Then I realized...maybe I need a blog app on my phone

Updating and keeping track has been difficult. What day am I on again?

Time for some recipes

:-) 22 days, yes! let perfect not be the killer of ok! Marching on ... http://www.rawsoul.com/

What Im eating Day 21

BK: 6 Bananas organic
      Bowl of Ezekiel sprouted cereal

LU: olive and onion ciabatta with olive oil, rice with carrots and olive oil

Snack: raw carrots and broccoli florets

DN: ---

What Im eating Day 20

carrot apple beet juice

BK 2 vegetable samosas

LU broccoli and millet

DN mixed vegetables and angel hair rice noodles (mei fun)

What Im eating Day 19

Breakfast: 7 organic bananas (mrs greens)

Thats 700 easy calories, best food alive, rumored to reduce stress.

Early lunch:
kale and mushroom gently cooked in olive oil (veggies free from farmer friend, Fairway supermarket unfiltered olive oil $8.99/1 liter bottle)
baby romaine salad $3.99 (natures promise stop and shop)
seaweed salad $3.85 (mrs greens market)

Snack Multigrain Chips

Early Dinner Vegan sesame noodles salad with mixed baby romaine salad

Snack Dried mangoes,
carrot beet apple juice

What Im eating Day 18

I woke up hungry and ate what I had in the house a bag of plantain chips

Breakfastt: Carrot apple beet ginger juice

Lunch: Mixed baby Romaine lettuce, seaweed salad and asian pear .....( seriously delicious)

Snack: one large crispin apple, plantain chips

Dinner: ---


Um I need to eat more food

Sandy and stubborness

Going to chalk it up to Sandy and stubborness...the ratio of raw to cooked food increased in favor of cooked food of course. Eergy dropped, mood disgusting and anger flared. What I ate days 9 - 17 are a blur of high starch food, morning fruit smoothies and lamentations, ending with me popping two chicken nuggets, I couldn't resist, and I forgot the golden rule, eating more fresh fruit and veggies stops the meat craving.
I stopped lamenting and being so hard on myself picked myself up and said a vegan is not born overnight, try again....so next blog what Im eating day 18.

What I am eating Day 8

Breakfast: 6 bananas

Lunch:
wheatgrass
black beans, mashed purple potato, mushrooms in coconut sauce

Snack: vegan vanilla cake

Dinner:  ---

The fear of exercise

...the fear is real and Im coaxing myself to snap out of it. Formalized exercise is scary to me, doing chores, gardening, everyday or not so everyday activities that require exertion not so scary, I enter with relish....A gym however, petrifying.

Eating "plant based" is difficult, period!

I don't even want to blog, cause frankly I'm embarrassed. 75% raw, hmmmm more like 10%. What have I been eating, a ton of cooked food that is what! Hurricane Sandy did not make matters any better. Rather than wallow in defeat, everyday the sun rises is another day to try again with the goal in mind :-)

What I am eating Day 7

Breakfast:
Wheatgrass
Salad - mixed herb greens, mixed dried fruit and nuts, apples, cucumber, avocado

Snack:
One vegan Brownie

Lunch:
Jolos restaurant 5 spice tofu, wild rice and spinach

Dinner: Boiled white Ghana yam with African fish  peppersoup (sans fish)

Do not smoke Marijuana

I say don't smoke Marijuana, it is a system depleter and I believe an immunosuppresant in smoke form. The effects others speak about - transcedance, a state of well being, may be completely  individualistic, not broadspectrum effects. I think it nullifies most if not all the positive effects of a plant based diet.

I am also beginning to suspect the promotion of Marijuana smoking by creatives is propaganda, I have no proof, but I am suspicious. The plant based diet high is like no other it is a whole feeling with no sideeffects.

I also believe exercise and meditation may exceed the "high" from Marijuana smoke, will have to test it out.
That is all on this topic.

What Im eating Day 6

Breakfast:
Wheatgrass
Raw kale salad rice noodles with batter fried broccoli

Snack
Organic non GMO bag of corn tortilla chips

Lunch:  Smoke

Dinner: Smoke

Eating plants brings upon you a state of well being...

