2010: What day are you on and how are you doing?

[otis]

Isn't it wonderful Pie? I have done every cleanse until this one alone - and this time I have been joined by my best friend who stepped up to cleanse with me so I would actually DO IT instead of continuing my excuses as to why it was bad timing.

Having somebody to help with little things - like setting out my cooler and to go bottles for my shoots, stocking the fridge with lemons, refilling the water on the counter etc... makes it SO nice!



Sounds like you are doing great Baddison! I'm excited for you!!



Oh trust me Lynda - my kitchen is stocked with everything a raw vegan could ever need, want or wish for. My kitchen is kind of ridiculous truthfully. I have the Excalliber and the Vita Mix and many sizes of food processor cups with all the attachments and the kitchen aid and the spiralizer and the extensive knife collection...

I say it's a joke because most the time I go raw I live off salads, raw fruits and veggies & gallons of green smoothie. Which require nothing more than my vita mix and knives.

I have a very very intense schedule for about 2/3 of the year so the time intensive recipes never get touched. When I am working 80 hours and trying to help 2 kids with school work - and processing photos with every spare minute I don't have time to spend hours in the kitchen.

However -

My best friend spends a great deal of time here and babysits for me a lot - so I think I am going to try and teach him the ways of raw so HE can prepare things while I'm away and that will help my kitchen get a bit more of a workout.

I really don't find that raw is more expensive than SAD. Yes - on the surface it is - raw agave and coconut oil and raw almonds and all other sorts of essentials are VERY expensive... but - once you start eating raw - aside from the health benefits - you eat SO much less. You aren't swinging by Starbucks for some expensive fat laden coffee drink... you aren't buying snacks or sodas or candy or junk that does nothing for nutrition or physical satisfaction. So while ingredients are expensive on the surface - personally - I find it cheaper to be raw than SAD.

I'm going to Amazon the other two books. I really appreciate your time talking about this stuff!

Thanks!



-ND

Actually our kitchens sound JUST alike, I have every single device you could possibly want for raw and more. What happens is when you switch from the SAD to raw you immediately want to make raw gourmet to mimic the foods you were used to eating. Once you do that for awhile you find you don't need them anymore. I eat fruit, green juices, green smoothies and my raw desserts and am very satisfied. I do love my gourmet foods but I don't need them anymore. However the desserts are a must have for me everyday. Those I won't give up. One of the things I love about raw vs the sad is that you don't have to be home to be making stuff! I have my dehydrator going 24/7 and it's great. So for anyone out there that sees a recipe that looks complex or time consuming, You don't make any of those all in one day. For the hazelnut crostini app that I mentioned... I mixed up the ingredients for the crostini in the food processor and spread it out and dehydrated it for a 1 or 2 (flipped it when it needed it) and then once that was done I made the other things one by one. You typically can't do that on an sad but on this you can and that is how I manage to make these concoctions while working and working out and doing other things. I am not a slave to my kitchen but I admit there have been many times I have been in there all day on a weekend making several different things because I love it. Also, forget about the amount of time the book tells you it is good for. I eat mine all week long and finish it. They are still good. That crostini app took me 2 weeks to eat because I only had 2 of them a night with my salad! The stuff was fine.

Lynda

[Stefanie]

Can I have gum?

[marine103187]

This is my 1st MC and i am on day 4. Today i had my first BM since starting so i hope i will start to feel better. I want some junk food so bad!

[baddison]

Can I have gum?

Here's your answer:
http://therawfoodsite.com/forum/show...&postcount=807

[otis]

Can I have gum?

sorry but NO... it really sucks because the taste in my mouth is disgusting! my tongue is coated but the taste is gross. Does anyone else have that? I wish I could chew gum too!

Lynda

[JelizaRose]

I'm on my second day and am feeling spacey and ungrounded. Not hungry or craving anything at the moment, but mostly just spacey and unable to focus on anything. I was able to get all the SWF down this morning and am enjoying the lemonade. I'm feeling pretty good in general. It's just that I feel like I drank a shot of espresso.

[otis]

Hey guys...

Ok, so it is day 12 for me and I have not weighed myself once. I do plan on doing that on day 15 (once I have been on it for two weeks total) or putting on my jeans to see how they fit.
I don't like weighing myself a lot because I can tell just by looking at my thighs if I am making progress. The first week I didn't look any different, I feel like today I am just starting to see a little difference. For me, when I gain any weight at all it goes right to my thighs. I am very lean naturally and muscular so when I gain any weight it makes my thighs look bulky. Doesn't go to my face or stomach or anything. THIGHS!! So that is the last place I lose it too.

Does anyone else do things like this? I think we all know our bodies and we can see changes without needing the scale. If I don't see much of a change the first week I don't want to depress myself by weighing myself and just confirm it. For me, the weight does not come off until the end of week two. I see all of these posts where people are dropping weight like crazy (a ton of it) within a few days!
I am screaming! But then, I don't have that much to lose (just the weight I put on when I purposely indulged a few days before I started the cleanse. It's amazing how you can gain that within a few days of really eating a lot of bad, fattening stuff. But hey, I did it, got it out of my system and I am working on getting rid of it now!

Regards
Lynda

[NewDirection]

Anyone have a magic no more crying eyes puffiness cure that I could possibly have in my house? I have a shoot tonight with bunch of rich holier than thous tonight - whom already do a fantastic job making me feel terrible about my existance - and I've spent the entire day crying and look like a mutant.

Suggestions?

(I'm hoping I can get my make up on at the very least - but every time I try - and see my swollen eyes - remember why I am so upset - and the whole damn process starts over again! GAH!! I don't have TIME for this!!)

[syntaxiss]

Can I have gum?

So you know, the reason for "NO" is not just arbitrary, it is because that when we crew food (or gum) or even put things in our mouths, digestive enzymes start to become active in the stomach, and when we have nothing in our stomachs, that can result in ulcers over time. As A rule it is very bad to chew gum on an empty stomach, let alone while it's REALLY empty during a fast. As a consolation, when resuming eating, chewing after a meal can indeed be helpful as an aid to digestion.

[Stefanie]

re: epsom salt bath... can I have bubbles too? the thought of staring at myself crammed in the tub for twently is frightening.