Today was a great day. Church was inspiring, and we got to talk to our family in ID, Port. and England.
I had a delicious green smoothie with collard greens from my garden, pineapple, mint (also from our garden), banana and water. For dinner I asked J if he would like to join me on a totally raw dinner and he gladly said yes : )
Sooooo, we had the most delicious Raw Tacos, with raw cinnamon rolls. The children joined us and loved all the raw food (they always do). Oh, and I'm not sure if I've mentioned that the flax seed crackers I made came out super duper yummy (garlic, cilantro flavor).
I'm thankful for the help Father gave us during nursery... it's not my favorite calling, but I'm learning lots of good things from it.
I've been feeling at peace with myself. Something that didn't happen when I was eating cooked food. And again, I'm not feeling deprived at all. Cool.
Sofia
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Saturday, October 15, 2011
why I did the 21 day Raw challenge & 7th Day!!!!!!!!!!!!
ONE FULL WEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am so happy and thankful for personal revelation...
You know, I was soooo close to paying money for an online program that would help me "be" raw for 21 days. The program promised to help you succeed by having you focus on something spiritual every day, send you recipes (and a grocery list), and send you daily workouts.
I prayed about it and then it came to me:
1-I have my B. M., Gen. Conf. talks, etc that I should be studying daily. Remember that quote:
"the study of the doctrines of the gospel will improve behavior quicker than a study of behavior will improve behavior." (in Conference Report, Oct. 1986, 20, or Ensign, Nov. 1986, 17). I need to spend more time reading MY scriptures, rather than "men's philosophies.
2-I already have 100s of recipes for delicious raw food (plus, there's the Internet!!!). I don't need to pay for someone to email me more.
3- and I teach boot camp and zumba classes (there's my workout).
I don't need to pay anyone to help me "be" raw.
So, today is the 7th day 100% raw for me. I'm feeling well. I'm still waiting for the extra energy that should come from eating live foods... and I'm sure it will come in time.
I've known about raw food for about 5 years now and this is the FIRST time I've done it 100% for this long. One tip that helped me (I actually think it has made all the difference) was - "it's easier to go 100% raw than 80% or 90%." I never really understood how that could be, until I tried it. And, it's true! It's just AMAZING to me how I haven't felt deprived, I haven't craved anything cooked!!!!! For real!!!
I can't believe how something as simple as not putting anything cooked in my mouth as made all the difference. And I'm even cooking a few things for my husband and children...
Anyway, what have I eaten today?
I've had lemonade with grade B maple syrup and cayenne, some dehydrated pineapple (yummy), some flax crackers (that I made and they are SOOOOOOOOOOOO TASTY!!!! the fact that they came out OK makes me so happy!!!), we went to a Raw Restaurant in Tempe (first time ever to eat at a raw restaurant) and I got cheese cake, onion bread sandwich, cinnamon rolls - all raw. I have also been drinking lots of water.
Heavenly Father - I love you. Thank you for loving me!
Sofia
I am so happy and thankful for personal revelation...
You know, I was soooo close to paying money for an online program that would help me "be" raw for 21 days. The program promised to help you succeed by having you focus on something spiritual every day, send you recipes (and a grocery list), and send you daily workouts.
I prayed about it and then it came to me:
1-I have my B. M., Gen. Conf. talks, etc that I should be studying daily. Remember that quote:
"the study of the doctrines of the gospel will improve behavior quicker than a study of behavior will improve behavior." (in Conference Report, Oct. 1986, 20, or Ensign, Nov. 1986, 17). I need to spend more time reading MY scriptures, rather than "men's philosophies.
2-I already have 100s of recipes for delicious raw food (plus, there's the Internet!!!). I don't need to pay for someone to email me more.
3- and I teach boot camp and zumba classes (there's my workout).
I don't need to pay anyone to help me "be" raw.
