Stuck

Monday, August 3, 2009

Stuck

I feel stuck. I haven't been eating a raw diet for quite some time now. I've gained quite a bit of weight and I don't like it. Who would? It's frustrating because I have this amazing, bountiful garden with amazing goodness available for harvest and even get food delivered to my door by my CSA (including tons of zucchini that "I just don't know what to do with". Ha! There's zucchini noodles, zucchini hummus, zucchini chips... what is wrong with me?

Anyway, I'm preparing for a one day mono diet cleanse/fast. I'm choosing cucumbers because we have an abundance of them and they are oh so good for me. I'm hoping this will jump start a fresh inspiration to move back in the raw direction, even if it's not 100% raw. I have a friend that would like to do raw for one week with me so I'm hunting down recipes now and planning some good dehydrated breads and crackers to help get back into the groove.

So in the meantime, enjoy a happy, colorful photo of a days harvest from the garden.

2 comments:

Pyo said...: Hello, this is my first time reading your blog and I can relate to what you say. I wish you good luck getting back on track, having a friend doing it with you will certainly be of great help!
My favourite zucchini recipes are Greek style marinated zucchini and zucchini gaspacho. But... Appart from the one you said I don't know many recipes...; August 29, 2009 at 3:53 AM
maybe said...: I'm appreciate your writing skill.Please keep on working hard.^^; November 19, 2009 at 12:32 AM

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Why Eat Raw Foods?

I've been asked this question over and over again, and to be honest, there are so many reasons. But when I go online to try and find a more scientific explanation that I could post here I am too often met with statements such as, "cooking food changes that molecular structure rendering it toxic" which feels like a fear based statement that isn't very encouraging. I personally don't believe that cooked food is poison as many raw foodies do.

Ultimately, eating foods that are not heated above 115 degrees means that all of the enzymes in that food are intact. What does that mean to you and me? Well, just think of enzymes as the "life force" of food. Foods that have their "life force" intact are going to make you feel different when you eat them than foods that do not. It's kind of like eating energy.

So I guess I like to eat the majority of food while it still contains most of it's energy so I can get some :) Who doesn't need more energy? Not to mention that choosing to eat mostly raw foods automatically eliminates a lot of foods that were never meant to be eaten on a regular basis in the first place (chips, soda, etc.) and believe it or not, this whole lifestyle has helped reveal my emotional eating patterns and actually change them.

I just want to be healthy. Health is wealth, no?