Things are calmer around here and I have to admit to have been eating horribly the past couple of weeks, very little fruits and veggies much less raw food... Lots and lots of cooked wheat products. Which means my weight is up. :( Except, that it's a great reminder of why I need to be eating differently. :) It's keeping me feeling pumped to eat more raw this week! Well, I'll take it a day at a time.
So far today, I've had a satsuma and am working on a simple salad of grapes and banana slices. These three fruits are what I'll be focusing on eating throughout the morning. Oh, and watermelon! We do have peaches and plums, but they make my mouth itch, especially when my seasonal allergies are acting up (which they are today), so I won't be eating them. The peaches are going to go bad if nobody's going to eat them and it appears that my son is the only one in the house who will eat them, so I've found a vegan recipe to make so that I can cook them up and be able to eat them! Yes, I know, I'm talking about cooked peaches on a raw food blog, but at the moment, cooked is the only way I can eat them. I'm not going full raw this week (or maybe ever, admittedly), just making a point to eat as much raw as I can! I may, for example, after all my fruit really just want a piece of toast. I'm fine with that. The past couple of weeks, however, it's been two pieces of toast, and maybe some cereal at some point, and a muffin, and pasta, and rice... Way, way too many grains, even for a non-raw diet.
For lunch, I have romaine and another lettuce with which I can make a salad. I've got some broccoli and cauliflower, carrots, cucumber... I can make one nice salad with that! I prepared a salad dressing from this book:
. I messed up on substituting lemon juice for apple cider vinegar, so I'll add some extra lemon juice today to what's left over and hopefully it'll taste better! When I made it on Saturday, I ended up adding a dash of vinegar to my salad. Tasted not too bad. I have to learn to explore a bit with herbs and spices, I think.
Other than that, another motivating factor in restarting my raw focus was seeing this today: http://youngonrawfood.com/ She is 72 years old, says she feels like she's in her 20s, and certainly doesn't look like she's in her 70s! I'd love to have that kind of vitality!!! I don't think I look has vibrant now in my 30s as she does in her 70s! (Yes, I'm getting a little excited! lol) She even has a book you can order, from her site or from Amazon: I'm thinking I may just buy it!
So, here's to my first day of restarting raw. :)
