3 Days to Go

Today begins my 12th day on this raw food craziness...I mean journey!  I've found it to be pretty easy to stick to until yesterday.  I didn't cheat, I stayed the coarse...but I found myself not able to make or eat a salad.  A salad is a pretty simple thing, but the thought of eating it made me feel a bit ill.  I just couldn't do it.  My night 

time snack was much easier to approach, a banana and a handful of almonds.  

I assumed it was just a passing thing, this new rejection of things that have become staples in my diet.  However, this morning I had to pretty much make myself make my morning smoothie.  It's taking me almost an hour to finish it, but I'm muscling my way through.  It's nothing yucky...blueberries, strawberries with banana, pure water and two teaspoons ground flax seed.  It's good.  I think I'm just on that last mile stretch and my legs are feeling wobbly.  Yes, this was a bit of complaining about the diet that "I" started.  The diet I'm now force feeding myself, lol!  It's all because of God's grace that I've been able to start it and stick to it.  There have been temptations that He's helped me overcome (such as the box of Valentines chocolates on top the fridge or the pizza from whole foods we brought the kids that was cooked in a wood burning oven that smelled like this side of heaven).  So, yes, while typing this out, I've managed to finish my lovely purple smoothie.  Lovely.

The Dinner Roll

The end of my first week was on this past Sunday.  We usually spend our Sunday afternoons over at my in laws.  We spend the afternoon having lunch and then talking through our weeks and mostly just enjoying some family time.  My Mother in law, as usual, made a wonderful dinner...but what's even worse than that...dinner rolls, dripping with honey butter.  Everything smelled wonderful!  I think that was my biggest temptation that I've had so far on this raw food journey.  Man oh man did I want one of those rolls, hot out of the oven.  Instead, I sat down to my mixed green salad with avocado, cilantro and natural salsa.

I'm gonna reveal a little here, something women hold tight.  The last time I weighed myself was down at my mother in laws the week before Winter Camp.  I was a whopping 168.  I think I know where all that lies.  So, this Sunday I weighed myself there, since the scale knows me so well.  In the first 7 days of my diet I've lost 9lbs.  The scale smiled up at me (this is after lunch, midday, mind you), 159lbs.  So, somewhere I've lost it.  I don't see where, but it's gone, so that made me smile.  I no longer wanted a roll...that day at least.