TWELVE pound each! Our 30 days raw ended last night. Yeah chocolate! Yeah wine! Pam and I set out to try something that we both thought would be a little bit of a challenge, but we hoped to detox the holidays away and get a jump start on losing some weight. We didn't think we would learn about a way of life that we both agree we could live with if necessary. We hoped that we would feel more energy even though we would be without caffeine and we found that we did have a ton of energy and barely missed our beloved coffee. We hoped that we could lose weight in a healthy way while we were nursing foot injuries that kept us limited in activity and the results speak for themselves.
This was the easiest thing either of us have ever done to lose weight and the results are fantastic. I now stand 6 pounds from my goal weight of 195 and Pam is now within 24 pounds of hers meaning she is already 1/3 of the way to her goal!
Since the real test is how you keep it off after the transition back to more cooked foods we will continue to post through the next month or so.
For the record, we broke the raw 30 days with a salad that had some chicken on it. We had Oat Groats with dried apricots and blueberries for breakfast and it was fantastic. The downside is it takes 50 minutes simmering and 10 minutes resting to prepare, but it is tasty. A little turkey chili for lunch and dinner that was "the best chili you've ever made, Paul" according to Pam. She may have been eating raw a little too long, but it was good.
We will likely start next year with a 2 week raw "Holiday Detox" as well. If the doom sayers are right 2012 is the end of the world so we won't need to detox in 2013.
More soon....
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