sleepy sunday.

avocado/lettuce/mushroom "rice" nori rolls

carrots and sprouted bean dip with roasted garlic (not raw)

chinatown is ma new hometown.

i bought 3 young thai coconuts for $6, and a lb of GOJI BERRIES for $5.99 compared to $24.99 for half that much at the local health food store.

cool. except i need a sweet goji berry recipe, and a lesson on how to open these thai coconuts.

smashing them against the sharp part of your locker does NOT work.

LIVE! organic food bar tomorrow :)

soaked goji berries.

Raw?

My super clean diet halted yesterday.

I had lentil soup, and some tortilla chips.

As well as apple crisp (vegan) with a crumble made out of oats.

So no bread, or peanut butter which is a HUGE plus.

I think for the next few days I will have only 1-2 raw meals, and also there will be an upcoming review of the raw vegan restaurant LIVE! Organic Food Bar.

http://www.livefoodbar.com/

Who knows creativity might hit me at some point, and I may post a picture of a newly invented recipe.

totally ALMOST died from a street snow shoveler today.

IT WAS FRIGID TODAY.

silly me, thinking I could wear a vest and be fine.

I made a super delicious marinara sauce tonight which I am verrrry proud of. No picture, use your imaginations!

I used a carrot peeler to make ribbons like fettucine pasta, (yummy but without the stomach pain or bloating), and added some spring mix salad leaves into it. The sauce was one ripe tomato, half a red pepper, ton of oregano, thyme, some celtic sea salt, kalamata olives, 1 T shelled hemp seeds, extra virgin olive oil and one small garlic clove (I HATE GARLIC AND ONIONS, but sometimes you need to suffer for flavour's sake).

About the cold weather, it is possible to eat raw during freezing temperatures! I had fruit today and some hummus with carrots and bananas. Also, LISTEN UP COOKED FOODERS. I had a certain brand of cereal today, gluten free, only 6 grams of sugar. It was the first non-raw "meal" I had in about 2 weeks. Whatever sugar was in the cereal started an instant migraine, and less than 30 minutes later an insane stomach pain.

Ingredients: Organic whole grain corn meal, organic evap. cane juice, organic brown rice flour, organic inulin, organic quinoa puffs, organic flax seeds, natural vanilla, organic buckwheat flour, organic quinoa, sea salt, organic amaranth, organic molasses, natural vit. E.

I'm off to go drown myself in water, and rid my body of this toxicity..

THE SULTAN.

THIS WRAP. BLEW MY MIND.

I just created it on a whim right now.

My mom soaked buckwheat overnight.

I blended it after draining the water in my magic bullet with:

-cumin

-ground cloves

-lemon

-sea salt

-tomato

-ground coriander

-golden curry powder

-reverse osmosis water to blend

-black olives

-add chili powder for more of a kick.

Put it all on a big cabbage leaf, with some baby spinach or sprouts, WRAP. and eat!

Life is worth living!

11: 30 am, studying like a newb.

I think the next step after stabilizing my 100 percent raw-ness is to eat when I'm hungry. Arnold, from this raw cafe in Pennsylvania insists on earning your breakfast and starting with lemon water to cleanse your system. So here I sit, typing with lemon water, and a grapefruit.

In terms of challenges usually anything out of my comfort zone is a challenge, and if my comfort zone is my house, then pretty much anything that goes on outside of the walls of my house are challenging, like maybe parties, work, etc. Last night at work what would usually make me fall nutritionally, or tempt me didn't! There was pizza, cookies, and chips. I made my fruit smoothie and enjoyed the night! GREAT SUCCESS.

I wrote another journal entry (on paper) last night with regards to my feelings about this diet and my emotions, and I realized most of my destructive thoughts have literally disappeared! Things like, the "all-or-nothing" attitude, the "see-the-#-on-the-scale-go-up-and-abandon-all-dieting-aspects" attitude, the "eat-out-of-spite" attitude, THE LIST GOES ON GUYS. But really, they're all gone! I love what I'm eating, it's beautiful, and who cares if the number on the scale goes up, how do I feel is the important question!

So ask yourself that today, How do you feel? Good? Bad? Happy or sad? If it's negative change something small this week. Drink more water, sleep earlier, make a to-do list, go for a brisk walk, or just JUMP up and down! Life is worth living.

GRRR.

stepped on the scale today and for some reason it has gone up by five pounds...

the last time i weighed myself was on tuesday.

IS THIS NORMAL.

HOW IS THIS EVEN POSSIBLE?!

it's okay. breathe.

my rational for this is: i love what I'm eating. it's beautiful, I'm happier, maybe..it's detox?

I read this woman's story just now and she said that up until a year after her dive into raw foods she was the exact same weight, but then lost over 30 in the progressing years.

Foodwise, I made a green smoothie this morning, with a spinach handful that was a tad too large, and with fruits (banana and one peach) that were not ripe at all. It seemed like a catastrophe, plus it was slightly..dare I say it..warm. ugh.

BUT! I turned it around, sprinkled some cinnamon and shelled hemp seeds on it, put it in a bowl first, and VOILA! BREAKFAST PUDDING!

It was delicious after I psychologically tricked myself into thinking it was pudding.

Look at this beauty!!

ginger, olive oil, tomato, yellow pepper, spinach, balsamic vinegar and olives with some celtic sea salt.