Day 1 ~Juice feasting

This was a fantastic day.I made David.R's tea and Penni's "Balancing Broth".But first I started my day with 32 oz of water ,lemon and MSM.I then had a green juice of celery ,cucumber,
1 carrot,ginger,lemon,spinach,kale,apple,red pepper,and broccoli. Yummo~1.5 mason jars full. Sipped throughout my morning to mid-day. Mason jars of the tea and the broth are in the refig for a few days to sip on when I feel the need.
After straining the liguid broth into mason jars from the balancing Broth,I added boxed organic vegi liquid and green split peas to make hubby his own soup.Then I took another skillet and added onion,bacon and tad olive oil.Finally for the love of my life I took vegis,and the juice and pured a portion in order to thicken his soup.The house smells good and I am feeling great today.And by the way the balancing broth is very tasty.The cayenne makes it,especially with the cooler weather that is coming.I ended my day with watermelon,mint,lime and ginger juice.I had about 10 ounces ,and I have a quart left to sip on tomorrow.

Raw Food is Rawkin one again..............

Hello,I want to say my blogs are not the usual informational kind .At least not here. I like to use this space for my personal journey,as you see I don't come here daily.I need to ,I should,but I don't.I have had some crappy life issues and that is why I was absent and that is all I will say.I will say I always have fresh made juices in my kitchen and that will never change.Why change something that is so yummy ,right.
As for eating raw I will be doing the new 11 week challenge and I will be exercising more.I live in a dreary grey sky state and I do get that winter depression ,if that is what we call it.Grey days make a person much lazier,there is no doubt.But I want all to know all is good,but could be better,just life struggles that's all.

First Day Of Spring

We had a great sunny day up until around 7 pm ,a wind came in and drizzle rain came.
Spring has sprung for us here in the Pacific Northwest.I started my day with an interesting juice.Check out my results.I will be making this drink again.

Cantalope,mint,gogi berries.
Really tasty!
Took 1 whole cantalope,12 mint leaves,and put these into the vitamix.

I also took about 1/3 C gogi berries and 1/4 C water to soak berries then whirled them in my Magic Bullet(mini Blender).I then proceeded to put everything in the vitamix and put this juice into the Nutmilk bag.
Delicious.:-)

This is one of the potlucks that I attend.This particular potluck happen to be all woman but only 10 of us came.It was in a smaller town near me outside of Seattle.Unfortunatly these folks don't get together for some reason.I have met with some folks closer to were I live ,and we meet to chat but haven't done any potlucks.I have to head North to Seattle or North east to Bellevue or Redmond, Washington to have a great time with great raw food folks.
I took the cookies up front made with almond pulp and topped with strawberries ,yummy good too.I love the potlucks .Its always fun to see what others whip up.

Dave The Trucker and juicing

Dave is such a nice man,and he comes to the Seattle area on his trucking run .Dave is usually here Sundays for sure.I always get excited to keep on juicing when I see him approximately once a month at a Seattle Raw gathering of some sort.I think he will be something big in the future.It is incredible to know him and see the weight fall off of him .He has lost over 210 lbs in 20 months or so ,and a book in the works around May 2010.I am a fan of Dave's because juicing is where its at.Juicing can be a challenge for the first 4 days.I have my most trouble the first 3 days and then the body craves the juice.We all still have to drink our water though.water is still good.Some folks have an issue with tea because the water is warm.Well when you live in a colder climate like I do you will drink tea in between your juices.Trust that.

Am ~20 oz water with 1 tabls of fresh Lemon

Veg's juice~20 oz. Cherry tomato's,cauliflower,broccoli,carrots.
No spices,simply juice and drink.

Afternoon~Ginger,pineapple,water
Tea and water too

Dave theTruckdriver Video -Juicing - My personal healing story

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgOgQctT3I4 Video with Dave,Juicing,Healing


What an honor.We can see "Dave theTruckdriver" at our monthly potlucks in Washington State.What an inspiration. He's been juicing for over 2.5 months and has lost 203 lbs in his 1.5 years eating/juicing in the RAW.Aimee and I from raw food rehab got to talk with Dave once again and enjoyed every moment.Hugs to Dave~To all the Rawfoodies out there Enjoy.My story goes something like this:This is crazy .I had a larger mole and in Jan. 2009 that had lifted,drying up and a part was detached and crusty.Now I had it checked by a doctor.I am one impressed gal.I have had this mole for YEARS!!! Truly a miracle.Two years ago I was told this mole is nothing to worry about.Now I was a tad worried.Unless the body was curing itself! The mole looking thing on my breast was called Seborrhoeic keratoses.Gone, no signs that it ever was there.Cured by eating raw!So after 3 months at that time eating raw I added wheatgrass into my A.M about 3-5 days a week and after a few weeks that is when the Seborrhoeic keratoses left my body.Some of you have heard this story ,but its worth sharing.

4th day on my Juicefeast

I am so proud of myself.I have been juicing green vegi drinks and fruit juicing too.I am totally satisfied and feel great.I have newly incorporated 1.5 average hours at the gym 5 days a week.And I plan on sticking with the exercise.When I hurt my back with the trainer fellow in 2001,I stopped and really never went back at a regular ongoing time frame.Oh,and did say I gained all of that 40 lb weight loss and gained more this time around.
I realized since I started raw eating in Oct 2008 it wasn't until the 3rd week in January of this year 2009 until raw was the majority of my main meals.HIGH RAW is what I considered myself.
A local friend and myself plan on sticking with "Raw Eating" to our best ability.
Since this is my 4Th straight day juicing I am not putting a time on how many days I will stick to this.I am feeling good and as long as I feel good I will continue my juicing.Since I did 2 Master Cleanse episodes.one was 10 days and 1 was 12 days,I know I can do this at least that long.

Better get my butt back to the YMCA

Procrastinate Procrastinate that's me.I need to get at least 3 better 4-5 days a week in having some workout time at the YMCA~.I pay the bill ,now get it in my head to move my body in a steady way.I love elliptical,treadmill,and rowing.Rowing is my all time favorite.I spend 1.5 hours at the gym.I need to promise myself this time at the gym in order to shed the fat and feel the body change its shape.I have the Raw food eating in order ,but the extra exercise is the next promise to myself that I need to do.