New site to explore

http://www.lilyfresh.net/index.html

What are experienced raw fooders doing wrong?

It's hard not to notice that Victoria Boutenko's photos of the past, hm, 5 years or so show her to have a significant amount of extra weight on her. She doesn't even look happy. Alissa Cohen looks happy, but she, too, looks like she has put on weight in the picture on the cover of her new book.

Where are they going wrong? Are they working too much and not taking care of themselves?

Also, where did Igor Boutenko go? He's glaringly missing from The Raw Family site.

New site to check out

I discovered http://www.ifood.tv/rawradianthealth today. Lots of great stuff!

Doing better

That nasty smoothie affected me ALL day!!! I don't know if I put bad fruit in it, a bad combination of things or what, but my stomach got very acidic and painful, also caused a lot of burping... I tried just drinking water to flush it out, but my stomach would be even worse. I decided to listen to what my body wanted: carbs. I couldn't believe it. So I kept eating carbs as the desire arose through the day, mostly junk-type stuff (birthday cake, but not cookies; bread, but not crackers; the cravings were very specific!), which annoyed me, but if I thought of any other foods, the thought didn't sit well with me. I've learned to listen to my body when it's in distress like that because it always helps! I had KFC once, had too much of the gravy or something, and felt flu-like afterwards, having no clue it was the KFC until the next time we had KFC (months later) and the same thing happened. I found I was craving food, even after having eaten, so I went into the kitchen and saltines and graham crackers seemed to be the thing. So, I returned to bed, feeling achey and feverish and the whole bit (like I said, it was like a flu!), and I ate saltines until I wanted the graham crackers, then graham crackers until I wanted the saltines. This continued for a while until it was done, no more cravings. And I felt better.

I still have no desire for fruits and veggies today. My stomach still isn't quite settled. I'm floored that a smoothie could do that to me. I'll have to ask in some forums if there are some foods that are bad to combine, or if it's more likely that I had bad fruit in there.

Dirty Dishcloth Green Smoothie

Note to self: Stick with tried-and-true recipes for a while before experimenting on your own.

I didn't have the fruits in the house to make even a variation of what I have been having the past week, so I looked some things up online and a couple of places just said to mix some fruits, then add your greens. So, I decided to do just that with what little I had: some grapes (getting old), an orange (from a bag of oranges that have turned out to not be so great) and a banana. I was running out of my mixed greens and bought radish sprouts yesterday, so added some of that to what was left of the greens.

It was vile. At first, it was okay, almost melon tasting. But it was a little off, so I added another (too-ripe) half of a banana, that didn't really make a difference, so I added the last piece of banana in the house. (Well, no, the other bananas are all still green.) It was worse. And as seconds passed, it got worse and worse to the point I could not drink it anymore, it was causing bizarre--and bizarre-tasting--burps. I decided I couldn't drink it, dumped it in the sink and caught a whiff of what smelled like a dirty dishcloth. I replaced the dishcloth and added water and soap to the remaining small amount of smoothie in the blender. Let it soak, came back, and a STRONG smell of dirty dishcloth. Dang. It was the smoothie.

So, no smoothie for me this morning. Not even raw this morning. I don't have enough raw, ripe fruit that I can eat, and I have no desire to eat cucumber or celery or anything like that first thing. I've had a bagel with peanut butter, instead, hoping to drown out the stuff in my stomach. That and water. I'd really like to swallow some mints. Blech.

Day 9--I think? lol

So, I'm not good at updating this, am I?

Other than this past weekend, I've been good at having smoothies in the morning. Yesterday was a morning I think I only had green smoothie; I don't think I ate anything else. Although this is only about a week-and-a-half into starting my days with smoothies, I found myself yesterday at lunch wondering what to eat. I really didn't want any of the usual things I eat: eggs and toast, a sandwich, (white) pasta... I ended up eating Tasty Taters. lol. I think I need to find myself some raw lunch recipes. That's really what my body seems to want.  Can't remember what I ate later on, but we had my in-laws over for supper and we ate a lasagna I had previously made and frozen. Yes, a normal lasagna with cheese, meat, white pasta, etc. This morning, I had to blow my nose profusely. I don't think it's a coincidence! I noticed this Saturday morning, too, after having had pizza the night before. Dairy and I don't get along. At least not unraw dairy.

Today's addition to my pages on the right: http://www.greensmoothiequeen.com/ The blog also has many recipes.