So, today is the 7th day 100% raw for me. I'm feeling well. I'm still waiting for the extra energy that should come from eating live foods... and I'm sure it will come in time.
I've known about raw food for about 5 years now and this is the FIRST time I've done it 100% for this long. One tip that helped me (I actually think it has made all the difference) was - "it's easier to go 100% raw than 80% or 90%." I never really understood how that could be, until I tried it. And, it's true! It's just AMAZING to me how I haven't felt deprived, I haven't craved anything cooked!!!!! For real!!!
I can't believe how something as simple as not putting anything cooked in my mouth as made all the difference. And I'm even cooking a few things for my husband and children...
I've had lemonade with grade B maple syrup and cayenne, some dehydrated pineapple (yummy), some flax crackers (that I made and they are SOOOOOOOOOOOO TASTY!!!! the fact that they came out OK makes me so happy!!!), we went to a Raw Restaurant in Tempe (first time ever to eat at a raw restaurant) and I got cheese cake, onion bread sandwich, cinnamon rolls - all raw. I have also been drinking lots of water.
Heavenly Father - I love you. Thank you for loving me!
Sofia
Thursday, October 13, 2011
5th Day!
I did it. I ate 100% raw food all day long. I'm still amazed at how this is going. I honestly didn't think it would be as easy as it has been.
Yesterday I think I went through a bit of an emotional detox. I'm not gonna go into details, I'll just say it was an emotional day.
Today, everything went pretty well, and pretty normal.
I ate:
-green smoothie (kale, pineapple, banana, chia seeds, water)
-raw tacos (delicious and amazing and super easy to prepare actually)
-dehydrated bananas & pineapple)
-home grown watermelon
I need to go to bed. I'm feeling tired. In fact, I'm quite disappointed that I haven't felt the amazing energy that everyone talks about when they go raw. I'm not going to quit just because I'm not seeing results, but it is...sad, frustrating, and intriguing.
Oh, and my foot still hurts... but we'll see, after all it's only been 5 days.
Sofia
Yesterday I think I went through a bit of an emotional detox. I'm not gonna go into details, I'll just say it was an emotional day.
Today, everything went pretty well, and pretty normal.
I ate:
-green smoothie (kale, pineapple, banana, chia seeds, water)
-raw tacos (delicious and amazing and super easy to prepare actually)
-dehydrated bananas & pineapple)
-home grown watermelon
I need to go to bed. I'm feeling tired. In fact, I'm quite disappointed that I haven't felt the amazing energy that everyone talks about when they go raw. I'm not going to quit just because I'm not seeing results, but it is...sad, frustrating, and intriguing.
Oh, and my foot still hurts... but we'll see, after all it's only been 5 days.
Sofia
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
DAY FOUR : ) & Steel cut oats breakfast
This is my 4th day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Planing this 21 day raw challenge is making a difference.
I've tried this before and couldn't really do it (plus for some reason whenever I was trying to eat raw I felt deprived of good foods - this time around I'm feeling no deprivation, hurray!!!!!)
BUT... back to planning... I did have to sit down, say a prayer (I learned on my mission that planning sessions go so much better if you have Father's help) and write down concrete/specific ideas for meals for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks. Then I went through my 'basillion' = 'lots and lots' recipes and chose the ones that I would like, were simple and had ingredients that I have access to, then, based on that list of meals I also wrote a grocery list (the things I didn't have at home and needed to get). This little bit of planning is helping me a lot I think.
Now, the breakfast:
raw steel cut oats (it's yummy, very filling, and as far as I know, very healthy)
-1/2 cup steel cut oats (u can do it with normal oats, but it's not as good) you soak them the night before (just put them in your cereal bowl and cover them w/ water)
-one or two tsp raw almond/cashew/whatever butter
-one tsp raw cacau/cocoa
-a little bit of either stevia or agave
this keeps me full all morning!!!!!!! Even when I teach my workout classes.
Planing this 21 day raw challenge is making a difference.
