Tracy’s Raw Food Journal

Hi Everyone,

Well, it’s been 11 days now since I last wrote in this blog. It’s not that I haven’t been writing…I have just been posting on a raw food forum and forgot to update here, too! Feel free to check out that blog at: http://www.rawfoodtalk.com/blogs/blog-12189/

You will need to register first, but this is a GREAT resource for support, recipes and information about the Raw Foods lifestyle!

Anyhow, I have been primarily raw…but continue to cave on little items here and there. I am not going to give myself too much grief over that, though, because I am doing EVER so much better than I used to, with regard to what I am putting into my body. I would have to say that I am probably 90% raw, at this point. Almost everything I eat is raw…with the occassional exception.

However, I realized tonight how passionately I believe in what the Raw Foods lifestyle can do for people. Well, actually, it wasn’t just tonight. I have become an evangelist, of sorts, for Raw Foods. Whenever I meet someone and they tell me about their own health problems or the health problems of someone they love, I immediately tell them they should go raw! So, I have to ask myself…if I believe so fervently in this way of living…why do I have such a hard time fully comitting to it, myself?

Food Addictions! I KNOW in my heart and mind that this is the most logical path to ultimate health and wellness…but my mouth is so tempted sometimes, that it makes it difficult to stay on the straight and narrow path. What that means is recomitting every single day, until I have broken my addictions permanently. Which I generally do DO, but sometimes it isn’t until AFTER I have given into the temptation before me! This is the wrong order to do it in! I need to recomitt BEFORE I put that piece of coffee cake in my mouth! Because I know that once I take a single bite, it’s over and I have to eat a whole piece! And then, not 15 minutes later, I am forced to deal with the results in my body. My stomach, specifically. The bloat…oh, the bloat! LOL! It sounds funny, but it really is very uncomfortable!

Anyhow, if you have this same challenge, then I suggest you try the same thing, and recomitt BEFORE you take that first bite.

Here is what I ate today:

For breakfast I ate some leftover raw carob pudding:

2 avocados, 6 dates – soaked, 4 Tbl. carob, 2 tsp. vanilla, 2 packets Stevia (natural, no-cal, no-carb sweetener). Blend till smooth and creamy. Yum! (This is even better with cocoa! But make sure it’s the raw kind!) (This is for a FULL recipe! It makes quite a lot and I only ate about a cupful for breakfast this morning…just what was left over from yesterday.)

Green Smoothie:

1 cup orange juice, large handful raw spinach, 1 banana, about 2 cups frozen peach slices, 1 tsp. vanilla, 1 pkt. Stevia. Blend.

Tossed Salad: organic wild greens, raw spinach, red bell pepper slices, black olives, minced fresh garlic, shredded carrot, oil & vinegar dressing (Paul Newman’s)

A little basmati rice (cooked) A slice of homemade apple coffee cake (cooked) Couple glasses red wine. 3 dates.