4th Month Attempting To Be At Least 90% Raw

A very uneventful raw food month. I did have a release of 4 pounds . I am pleased with that release but at the same time disappointed it is not more. I read about the raw foodist releasing large sums of weight and I think why not me? I suppose this past month in all honesty I have not been as committed and it really has nothing to do with the holiday. In fact I was very good for Thanksgiving Day. I think my downfall this month is I just did not eat enough veggies and was just to busy and yes I will say it lazy to make my smoothies.

I am not going to beat myself up to much especially since I did release 4 more pounds despite my lack of commitment.

I really do not have too much to share with you all. Once it hits October my life gets so busy I have a challenge keeping up with it all.

I do promise to go the grocery store and stock up on my veggies and my favorites fruits , Majool Dates, Green Apples and some berries. I will promise to get up early enough to make my green smoothies and one thing for sure is I will fill my frig with Kombucha Tea. I just can not believe how much better I feel when I drink it. I must promise to get back on track and treat my body good. I deserve it.

I will also attempt to post more often, that helpful too. It makes me accountable.

I still do believe I can I do want to succeed in winning this battle of a healthier life.

I know in  my heart……………

The Greatest Wealth is Health

Blessings to All

Debra

3 MONTH ANNIVERSARY

Today was my weigh- in day. I only weigh myself on the first of each month now. Any more often and I tend to get to obsessive about it.

Happy to report I did release 4 more pounds out into the universe. I am happy about the release because it makes a total of 20 pounds released. However considering it took 3 months to lose that 20 makes me a little concerned. I think I will go get my thyroid checked. I feel I should have released at least 10 pound . I still feel confident that I will release a total of 50 pounds before come the New year. I have my work cut out that is for sure 30 more pound to release before the 1st of January.

My plan of attack is to increase my walking and I just might be more dedicated to my workout routine. I tend to get so lazy with that. However I do enjoy walking. There is a 5K at Yorba Park on Thanksgiving day. Maybe I can train and get up to entering that with my nieces. I sure don’t want them leaving me eating their dust. I shall commit to more evening walking . If I walked my neighborhood every night I think that would be at least 2-3 miles, heck that should take me about 45 minutes.

Blessings to All

The Greatest Wealth is Health

Debra

KombuchaTea

I really enjoy Kombucha Tea before I tell you my thoughts on it , allow me to define it for you all first if you have never tasted this miracles or maybe not even have heard of it.

Kombucha Tea is a fermented tea. Sure I can go into all the details of making it. But really all you need to know is that it is a fermented tea, and because it is fermented it does have a trace of alcohol in it. But what is more important to know is all the claimed benefits. The benefits are it has detoxifying abilities , it  energizes,  it enhances your immune system, it’s pro-biotic, Other claims to fame are it lowers blood pressure, controls appetite. It is a raw organic drink which qualifies it to be full of enzymes. To read more about Kombucha tea and how to make it check out Organic-Kombucha.com.

Another informative site is Sea if Health.  I do not make my own tea. I always buy it and I buy the GT’s/Synergy Brand produced by the Millennium Company. I  really enjoy this brand of Kombucha Tea. They have seven different flavors in the Kombucha Tea line and nine super fruits in the Synergy  line both Kombucha Lines are delicious and also both are kind of pricey. Personally I think they are worth it. I pray for the day I can walk into the market and buy several cases at once.

Now I will share what drinking Kombucha Tea does for me personally. After consuming a bottle I do feel like all my blood cells are swimming around in side of me celebrated because I have energized them. I do become calmer, (when a friend said it is because of the trace alcohol in it) I disagree I taste no alcohol at all . Though it does have a fizz because of the fermentation mentally I am not getting any buzz off of it. I also feel totally satiated ,which is wonderful for a person who enjoys thinking about food. I do notice when I drink at least one 16 oz bottle a day , I sleep the night through and it is a deeper sleep, hence I wake up more refreshed and I am always in a great mental frame of mind.So much more clarity that tired brain.

My recommendation is to try it, I do believe you will enjoy it as much as I do. I usually buy mine at either Mother’s Markets, Henry’s Farmers Markets . Kombucha Tea is good for you and your body.

I just realized tomorrow is the day I weigh in, I will be back tomorrow night to update the release of what I hope will be some pounds.

