June 15th 2009 Raw Challenge - Day Fifteen

[bowie]

Welcome to day 15!

[Juwo]

Cravings aren't stronger than me! It is a real challenge, but i will win!

[Redrocket]

B-banana, pineapple, blueberry, chard leaves, apple and dates smoothie

S-plum

L-1/3 of a lettuce rap, the other 2/3s didn't get eaten because the preparer (who obviously doesn't understand RAW) put cooked sweet potato in it. So I proceded to ask him to put some chicken in it while he was at it. I'm just giving up on eating out at health food eateries. I came home and had dinner instead.

D-raw chili w/ sunflower sprouts and green onions.

S-Apple/banana mint shake................darn I forgot to put the chocolate in there

[meow]

Good job, Juwo! Stay strong and keep your goals in mind!

I am still detoxing like crazy, but was at least able to get some exercise today. I have felt very weak and flu-like though. I can't wait til it passes!

-green smoothie w/ 3 bananas, frozen strawberries/mango/blueberries and kale. 3 more bananas.
-3 more bananas & 2 apples
*50 min. hilly power walk*
-half a banana; half a raw sweet potato sliced thin w/ guacamole
-salad w/ baby romaine, mushrooms, red pepper, tomato, carrots, cucumber, vinegar
*40-ish minute walk*
-1.5 bananas, cup of fresh strawberries

[katchmoleen]

I seem to be detoxing too. Details in my blog So I am hanging out in bed taking it easy.

B: almond milk and banana smoothie. Got me through plasma donation in good shape.
L: raw guacamole with celery sticks, banana
S: a bare naked salad, as the two batches of vinaigrette I have made keep getting knocked over and spilled.

I still need to eat more, probably will have some almond milk and maybe an apple or something for a snack, if I can find the energy to get out of bed and make it.

[carolv]

Bowie – Hang in There!

LiveLife – thank you for the link for the watermelon cake you posted in your post yesterday. What a great idea!

30 minutes on treadmill
20 oz smoothie – water, 1 frozen banana, frozen strawberries, baby spinach, honey
baby carrots, sugar snap peas, and hummus
salad with lettuce from Farmer’s market, spinach, ½ avocado, alfalfa sprouts, tomato, spiral slicer beets, black walnuts, crumbled dehydrated zucchini peel, crumbled tomato flax crackers.
Dressing made of sun-dried tomato soaking water, cider vinegar, olive oil.
mango, kiwi fruit, blueberries with lemon juice, lime juice, honey
red grapes
granola, blueberries, almond milk
green chips (kale and swiss chard)
60 oz water total

[LiveLife]

Still doing the 99% thing as I still catch myself tasting my husband's food once in a while. Also, I realized another habit I had was taking the prenatal/postpartum multivitamins that my doctor convinced me I needed while I was pregnant and breastfeeding. Although I am still breastfeeding I am a raw foody so I am confident that I DO NOT need them (plus the ingredients have been processed anyways). So, out they go! (I will be giving them to my roommate who is pregnant and eats a very much so SAD).

[Veganelle]

Felt really gross today. Woozy and nauseous.... I think it may have been from a smoothie I drank last night and some this morning, made of dandelion greens and cucumber. I will NEVER make that foul concoction again. My husband chopped up some cucumber for our salads this evening, and I couldn't even stand the smell, thanks to associating it with the smoothie.

S - glass of watermelon juice
B - buckwheat/zucchini bread with cashew butter and a banana
S - several flax crackers, some jicama garlic toasts
L - large green salad at Whole Foods
S - bowl of grapes
S - several slices watermelon
D - large salad with red leaf lettuce, onion, shredded beet and carrot, alfalfa sprouts, Korean radish and miso dressing.
S - strawberry sorbet with walnut/date brownie.

[kidkid]

I can't wait until I can hang in there long enough to actually begin detoxing. Unfortunately, although I was completely raw yesterday, I smoked cigarettes! haha. one day at a time, just one day at a time. Not stressing it, just owning it.

I was extremely blessed today -- I scored bags and bags of free organic produce. It would have been thrown away from the local co-op because it was slightly wilted, but the co-op was awesome enough to give it to a friend of mine. Tons of kale, spinache, chard, lettuce, zucchini, radishes, carrots, and oranges. I am so grateful and ecstatic.:) I don't have a steady job right now, so it's gifts like this that keep me afloat and raw.

today was:
B--lettuce and mache salad with pine nut pesto
S--GoRaw spirulina bar
L--avocado with limejuice, summer squash
S--Cherries from a tree that I biked past
D--a huge lettuce salad with tomato, celery, scallion, cucumber and olives. And a strawberry kombucha to wash it all down.

[Rose Goddess]

Green Smoothie:
Radish Tops
Parsley
Blackberry
Banana

Other Amazing Food:
Island Fire with mms
Big Salad
Chia pudding
Raw chocolate:)
I receive my check from Elements for Life today! I love getting paid for selling superfoods! Today I watched “What The Bleep Do We Know.” I find it so interesting that our cells can actually have more receptor sites for certain emotional states than for vitamins and minerals. We can actually be addicted to our emotions . . .