As we embark on our 30 Day Journeys into the Raw Foods world, we will use this blog space to discuss our success and challenges. Each Day, Ask yourself the question, What am I feeling? Take checkpoints, refer to your journal, express yourself!

mon- was great all day until I drank wine spontaneously, with a friend, after work.. alcohol and I just don't do well together at all...

tues completely went off track and did not eat anything raw. felt terrible and didn't go to work

wed= still feeling miserable, sad, lonely, fat and depressed and uninspired after drinking monday night and falling off my plan on tues

thurs- 2nd colonic!!!! feeling 1000 times better and back on track... no regrets. grateful for the feeling horrible so I know now NOT to do that again! 

fri- i must go back and edit all of the days of this week.  I took good notes!  I must just simply say today that I feel incredible and INSPIRED after a LONG week of being in need of an emotional rescue.

 

The most important thing I've learned this week is about food combining and how that affects me.  

Today is Thursday, August 13, 1:08 pm

 

I intend to eat: 

1oz E3 live and 12 oz water

Tropical Green Juice

Garden Vegetable Soup 

Greek Salad w lemon herb dressing

 

The juice this morning was BIGGER and I loved it. So far I've loved all the food though, so that's good. The soups are really incredible. I did put too much dill in my zuchinni dill soup, but it was still delicious.  I've had two movements already and am peeing alot. I am feeling 100% better from my sore throat and ear ache of the last week but not totally 100% just yet. I'm gonna give it one more day and then get back to my faithful yoga practice tomorrow.  I feel like the colonic REALLY helped. I'm soo happy I went. I think I'm feeling the effects of the raw food for sure, but my energy still feels pretty low.  I slept late today and could totally go back to bed right now. In fact, I've tried to figure out exactly how long I would be able to lie down before having to prepare my lunch and dinner and be to work by 2:45. I'm confident though that in the next few days, I'll be feeling much more energetic and am not going to judge myself for having been sick and just getting started with this new diet. I often times put too much pressure on myself and I just am not going to do it.  I think I WILL go lie down for about 20 minutes and then start getting ready. 

This is my first post at the end of day four.  It has been two years since my last detox.  I have never completed a juice fast succesfully before so i am curious to see what this is like.  I have done the master cleanse a bunch of times in the past, for 10, 14 and once for 40 days.  I love the master cleanse because it is so simple.  Make lemonade again and again- dont have to think about it. I thought perhaps the juice fast would be easier due to the variations in ingredients but i am finding that all the preparation and combining of things makes me a bit nervous and overwhelmed. 

Yesterday I woke up feeling really energized and gave six massages and then received a really powerful essential oil massage  (the raindrop with young living oils for detoxing) at the end of the day.  This morning i figured i would feel good- but i must be moving toxins cuz i felt kind of tired and pensive all day. 

I have to prepare food for my kids all day long and now they are on srping break so i really have to make every meal for them (they are 6 and 8 yrs old).  Its hard at times to be so close to the food and not just pop  a bite into my mouth as i am an habitual grazer i discovered.  

I am not very good at keeping track of what i am juicing or how much i am drinking.  sitting down and finishing a quart at once rarely feels possible.  Mostly my problem is that the juice is rarely pallatable and sometimes i feel nauseous while i am drinking it.  I think i need to make simpler combinations. 

I have been soing a lot of spinache, romaine, cellery, cucumber, carrot juice with apple or orange to make it taste a little better.  I tried to make a non sweet garlic green juice last night and made the mistake of juicing too much garlic and almost threw up.  Wont be making that mistake again.

 

I love my veggies and mostly live on salads but i cant seem to get myself to drink streight greens without gagging.  I wonder if anyone else has this issue?  I am really not wanting to do too much sugar.  I dont want to mess with highs and lows of blood sugar levels.  I had the water of two coconuts today- i had to use a hammer and knife to get a hole in them.  i forgot how to cut them open properly!  th coconut was the best thing i have had so far- but again i am worried about sugar content.

 

i dont thinki im coming close to a quart of fruit juice since its mixed with everything else.  but i would love some ideas as to how to make the savory juices taste better.

 

hope everyone is doing well!