Ok, ok, I admit it. I've been avoiding the blog because I haven't been eating 100% raw. Why? I STILL cannot answer that question with a good reason. My current theory is the yogurt and cheeses I've been eating. A lot of raw fooders say that eating even a little cooked foods makes it tough to kick cravings. Well, that's certainly ringing true. Plus there's the saltiness of cheese, which makes me munchy for bad things. Usually my granola and grapefruits have come to the rescue, but not always. I just downed some soy dream, as the frozen dee-serts have always been my downfall.
Well, anyway, the point of eating raw is not to beat myself up when I don't eat fully raw. I know I feel great when I am 100% and I question why I would ever want anything other than raw, but the answer -- at least a good answer -- to that question eludes me.
So let's see if I can recap: aside from my raw goat and sheep milk cheeses, and of course the yogurt, I have indeed been raw. Not too bad, I'd say. Over the weekend I made granola and almond milk, which I love dearly for breakfast.
I was sick Monday -- cruddy way to spend a sick day, being sick!! But aside from GI troubles and extreme exhaustion, nothing major really happened. I had an appetite later that evening (when I finally got out of bed) and the next day I felt fine. I think I was just worn out from 18 hours of coaching on Sunday, and I might have misinterpreted the loose bowels as bad instead of the cleansing that it most likely was. Anyway, I'm super regular now, which I won't ever complain about. Ok, well, no one likes extra potty trips while camping, but other than that...
So that's my story. Now I'm clean and honest again. Maybe I can face the blog once more. Oh, I decided that for Easter I'd eat chocolate, but organic only. Yes, the soy dream was supposed to be for Sunday and here it is only Wednesday and it's gone. The story of Nim.
FedEx just came; maybe it's a raw food order for me!!
Posted by nimango
at 2:36 PM EDT
