What the Heck am I Eating?

As soon as we left our nutrition class we went to Publix and loaded up on all sorts of yummy produce. We ate salad for dinner that night. Day 2: We had salad for lunch and dinner. Day 3: I woke up feeling lethargic and shaky. [FYI: When you eat crappy and then start eating good, your body will start to flush out all the toxins and the other nasty junk that is in your system and you may not feel too hot. Drinking a lot of water is helpful.] I was like a "hobo on a ham sandwich" as I ran to the kitchen and scarfed down a banana and an apricot in under a minute! I started feeling better as my blood sugar returned to normal. Then I made, you guessed it, yet another salad for lunch that day. I forced about half of it down and then realized that if I continued eating nothing but salad, I would NEVER make it with this diet. So what did I do? I turned to our little friend Google to find some recipes. I typed in "raw veggie recipes" and I got tons of websites with loads and loads of recipes for preparing raw food. I starting copying and pasting the ones that interested me to a Word Document.

For breakfast, I always drink yummy carrot juice first. I wait a little while and then I will eat some sort of fruit: bananas, blueberries, grapes, strawberries, honeydew melon, watermelon (you get the idea). I love fruit and I don't know many people who don't love at least some sort of fruit, so this part is really easy for me. Even if you don't want to do this diet you can switch from cereal, or whatever you are currently eating for breakfast, to fruit in the morning and I guarantee you that you will lose weight. (If you are diabetic you want to be careful though b/c of the sugar). As far as the diet goes, natural sugar is okay. I bought some honey and I started making herbal tea and adding organic honey to sweeten it.

Now the journey with the new recipes has begun!