Day 5 of My Raw Restart

Day 5 started with a bang.  I have finally broke out of the 200s weight wise, and as of the morning I was 199.  Yay! What I ate: 1 Banana Grapefruit juice 4 nut/date balls Large spinach salad with apples, oranges, walnuts, kalamata olives, and red onion 2 apples for dinner For the past few [...]

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My head hurts

All my recovering sugar addicts out there know what I’m going through. My head hurts.  Not with a typical, throb.  I wouldn’t call it a headache.  It feels more like pressure.  It happened the last time I was 90% raw for a few days and it will pass.  Sugar is not my master.  Sugar is [...]

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Posting Calories on Menus is a Requirement in the Health Care Bill

Within the Health Care Bill that President Obama signed yesterday there is a requirement about calorie counts.  Restaurants will have to include all calorie counts for food sold on their menus. This will include fast food restaurants and dine in restaurants.  I am so happy about this.  It could really change the way people choose [...]

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Repetition is not a bad thing

I’ve been 80-100% Raw Vegan for the last month…give or take a weekend.  The thing that  most surprises me is that eating the same things all most every day is not that bad.  A lil boring at times, but not a bad thing.  Most days I eat some combination of the following: Smoothie: Some combo [...]

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Day 10

Yesterday was day 10 on raw food with only 1 day where I wasn’t 90-100% raw!!! Yeah!  This is going better than expected.  Weight today: 180.5 I’ve basically been eating the same thing every day…morning green smoothie, large salad for lunch, either another large salar for lunch or just fruit (grapes or rasberries) and some [...]

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