Lost: 1 lb
Yippee! Lost another pound! I’m so pleased with the way this
diet is going…shifting the weight like this is really inspiring me to push on
and stay raw.
This morning I got up, still felt a bit stiff from the gym
but much better than yesterday! So I started the day with an hour’s walk with
the doggies, came in and made myself a green smoothie consisting of 2 bananas
and a fistful of baby spinach leaf and 2 ice cubes as I can only drink green
smoothies very cold through a straw, otherwise I gag! (I used to drink those
wheatgrass shots when I was in Brighton, but I overdid it one day and now I can’t
even stand the smell of it without retching!)
If you are ever in Brighton, I
recommend the Guarana Bar in Sydney Street because they do a wicked Acai
smoothie…and you can also get other superfoods there too!
After spending the morning at a friend’s house, I came home
with the intention of making another smoothie…but failed miserably and opted
for 2 avocadoes and some marinated & dehydrated mushrooms. I also succumbed
to a slice of the Raw Raspberry Chocolate Cake that kept looking at me every
time I opened the fridge door…so that was lunch!
Just to make you jealous…I spent the afternoon lying out in
the warm Spanish sunshine as it was sunny, blue sky and 28º on my terrace. Just
to rub it in even more, I put my shorts on! Sorry to everyone in Northern
Europe.
So my thoughts started to turn towards dinner…was I to have a
salad or could I stick to a smoothie? I compromised with myself. I decided to
have a green smoothie, same as this morning….and I chopped up lots of carrot
and cucumber into ‘crudités’ and dipped
them into raw houmous (which I made this morning from leftover almond pulp from
the almond milk, also adding raw tahini, lemon, cumin, cayenne and some water.)
I have to admit, it wasn’t my favourite and I’ll be making another tomorrow
using zucchini instead of almond pulp, which I’m sure will give me a better
taste. I think I’m going to make some raw cookies with the rest of the almond
pulp which I have already sourced a good recipe for…pictures to follow.
I also had time to make some sweet potato crisps, cut very
thinly with a potato peeler, chucked in a bowl containing sea salt and cayenne pepper,
put my pristine-clean hands in there and mixed all together. Laid them out on
the dehydrator trays to dehydrate overnight…so I’ll have crisps in the morning…how
exciting, crisps for breakfast?!
I will definitely be visiting the Raw Raspberry Chocolate
Cake again tonight before I go to bed as you just can’t have one slice of this…and I think I’ve done
very well to make it last this long, but it will all have to be gobbled up before
tomorrow as it only lasts 3 days!
I know I said I was only going to ‘juice-feast’ all day but
it didn’t happen and I’m not stressing about it, I’m still raw and still losing
weight. I will re-visit the ‘juice-feast’ another day!
Hasta pronto!
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