September 21, 2004
Second day of this journey
Well... now: when someone has a day as busy as mine, who can even take the time to think about the raw issue? Well I did not have time to think of it, but it was constantly on my mind, and in fact I did dread the hunger through the day. Maybe I should be more lenient with myself.. naaahh, I've been lenient all my life, now it's time for a real change. My birthday is coming up soon too, so I gotta look good and feel good.
Today I ate a bunch of fruit and a bunch of vegetables. As I was saying, I am no great cook, so I really envisage this as being a very very unsophisticated journey, cuisine-wise. I was thinking today, do people ever get bored while they are on raw food? A lady was mentioning on a website that she makes special sauces from seeds and eats them with carrots and celery. Sounds yummy, and sounds like I should get myself a raw "cook" book.
There are many thoughts in my mind and have to organize them. First, I did not really go into this without any preparation. I ate lightly this past weekend, and relatively healthy stuff. Healthy, as in the "vague" notion of healthy. But I did stick primarily to fruit juice and a few bits and pieces of cooked stuff. I do not really think that my body will undertake major, MAJOR changes. And I hope it does not revolt against this enterprise of mine, either.
Since yesterday I have had no major eruption of acne or anything, but there is a sore spot on my upper lip, now WHAT is THAT!? It feels like I bit myself by accident. That should go away, please, now. I've had no headaches either, and the only ones I might get are b/c I am not too good at hydrating myself (as in drinking plain water). I drink billions of juices, but not really water. They say the fruit alone should be able to provide all the water we need, so for ppl on fruit diets, water is not exactly necessary. They say many things, who can remember and take account of them all?
My sleeping has been quite good too and the scale showed a clear improvement, but I do believe it was triggered by my light eating over the weekend. I seem to be @ a significantly improved figure of 160 lbs. One would think that some miracle has happened. Well the secret unfortunately is that I lose weight Very Very Rapidly, and put it back on Equally Rapidly once I cease dieting. So this is an illusion, the fast weight loss. However, I shall not deny the fact that it's highly motivating too. Too bad that with weight loss comes no guaranteed happiness. Used to be younger and used to think so. And yet, when I was at my lowest, I was also the unhappy-most. In fact, let me write this correctly. At my lowest, I've had both my happy-most and happy-least moments. So in statistical terms, there is no correlation...
There is a beautiful website with amazing pictures by a lady called...Nora. Her transformation images are absolutely stunning. Very inspirational, too. Speaking of websites though, I must draw your attention to the links on the right side of this blog. They appear to be generated automatically, and last night there was a bunch of links to mood disorder support groups and stuff. Very very interesting selection mechanism. I think that the way this works is some search engine picks words randomly, and then matches them with the corresponding websites. Now: a very light reading of this diary entry would select: great, beautiful, happy, birthday, feel, hope, entertaining. So it'd better be that the links tonight be rising up to the challenge!!!
I am doing unjustice to Health Diaries by not entirely sticking to the healthy side of life. I must confess. I smoke. OOoops. That needs to be remedied. I mean, rawfoodist who smokes? Yuck! They say that while on a raw food diet, retarded addictions such as smoking (or coffee drinking, for that matter), will be decreasingly sustainable, and will vanish in time. That's something I really wish to believe. Otherwise I will have to wait for the day when a health scare will send me to the 'no-smoking' land, and it will take One Big Scare to achieve that.
This being said, enough for tonight, and leaving more impressions for tomorrow. Bottomline: this ain't easy, but it's not impossible either.
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