I've tried this before and couldn't really do it (plus for some reason whenever I was trying to eat raw I felt deprived of good foods - this time around I'm feeling no deprivation, hurray!!!!!)
BUT... back to planning... I did have to sit down, say a prayer (I learned on my mission that planning sessions go so much better if you have Father's help) and write down concrete/specific ideas for meals for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks. Then I went through my 'basillion' = 'lots and lots' recipes and chose the ones that I would like, were simple and had ingredients that I have access to, then, based on that list of meals I also wrote a grocery list (the things I didn't have at home and needed to get). This little bit of planning is helping me a lot I think.
Now, the breakfast:
raw steel cut oats (it's yummy, very filling, and as far as I know, very healthy)
-1/2 cup steel cut oats (u can do it with normal oats, but it's not as good) you soak them the night before (just put them in your cereal bowl and cover them w/ water)
-one or two tsp raw almond/cashew/whatever butter
-one tsp raw cacau/cocoa
-a little bit of either stevia or agave
this keeps me full all morning!!!!!!! Even when I teach my workout classes.
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
3rd Day!!!
It's the end of the 3rd day and all is well : )
I'm so happy that Heavenly Father is helping me with this. I truly could not do it on my own.
This evening I had a meeting at church and as the meeting was coming to an end I thought about swinging by Fry's and buying a chocolate bar!!!! Can you believe it? I haven't even had a regular chocolate bar in ages!
Anyway, I said a prayer and I told myself that the day was almost over... I could finish it raw. And so I did.
Today I made the most delicious, amazing, fantastic raw coconut candy. It has coconut, maca, lucuma, coconut oil, a bit of agave and gogi berries (ground into powder). It tastes so good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Gabi tasted it and she said that we should let all our friends taste it because they would love my raw food.
She's a cutie. Today she also tasted some algae and she liked it. I told her that raw foods taste really good and are really good for our bodies and she agreed.
Yesterday when we went to whole foods market I was commenting aloud that I didn't want to buy any nut butters with sugar added to them... and then out of nowhere she says: that's right we are a porcucheese family and we don't eat sugar, because porcucheese families eat only healthy things and sugar is not good!
Isn't she the BEST????? I love her.
Sofia
I'm so happy that Heavenly Father is helping me with this. I truly could not do it on my own.
This evening I had a meeting at church and as the meeting was coming to an end I thought about swinging by Fry's and buying a chocolate bar!!!! Can you believe it? I haven't even had a regular chocolate bar in ages!
Anyway, I said a prayer and I told myself that the day was almost over... I could finish it raw. And so I did.
Today I made the most delicious, amazing, fantastic raw coconut candy. It has coconut, maca, lucuma, coconut oil, a bit of agave and gogi berries (ground into powder). It tastes so good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Gabi tasted it and she said that we should let all our friends taste it because they would love my raw food.
She's a cutie. Today she also tasted some algae and she liked it. I told her that raw foods taste really good and are really good for our bodies and she agreed.
Yesterday when we went to whole foods market I was commenting aloud that I didn't want to buy any nut butters with sugar added to them... and then out of nowhere she says: that's right we are a porcucheese family and we don't eat sugar, because porcucheese families eat only healthy things and sugar is not good!
Isn't she the BEST????? I love her.
Sofia
Monday, October 10, 2011
How it's going so far!!!
So, it was fast Sunday and I decided to start my raw food challenge after my fast. I was nervous because we had a couple of friends over for dinner, and I made a delicious meal but I was not planning on eating any of it (except for the salad). Now, my problem was not in not eating the meal I had prepared... I just wasn't ready for my friends to ask me why on earth I wasn't eating anything but the salad. I didn't know how to explain to them all my 1000 reasons to do this and I was not ready for any type of negative criticism (I'm not sure that they would have been negative about it, but I also didn't want to find out).
