Day 4. Diary as follows: 7.50am: Pranayama
8.10am: Hot water & lemon
8.25am: Red Smoothie - Kale, spinach, celery, parsley, beetroot, juice from 1 blood orange and 1/2 lemon, Juvo Raw Green Protein Powder, milled flax,...
Read MoreDay 3. After writing yesterday's blog, I realized I'm actually feeling pretty snowed under. What's the point of doing this cleanse if I'm just stressed out and wound up the whole time? I haven't even had time to process how I'm feeling on this raw diet, as I've just allowed work stress to have its hold over me. I've been reading Dr. Gabriel Cousens' "Rainbow Green Live-Food Cuisine" classic book on raw food, and he talks about...
Read MoreDay 2. I've been thinking about how you need to be quite organized with this 100% raw business. So I figured I'd also list out when I start prepping stuff for the upcoming day(s), so you'll get an idea of what comes next. Raw IS quite a bit of work (no wonder all those store-bought raw snacks are so expensive), but I think the trick is to get...
Read MoreDay 1 of RAWWWWWWWWW! Heh. :)
This is what my food diary for the day looked like:
7.30am: Hot Water + juice from 1/2 Lemon
9.30am: Breakfast = Raw Chia-Oat Porridge. (I usually eat breakfast shortly after the hot water and lemon, but had an early...
Read MoreSpring has sprung! Amsterdam feels like it's slowly coming out of winter - most afternoons, it feels like Tshirt weather (never mind that it goes back down to freezing winter at night). Feels like a good time to start this year's Spring cleanse, and what better way to kickstart this than by timing this with my next Naturopathy school assignment...
Read MoreThis afternoon at work, there was a lot of talk about mushroom burgers. Like, A LOT. To the point where when I left work, I was CRAVING a mushroom burger. I'd already planned out what I was gonna make, how I was gonna make it, and how heavenly it was gonna taste. Of course I mistakenly thought I still had mushrooms in the fridge. So imagine my dismay when I came home to find NO MUSHROOMS in there. Ugh...
Read MoreAs it turns out, my grand plans of starting my next naturopathy school assignment of going 100% raw in the month of February have been thwarted. I decided it just seemed like a crazy idea to go 100% raw for 7 days in the dead of winter. LOL. This doesn't mean I'm not gonna...
Read MoreHola! Hope everyone is all settled into their groove in 2014 by now. Say what, it's FEBRUARY already?! Oo er, where did the time go? As always in January, friends joke that they avoid the gym as it tends to be packed with people who are on their "new year's resolution" kick to get fit. The gym-bunny regulars notice that it tends to get super packed the first few weeks, but...
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