Hello lovely ladies, I've had a great day today and I hope you all have too.

My hands are soooo dry at the moment, they are cracking up, lol.

Today I've had cacao smoothie, pineapple and rockmelon blended together, brazil nuts, two nori rolls which turned out huge with half tomatoe, corn from one cob, handful of lettuce (for both as I was running out) and leftover guacamole, very nice but very filling.  I've also had some fudge and a mandarin and for dinner it will be garden salad with three flat mushrooms stuffed with pesto and warmed in the dehydrator, hope they're nice.

Today is day 35 and probably the longest I've ever been straight 100% raw, yeh.

I love flax in my smoothies, I find flax helps to level my emotions.

Take care everyone and have a lovely evening.

Hi Beautiful People,

Day 39 today, I agree with you on the word "challenge" BUT I think it is also a great way to give yourself a good push and keep motivated. In the end if you can do this for 60 days why not for 6 months or 6 years right?
I also really like this meeting place, you know just having a little corner of the forum all to ourselves full of support, warmth and understanding.

Ok so what has been happening? MMmm I have been overeating on the gourmet stufff, too many dehydrated crackers with avo so yum but now I have a sore tum.

My husband has left this morning to go to a wedding on Hamilton Island (oooh poor darling...) so I have taken the opportunity to do a tiny juice feast. He is gone for only 5 days so that is what I will be aming for. I am hoping my skin will clear up a little cause I feel I don't look very healthy at the moment (better than before the 60 day challnge but still)

Good to see you are all still on board.

Okay, feeling like I have to post again today, as it truly is being a 'challenging' one.

The last hour has been interesting.  Had been getting hungry for lunch, but putting off making or eating anything.  Breakfast was quite a few hours ago: 3 bananas.

My internal dialogue has been trying to justify eating the same things I ate yesterday.  If they were okay yesterday, why not now?... that kind of logic.  (Yesterdays fall-off-the-wagon was raisin toast, lots of chocolate, junk food, and 3 dim sims if you wanted exacts). 

I've also been procrastinating actually eating lunch, hoping that if I just get hungry enough, I will eat the 'easy to make' toast because it's the fastest thing to grab.  Actually a banana or a pear is the fastest easiest thing to grab, so I've even been lying to myself here.  Yet my brain wants to tell me to stay off the fruits so much, because the tooth I had a filling in earlier this year is getting more sensitive.

Anyhow.  So I figure out that procrastination is just my rebellious inner two-year-old going WAAAHH... I don't wanna do what you tell me to!

I remember that if I eat cruddy foods, I will just feel down about myself, feel fat, and spiral down into depressive self depreciating thoughts.  And I remember if I eat a high raw diet I feel optimistic, light hearted, happy, guiltless, proud of myself, and as if I'm on a path to somewhere good.

I got out my juicer - something that my whiny-two-year-old-self says is too difficult to clean, takes too long to cut everything up in to pieces.  Juiced a whole cantaloupe, some celery, and a whole cucumber (But I don't LIKE cucumber juice!! WAH!! ...says the two year old). 

Made myself 1L of juice.  Sipping away happily. 
Apparently I DO like cucumber celery and cantaloupe juice, can't taste the cucumber much

So yes.  This is the challenging part of the challenge hey... when your inner voice gets into a battle with you.  And for those of you who don't HAVE quarrelsome inner voices - please don't think I am insane? This IS normal, right?  hehehe.

Now.  Today I'm also going to start jogging again, after I finish this juice in fact - I've been putting that off too long with "I have to study" and "I still have a sniffle" excuses.

And darn it, I'm going to keep this up!  Stop listening to the 'excuse' voice, whilst telling it it's very creative and humorous at times, it's not best for me.

I am not 100% raw right now.

Am taking it slowly....

Water
watermelon for breakfast
Fruit smoothie and fruit salad for lunch
date and coconut roll thingys
seaweed with pesto (surprisingly yummy)
AND
dolmades....

am feeling a bit weird in the stomache....been craving cheese on bread....but know it will be yuck...wish my family wouldnt eat crap....but I WILL SURVIVE! 

Hi everybody,

Well I made it to 40 days raw on Saturday. I am now sitting in the liferaft though cause I have de-railed...oh oh oh!!

I won't go into the details but basically no fruit or vegetable has crossed my lips over the last few days. I feel really depressed cause I miss my hubby soo much and to fill the void well....I eat junk I guess.
I feel so stupid that I cannot even be without him for 5 days  but anyway he is coming back tomorrow night Hopefully you can help me back on board the loveboat on Wednesday. In the meantime I am going to have a GS when I come home and 1 tomorrow morning.

Luuuuurve is great!! Only 20 hours till he is home...but I am not counting 

Hugs eve, its hard to be without our other halves, for all of us.

Going to have to bow out of 100% for the time being. My colds nearly better and im starting to get energy back again, even did some cleaning today. But, having some digestion issues, reacted very badly to a salad i made with fresh tumeric (wont be making that one again), and am avoiding certain vegetable because they dont digest as well.

I feel like im missing out on some vital nutrition from those vegetables i cant have raw, so ive decided to have the odd side of steamed veg, or as part of a salad, to increase the amount of nutrients i get every day. Ill only have them with raw food, so will still be predominately raw.

Ive also decided to include the odd bit of steamed fish back in, have been having smoked fish occasionally but its really expensive so i only do it as a treat. I feel like i need to do this to make further progress with my health, its all about being well not about being 100%. I love raw foods, but i think for me at the moment to achieve optimal health 90% is better, my digestion just isnt ready for 100%.

Ill keep popping in the thread but, its just too welcoming here to leave.