Well that about says it all. I'm following Doug Graham's 811rv - eating fresh fruit and leafy greens, min 80% of calories from carbs, max 10% fat and max 10% protein.
I've cut out salt, still slicing onions into my salad, but decided to avoid those from today as I think they do lead to cravings. I do veer off track once or twice a week, but that's just how it is when you change your eating habits after a lifetime.
I can't wait to get past the transition point where I don't get any urge for excitocins and addictive packaged foods like crackers. Still eating crackers on my days off!
Saturday, February 6, 2010
Sunday, April 12, 2009
The Portal Was Closed
I haven't posted for a while because I have been eating a lot of junk! I gave up trying to change my ways because I felt the portal closed. When it's closed I expend energy needlessly if I try to force something. Now that the full moon has passed, I think it will be easier for me to fall into healthier eating.
Looking forward to going to UK and US in a couple of weeks. There is no produce here at the moment. No lettuce, no greens, very little but oranges, apples and bananas. Not conducive to my efforts!
I am waiting for the moment to start the release. My body contracts when I don't eat God's food.
Looking forward to going to UK and US in a couple of weeks. There is no produce here at the moment. No lettuce, no greens, very little but oranges, apples and bananas. Not conducive to my efforts!
I am waiting for the moment to start the release. My body contracts when I don't eat God's food.
Saturday, March 21, 2009
An Update
The reason I've been away so long is that my son yanked the space bar off my computer! I couldn't type properly just using the rubber nipple underneath. Now it's been put back (thanks to my husband, he's great at fixing just about anything).
I have been off raw since my illness and am happy to report that my weight has gone up to 48 kilos in that short time. I was getting really worried. My son is happier with my milk quality and supply too.
On the less positive side, I have slipped back into my heavy reliance on sugar and it is not by choice. The addiction is in charge of me! I have started to increase my fruit consumption as following the intestinal problems I really couldn't digest it at all and hope to return soon to my raw state.
I was happiest raw and remember the time I couldn't imagine returning to cooked and junk food. The one thing that would help me stay raw would be to be living somewhere with hygiene and good fruit. For weeks my neighbourhood has only had rotten fruit and no lettuce, just wilted rotting tennis ball sized things. There is no chain supermarket round here and it's a very poor area with constant rubbish scavenging by professional scavengers.
I am waiting for a portal to open that will facilitate my return to raw, today I managed to buy a decent quantity of fruit and will aim for a raw day tomorrow. Wish me luck!
I have been off raw since my illness and am happy to report that my weight has gone up to 48 kilos in that short time. I was getting really worried. My son is happier with my milk quality and supply too.
On the less positive side, I have slipped back into my heavy reliance on sugar and it is not by choice. The addiction is in charge of me! I have started to increase my fruit consumption as following the intestinal problems I really couldn't digest it at all and hope to return soon to my raw state.
I was happiest raw and remember the time I couldn't imagine returning to cooked and junk food. The one thing that would help me stay raw would be to be living somewhere with hygiene and good fruit. For weeks my neighbourhood has only had rotten fruit and no lettuce, just wilted rotting tennis ball sized things. There is no chain supermarket round here and it's a very poor area with constant rubbish scavenging by professional scavengers.
I am waiting for a portal to open that will facilitate my return to raw, today I managed to buy a decent quantity of fruit and will aim for a raw day tomorrow. Wish me luck!
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Ma Po Tofu Yum Yum!
Tonight is my last supper....I ate Ma Po Tofu, absolutely delicious. I know it's not 811rv and it will make me sweat and get grotty but...after a month and a week on raw, this amazing dish of bean curd in oyster sauce with green peppers, onions and zucchinis was heartbreakingly good.
Tomorrow is March 1st and, stomach being curedish (still farting alot!), I will return to my raw sanity. Goodbye Ma Po Tofu - yes, you guessed it, I am still high on MSG and all those toxins...
Goodbye too to the white chocolate alfajor I ate, a maize cookie sandwiched with dulce de leche and chestnut.
Hello Raw, my friend and saviour. I await you with longing for the sweet relief, physical and mental, that you bring. Like the shade of the willow tree from an angry mid-afternoon sun.
Tomorrow is March 1st and, stomach being curedish (still farting alot!), I will return to my raw sanity. Goodbye Ma Po Tofu - yes, you guessed it, I am still high on MSG and all those toxins...
Goodbye too to the white chocolate alfajor I ate, a maize cookie sandwiched with dulce de leche and chestnut.
Hello Raw, my friend and saviour. I await you with longing for the sweet relief, physical and mental, that you bring. Like the shade of the willow tree from an angry mid-afternoon sun.
Friday, February 27, 2009
Taking a Cooked Holiday
Well, there is method behind my madness...
After suffering chronic diarrhea from Friday afternoon to Tuesday evening, my weight had gone down to 44.5 kilos. It has never been that low in my life. My old lady eyes were sunken in my head, hooded and triangular, and everything I ate passed right through me. I was going to the bathroom several times an hour and chronically dehydrated. All the while, I was continuing to breastfeed my baby.
As an alternative to going to hospital, I decided to follow my father's (he's a doctor) and husband's advice and eat foods like boiled rice and oatmeal. Slowly, the diarrhea began to abate, thanks also to a poison-absorbing medicine called cream of bismuth which is similar to kaolin. Today is the first day I am back to normal, and my third day on cooked. I really feel I had no choice.
I would like to go raw again tomorrow but may have to take it slowly and go far part raw and part steamed vegetables as my stomach and health are still quite delicate. I feel great compared to how I was during the illness although admittedly not so clean and fresh as on raw!!
