tammay
08-12-2007, 08:21 PM
This weekend has been just awful :( .
I've been back on a high raw diet for only 3 days, part of it due to the roach invasion that has taken place in my kitchen and my effort to minimize my cooking while still eating healthy food (I was doing Eat to Live before which was actually pretty raw-friendly but had me preparing and cooking a lot). I'll admit I'm a little twisted - I'm just psychologically grossed out by the idea of preparing food on a counter where I know just underneath in the drawers and cupboards are lurking a bunch of roaches...
Anyway, I was doing for a few days and then the weekend hit. I decided to de-roach my kitchen, cleaning it from top to bottom, putting in roach baits, spraying, putting everything possible in ziplock bags. It was actually a great opportunity to get rid of a lot of cooked food I had around and clear my kitchen, so it was a good thing. However, I've been just stressed out about these roaches and nothing seems to be making them go away. So the stress paired with the issue of being grossed out in the kitchen has driven me to eat junk. I ate fruit all morning Saturday, then after I finished cleaning and de-roaching, I felt ill at the thought of trying even just to prepare a salad or a raw soup amidst all that poison so I ate junk. Today I was trying to make a smoothie this morning when the blender tipped over, spilling the contents all over the floor I just cleaned and de-roached! All the anxiety and stress of having to deal with these buggers (we're talking 5-6 roaches minimum showing up during the day, not 1 or 2, or I wouldn't be freaking out so much) caved in on me and I burst into tears.
Somehow, though, I managed to do ok with fruit but now I was seriously contemplating ordering pizza. I actually got to the point of looking up a place nearby on the web. I know what the core issue was - I was afraid to start preparing something raw in my kitchen, to open cabinets and drawers where I'd sprayed, etc., afraid that a bunch of roaches would come running out at me. But I took a deep breath and made myself some raw guacamole. I still wasn't perfect - I ate it on sprouted bread (not raw) but at least it's better than a pizza.
Tomorrow I'm thinking I'll take all of the fruits and veggies in my fridge and wash them, so they'll be ready to grab without my even having to go to the sink. I think that will help me during these next few days, while I see if my efforts to clean out my kitchen have succeeded in making the buggers go away.
Tam
I've been back on a high raw diet for only 3 days, part of it due to the roach invasion that has taken place in my kitchen and my effort to minimize my cooking while still eating healthy food (I was doing Eat to Live before which was actually pretty raw-friendly but had me preparing and cooking a lot). I'll admit I'm a little twisted - I'm just psychologically grossed out by the idea of preparing food on a counter where I know just underneath in the drawers and cupboards are lurking a bunch of roaches...
Anyway, I was doing for a few days and then the weekend hit. I decided to de-roach my kitchen, cleaning it from top to bottom, putting in roach baits, spraying, putting everything possible in ziplock bags. It was actually a great opportunity to get rid of a lot of cooked food I had around and clear my kitchen, so it was a good thing. However, I've been just stressed out about these roaches and nothing seems to be making them go away. So the stress paired with the issue of being grossed out in the kitchen has driven me to eat junk. I ate fruit all morning Saturday, then after I finished cleaning and de-roaching, I felt ill at the thought of trying even just to prepare a salad or a raw soup amidst all that poison so I ate junk. Today I was trying to make a smoothie this morning when the blender tipped over, spilling the contents all over the floor I just cleaned and de-roached! All the anxiety and stress of having to deal with these buggers (we're talking 5-6 roaches minimum showing up during the day, not 1 or 2, or I wouldn't be freaking out so much) caved in on me and I burst into tears.
Somehow, though, I managed to do ok with fruit but now I was seriously contemplating ordering pizza. I actually got to the point of looking up a place nearby on the web. I know what the core issue was - I was afraid to start preparing something raw in my kitchen, to open cabinets and drawers where I'd sprayed, etc., afraid that a bunch of roaches would come running out at me. But I took a deep breath and made myself some raw guacamole. I still wasn't perfect - I ate it on sprouted bread (not raw) but at least it's better than a pizza.
Tomorrow I'm thinking I'll take all of the fruits and veggies in my fridge and wash them, so they'll be ready to grab without my even having to go to the sink. I think that will help me during these next few days, while I see if my efforts to clean out my kitchen have succeeded in making the buggers go away.
Tam