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.

Monday, January 17, 2011

Thoughts Over Halfway Through

This little project has been interesting so far. Our goals remain the same, and we will likely carry raw on as a pre-dinner program - meaning that we will eat raw until dinner and then eat a reasonable dinner. I also think we will likely eat even less animal protein than before. The other thing we will continue is to have at least one juice everyday.
What we know now that we didn't know before is not deeply profound and likely not even worthy of publishing here, but here we go anyway.
Vegetable juice mixes taste great and give you a nice, sustained pop of energy while taking care of your appetite. A 1 or 2 day juice fast is doable, but it is better if you do it away from home or when there is nothing else to eat around. Our Saturday fast was cheated by each of us with a salad - Pam for lunch and me for dinner. I never said we were perfect.
There aren't a plethora of great raw food recipes that don't require a dehydrator, and many of them involve several days of prep time to either soak (and even sprout in some cases) nuts and seeds or to dehydrate things. Luckily, I am a little bit free form in the kitchen or I'd be bored to death on their recipes by now.
Just because the recipe says you can make brown rice by soaking it for 24-36 hours it ain't necessarily so. I soaked mine for 4 days and gave up and cooked it this morning rather than waste it. We'll only mix veggies with it once it is cooled to preserve the rawness of them.
If you surf the web long enough you can justify lots of exceptions to the hard fast "raw rules." There are people who justify coffee and we found one that says organic wine is OK. WE HAVE A BOTTLE OF ORGANIC WINE! It is on the wine rack upstairs, but we haven't opened it yet. Yet being the operative word of that sentence.
Blender marinara is OK, but there are 100 times the scientific sources that agree that cooked tomatoes provide you with many more antioxidants than raw so I cook my tomato sauces and then cool them prior to adding veggies.
We have each lost another .5 lb since the last time we reported so Pam is minus 7.5 and I am minus 8.5. I think I've blabbered on enough for today so enjoy your MLK day and we'll post again soon.

Oh, yesterday for dinner I made "Not Really Chili." It was pretty good and very spicy.
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