Day 22 Making new friends with food

As you can tell I keep dating my post like I'm still on the cleanse for a good reason. In my mind I'm still on a cleanse even though I'm not drinking my SWF and 8 glasses of lemonade, I'm still cleansing myself on a daily basis. So just because the MC is officially over doesn't mean my transition has to be.





I woke up this morning to a complex: What to eat??????


I had been to the grocery store over the weekend to get stuff for work like veggie chips, dehydrated fruit and salad greens but nothing to really eat. I figured I was going to be on the OJ for at least 2 days so I really didn't plan that far ahead. After my awful experience with the chicken noodle last night I really don't want any process foods (I didn't last night either but kinda had no choice). I'm surprisingly craving greens, tomatoes (which isn't odd for me), avocados and fruit!!





I had purchased a book called Green Smoothie Revolution by Victoria Boutenko and read it amongst other Raw Vegan books while I was on my cleanse. I picked out the first 4 green smoothies listed in the book to make and headed to the grocery store without eating a thing (I'm usually not hungry first thing in the morning anyway plus I'm learning to listen to my body so I only eat when it tells me to). Once I was there I was in the fresh produce section and man every thing smelled so good! But first I stopped by the Vegan section and picked up some spinach noodles, some dumplings and 2 other kinds of vegan noodles to mix things up since I'm shooting for 50% raw (even though so far I've been 95-100% raw YAY!!)





I loaded up on some mango, kale, celery, ginger root, peaches, pineapple, cantaloupe, parsley, cucumber, apples, avocados, tomatoes, vegan coconut bars and banana's (all organic of coarse). They had everything I needed except the dandelion greens, I guess they were out. I got home and wanted to make a green smoothie so bad but knew I only had enough to make starting tomorrow through Friday. I did a MAJOR cleaning on my refrigerator and made room for all my new friends and found a recent bottle of "green machine" by Naked juice. There was my answer to my green drink for today. I used to drink those all the time b/c they were packed full of super green foods like spirulina, chlorella, barley grass, wheat grass, blue green algae and it tasted good! Listen at me I sound like a raw food guru already LOL!





I haven't eaten anything yet as I just finished off my Naked juice but my next meal will be a yummy salad with some tomatoes!! I just can't believe how easy this is becoming and all along in my head I've thought it was going to be so difficult to change and how expensive it was going to be. I stocked up on some produce today and it would have only been like $60 if I hadn't bought the cooked vegan noodles and dumplings which brought it up to $90. I guess when you get your mind away from the bad stuff and gear your brain toward the goodness and get your body to where it actually craves what it really NEEDS this raw stuff becomes very simple! I used to spend loads of money on organic produce only to let it sit in the fridge and spoil. Why??? Because even though I knew I needed to eat healthy and I made it easily available, I really didn't crave it so when I went to reach for food (which I did often as an over eater) it was the hot dogs or the TV dinners..............my addiction to crap had taken over. Ahhh, talking like my addiction and overeating are a thing of the past really gives me a sense of accomplishment.............but I'm not out of the woods yet! Its a long process and a relapse is a very real thing that I've experienced too many times, so I'm just taking things one day at a time.





I'm looking forward to my new lifestyle, I actually feel true excitement for the first time in a long time and IT FEELS GRRRRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTT!

Todays eats:
48oz pure water
15.2 oz of green machine Naked juice
1 HUGE salad with spring mix greens and baby spinich, cherry tomatoes and Braggs salad dressing
may have some peppermint tea before going to bed
PS I had my first solid BM today YAY
O and I started the probiotics last night at work once I ate the chickenless chicken noodle soup.