Blessing Every One

The Greatest Health is Wealth

I know one day I will achieve it and I pray that all of you do too.

Debra

Daily Check

This will be quick and short need to leave in the next 15 minutes.

Breakfast:  Pineapple, Collard Greens, Cucumber, and 1/2 banana all blended into a delicious smoothie 16 oz.

Lunch: 1 16 oz Original Komchumba Tea.  32 oz. Beet, Kale and Mango Smoothie w/ flax seed & chia seeds.

Dinner:  32 oz  green smoothie of what I call salad  in as a smoothie – Cilantro, tomato, cucumber, red bell pepper, romaine lettuce and Spinach.

Snack: 8  oz smoothie of  Wheatgrass juice with papaya.

A longer post tomorrow

Blessing to all

The Greatest Wealth Is Health

Somedays are good and some are ………………………..

Today was  sinful for my  Day 3 of my juice feast. Reason being I did poorly. I feel like an alcoholic who has gone off the wagon. Perhaps my mind was not in the right place to start a juice feast. Oh well I will just get back up on the horse.

Here’s my day of sinning.

Breakfast Good start. I really was not hungry so I just had an Organic raw Kombucha Tea.

Then lunch came rolling around and I wanted a veggie sandwich, which I had. It was a tasty grain roll. All goodies inside but still not juice. It had avocado, lettuce, red bell peppers, red onions, cucumber and tomatoes. All good things but I blew it with that darn yummy roll.

Dinner: Ah back on track …..44 oz. green smoothie made of  Kale, mango, Flax seed, chia seed, spinach, nutritional yeast, cilantro, all blended with water. Yummy, Yummy, yummy.

This will be one of my shorter posts, I have a few online classes  that I need to turn homework in for. I better get cracking.

I will close with the promise to myself to be 100% raw tomorrow and only drink smoothies and juice. Wish me strength to  make the correct choices.

The Greatest Wealth is Health

Blessing

Debra

Craving Steak… that’s just Crazy !

Day 2 of my Juice feast. And what the hell I am craving steak. Even before I went raw I rarely ate steak.  I ate it  maybe once a year at most twice. I always felt when my body was craving steak it was because my iron was low. I never tested it , but after I would have a steak it seemed everything would turn back to normal in a day or two. No sluggishness and the such when a body needs iron. However with this juice feasting I should be taking in plenty of iron. I will give it a day or two and if I am still craving iron I think I will add a lot more spinach to my juice and smoothies and that should do the trick.

And here is my intake of lovely greens and fruits today.

Breakfast:  Napa cabbage, Cilantro, Romaine Lettuce all blended in one 16 Bottle of Raw Organic Citrus Kombucha Tea.

Lunch: Too busy to go over to Mother’s Market. So I had a non juice lunch consisting of Flax seed crackers, Hummus and tomato. True not a juice lunch at all , but I am not going to be to hard on myself because I ended my day with wonderful beautiful green drinks.

Dinner: 16 oz. Green Raw Organic Kombucha Tea. I do usually only have Kombucha Tea once a day,but it is so tasty and energizing I  splurged.  My next drink was a wonderful concoction of my own invention; Cayenne Pepper, Pineapple, Cucumber, Collard Greens, Cilantro and Collard Greens. Talk about a punch! This really opened up the old arteries after drinking 20 oz of it.

And in between my drinks I did drink my water as desired.

Eating clean has so many benefits, the first being a better nights sleep. When eating pure I have found for myself my sleep is deeper and uninterrupted. What is so wonderful is all day long I am full of energy. I love it,  I become so  productive. I appreciate the extra energy, since I have many projects going on.

Ok , I will be abck tommorrow with my days menu.

Until then Peace , Love and all the tags of the 60’s

And don’t you forget…………..

The Greatest Wealth Is Health

Blessing to all and to all a goodnight.

Debra

Juice Feast

After reading about a fellow blogger who did a 14 day water fast. I thought I would try one, but of course once I came to my senses I decided on a green smoothie feast and juices (when I get up earlier enough to go to Mother’s Market since I do not have a juicer yet) I did do a 1 day water fast once and it was easy, but anymore days and I think I would be jumping out of my skin.

So green juicing  and green smoothies it will be for me. Here is a recap of my day.

