August 2012 30 Day Raw Challenge

[robh]

I plan to take some pictures tonight if it's not too gloomy and will post tomorrow.

Yeah, I am curious to see your sprouts. I assume you grow them outdoors?

ReneeH, Let us know how your Kale Chips come out. I haven't made them yet. Everyone talks about them. I am pretty curious.

harkly, the food you have posted there would cause me to be extremely hungry all day. I hope this is not he case for you. good luck today.

happylife, good luck going to the buffet. that is a hard one.

[leafgrrl]

I started on Monday. I still have a headache from caffeine withdrawal and am exhausted but I'm excited to be back on the raw diet again. I've been vegan for about 10 years and have been raw off and on for a few years (mostly off). My goal is to stay 100% raw this time. :)

[Lucy76]

Hello people! Good luck with the 30 day challenge to everyone!

I'm in too!!

I had a sunflower seed milk smoothie for breakfast, with pea protein, bananas, chia seeds and vanilla. That's pretty much what I have everyday for breakfast these days, because I start work really early so I can't juice in the morning.

Bananas and apples for lunch, and a carrot juice too. I work at a health food store, and they have a juice bar, where i get half price (it's still expensive though, and small portions, so I don't do it very often).

Dinner was juice juice and more juice. Apples, carrots, amaranth greens, pears, and oranges. And a handful of cashews.

A little while ago, I had another smoothie with sunmilk and frozen bananas, it was yummy! And now I'm off to bed, because I gotta wake up at 6 tomorrow (which reminds me... I don't have an alarm clock, because my cell phone that served as one, got stollen today... along with my purse. Bummer) Anyway, the sun will come up tommoroooooooow...

Goodnight everyone!

P.S I have pizza crust in the dehydrator right now YAY!! Tomorrow I'll be having pizza for dinner!

[PinkieKitty]

Hey everone!!

Today I had:

Breakfast - Just water
Snack - 2 small raw teddy shaped chocolates
Lunch - 2 nori rolls filled with a layer of almond butter, shredded carrot and shredded cucumber
Dinner - 2 pink lady apples
Snack - 1 medjool date!

[BeWell]

Rob,
I love your post...I am definitely going try some of your raw combos. Yesterday, I mainly ate blueberries all day! And I had a sliced cucumber with lemon and dressing in the evening. I am definitely looking forward to more raw creations from you all.
Thanks again!

[Divine Soul]

gosh I want kale chips now but I don't have a dehydrator, we made them in the oven when I wasn't raw and they tasted amazing our oven only goes down to 170 though... ;_;...can't buy dehydrator need to save money for car :{

right now drinking a frozen banana, frozen peach, frozen blueberries, two heaping spoon fulls of cacao splash of agave (not really liking the agave part) and water smoothie. I want kale chips....and flax crackers....waaa

[RedCedar]

Hello August-eers!

Wow, who needs a gym membership when you can lug around a huge baby? Lovely, sunny day here, getting some kinda, sorta fresh air with my kid. I'm amazed at my energy; still waking up twice a night to feed our guy, but once I started walking today there was no stopping--'til I knew he needed a break. I'm thinking the raw foods and associated weight loss has helped a lot with my mood and energy. Lost about 7 pounds last month!

Ok, today I have only had a chance to eat some chia pudding (with coconut water and cacao), and an overly priced banana/date/almond milk smoothie served by surly people (ever order food and feel like you've interrupted an argument between staff?).
If I had known I might be out so long, I would have packed something for myself.

Tonight will be a humongous salad, followed by frozen-banana & berry ice cream. If you have not made this, you must. just, do it.

[effortlessvegan]

Well I am going to give this another try. I have been vegan most of my adult life (38 years) and high raw for a year. I really enjoy this forum but I have not been very good with posting on a daily basis. I'm hoping this month will be different. I use to post in the morning but I think if I post in the evening at the end of the day, I'll be more consistent. I'm looking forward to sharing with everyone. I have prepared some go to foods to help with cravings, such as raw brownies to curb the occasional sweet tooth that fruit doesn't seem to curb.
Today I had:
B: 2 tangerines, banana, chia porridge with coconut milk, cinnamon, blueberries and chia seeds
L: salsa with cucumbers and cubed red peppers, handful of almonds
D: large green salad with raw ranch dressing and sprinkling of nutritional yeast and ground black pepper.
Oh...and a couple of raw brownies during the day.
Good Luck everyone.

[LexieW]

Hey everybody!

Phew, I'm busy. Work work work! But it's good work and I love my job, so I can't really complain.

