Day 23

Okay, start of another day, and more focus again on eating well and getting in my exercise! I should also do my measurements today, as I didn't do them yesterday. I'd really like to see those measurements change! Especially around my belly, which is waaaaay too fat! Of course, I also have ginormous thighs which could do with a significant amount of trimming ;)

I am doing bodybrushing each day which should help with some of my cellulite (of which I have a LOT). I'd love to get rid of it, because my entire thighs from the knees up are covered in it... not nice or attractive! I read someone who did the raw food diet say that their cellulite literally vanished. That would be nice!

Hmm cat just sat on my comptuer for awhile and did some weird stuff here ;) I think it's all fixed now though!

Hmm... my appetite has been weird today. I had my biiig smoothie for breakfast, and haven't eaten since and it's now 4pm! I have an organic apple I'm going to try though. The only organic ones were Fuji, and I usually eat Pink Lady or Granny Smith apples, so we will see how this one tastes!

Well, just thought I'd say the apple was fine! Since then I've had about three dates, and now it's time to go cook some food for tea!

Well I made a green smoothie as part of tea, and put a banana in it! EWW banana! I generally avoid bananas like the plague lol. However, I've heard they go well in green smoothies, and so I made one with it. We shall see how it goes! (It also has apple and spinach... sounds weird, but yeah, it's okay, and a good vegan option!)

Hungry hungry... but am waiting for my sons' friend to go home! Oh wait, think I hear a car ;) It is probably his mum... usually they pick him up about 6, but it's quarter to 7!

Wow so I had two vegan sausages and a glass of green smoothie and I'm STUFFED. I still have a glass and a bit of green smoothie to go as well! This gives me hope that when I go without cooked food (next month that will be my challenge lol) I will be able to cope with the lack of food by filling up on my smoothies etc. Of course, the vegan sausages were REALLY good after not having any cooked food today lol. It would be nice if I had a dehydrator or something so I could make food that was more like cooked, but still technically raw. However, it's better to really just have food in its natural state (not sure how that goes with a smoothie lol).

One thing I have to say, is that I am not getting massive cravings for things I shouldn't be eating. So far, I'm doing well with eating the RIGHT things (or the things I have chosen to be right, which may not be right for everyone). There haven't been cravings for junk food, chocolate, or anything like that (although I do put raw chocolate powder in my morning smoothie lol). Today, I must say, when I sat down to eat my last meal I really wanted to get into those vegie sausages because I was hungry, but I wasn't craving say pizza or hamburger. Most times in the past when I've tried to go on a "diet" or eat more healthily I've completely fallen off the wagon, and haven't made it back on again. However, last Friday, for example I ate some KFC fries and potato & gravy...and that was it! I went back on Saturday to eating well. This is something very different for me, and I wonder what has caused such a transformation.

It's like, in the past I haven't been able to stick to being vegan or vegetarian, and although I only really started the other day, there's been no huge lust for meat or dairy (although I was looking at cheese before, and it looked kinda good hehe). I just tell myself I'm vegan and I can't have it, and that's that! Like in KFC I didn't even consider eating one of my old favourites (which of course contained CHICKEN), I just chose something that was vegan (even if it wasn't particularly raw or healthy). So, for me, being vegan really does resonate strongly enough with me that I don't miss meat and dairy so much at all. To me, eating 100% raw (especially just produce, and no dehydrated options etc.) seems much more challenging than being simply vegan. That's why I'm going high raw right now and trying to get 80 - 90%. I don't measure anything, I just make it that I can only have something cooked during the evening meal, and even then I have to eat it with raw food. We will have to see how this holds up over the long term!