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  1. DAY ONE

    So we have decided to not wait until Monday to begin our Raw Challenge.

    We decided to start today! After feeding ourselves sick one last time at the Chinese Buffet last night, we were determined to not put it off any longer. And decided why wait until Monday, we need to do this now!

    Me and Mom went on a nice brisk walk this morning, then went to the new awesome co-op market to load up on everything we needed. I was a little overwhelmed trying to find everything
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  2. trying again

    i am going through a really rough time and can't seem to go through a day without wanting to eat cooked food. i am about to leave a job in food service, and once i am gone i think it will be much easier for me to stay raw (to start out) than it has been otherwise. i'm not giving up going raw, but until i get my life figured out, i'm not able to be 100% raw all the time. it has taken me a while to realize this, and it is a very difficult thing for me to post here because i am feeling slightly ...
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  3. All the food is just so...mushy

    I just got Alissa's book so I haven't tried any of HER recipes but so far, except for the basic salad, everything is just so mushy. I feel like a patient in hospital I used to see on a low texture diet, everything she ate was mush. Even things with nuts or seeds, because they are pulvarized in processor, they just feel like grains of sand mixed with mush in my mouth.

    I haven't bought a dehydrator yet, which I would hope would help with this texture problem, but wondering if it ...
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  4. Oh shoot!

    I'm trying to blog every day, but I forgot yesterday because there was a big party downtown that I went to. It's was a Bollywood Biking party, and me and N biked 7 miles by the canal and watched bollywood films shown outdoors on a big screen and talked and chatted with friends.
    I was pretty proud of myself because i brought some nuts and a mango and snacked on those while others were lining up for oktoberfaust sausages. barf.
    And then, at 3 in the morning, i biked the delicious 7 miles
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  5. Day something

    I'm back! I didn't write after I got home from California...just haven't had the opportunity/thought of it

    I'm going to copy and paste from a post I just made:


    Well this morning I made a green smoothie with three bananas, a hand ful of spinach, maybe five or 6 strawberries, a huge handful of raspberries, and some blueberries, also a bit of MSM and maybe 2 tbsp of you're my everything supplement (it has i believe, spirulina, cracked-cell chlorella (?), sprouted ...
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