One couple's story of a one month raw food diet.

We have apparantly seen too many documentaries on the evils of processed foods and the health benefits of a diet that is "closer to the ground." This adventure will include a two day juice "fast" and January 2011 we will eat only raw foods. This is a little scary for us as red wine and chocolate are not on the diet. Even air-poppped popcorn isn't.

Our goals include more energy, better health and weight loss. We will do our best to document what we do eat and what changes we see in our health.

Please comment if you want more information than we post so we can share what we can.

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Easy As Faux Pie

Anyone of you who might be considering raw for a week or month or life should know that it actually gets easier as time goes by. Really! You fall into a rhythm and you actually get used to room temperature or cold food. I made my "Not Really" Chili tonight and it was spicy and delicious. I likely will use some of my raw creations when the weather warms up and you are looking for cooler food to eat, as well as the fact that without meat and dairy it will keep at room temperature much longer.


Not that anyone is counting....

My best guess is that we have used 50-60 lbs of carrots, 8 or 9 packages of the Costco organic apples (15 apples each). 100 beets, 40 -50 cucumbers, 15 heads of celery, 10 or 12 bunches of chard/ kale /collards, 5 chunks of ginger root, 15 heads of romaine, 8 Costco containers each of Baby Spinach and Mixed greens, 15 zucchini, 4 Costco bags of mandarins. 20 bananas, 40-50 lemons and limes, 40 avocados, 6 or 7 Costco bags of broccoli, 40 - 50 tomatoes and an assortment of raw crackers and some other miscellaneous health food store stuff. Our fridge is a very green place these days. Whew!

My precious music studio in the basement is now a gym equipped with a Concept 2 ergometer, a stairstepper, a Sole E35 elliptical, a TRX system, a few free weights and our road bikes on wind trainers. We have it set up with a flatscreen and a DVD player that is WIFI so we can stream lots of stuff while we work out. Sometime I will steal the smaller bedroom down there for a studio again.  It has proven to be a great place to work out!

I learned that the better Omega 3 fats are really only available in salmon, sardines, and supplements so I am now taking a fish oil pill that provides me with 750 units of the good Omega 3s. Apparently, the ones from nuts and avocados are only so digestible. Something new every day...
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