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| raw food detox and transition, day six |
This is fabulous! After years of teeter-tottering back and forth between rigidity and binges, I've finally found a perfect balance. Working with Natalia Rose's properly combined and very simple recipes for both raw and cooked meals, I've been 100% faithful to this lifestyle shift since I jumped in wholeheartedly 6 days ago. I can see and feel the difference. I have much more energy all day long, wake up easier in the morning and can see waist definition and a bit of weight loss already. I don't own a scale and never intend to but my clothes fit better and I just feel so much better...lighter and yet always satisfied.
Last night I was so full of energy after work that even after my evening meal I went to town cleaning the kitchen and preparing foods for today; marinated Portobello mushrooms (to pour over anything from veg to toasted sprouted grian bread to cooked potatoes), a raw zucchini and tomato dish with fresh basil, garlic, raw goat milk feta and Seeds of Change marinara sauce (that is the best jarred sauce I've ever tasted), and this morning I am sipping my Green Smoothie (coconut water, fresh pineapple, banana, red leaf lettuce and fresh mint) and have a fabulous almond milk, banana, raw cacao powder shake in the freezer getting nice and frothy for later. Not a bad way to live, eh?
I generally do stick with fresh fruit and/or Green Smoothies in the morning, something all or mostly living foods for lunch, snacks can be raw nuts and dried fruit or a Larabar and dinner is usually cooked veg. This weekend, since it's my bday, I'm hoping to find a perfect piece of Chilean Sea Bass because Natalia has this easy but fabulous sounding recipe for that particular fish with a port wine cream sauce...and I do love port. I had some last night after my early supper with my last bits of raw truffle cake. That lasted a good 4 days, so it's actually a good buy at $7 per slice.
I am having issues with my eyes and a little wheezing at night, but I attribute that mostly to the nasty Santa Anas blowing their muck about these past few days. My eyes and lungs always go a bit wonky at that. We got some rain and it cooled considerably last night so hopefully that dreadful wind is overwith and gone. I do hate having the icnessantly weepy, demon red eyes. Not terribly flattering. Or comfortable.
And I will tell you what...with all of the scrumptious new things I'm trying and incorporating, and the ease of preparation involved, I'm not missing my coffee houses or fast food fixes ONE IOTA, which seems like nothing short of a miracle. That's not to say I'll never do either again, but I feel very much at peace with food and in a joyful place with it rather than it being in control of me. I will admit that for a while, McDonald's owned my ass the way a heroin dealer owns their customers. I had no choice, it felt like. Honestly. I'd have these overwhelming compulsions and then feel dreadful afterwards. Just like an addict. And now, I can think about it and recall the tastes and textures, but I'm quite thrilled with my raw and properly combined cooked healthy fare.
I've had a bit of skin breakout on my face, which is to be expected with a detox stage, but I also started to take Dr. Ohhira's Probiotic 12 Plus, which I find to be the best quality and most powerful probiotic supplement out there. It's enteric coating means it won't just get gobbled up by acids in the tummy and I KNOW it gets delivered into the intestinal tract where it's needed because within 24 hours of my first dose things are moving along more dramatically, if you catch my drift. Amazing stuff. I take 2 every morning.
So it's all going quite beautifully and I'm really enjoying this transition into a new, balanced, joyful and very healthy way of living for body, mind and spirit.
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Posted by marathongal on 2009-04-08 12:07:30 | Rating: | Views: 28
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