Breakfast: 16 oz. of   Beet, Kale, Parsley Peach & Carrots (Mother’s Market thank you for making my breakfast)

Lunch: 16 oz. of  Organic Raw  Kombucha Tea, with Kale, Spinach, Flax Seed and Chia Seeds all blended together ,wow  this was really yummy!

Dinner: 32 oz. of  Blended Pineapple, Romaine Lettuce, Cilantro, White Cabbage & Nutritional yeast.

In between each of my meals I did drink plenty of water. I know it seems like very little to consume in a day. But with  these wholesome smoothies and juices I really did feel full and not one problem with any detoxing symptoms. And for those of you who think I may not be getting enough vitamins I do take 1 B12 a week and a multiple vitamin everyday.

There are whole web sites devoted to   Juice Feasting called these sites are real serious about juice feasting , check them out to learn more about this way of life, Here is the Global Juice Feast , this year they had their 2 annual juice feast it goes on for 92 days. I am far from being able to do that long of a time. But I am hoping to join in next year for their juice feast even if I end up only doing it for a month. My game plain will be to take one day at a time.

For those of you who are unfamiliar about Organic Raw Kombucha Tea I will be blogging about it before the end of the week. And you will be delighted in learning what a beneficial drink this is.

It has been a very cleansing day, and I feel wonderful and thankful for it.

It is great to know that all of this is aiding me in achieve my mantra of………..

The Greatest Wealth is Health

Blessing to all,

Debra

Raw is making my life simple

Today while driving about doing business, it dawned on me how simple my life has gotten. I attribute this to my raw lifestyle. I really do not have to put much time into what I am going to make for a meal.  Once I decide what I am going to eat , it then only takes me no more then 10 minutes to prepare. What a wonderful raw discovery realizing how simple my life has gotten. I do expect this sort of simplicity to now extend into all areas of  my life.

My meals these days consist of only raw food. My breakfast this morning was a green smoothy of Wheatgrass with a banana blended in. Mid-morning snack of 10 raw almonds.Lunch was a huge salad of Romaine lettuce, radishes, olives, red onions, a few slices of avocado  few cranberries thrown in and ,  to my shrinking tummy! Then this evening for dinner another green smoothy but this time it was with Kale blended with strawberries, cilantro and spinach.  My evening snack was 1/2 banana and about a handful of blueberries. As you can see this type of eating does not take very long to prepare. Oh wow do I ever love the simplicity! And this lifestyle is open to everyone. Try it you will love it.

Now most of you are aware of my diet coke addiction. I am making progress with my attempt to remove it from my life. I am down to a 24 ounce  cup a day instead of my normal 44 ounces. And today I finally manages to get down 2 liters of water. I know that is not much but hey, it is at least the beginning.

I would like to give a shout out to my friend Kim who has now  released 75 plus pounds out in to the Universe. Yeah Kim you keep going girl! She has been succeeding on a sensible medical program.

My next weigh in is November 1st. I will report it on this blog. My goal for this month of October is 7-10 pounds,  it will be exciting to see how many pounds I have released back out in to the Universe.

Don’t be shy, please leave your comment or suggestion. I always enjoy hearing from all of you.

Until Next Time

Lets all remember that………………

The Greatest Wealth is Health

2 Month Raw Anniversary

Can you believe it? I made it for 2 months being raw. I still am not 100% raw, but all my research states that it should be a transition not an overnight event. Though there are many who do go raw over night. Matt Monarch is one, he is a Raw Food Lifestyle Consultant he states he did it overnight after reading  “Become Young” by the late Dr. Norman Walker D.S.c., whose book I am currently reading. It is a very thin book only a mere 121 pages, I should have finished it in one night. But my life has been busy with one of my classes. I swear I will finish it this weekend.

Back to Matt Monarch, his wife Angela Stokes Monarch released 160 pounds out into the universe. Her story is very inspirational check it out. Also their “love story is very sweet” Though I do not follow the Monarchs approach 100% ,to raw foods, I say good for them. Their way is working for them. It appears to have to much fat for me. Not for them how lucky can you be?

