The Good, The Bad, and the Sleepy

Hi Everyone. I've still been plugging away at incorporating raw foods. On Sunday, I am starting a 7 day detox that I found on the Raw Diva website. I printed out the optional meal planner, and I'm about to go spend an uncomfortable amount on organic produce at Whole Foods. But I am very excited about this new step.

I pick up raw packaged products very infrequently, mostly because they're so expensive, and I'm not usually anywhere that has them.

Here are two I tried in the last month:

HuuRaw Chips - Bell Pepper Flavor from Thrivin' Edibles. These are very tasty, savory chips. I like them a lot. Just a couple of them really satisfy my "salt tooth". I'm attaching photos at the end.

Raw Revolution Organic Live Food Bar - Spirulina & Cashew. I love the raw foods community, so I am reluctant to dis anyone's product, but I really couldn't eat this. It was a crazy blackish green color from the spirulina, which is actually a plus for me. But it was so very oily to the touch that I couldn't dig it. Didn't taste good either. Sorry Raw Revolution people!

And finally, here is a sleepy cat picture.

Focusing on Positives

Today was the first day that I focused on 50% raw. I'm using Karen Knowler's transition plan for beginners. I highly recommend her ebook "How to Get Started with Raw Foods". I printed it out, put it in a 3 ring binder and went through it cover to cover this weekend in preparation. I also re-read Angela Stokes' ebooks "Revealing the Physical Changes" and "How to Go Raw for Weight Loss". Then, I also started listening to Kevin Gianni's four part lecture "7 Steps to Optimal Health". Part one is about goal setting, and it was very valuable for me.

The yummiest thing I had today, which I never tried before, was half a melon blended into a smoothie, all by itself. Delicious. I'm not going to detail all of my food, because it is Karen Knowler's copyrighted material, and a lot of work obviously went in to it.

I did have cooked dinner, as planned. It's hard for me not to say that I should have been MORE raw today, but that' ridiculous, because I was only planning for 50% for this first phase. I'm trying to learn to be easier on myself, and to focus on the positive.

Because I like to look at pictures, here is a picture of the yummy spiced fresh apple juice I made for Christmas.

Unamused Cats

We are not accustomed to our new brother. He is smelly and loud.

It's Animal Day!

Here is our newest family member Gomez!

He is an adopted three year old chihuahua mix.

Here is an action shot, he's an action dog!

Smoothie 2 of 14

This one looks really gross, but it's good. Strawberries, spinach and a spoonful of Trader Joes "Greens" powder.

Smoothie 1 of 14

Here is my green smoothie of the day. I know, I know, it's not really green in color, but it's still a "green smoothie" because it has two big handfuls of baby spinach in it. It's very purply because of the blueberries.

It is sitting next to a pumpkin that my hubby grew in the garden, awwww, cute!

Green Smoothie Challenge Part 2

The Green Smoothie Challenge is starting again! If you're not familiar you can check it out here: http://www.greensmoothiechallenge.com/site/index.php

Anand and Runi are very interesting and generous people who have putting these challenges together. They've revamped the website for this new challenge and it looks great! So for the next two weeks, I'm having my green smoothie! (I have it pretty frequently anyway, I'm definitely a fan of the green smoothie.) Today's smoothie is pretty simple but tasty. Fresh organic blueberries and spinach and water. Hello antioxidants, roam around inside my cells, and take fistfuls of toxins when you leave, ok? Thanks!

In other news, I was up 0.3 pounds at weigh-in, which is kind of stupefying to me, but I was eating terrible foods prior to this week, so maybe my body is still catching up. On the other hand, still no conclusive proof that I am *not* pregnant...