Today's meals:

Breakfast: full glass of raw, fresh orange juice with spirulina (and a little MSM), 2 kiwi fruits.
Snack: Apple
Lunch: Large salad of mixed greens, cabbage, tomato and alfalfa sprouts
Dinner: Sloppy Jose - I treated myself to this from my local raw restaurant. Too tired to remember or list all that was in it, but it was yummy and hit the spot!
Dessert: Strawberries!

There's a lot of life in this thread so far. I'm excited to interact with everyone. Hopefully I will be a little less busy soon and will be able to check in more often.

1 day down, yay!

[happylife]

I am going to do a 3 day juice fast. Just got a new juicer and want to give it a workout.
Everyone here is doing a really great job already.

Starting weight 122#
Would like to get down to at least 112#

[SunshineMN]

For breakfast I had a couple bananas and later in the morning I had some grapes. Didn't eat anything else until 8 hours later. Had a big mixed greens salad with various sprouts, cauliflower and some tomato. Been drinking water with lemon and pineapple juice in it all day. I'm really glad we gave up drinking pop a couple years ago. Might have a few dates and some brazil nuts and walnuts in a bit here for a snack.

Rob, I noticed that I sleep better too if I haven't had anything to eat for hours before going to bed. Glad you figured that out for yourself. :)

Nice to see so many getting off on the right foot this month. :)

[robh]

leafgrrl, welcome

Lucy76, welcome back. Sorry to hear about your things getting stolen. Also are you making alissa's pizza?

BeWell, glad my post was helpful.

RedCedar, Welcome back. I know what you are talking about. My "baby" is two now and he always wants his daddy to carry him - ugh! Also, my energy levels are much much higher on raw. Like you said, there is just no stopping. Love the dancing banana!

effortlessvegan, those raw brownies can really hit the spot. I need to make some. Also, welcome back.

LexieW, the raw sloppy joe sounds good!

happylife, I need a juicer. I bet apple juice would make awesome chia pudding. Juicers are so darned expensive, though. congrats on getting one

SunshineMN, I snacked last night after dinner and stayed up too late. I am tired this morning.


I stayed 100% raw yesterday. Though, the plan eat did not get executed flawlessly.

In the morning, I started to get hungry around 10am which is early for me. I also felt drained. Around noon, when I normally eat I was feeling tired, achy and like I had a cold coming on. These are the hallmark signs of detox for me (I had some bad food recently). Instead of putting food in my belly and stopping the detox process, I road it out for a couple of hours to help get over it. I finally ate around 2pm and I ate stuff in the wrong order. I actually didn't eat the chia seeds that I brought.

About 5:30 or so I made some raw popcorn and put it in the dehydrator. Then, I made my salad and the avocado-spinach dip. Also, I put a jalapeno pepper on my salad (a not smart choice, I realized later). For some reason, I just didn't like the avocado dip I made so I put half in the fridge.

Then, we went to play tennis and it started raining 5 minutes after we got there. It was a bummer and walking home in a down pour was not fun.

When I got home, I wanted to eat something. I ended up eating the raw popcorn (wasn't finished dehydrating). Then I had a bowl of raw cereal and raw almond milk. Then, I had walnuts and craisins. I just kept snacking until bed (which never works out well for me).

If I had played tennis, I wouldn't have been hungry and I wouldn't have snacked afterward. I don't know why by exercise shuts down my desire to eat. (go figure)

I also couldn't fall asleep. That friggen jalapeno pepper was hurting my stomach.

Even though I woke up tired, I know today is going to be better.

I think I am going to have a little fruit a half hour BEFORE my salad tonight. (I fart like a truck driver if I eat fruit after my salad.) Also, I'm going to skip the avocado. Assuming that I can play tennis tonight, I think a little more fruit, a little less fat and some exercise should help put the spring back in my step (and hopefully help me lose the few pounds I gained while being bad).

Not sure why I felt compelled to share all that this morning. lol

Have a good day everyone!

[MysticTree]

Some not very brilliant pictures here.
1) Young courgette plants and the wild riverbank behind
2) Pea shoots growing outside in a veg bed
3) Some trays with various stuff in including wheat, peas, corn and fenugreek.
4) My indoor area where the next lot of seeds are soaking and where I keep my jar sprouting sprouts.

The fence that you can see at the back of the last picture is the boundary fence so we get people walking by chatting and cars passing rather close.

Lots of fruit and veg so far today. Cherries, tomatoes, bananas and some mango I plan to have later :o)

[MysticTree]

Sorted the picture anomaly. Please could admin remove this post now.
Thanks

[Willpower]

Good morning everyone...

I probably won't be the best at posting everyday, but I'll be in and out all month. Yesterday I had some quinoa so I guess I officially start today, although the 2 weeks prior I was 100% raw.

Started my day off today with two bananas and a couple of filberts.

hope everyone has a wonderful day!!!

Will