Well, to my own surprise nobody noticed that all I ate was salad. It was a wonderful evening and I was able to eat only raw foods after breaking my fast.
This is what I ate that 1st day:
-juice of apple, celery, carrot and lemon
-nuts
-salad
-dates
My second day (Monday, aka Today!) is going well so far ; ) This is what I've eaten today:
-steel cut oats soaked overnight with spoon full of raw almond butter, cacau pouder and a little agave
-flax seed crackers
-a really yucky raw broccoli soup
Yeah, I'm feeling well and hope Heavenly Father will keep helping me with this. I'll write later about what I want to get out of this raw food challenge.
Sofia
Well, to my own surprise nobody noticed that all I ate was salad. It was a wonderful evening and I was able to eat only raw foods after breaking my fast.
This is what I ate that 1st day:
-juice of apple, celery, carrot and lemon
-nuts
-salad
-dates
My second day (Monday, aka Today!) is going well so far ; ) This is what I've eaten today:
-steel cut oats soaked overnight with spoon full of raw almond butter, cacau pouder and a little agave
-flax seed crackers
-a really yucky raw broccoli soup
Yeah, I'm feeling well and hope Heavenly Father will keep helping me with this. I'll write later about what I want to get out of this raw food challenge.
Sofia
Raw for 21 days!!!!!!!
So, I finally decided to really try the raw diet 100% for 21 days.
I've tried it for a couple of days before, and in general I eat pretty healthy, my kids eat about 70% raw, and my husband has never opposed my "crazy" juice fast attempts, or my raw recipes experiments...
I've had a problem with my foot for almost a year now. Everything was fine until I started running, teaching Zumba and exercising daily. At first it was plantar fasciitis, then I thought I had a fracture, some podiatrists wanted to give me some cortisone shots, I bought several different insert (shoe soles) and other stuff, I also massaged my foot every night with ice and with essential oils, but nothing was making it feel better. I gave it some rest, and it would feel a bit better, but as soon as I went back to exercising the pain would come back. In Portugal I saw a podiatrist, took X-rays and we found out I have a bone spur on my heel. That doctor said that with the new inserts he made me buy, the pain and inflamation would go away in 3 weeks or less and I would be back to normal... well, it's been about 2 months and it's still not normal!!!!
So, I'm hoping that by eating raw for at least 21 days, I'll be giving my body a chance to heal itself.
We'll see if raw food passes the test, and if I pass the raw food test : )
Beijijnhos
I've tried it for a couple of days before, and in general I eat pretty healthy, my kids eat about 70% raw, and my husband has never opposed my "crazy" juice fast attempts, or my raw recipes experiments...
I've had a problem with my foot for almost a year now. Everything was fine until I started running, teaching Zumba and exercising daily. At first it was plantar fasciitis, then I thought I had a fracture, some podiatrists wanted to give me some cortisone shots, I bought several different insert (shoe soles) and other stuff, I also massaged my foot every night with ice and with essential oils, but nothing was making it feel better. I gave it some rest, and it would feel a bit better, but as soon as I went back to exercising the pain would come back. In Portugal I saw a podiatrist, took X-rays and we found out I have a bone spur on my heel. That doctor said that with the new inserts he made me buy, the pain and inflamation would go away in 3 weeks or less and I would be back to normal... well, it's been about 2 months and it's still not normal!!!!
So, I'm hoping that by eating raw for at least 21 days, I'll be giving my body a chance to heal itself.
We'll see if raw food passes the test, and if I pass the raw food test : )
Beijijnhos
raw broccoli soup... wow!
Hey guys (brothers and sisters),
I just made the most "undelicious", yucky broccoli soup ever for lunch. And because I'm the type of person that will not allow anything to go to waste, I forced myself to eat it. I wanted to throw up with every spoon full... but I ate it!!!
I have enough in my fridge to feed another 4 people. Can I convince any of you to come over for dinner?
Sofia
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