup like last night but with nettle blended into the tomatoes. The nettle plants popped up in the pot that we planted an olive tree in, on top of the placenta on Boxing Day, a few days after Jarrah was born...they are all such healthy plants, glowing in fact. I also snacked on about 10 hazlenuts as I was cracking them for others.

Well I'm feeling wonderful and looking forward to another sleep, and then a brand new day!


 

I had some major cravings last night. I won't go into what they were because I don't want to create a craving in anyone else but I can say that it was the usual carb/salt thing going on. I have to say that it was this thread and something that Harley said in his 'binging on sugar' thread that kept me going. I wasn't hungry so I just had a pinch of salt under my tongue and watched TV for awhile.

It's been so long since I watched TV. I watched a terrible show called NCIS and then went straight to sleep. Didn't even read.

I have pimples all over my neck and some on my face and am starting to have some startling bm's. Really sore muscles and a sore throat. Interesting.

Today is day.... 5? I'll have to go and check and put day 60 in my diary.

Miss G! Well done. I managed to get the meat out pretty easily using a spoon. But the ones I opened had very soft meat. Not thick.

xoxoxo

LOL @ MissG - you makin me laugh! I hope you used an angle grinder to get those almonds to a pulp! 

Today was strange...I was tired but extremely energetic at the same time but I got through it without any real dramas! I have been having cravings for less desirable (for me) raw foods but realise that like cooked foods I just want to shove these foods in...get them down to hopefully fulfill some need. Then I remind myself that food is simply fuel and the physical act of putting nutritious food into the physical body is very simple really! And what's best for my body tends to be the yummiest. I'm seeing less point in making it all so emotional...I want to eat in tune with what is the best for the world. Joy comes from natural health for me!

Today, Day 3 I downed, for breaky a fruit salad of passionfruit, nashi, apple and nectarine yummy!
A couple more apples
beetroot, red capsicum, cucumber dipped in parsely and mashed avocado...first avo for ages and I emjoyed it. The beetroot was delish too. I thought I was off most veggies but have been loving the carrot and beetroot from my mum's garden.
nashis
nectarines
for another early dinner a big salad of cos, rocket, other random lettuce leaves, mint, vietmanese mint, tomatoes, cucumber and walnuts. No dressing cos it's yum as is!
I really wanted bananas today, I'm back in love with those creamy delights.

I love this ride!

GG - I totally agree that we should waste no time on the video - chipped front tooth, safety goggles & a pair of overalls.... yes, the vision is forming.

Eeek to the tooth.  At least it was a date pip.  I lost part of a molar eating custard about 20 years ago.  It's still missing.  Dentists have always wanted to do something to the tooth, but after one said that "if I ever wanted to chew meat again, that I should really give it some attention", I realised that I didn't need to even bother.  Besides, one day I have hopes of regrowing it.

Jungle - an angle grinder? Of course! The whipper snipper was such a messy business! 

Last night's dinner was indeed gado gado sauce with a whole baby cos lettuce used for dipping.  Then 4 small squares (through the course of the evening) of lovely raw peppermint chocolate.

Day 6 has dawned and softness is again what I notice.  I have no idea on weight loss, as I usually use other indicators - my feet feeling smaller in my blundstones, my clothes fitting more comfortably or loosening etc.  All in all, I just feel "soft".

I've got a couple of work functions that I have to negotiate very soon - a leaving lunch tomorrow, and then a lunch next week.  I might need to employ a couple of different strategies, based on the audience.  One I think I shall just decline (lots of others attending, and I won't be missed), and the other I might plead some kind of "nil by mouth based on medical advice" defence, delivered with the necessary sobriety of voice.   An active imagination never goes astray.

GG - keep us posted on how your lecture goes.  I'd love to read it, if you feel comfortable sharing it.  There's nothing like "lively students" to keep a gal on her toes. 

Wishes for a self empowered day to all.

Waterberry - I hope all is well with you, and that you weren't affected by the wild and woolly weather that whipped around Melbourne yesterday??

Of course! The more the merrier. Maybe we could start counting down the days until the challenge is completed so that anyone joining doesn't have to do the math? I think that means that today is 54days to go? It's day six right? Miss G will know.

I had for dinner last night a dip with carrots.

Two handfuls of cashews spun in the food processor until they were both dizzy and like breadcrumbs.
3/4 of a small red capsicum
1/2 clove of garlic
Celtic Sea Salt and fresh ground pepper
2 handfuls of soaked dehydrated tomatoes.

The tomatoes were originally sliced and then tossed in oregano (fresh from the garden) and sea salt.

Whiz in processor until the ingredients are at your desired consistency. I think I whizzed and then added the tomatoes last. I chopped them up a bit too as they hadn't been soaked long.

I wasn't really hungry again yesterday and had no blender as there was no power for most of the day. So no green smoothie yesterday.

I was going to treat myself to the movies while the power outage was on but there was nothing that really grabbed me and so I spent my money on young cocos instead. I drank three of them while lying in my hammock reading! I ate heaps of lady finger bananas yesterday too.

Have woken today with very strong flu symptoms. Perspiration streaming off my body, headache, runny nose, look like hell feel like blerk... but the acne has cleared up! Yee har.

Everything is perfect!

xoxoxox

Thanks Harley, Since you advised me to drink more before running, I almost instantly doubled my distance! I'm working on being able to drink more quickly upon rising. And during the night too if I waken.

Your hair looks amazing! Did you get some grass seeds caught in it while you were out riding lately? 

xoxoxox

Woohoo I can get back on the computer today! 

Yesterday I did indeed get swept up in the wild windstorms that went through Melbourne.  I was out on the roads, seeking out ingredients for my dinner... driving slowly, dodging bits of tree and bark that were falling down everywhere.  Seeing a lot of broken trees, including an entire snow-gum placed upside-down in someones front yard.

The store I was heading to was closed as a tree had fallen on its power connection, so I went to the next one - driving slowly through intersections as all traffic lights were out too.  And at this next store, I found a delightful little 'dry goods' store, selling an amazing amount of things which you measured and packaged yourself into brown paper bags, for weighing and purchase.  Dried fruits including goji berries, nuts including raw nuts, seeds, flours, grains - including raw oat groats and organic raw buckwheat.  Heaps of variety and fair prices, I'll be going back here - especially to support the low packaging philosophy.

So I got my dinner ingredients - I'd been reading recipe books and had got all inspired you see - and drove home.  Then the power went out at my place too.  So, no blender kinda got in the way of things, was considering options of  massively pounding things in the mortar & pestle.  But then parents cracked it with not being able to cook their dinner and were going to throw out a bunch of pre-chopped veggies... and well... you know how good veggies taste when someone else has chopped them for you! ... my dinner was made

I'm still drooling over the ideas of marinated portobello mushrooms with mushroom gravy and mashed brazil-nut brocolli stuff that I would have made last night, but, I'll get to it soon enough.

Tonight I'm headed out for dinner, could be a challenge.  There better be salad or something.  I like the idea of knowing where we're headed so I could phone ahead and query the place - but it never happens like that in Melbourne... dinner venue decisions are always spur of the moment.

Now... off to make that carrot cake with the pulp from my morning juice!