feeling better!!

i feel better these days. i am still eating mostly fruit/veg/salad during the day but having a little of whatever dinner i make for the family. I have a lot of weight to lose so I need to get my stamina up and start excercising. I huff and puff if I walk around the block with the dog

Anyway, I am also going to look at the mediteranean diet since that is my background.

not feeling too good, making changes

i was getting sicker the last couple of days. lack of energy, confusion, headache. 2 nights ago i gave up and exhaustedly went to sleep. I read awhile but it was one of those headaches that hurts too much too read but hurts too much too sleep. I layed there trying to falling asleep and felt shaky all over and my heart felt like it was beating hard. i was a mess and i felt really awful. i felt a little better after finally sleeping but the headache, exhaustion and swimmy head continued all day. My husband came home from work and said I looked sick and pale. I decided to eat a cooked dinner with the family, it was a bean and cheese quesadilla. I felt better last night and this morning. I read the signs could have been anemia and I think I was anemica as a kid, gonna call my mom and see if she knows.

I am going to continue with my green smoothies and having lots of fruit and salads during the day. I will probably add in some chicken and fish and some other things. I will have to stop naming my diets. Obviously this won’t be “eating raw” I have learned in the past week (eating 100% Raw) that I don’t WANT to sprout mung beans and dehydrate my food. I think there is a healthy balance that I can achieve eating natural whole foods without going to an extreme.

I don’t know exactly what is next but I feel better today than I have in the last few days eating raw.

6 Days in

I can’t believe I have been eating a raw  diet for 6 days. Effortlessly! The scale has fluctuated a little but I am going to try to pay less attention that, maybe take a monthly Weigh In and try to ignore the little ups and downs that usually drive me crazy.

Went to a fireworks show with the family last night and packed some healthy snacks.

Yesterday’s Food
lots of fruit: grapes, mango, cherries, raspberries
Green smoothie (kale, raspberry, banana – not a recommended combo!!)
Salad: romaine, avocado, yellow onion w/ balsamic & olive oil
almonds

Ode to a Green Smoothie

Oh Green Smoothie, how do I love thee?
Let me count the ways…

I love the idea that I just sucked up 2 bananas, 3 strawberries and a few handfuls of Kale and Spinach through a straw lol

I may actually write an Ode to a Green Smoothie. Hmm.

So far so good- Day 3 Raw

Having fun eating raw. I don’t think I  going to do official weigh-ins but after 3 days I have lost 6 lbs. I feel good. I had a Bean Recipe Fail because I thought i could just soak some dryed beans and make a nice salad but it turns out some beans are toxic and can’t be eaten raw and also the beans are still very hard after soaking. Research is key lol  I am thinking about adding canned beans to my diet. They are not raw because they have been heated before canning but I would just rinse and use them without further cooking. I will probably settle somewhere around a 90-95% raw diet. we’ll see. i read anywhere over 75% is good. So far i’ve been 100% but i don’t want to be too strict or obsessive.

ok, on to the menu:

Breakfast
2 bananas

Lunch
Salad: Romaine lettuce with 1/2 avocado & 1 small yellow onion, olive oil, balsamic vinegar and a bit of sea salt.  This salad was unbelievable!!

Dinner
Green Smoothie (spinach, banana, 6 strawberries, water)

Snacks
3 red plums
green grapes
watermelon

Goals for tomorrow: start using the Brita filter (i’m too lazy to fill it!!) Buy ice for smoothies, try Tai Chi video from library before it’s due

Day 2 Raw

So, I think I’ve eaten 100% raw for 2 days. I don’t know that I will stay 100% but the more I look around the more ideas I get. Also…my local supermarket has a full like of Lara Bars so I sampled the Apple Pie flavor and it was soooo good! Loved that there were practically no ingredients lol I’m used to everything in a package having a laundry list of weird ingredients!!

Today I made my first Green Smoothie. I somewhat feared the thing but it was soooo good!! If that was my first attempt then it can only get better! If you have a great smoothie recipe that can be made in a blender (i have no juicer or food processor) please share!!!

So, it was about 2 cups of spinach, 5 or 6 small local strawberries, 2 bananas. It was supposed to be 1 but i freaked out last minute because it looked thin and I added another banana. I look forward to making another one tomorrow – it was cool, yummy, inexpensive and filling!

To backtrack… here’s what I ate:

Breakfast
cantaloupe

Lunch
Green Smoothie

Dinner
1/2 mango
about 3/4 c crushed walnuts

Snacks throughout the day
cherries
green grapes
1/2 avocado
Lara Bar
Blackberries

Goal for tomorrow: Learn more about combining foods. Eat more protein. I am soaking 3 kinds of beans to make a bean/cucumber salad that I love. Also, i want to start eating more veggies.

1st day raw

So i woke up with the intention of totally changing my way of eating. I weighed in at 182 lbs which is almost 10lbs more than i was wheni started this blog back in december. My eating has spiraled out of controlled once again, with a pattern of trying to low carb it and only making it through about 2 weeks. Years ago I had luck eating that way long term  but for the past 4 years it has been a total daily struggle so… something completely different.

I love fruits and can eat lots of fruit all day but haven’t let myself because of the sugar and the fact that I am so sugar addicted and lose control. Well, I don’t know anyone that got fat eating fruit!! So, I am reading about how you should eat fruit first thing in the morning on an empty stomach for proper digestion. It’s interesting. I want to learn about the right way to combine foods and how much fruig/veg/nuts/seeds i need to eat daily. i also love to eat salads, raw veg and nuts/seeds so really i think i can handle this.

I skipped breakfast so I could go to the library for Raw Food books then to produce store for some fruit/veg to eat! I felt full and happy all day yesterday, no headaches or anything, here is what i ate:

Lunch
2 bananas
2 red plums
1/4 pint blackberries
about a cup or more of cherries
1 liter water

snacks
2 more plums
green grapes
cherries

Dinner
romaine & onion salad w/olive oil & balsamic
water

snack
more of those awesome cherries
water

I had stuff on hand to make a smoothie but was so full I never managed!!

Plan for day 2: have the spinach smoothy for lunch to get some green leafies! start using fitday and drink lots of water!

Trying something totally different

I have been reading about Raw Food Diets and am going to give it a try.  I am reading some of the books from my local library and trying to put together a plan to get enough calories and protein, etc. If anyone has experience with this let me know. I will try to keep track in FItday but it does become tedious. I don’t know what % I will eat raw daily. I think I could be happy at 90%+ I don’t generally go for things that are trying to be healthy versions of junk food so I think eating whole foods in their natural state will be best for me. Less prep too. I will be cooking and feeding the rest of the family thier SAD (standard american diet) while trying to stowly replace some of thier meals with raw and/whole healthy foods. They don’t eat too poorly for SAD because I cook everything and they don’t eat take out .

how interesting…

…that the food journal goes out the window same time the eating goes down the drain. the hot fudge sundae sent me into a week long food horror show, i need to pick myself up by the old bootstraps, get back on the saddle, keep a stiff upper lip, don’t let the sun catch me cryin’, walk on the sunny side of the street and any other cliche i can come up with lol

oh, and i didn’t dare weigh-in this morning.

nom nom nom

had my hot fudge sundae, it was so good, now i am over it