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 dried fruit and raw walnuts in the morning and evening.  This is really working well for me.

I’ve been feeling kinda lonely.  Food was my friend.  I hung out with food after work.  Food comforted me.  Food was always there for me.  I mean I’m still eating food, but I’m talking about soul food, comfort food…sugary food especially.  Yesterday after work I went home, but I felt so bored…looking for something to do.  I realize that so much of my energy was focused on eating, not eating, what to eat, and buying/not buying food.  Sure, I have a life…but with that internal struggle subdued it just leaves a void that I now need to fill with LIFE and actual Living!!!  That is exciting.  It makes me happy.  I just don’t know what all that will be, but it’s good to have to opportunity to really live and not just live as a seudo-victim of my tummy.

Let your food be your medicine and let your medicine be your food.

I truly believe this and that is why I’m going raw…again.  The last time I went raw was for 2 months in 2006.  I have to say that in the last 10 years that was the best I’ve felt and the best I’ve looked.  I lost weight, felt great, my skin cleared, and aches and pains went away.  I want that again.  So, this month, April 2008, I’ve decided to go raw again (4/2/08 to be exact.

I’ve been doing pretty good.  I’ve been raw all day at work since Wed, only eating cooked food in the evening.  Today will be the first day I attempt to do NO cooked food all day.  Some people need more of a transition…I’m a cold turkey kinda chick.  I just know what about myself.

Today I’ve had…2 bananas and a fruit shake with raw honey, strawberries and mango (frozen).  I’m equipted with my bag of goodies (an apple and a huge bag of baby carrots).  Thank God there is a huge salad bar with lots of raw goodies just down the street from my job.  I can be hard being raw in the city.  I live in DC and I don’t drive, so this blog will also discuss how you can live in the city, carless and still go raw.  Where there is a will, there’s a way.

I will post my before and after pics for the month on 4/30.  This will help me be accountable to the process.  Nothing like posting your “fat” pics online for the world to see. LOL!  In the end, I want to be able to see my progress visually.  It’s more motivating.

Goals:
Weight Loss – not having to struggle and think about what I eat all the time
Wellness
Loving Myself through Treating ME better
Clarity of Mind
Clear skin (excuma)

Take the journey with me.