Let me recap all the rewards I am noticing since I have been eating raw. Besides the 16 pounds floating around the Universe now, I have noticed my fingernails that usually are short  and  brittle have now become harder and are actually growing to a length that I will be able to have a proper manicure. I also noticed my skin looking more clear. Though my skin has basically always been clear it looks even clearer, it appears to me it is of one tone and smoother. That is cool!  The ache in my joints has subsided and oh my gosh the energy level is unreal. In fact I had so much energy last night I probably only slept a total of 3 hours and today I was not tired at all. I am most often a woman who needs her 7-8 hours a sleep a night. With all this energy I think I might join a health club to work it off. I know I could not survive every night on a few hours of sleep. My conclusion is the raw food life continues to be for me.

The best part is one night I was over my brother’s house, and as I was leaving he asked if I had lost weight.  That made me feel great, the first person to notice I am looking healthier. Let alone a brother who usually doesn’t notice if  I have long or short hair or if his daughters dyed their hair black or blonde. His awareness allowed me to have the opportunity to share with him my new way of life.  He was in the past  a big meat eater. Now he eats salmon, chicken and other types of fish. He and his daughters do consume veggie’s and fruits on a daily basis and all 3 are at the gym almost everyday. I would like to see them consume more greens via juicing or smoothies. But I won’t push that until they  witness my new way of life moving me towards a healthier and younger body.

I look forward to see what this upcoming months  journey blesses me with.

To all of you out there contemplating a raw food life allow me to encourage you to give it a go. What have you got to lose? Other than releasing unwanted weight out into space and a healthier body and life.

I am experiencing each and everyday  that it is true………………………

The Greatest Wealth Is Health

Blessing,

Debra

Raw Release -Hooray !

Today was my weigh-in day. Wow I shocked myself with a 16 lb. release. This is a surprise because at my last weigh in it was only 6 pounds. I was happy to see an additional 10 lbs. being release out into the world. Vanished forever. I do feel the reason for the 10 additional lbs released is because of my dramatic increase in green smoothies. I have one for breakfast usually made with 2 kale leafs, handful of cilantro, handful of spinach 1 tbsp., flax seed, 1 tbsp., Chia seeds, and one 16 ounce bottle of raw organic Kombucha tea, (I enjoy Kombucha  made by  Millennium Products ) then I blend until it is to my desired smoothness. Very yummy.

My lunch will often consist of a large salad, I throw everything in it but the kitchen sink. I put onions, cucumber, tomato, bell peppers, and then I sprinkle on flax seed and Chia seeds. The dressing is fresh squeezed lemon and a drizzle of cold pressed extra virgin oil. This is a very filling lunch for me. If I am still hungry I will add a small piece of fruit.

Dinner is where I eat very light , I may have just raw vegetables to satisfy that chewing need. I may include another green smoothie or have a small amount of fruit.

Eating the raw way is great for me, I spend very little time preparing meals. I am researching juices lately however I am kind of undecided. With blending everything I get all the nutritional benefits of eating the whole veggie or fruit. With a juicer the pulp is removed, I feel that takes away some of the benefits, though I do realize I can save the pulp for a cold soup. Even with that I tend to think I would want a juicer, sometimes a smoothy is just to much to eat. I feel it is important to eat the smoothie within a half of hour after making because I want to get the most out of the raw food. Sometimes the smoothies are just to thick. That is where the juicer would have the advantage.

The juicer I would love to own is a Walker Juicer.  I feel this is the Cadillac of juicers. It has one piece housing, no  need for extra attachments, it has a powerful 50/60 cycle motor and it is a hydraulic press juicer. This juicer can juice everything. So if you want to donate to my health feel free to donate via Paypal. LOL

Another thing I did this past week is I did one day as a water fast. It was easier than I ever thought. I am going to try another day this week. However I am also going to add one day with juices only. It is amazing to me how the less food in general I eat the less I want to. I don’t think that a bad thing at all since I am getting all my nutritional needs via the raw green yummy fresh smoothies.

Two books I am reading that are helpful are Become Younger  by Dr.N.W. Walker,D.Sc. inventor of the Walker Juicer and a believer in raw foods who lived to be 99 years young. I also am reading Dr. Walker’s Fresh Vegetable and Fruit Juices what’s missing in your body? If you are able check both of these books out. You will find them helpful on your own raw food journey.

Thank you for stopping by and reading my blog, please leave your comment, suggestion or question. I would love to hear form any and all of you.

Until then keep working towards your dream and never forget ……………

The Greatest Wealth is Health

Blessing

Debra