It's a green leafy thingy with other green thingies inside it. it's called a RAW taco. And I really like it.
I've been eating raw for a good 2 days now and it's interesting how hungry I'm not and how little I'm eating. The nice thing about making raw food is that it never gets cold... that's not a joke, but it is funny since it's my biggest pet peeve to make a bunch of hot food for my family and no one is home to eat it.
The taco shell is a Collard Green wrapped around sprouts, sundried tomatoes, sweet little colored peppers, avocado, and there were supposed to be cucs in there but I don't know where to look in the garden (Husband is the green thumb). I chose pea sprouts, cuz, well, they were the prettiest on the Whole Food's shelf? The sauce is a combo of raw sunflower seeds, zucchini, lime, red pepper and I added to it a jalepeno for spice. It's delicious. It's a recipe by Diana Stobo. There are some left for the hubby. Doubt the kids will try it, but it was offered. They can make their own dinner.
I was given some alarming health news yesterday. Nothing like, I'm gonna die soon or anything. But something enough to make me go - whoa. I'm sure glad I decided to go on a cleanse. After I got home from my appointment I made sure to tell my boss that I was taking the next 3 days off. I desperately need to unplug from the world. I kept my phone far today only using the bluetooth for music. I got up early, and got SO much done before 12. It was a productive day. My goal is to try to keep this momentum. We'll see. It's funny, as much as I love to sleep in, I also hate myself for doing it. I'm tired all the time. But getting up early was energizing in itself. Who knew.
So, I think I'm ready to begin the cleanse. I know what I can eat and there are snacks out there that I can bring places that are easy to eat on the go. I almost quit my job because one of the things I was told yesterday was that my stress levels are through the roof. There are a lot of outside issues adding to this, but I'm trying to lessen them asap. By taking these 3 days off I'm hoping to really prepare mentally, physically and emotionally for what's coming over the 10 days of the cleanse. I'm already having some emotions, but so far I'm not missing junk food. I still am not liking the 'cooking' or cutting and chopping, but it's not that much just yet. right now I'm winging it with juicing and making things like the raw taco above. But The Naked Challenge is supposed to be written out day for day meal for meal. So I will have support, plus the support of Diana Stobo as a health coach over those days and a message board.
One last thought for the day - I don't think we were meant to sit down and eat 3 meals a day - big meals like we do. I really don't. I don't think we were meant to graze all day, but I think we were just meant to fuel our bodies when we need to with what we need. More on this later. But I just wanted to put that out there (mostly because I'll forget to talk more about it later).
Today was 100% raw. That's an accomplishment! Gold star for me.
