Time for a challenge – my style September 11, 2007

I never did like to follow the rules I’m going to personally adapt the Alissa Coen 30 day raw challenge to better suit my needs. Yes, I want to eat primarily raw. Yes, I want to lose weight. I also need to be realistic.   My plan is: – breakfast, lunch, snacks and a part of dinner to be raw. If I really crave some whole grain pasta, rice, or bread, or cooked beans, I’m going to eat them, no guilt If I do want to make this a lifestyle change (which I do), I need this to work for the long term.

food today:

green smoothie (16 oz) (mache, raddichio, mango, cucumber)

zucchini pasta with “alfredo” sauce (cashews, olive oil, pine nuts)

carrot/ginger/cabbage coleslaw

a few dates

a raw cacao/carob/banana/almond milk shake

a few flax seed crackers

day 7 – weight 231.5 lbs

Guess What? September 9, 2007

I’m actually still here, and back on raw.

Vacation was wonderful, but while I was away my diet suffered. Unfortunately, it continued to suffer after I came back. For the last two months I’ve been eating horribly, with the odd day or two thrown in where I half heartedly attempted to eat raw again.

This time around, I’ve decided that for the next two months or so, I’ll transition into a fully raw diet. Taking it slow might make it easier. Pretty much all meals and snacks are raw, with the exception of dinner. This has always been my weak point. So far this is workign out quite well. I started back on raw foods on Monday or Tuesday of this week. The last three days I didn’t even bother with cooked meals, and ate all raw.

more tomorrow, it’s late but I wanted to get back into  keeping up my journal.

weight today 229.4