I've realized that I really don't eat a lot when I'm raw. I should probably want to eat more but I just don't... I've got to work on that :-) Meanwhile I've been swimming at least 5 times a week and drinking green juice when I can. After 31 days raw I lost over 20 pounds. I'm beginning the challenge at 154 pounds. My goal is a mere 34 pounds away at 120 pounds, though I will be thrilled beyond belief at 130 (only 24 pounds). Now I've seen that weight loss slows considerably the closer you get to your goal, but WHO CARES!! I'm going to blow right on past my goals, even if I make a few mistakes/ no indulgences along the way. There's no such thing as a mistake for me anymore. Everything I do is a choice and as long as I stay committed to being high raw for life and 100% raw 90% of the time there are really no mistakes. I WILL NOT go for months eating few raw veggies and fruits and feasting of flesh. I'm smaller now than I was throughout most of my college like and roughly my highschool weight (I was always 150-160 then). YAY! I want to embrace this healthier me forever!
So far today I've had a grapefruit and 2 and a half figs. I'm off to go and swim! Then I plan to make something creative for myself and light shabbat candles :-) Shabbat Shalom for now!
Friday, August 1, 2008
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Raw Again, 16 months later
It was so wild to come here, trying to start a new blog, only to find that I'd already done it once before, AND ironically at the beginning of my first raw journey. CRAZY but very exciting for me. I think of how far I've come in the last year healthwise and am blown away. I've been on and off raw for 16 months and have never returned to the weight I began at last March. I think I had one cold last year and only felt health problems when I was on a serious bad food binge (this is usually when I jumped back into eating raw). I feel like the best version of myself when I'm raw. I feel clarity and an intensity for life. I feel more open to love and more equipped to deal with the occasional dissappointments in life.
On August 1 I am beginning a 100-day raw challenge on Raw-Fu. I'm going to chart my progress, vent my successes and frustrations, and try to have yet another place where I can keep myself strong and focused throughout this experience. This will be a huge step for me. Between now and Nov. 9 I have numerous performances including a month long bus tour; it will be a real challenge to stay raw without the safety of my home kitchen. . . Tour Schmour! I'm up to the task! There is no such thing as failure anyway. I'm choosing to be healthy. If I do have to make an unraw decision, I'll make the healthiest one possible. I AM SO GOING TO DO THIS :-) No I AM doing this. I'm already approaching the end of month one and I have 0 desire to eat anything but fresh right now :-)
OK enough babbling. I'm going to bed and will write more interesting stuff tomorrow.
On August 1 I am beginning a 100-day raw challenge on Raw-Fu. I'm going to chart my progress, vent my successes and frustrations, and try to have yet another place where I can keep myself strong and focused throughout this experience. This will be a huge step for me. Between now and Nov. 9 I have numerous performances including a month long bus tour; it will be a real challenge to stay raw without the safety of my home kitchen. . . Tour Schmour! I'm up to the task! There is no such thing as failure anyway. I'm choosing to be healthy. If I do have to make an unraw decision, I'll make the healthiest one possible. I AM SO GOING TO DO THIS :-) No I AM doing this. I'm already approaching the end of month one and I have 0 desire to eat anything but fresh right now :-)
OK enough babbling. I'm going to bed and will write more interesting stuff tomorrow.
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