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November 04, 2004

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Well... Thank you for your question! A week's menu would be a repetition of every day's menu... unfortunately I still have not given up coffee, and that's really bad, since it's a source of many, many toxins. I am well aware of that. But in the morning when I wake up I usually have some fruit, sometimes two bananas, other times a LOT of melon. It turns out that fruit in the morning are quite good for digestion. Perhaps not all are good, but I feel good eating these two. At lunch I have a tossed salad from the deli around the corner, no dressing, and the ingredients are the unprocessed things they offer. I tend to prefer spinach leaves rather than romaine lettuce for its nutrients. I then add tomatoes, cucumbers, red/green peppers, raw mushrooms, some black olives, rarely a tiny bit of onion, and rarely some peas. In the evening I make another salad at home, pretty late at night unfortunately :(. To that I add (non transparent, Italian made) olive oil, and sometimes I indulge in having one whole avocado in that salad. I could eat even two avocados in one sitting! (Shameful, I know...). The evening salad usually has a lot of calliflower, greens, and tomatoes again. More recently I have started adding raw seeds to the salads, and they taste really well. I sprinkle some lemon juice, and add the olive oil.

To be very honest, I am suprised at myself. I have NEVER EVER in my entire life been able to follow a diet regimen (of any type, really!). I've even gone through the insane Atkins diet, and yes, the pounds did melt away, but my digestion was crap, and I just switched back to normal eating. Very rarely I miss cooked food, but I do indulge in herbal teas every evening, too. Plus around two coffees per day. This way of eating has taken away my stomach aches, which were very very upsetting. I could not understand what was going on! Perhaps my body was just saying no to the eternal abuse.

There is an entire school of thought surrounding raw eating. While I do not know all the health related details (and I would probably not agree with some of them), nor the philosophical arguments (especially on natural hygiene, etc.), I deep down inside FEEL that this is right for the body. And the evidence, so far, has been more than convincing.

Thanks again for your question, and wish you all the best.

Posted by Liliaak at 01:05 AM | Comments (11247)