I am 99% sure this was a bug caught from contaminated water. Probably something to do with the water that lettuces have been hosed down with by the grocers. They are then left in the heat and who knows what grows on them. I will have to use hydrogen peroxide to clean everything with in future.
After suffering chronic diarrhea from Friday afternoon to Tuesday evening, my weight had gone down to 44.5 kilos. It has never been that low in my life. My old lady eyes were sunken in my head, hooded and triangular, and everything I ate passed right through me. I was going to the bathroom several times an hour and chronically dehydrated. All the while, I was continuing to breastfeed my baby.
As an alternative to going to hospital, I decided to follow my father's (he's a doctor) and husband's advice and eat foods like boiled rice and oatmeal. Slowly, the diarrhea began to abate, thanks also to a poison-absorbing medicine called cream of bismuth which is similar to kaolin. Today is the first day I am back to normal, and my third day on cooked. I really feel I had no choice.
I would like to go raw again tomorrow but may have to take it slowly and go far part raw and part steamed vegetables as my stomach and health are still quite delicate. I feel great compared to how I was during the illness although admittedly not so clean and fresh as on raw!!
I am 99% sure this was a bug caught from contaminated water. Probably something to do with the water that lettuces have been hosed down with by the grocers. They are then left in the heat and who knows what grows on them. I will have to use hydrogen peroxide to clean everything with in future.
Sunday, February 22, 2009
More Cleansing...
I had to miss the milonga this Saturday, because my body had been doing some major cleansing since Friday night...I still don't know if this is a healing crisis or a reaction to Argentinian bugs but I have been living here 2 years now so I think it's a detox.
I've lost way too much weight lately. My pre-baby weight was 53/54 kilos. My heaviest during pregnancy was 68 and my stable low during intense breastfeeding was 50-52. However raw brought me down to about 48 and then several boughts of vomiting/diarrhea on a weekly basis have taken me to an all time low of 45. Not good. Alot is dehydration.
As a result, since yesterday I have begun to eat plenty of nuts as I am still feeding my son and need to get the weight back on while providing him with rich milk. I'm still within 80-10-10 because I have kept to well below the 10% fat for the last month so it all evens out. Today I must have eaten 150g of almonds/walnuts and feel better for it.
It's hard to get avocados here, in fact hard to find a good source of everything so monomeals are rare for me. I have been eating cherry/grape tomatoes by the kilo for the past few days however, and this is my current fave. One of those ecstatic foods, for me.
Thank the Lord for the underrated tiny tomatoes!
I've lost way too much weight lately. My pre-baby weight was 53/54 kilos. My heaviest during pregnancy was 68 and my stable low during intense breastfeeding was 50-52. However raw brought me down to about 48 and then several boughts of vomiting/diarrhea on a weekly basis have taken me to an all time low of 45. Not good. Alot is dehydration.
As a result, since yesterday I have begun to eat plenty of nuts as I am still feeding my son and need to get the weight back on while providing him with rich milk. I'm still within 80-10-10 because I have kept to well below the 10% fat for the last month so it all evens out. Today I must have eaten 150g of almonds/walnuts and feel better for it.
It's hard to get avocados here, in fact hard to find a good source of everything so monomeals are rare for me. I have been eating cherry/grape tomatoes by the kilo for the past few days however, and this is my current fave. One of those ecstatic foods, for me.
Thank the Lord for the underrated tiny tomatoes!
Monday, February 16, 2009
More Cleansing
I got sick again on Sat night/ Sun Morning, although it wasn't as bad as before. I'd had a bad time at the milonga.
My friend danced every set, but I sat all but the first one out! No one would dance with me. It was great for my ego as I am a professional dancer while my friend has only danced 2 years and she is 20 years older than me too. Ha, ha!
Someone has since told me that at that milonga people only dance with their friends. Ok, but could my "friend" not have introduced me to anyone there? She has pointed out an English guy there both times and he even brings her back to our table after her dance...Well, I actually began to wonder if it's a coincidence that I have got sick both times a few hours after going out with her. Maybe she's given me the evil eye or she's a witch or something!!
I will go again to the Thursday night and see what happens.
On the plus side, although I woke up with the stomach pains and horrible burps, I did not vomit. After lying there for a couple of hours with intense nausea, I managed to eventually go to the bathroom instead. It could be that my body is finally managing to purge this bug out of my system.
Last night, I had an intense craving for fried sausages which of course I ignored. I think I need to eat more greens. Just writing about it is making me start to fantasise again so I am going to sign off!!
My friend danced every set, but I sat all but the first one out! No one would dance with me. It was great for my ego as I am a professional dancer while my friend has only danced 2 years and she is 20 years older than me too. Ha, ha!
Someone has since told me that at that milonga people only dance with their friends. Ok, but could my "friend" not have introduced me to anyone there? She has pointed out an English guy there both times and he even brings her back to our table after her dance...Well, I actually began to wonder if it's a coincidence that I have got sick both times a few hours after going out with her. Maybe she's given me the evil eye or she's a witch or something!!
I will go again to the Thursday night and see what happens.
On the plus side, although I woke up with the stomach pains and horrible burps, I did not vomit. After lying there for a couple of hours with intense nausea, I managed to eventually go to the bathroom instead. It could be that my body is finally managing to purge this bug out of my system.
Last night, I had an intense craving for fried sausages which of course I ignored. I think I need to eat more greens. Just writing about it is making me start to fantasise again so I am going to sign off!!
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