Woke about 6.40am as usual and had a bad back, stiff and very sore. I went to bathroom and went downstairs to start my first raw day at work. I was very groggy and wanted to just do my usual routine which is switch on kettle and then get pitta bread and lightly warm in toaster and spread with raw almond butter. I then eat my pitta whilst getting on the internet. 20 minutes later I go to bathroom for my daily BM. Then I come back and drink my warm herbal tea. This I do every work morning and I am struggling to think raw. I need comfort food.I fed my birds, I have problems with squirrels.. I have done everything to stop them and finally given up putting out the peanuts. but then the woodpeckers came and I knew they wanted peanuts and put out some peanuts. So far no squirrels.
I plucked up some energy to make almond milk with the almonds I had soaked overnight. I did not feel like squeezing in a nut bag so I used a sieve and sieved several times. I made a lot of almond milk. A heck of a lot. And unfortunately the smell of the almonds made me feel very sickly which has not happened before. The nuts did not seem off at all and were raw.
I put in a little vanilla, salt and dates to enhance the taste then I made granola with almond milk and add raspberries and blueberries. Great time of year to get organic fruit. Gets much more difficult later on in the UK as the fruit is never as fresh and ripe and much more expensive. Srangely I was really struggling to eat this lovely meal. My body was trying to reject it.. not sure why but I need to see if this is the same tomorrow. Could be I am rejecting the almonds? I do allow some comfort by making my herbal tea.
It was cold this morning as the heating had not yet come on. Wow I can really say that. This time last year I was just dreaming of heating. Now I have it. Over past year or more I have been making my cold one bedroom stone cottage into a 2.5 bedroom, with new living room, kitchen, bathroom, utility and dining room. It did not all go according to plan and I am now still finishing off, well over budget. I found that the problems like lack of heating, no electricity, no kitchen really made it difficult to be raw and so I ended up eating more and more cooked. And also I needed comfort and security and had no energy to keep thinking about raw food all the time.
But I now have somewhere to put all my raw food things and I have heating! Before I had a real fire, which is lovely when someone else cleans the grate and chops the wood etc etc. For me coming home late in the evening, very cold and tired… it is not so good. I took kale chips, salad, nuts and raisins, dried sharon fruit, apples and larabar to work. I did not know what I wanted so this should give me options.
As I was driving to work I was really enjoying the beautiful views and sunlight and felt a raw glow inside. This happy feeling is why I keep returning to raw food. I do hope that my body will enjoy the raw food as much as my mind and soul.
At work crap kept happening and I was so unhappy but now is not the time to resign so I need to see what happens next. Did not make me feel like a rawfooder. I ended up having two herbal teas as my comfort foods during the day.
I went out with a colleague at lunchtime to drive my car around and get him to figure out if the noise was exhaust or not. He thought it was not and might be wheel bearings. We took car to local garage who comfirmed it was the wheel bearings and I said I would leave the car tomorrow with him as I was going away on business in the business car. So that worked out fine. Hopefully the car will be safe enough to drive to my mum’s this weekend for her birthday. She lives about 160 miles away from me.
I was not really hungry today until about 3.00pm so after my salad I nibbled a few kale chips and about 4.00pm and I had some dried sharon fruit (persimmon) at about 5.00pm.
I left work about 6.00pm as usual and arrived home about 7.10pm. I watered the greenhouse plants and then went into my kitchen and did not want to do anything raw. I really fought with myself and ended up having a smoothie of bananas, water, raspberries, and a couple of dates and a handful of spinach. I had to force it down during the evening as it was feeling very thick in my body even though it was not really thick.
I watched Tom Cruise interview on Oprah and then went to bed with an Anne Perry novel. I tried hard not to think about work and my future.
So what did I eat today?
7.15am: raw granola (with goji berries, raspberries, blueberries)
7.45am: warm herbal tea (which was cold by now)
11.00am: warm herbal tead
3.00pm salad of spinach, mushrooms, sweetcorn, red pepper and courgette with some flax oil, olive oil and salt
4.00 pm: nibbled a few kale chips
5.00pm: dried sharon fruit (persimmon)
7.45 pm: smoothie (bananas, water, raspberries, and a couple of dates and a handful of spinach)
Bye for Now
RawCarol
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