In general, my diet is whole food plant based, no sugar, no oil, gluten-free. This is my ideal diet and the one I live by, for the most part. Every once in a while I'll have periods (because once I start...) where sugar creeps in in the form of dark chocolate bars and dark chocolate chips. Or processed vegan food, mostly in the form of vegan cheese and gluten free bread. Three meals a day blends into non stop eating, even of healthy foods. I am still too heavy, and though I feel healthy in general, I still have aches and pains. I am trying to stave off cancer, heart disease, early death. And gluten causes me terrible joint pain, headaches, intestinal agony, and an uncontrollably quick temper (anger.)
Then, on Saturday, December 26, I visited a friend in need and gave her a massage. Afterwards she offered me a piece of the pizza her family had ordered (regular: wheat crust dairy cheese pizza, not the vegan gluten-free pizza I sometimes indulge in) and I said yes. It was so good that when I then went to wait for my daughter outside a fast food restaurant, I ordered myself a pizza, and ate it in the car. I never do that.
My daughter was shocked and afraid of the gluten-anger that might follow in the next day or two. I suddenly remembered all the painful gluten-symptoms that I conveniently forgot about as the headache began.
So the next day I resolved: No sugar (no more chocolate!), No oil (no more vegan cheese!), no more gluten-free bread (processed food.) Just back to wholesome delicious food, recipes from Forks Over Knives and their meal planner I had recently purchased.
Then on the evening of December 30, I saw that Dr. Brooke Goldner's free classes were being offered, so I watched them immediately. The next day, December 31, I added the giant blenderful of green smoothie and a gallon of water to the mix.
I packed the greens to fill the blender to the 7 cup mark, using all the greens I had in the house (plus some raw Brussel sprouts.) I added 1/2 cup of flax seeds, fruit/frozen fruit, and water. It took me until mid afternoon to drink it all. In addition I ate lettuce with guacamole, and one small cooked meal, I believe it might have been miso soup with rice noodles. Plus, I measured out a full gallon of water and drank it glass by glass all day.
Everyday after that I made the huge blended green smoothie with seven cups of packed greens - always including some cruciferous greens: most often kale - with the spinach. I had raw food (usually lettuce cups with guac and sprouts) for lunch, and then a cooked food meal from Forks Over Knives: Lentil Korma, Eggplant Rollatini, Curried Yellow Split Peas and Brown Rice. Then my friend Jody watched the Dr. Goldner class, and told me that on Monday, January 4, she was going to begin the 4 week protocol: aka basically what I had been doing but ALL RAW. And I said, "I will join you!"
So here we are today: Day 10 since I stopped oil, sugar, and processed food, Day 6 of drinking the green smoothies, and Day 2 of the 28 day all raw protocol. I am down 4.6 pounds in these 10 days.
Today for lunch I made zucchini noodles with a blended sauce of avocado, tomato, peppers, onion, garlic, basil, and celery, topped with cherry tomatoes, red onions, and basil:
I'm much more hungry today than I have been so far, and I'll have to figure out something filling for dinner, then plug along until my smoothie tomorrow morning.
Green blessings!
~ Melissa
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