I noticed for the first time that a lot of people are angry, all around me people are angry, at the gas station, in eateries, on the street.... While noticing this, I noticed I was becoming happier, I suppose the difference in the state of my internal being from the external is what caused me to notice...this feeling became crystal on Monday October 22nd

What I am eating Day 5

Breakfast:
Wheatgrass
Oatmeal with nuts, raisins, apples, banana, maple syrup, cinnamon and nutmeg

Snack: (Fried or baked?) Large wedge potatoes and large raw carrot

Lunch:
Salad  Romaine and mixed green lettuve, apples asparagus, almonds, raisins and avocado
whole wheat baguette

Dinner: One pint of brown rice fried rice (without egg)

Snack: Smoke

What Im eating Day 4

Breakfast:
Tierra - 8 oz Organic raw mix Almonds cashews walnuts, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds and flame raisins -- the entire container

Snack: 2 oz Wheagrass & Kale, pineapple papaya juice
Lunch: Salad mixed field green salad, romaine lettuce with apple carrot tomatoes and cucumber

Snack apples

Dinner: rice and peas, spinach, large mixed green salad with escovitch fish
(cant really say why I chose to eat fish, perhaps because it was "a special dinner" outing and the person looking at me from across the table would have made too much of a fuss about veganism, and the menu actually had zero vegan entrees besides a few side dishes, I went with the path of least resistance and ordered the fish lol you've got to pick your battles with carnivores :-) )

Exercise

I need it. Possibly the necessary component to making this diet work, and keeping my appetite up.

What Im eating day 3

Breakfast:
3 bannas
1 apple
1 pear
One vegan breakfast cookie from red barn bakery
Digest Gold

Lunch:
2 oz wheatgrass
Large Romaine salad, carrots & cucumbers
Brown fried rice

Snack:
Digest Gold

Dinner:
--

Water
Plantain chips

Wheatgrass

Im not yet 75% raw, but optimistically approaching...I believe I needed to pump of the volume of nutrients, reviewing my intake and the summersaults my stomach wa smaking, I thought the addition of the power food wheatgrass would give me a boost.

No getting around it, wheatgrass is not the tastiest green on the block..

What Im eating Day 2

Breakfast:
Bowl of mixed fruit with honey

Snack
Homemeade granola

Lunch:
Mixed greens and spinach salad with avocado, apples, cranberry, carrots, cucumbers and almonds
White bean and vegetable soup

Snack
Multigrain baguette with cooked mixed greens

Dinner:
Brown fried rice with mixed vegetable (restaurant bought so had some eggs in it)

Digestion

Im beginning to believe that eating just plants is a bizarre and unatural thing to do...or maybe its the rumbling, bloating and GAS that is swaying my thoughts.

I dont have multiple guts and neither can I digest tough plant fiber, so the vegan argument that cows and gorillas are strong and vegan isnt sitting well with me at the moment. I dont have cow or gorilla biochemistry or anatomy for crying out loud, why should I eat like them! *sigh*...off to the health food store I must go if I want to survive past my official day 1, to get digestive enzymes and probiotics. I believe I have to strengthen my gut for this transition.

What I'm eating: Day 1

Bkfst:
Large bowl of mixed fruit

Lunch:
Large salad spinach and mixed green salad, with avocado, tomatoes, cucumber, carrots, almonds, carnberry with a sesame ginger dressing
Mixed vegetable soup
Small multigrain baguette

Snack
2 bananas and a serving of grapes

Dinner:
Multigrain baguette sandwich with roasted peppers eggplant and stirfried greens

Why Vegan...

Someone close to me has to go on a plant based diet to survive a possible terminal illness. My dad died from complications due to cancer June of this year, Im not ready to lose any more family members due to "preventable" disease. The doctors, nutritionists we've spoken to have claimed that a plant based diet will reverse any degenerative condition.
So my love, I'm going to hold your hand and we will go on this journey together, for better or worse...Im hoping for better...lets take that first step to Veganland, to health restored :-)