Day4… and I’m feeling it
weight this am: 161.2 (started off at 167 4 days ago, that’s a pretty fast loss)
This day did not start off good. I woke up feeling, for lack of a better word, emotionally ‘raw’, LOL. It felt like all my emotions were stuffed down for years by cooked food and now that’s gone and I’m just… empty. I don’t like this feeling. I just sat and stared at the wall and cried through my shower.
We had to leave for the day for two dental appointments for the kids and I came prepared with lots of raw foods and lara bars too. Here’s what I ate so far today:
banana
apple
handful grapes
few raspberries
choc larabar
banana
lg. green salad with avocado/salsa “dressing”
overall, i ate really well but there was too large of a gap in the middle of the day while we were out and i was famished! At one point, the fruit I was eating was tasting so bad and I finally realized that was my signal to eat something green. So, after the salad, I felt much better.
Right now, I have a headache and I feel sluggish. I just can’t bring myself to clean anything or fold the laundry. This is the first day that I have had zero energy, ugh.
i ran into costco today to load up on fruit and when i made it to the register, they informed me my card was expired. When I told the cashier that my mom renewed our family business acount over the phone, he laughed incredulously and called the manager over. She sort of laughed too and said she had never heard of such a thing. I was so mad and I told them I had never been treated so poorly and would never be coming to their particular store again. Normally, I’m pretty easygoing and sometimes don’t respond to things like this. Even though I was shaking as I left the store, I was so happy that I stood up for myself! Hooray!
Moral of the story: Don’t mess with a woman on a raw food transition diet! haha
I know that I can at least make it through the rest of the night. If I can get to bed early, like I feel I need to tonight, I think I’ll feel ok tomorrow. I’m starting to wonder why I started this.
Day3 of raw foods
I’m so glad to have a personal blog again. My old blog morphed into a business blog and I don’t want to write anything too personal there.
So, this is Day 3. I’ve been vegetarian for years. My mom pulled me out of school a couple times to go to animal rights protests so we were pretty hardcore. THen I switched to being vegan when my second son had serious allergies to dairy. I then read Nature’s First Law and tried being raw out for about a month. I never felt better but I went back to my old ways. A few months ago, I read Skinny Bitch, which got me to remove refined flour, sugars, grains but after about 15 pounds, the weight loss stopped. So, I got out my inspirational book again and here I am!
I’m fighting the cooked food cravings pretty well and I’m still running. I go back and forth between feeling euphoric and feeling ‘empty’, like I want cookies or chips to fill something up. *sigh*
I’ve been running 3 weekdays with my daughter in the jogger and one longer run on the weekend. Today, we were going down our usual route and I saw the fluffiest little caterpillar. Now, normally I would hope she didn’t see it so I didn’t have to stop but this time, I stopped, picked the fluffy little guy up and gave it to her. She was so happy and I mused on the way home how I would missed that moment before.
When we got home, I watered the chickens and jumped on the trampoline. I NEVER jump on the trampoline with the kids anymore but it was so fun. I hope I can continue this. I want to be healthy and I want to feel better.
Matthew's name in the sand on a beach in Australia
