Two weeks

Today marks my two week progress. The days have gone by like a breeze and I have had no temptation for cooked foods. I have been feeling well other than the last few days. I felt exhausted and run down but never strong hunger. I feel as though my body is going through a withdrawl from sugar and coffee. I drank coffee over the weekend and it definitely throw off my whole groove. I will however continue to drink no coffee because how it made me feel this weekend. As far as my weight I have not lost any weight. I have only weighed myself once and there was no difference but I do feel that my jeans feel looser in the thighs. Overall I do not feel that great right now but I am glad to have made it two weeks! I am looking forward to what this week brings and to making it three weeks!

New Day

Well I got up this morning and made my green smoothie.  spinach, broccoli, apple, banana, 3 strawberries, and a bit of mango.

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OK new here

Well I am going raw.  I am excited about it.  I have been working on it for a few weeks and it is really much more difficult than I thought it would be.  It is amazing how much I am comforted by food.  I have been doing a lot of research and I know that raw is the answer to my life.  I really believe that the whole lifestyle will make a huge difference for me.  I am currently 334lbs, 5′4″.  This is unacceptable.  I have always been trying one diet or another.  I have always been overweight.  I cannot remember a time that my weight was “normal”.  The first week that I started doing raw I felt a huge surge of energy.  Same with the second week.  The third week I got a cold and everything began falling apart for the last week I have been eating the same old foods and feeling terrible.  I mean really terrible.  So I went shopping with my very limited budget.  I hope I got enough food to last me for the week and then I got food for the rest of my family.  I feel bad because I am constantly telling them to stay away from the healthier food because I do not have enough money to feed all of us healthier.  Well some weeks are better than others.  Is this horribly wrong.  I feel like once I understand how to prepare food and buy the better, healthier food then it will be easier to budget in those foods for the whole family.  All I do know for sure is that if I don’t figure out something I am on my way to an early grave.  Over the last couple of years I have began to feel awful, sluggish, aches and pains, depressed (which I have battled my whole life) and old.  I hate the way I feel most days.  That is why I decided to go raw.  I am not sure about how I am going to transition.  I am not really all that concerned with vegan or vegetarian, however I could not even imagine eating raw meat.  So because of that I guess I wont be eating meat.  My son is a vegetarian so he is quite happy with this.    So I hope my journey will interest you and you come in and comment, I would love the feedback.  I look forward to the journey I have ahead of me and know that this is the way for a better quality life for me.

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A Pharmacist Goes Raw?

Hello! I can’t tell you how excited I am to have the opportunity to post on this site! What makes me unique? I just graduated from pharmacy school! Yes, you got it, I’ve been trained which poison fixes which malfunction. And despite all the information on clinical diseases and their drug bandaids, I am 100% RAW! Did we ever talk about nutrition in school…? Sure, a few times, about diets for high blood pressure or high cholesterol (the classic “limit cholesterol to X percent of your diet” or “don’t drink more than two beers a day”). To be honest, after throwing myself head first into countless books on nutrition, the raw food diet, fasting, mucousless eating, conscious eating, eating only before 2pm, not eating til 3pm, you name it…I CANNOT believe how little the medical professionals know about nutrition and how it affects our entire being. Almost daily I learn some nutritional correction or important link for a disease that I dispense thousands of pills to treat, and I wish I could sit everyone down and transfuse my knowledge into them. I, myself, am still a work in progress, but that is what this lifestyle is about: progress. I’m not at a point where I can stand in front of a crowd and self-proclaim raw guru status, but I’m insanely excited about publishing a book where I approach raw foods from a new angle: through the eyes of a pharmacist. I hope by blogging here I can get the ball rolling even faster and get comments about what interests readers the most. I get so excited when I come across something really interesting or mind boggling about the raw food diet, and here (and in my book) is where I’ll share these things. Welcome to my journal!

Day 10, still Loving Raw Food

I have had a lot of support from friends on Facebook, and I want to thank them all for cheering me on.  I have also had quite a few questions about why I am doing raw food, and what is it doing for me.

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Raw Foods Day 9 While 11 Weeks 4 Days Pregnant

Today I got up and weighed myself. I am now at 138.6 lbs which isn’t far off from where I started 9 days ago (I was 140.2 lbs then).

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Another week Raw!

First, I have a confession to make, yesterday I made some rice krispy treats for my kids, and I did eat 2 of them….but that’s it!  It was a day of fasting so I didn’t eat breakfast and lunch, and dinner was a wonderful green smoothie loaded with spinach, strawberries, pineapple, mango, and bananas.  It tastes so good that my 11 year old son begs me to make him one, so today, I made one for the both of us.

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Day 8 on a Raw Food Diet

A few days ago we went to a Gardeners Market, which is sort of like a Farmers market except it is mostly people selling produce from their gardens.

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Feeling A Bit Successful on My Raw Food Journey

Today is my 5th day and I am not the least bit discouraged.  This is so much easier for me than just going on a fat free, or low calorie diet.  For me, it has to be all or nothing, I need clear boundaries of what I should and should not eat, and raw food has drawn those boundaries for me.  I am feeling pretty good, still a bit tired, but I am still in a major transition mode.  I am finding that my thinking is a bit clearer, nerves a bit calmer, and my sense of hope much greater.

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Day 5 on Raw Food Diet – 11 Weeks Pregnant

I found out the culprit that has been causing my nausea. It turns out that every time I would eat that flax bread i’ve been making i’d have to throw up.

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