70% Raw

2 apples

1 large raw salad (guac, lemon juice, tomato, cucumber)

halibut

banana desert

Turkey Jerkey (raw, dehydrated)

1 green smoothie (2 bananas, celery, cacao, agave)

Monday Rawness!

100% Baby! Didn't each much, though.

2 Apples

2 Huge "Falafel" Lettuce Wraps

Raw Chocolate Creme Pie (mmm!)

Me and my SO went to a Raw Food restaurant today! Check the pics!

Caption: The wonderful Café Soulstice! The only raw food restaurant in my town. Delicious.

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Caption: Menu

Caption: Menu

Caption: We had the "Falafel" Lettuce Wraps-- my favorite!

Caption: It was babe's first Raw Food experience. Surprisingly, he loved it!

FRIDAY

Friday

9 a.m. Fruit Bowl, Granola, 2 cups of water

1 p.m. 1 banana, bowl of watermelon, Spinach salad

7 p.m. 2 Green Smoothie (Pineapple, Spinach, Banana)

    Watermelon Juice (3 cups)

    Small Salad (Beans, Spinach, Mushrooms, Oil,Vinegar)

Friday Post

Saturday:

Egg White Omelet with veggies (mushrooms, bellpeppers, jalepeños, onions, scallions, olives) and a hint (and I do mean a hint) of cheese.

Bowl of oranges, cantaloupe and bananas bathed in 100% pure OJ and sprinkled lightly with 100% natural granola

Mexican. Need I say more? There was some emotional eating going on at this point...

Boba. Made of Coconut Milk, so not so bad, right?

Pretty much, I had a terrible RAW day. Lots of relationship, school, and life stress. My aim is balance. My goal is balance. Didn't run today either. Dag. I was on a roll.

Tomorrow:

Healthy "cereal", like I had today.

3 jars of green juices

1 pomegranate

1 mango

Large Salad for Dinner?

Tomorrow I will be campaigning from Dawn until Dusk. Not much time to think about food with an important election on our hands, right? 

Thinking about changing my blog title from R.A.W. to "healthy eating" or something. Raw is really hard to do as a college student.

Update- Th-F

Thursday:

Breakfast/ Lunch:

2 green smoothies

Dinner:

Veggie Stir fry

Catfish and potatoes

Ran 18 minutes, alt. between 7.0 and 5.0

Abs

Friday

Breakfast/ Lunch:

2 cups of Acorn Buttersquash Soup

2 Small Salads

Banana

2 glasses of juices apples and carrots

Snack:

Orange Juice

Jamba Juice Strawberry Breakfast

Dinner:

1 bowl of brown rice, mushrooms, porkchop

Ran 10 minutes between 6.0 and 4.0

Circuit training

Not so Raw

Tuesday

Salad with Goddess dressing

Veggie Stir Fry

Wednesday

Jamba Juice- Strawberry Breakfast Drink + granola and banana (500 cal)

Jamba Juice- Low Fat Blueberry Muffin

Cooked Carrots, Parsnips, Broccoli, and small Chicken Breast

Banana

Salad with lemon juice

Veggie Stir fry + brown rice

Ok my goal for tomorrow is to eat 100% raw, including

-raw fruits (including a pomegranate and mango)

-one raw salad

-2 green smoothie

My First Day of Total Rawness

Monday, October 27, 2008

1 piece of Raw Fudge

Handful of Walnuts

Coconut Water

Water

4 Raw Falafel Lettuce Wraps 

1 piece of Raw pumpkin pie

Note: I will probably have a green smoothie tonight too.

Man, today I can honestly say was my first 100% RAW day. The fact that we have finals right now makes it easier and harder to remain raw. One can get so stressed, busy, or pressed for time that you eat anything you can grab. In my case, today I was so focused on my midterm that I stayed on track. Note that it wasn't perfectly easy. I did have thoughts about eating very unhealthy things. I need another mental detox.

On another note, I have found that Young Thai Coconut Water is really good for detoxing the body. Everytime I drink it, I go straight to the bathroom! 

 

Here are some health benefits/ facts about Coconut Water from living-foods.com:

• It is a natural isotonic beverage with the same amount of electrolyte balance we have in our blood stream.
  
• It is more nutritious than a glass of whole milk, with LESS fat and NO cholesterol
• It is much healthier than orange juice with fewer calories
• It is naturally sterile: water permeates through the filtering husk
• It is high in potassium (~290 g/ 100ml)
• It has been used around the word in IVs and plasma transfusions to save lives!

I wish I could have a glass/ day! Drinking it really makes me feel lighter, refreshed and detoxed!

Last week, I made Raw chocolate fudge with coconut:

I used the Raw Brownies recipe from Green Chefs. So delicious! It also had lots of cacao, a superfood I LOVE! This week I want to make potato chips in the dehydrator, but I don't have a knife (lol, I'm a college student). I need to go to get one. I would hate to ask someone if they have a shard knife I can borrow-- sounds a tad frightening.

My goals remain (added a few):

• Run 30 minutes EVERY day 
  
• 1 green smoothie every day
• Superfoods every day
• Wheatgrass Shot every Week
• Coconut Juice every week
• October 27- November 3rd- 100% RAW!

It's a Great Day

Today I am devoted myself to myself, that is to say, I am ready for Raw. I really fell off the bandwagon this weekend:  

Friday: Fish Tacos (I could not resist!)  

Saturday: Cheese Pizza (I know, what was I thinking??) 

Ethiopian Food (So worth it though) 

Oaxacan Food  

Sunday: 

Fried Banana and Ice Cream Chicken Satay, Rice Noodles, Green Beans 

Yea, so needless to say, I am ready for Raw! I spent the last three or four months losing and keeping off 12 lbs. My goal is to loose a total of 33 lbs by January I want to achieve this goal!! :)  

Here are my goals for the week: 

-Drink 1 Green Smoothie per day 

-Drink 1 Wheat Grass Shot per day 

-Eat a superfood once a day -Eat 95%-100% RAW!  

I will keep a daily log of my food intake and exercise. Here's today: 

1 Green Smoothie (1 plum, 5 big pieces of romaine lettuce leaves, 1 red cabbage leaf, 1/2 red bellpepper, 2 frozen bananas, fresh cilantro, fresh basil, frozen organic berries, and acai juice. 

Very Healthy Homemade Veggie Soup (mushroom, avocado, red bellpepper, veggie broth) 

Strawberry Almond Milk (Made with fresh strawberries from the Farm)  

Flax Chips + Avocado

Paella de Camarones (it felt like home)

Chocolate covered Strawberries