Going well…

Yes, so far so good .

The 8 hours sleep, well some nights it’s 9 hours, some it’s 7, but I am making a real effort.

I have embarked on a smoothie adventure, so for the next little while I will blend all my meals, making them easy to handle for my body. And, of course, involve lots of greens .

Exercise, well, my right hip is still sore, so I have put a warm wheat pack on it last night and this morning. It seems to be getting better but I am swapping running and instead am biking around to put less stress on it.

Yeah, lots of uni stuff to do so I better run.

Lots of love!

Vegan Cheesecake and Apple Tarte Tatin

Yes, cooked, not raw. I have to admit I have had way too much cooked foods recently but I am hopping back on the Raw Bandwagon as of tomorrow, September, 21st! I am determined.

I know I said that in the past, but I really want to turn this around. I have sampled all the baking creations that I wanted to sample so now it is time to focus on my health, my well-being and on losing those 5kgs that I still want to say good-bye to. Those stubborn silly love handles and that slightly wobbly tummy, well they have to disappear. I will release them into thin, skinny, healthy raw food air!

I want to focus a lot more on the signals my body sends me. And listen to them – and act according to them.

I talked to my mum who introduced me to a new method of making use of what my body knows is best for it. I don’t quite know the appropriate terms in English, but anyway, you basically get your body to show you its way of saying “yes” and “no” and then you ask questions and see what the reaction is.

Sounds like hocus-pocus? Well, I truly believe that we instinctively, deep down inside ourselves, know exactly what is best for us. We just often ignore those signals and act impulsively, putting our wants before our needs and end up feeling worse than we would if we had just listened.

So now I am embarking on this journey of listening to my body and actually asking myself some questions when faced with decisions. I will see how that goes. I am often guilty of not making time for myself. For example, I want to do yoga every morning and evening, but then I am too tired, it’s too late, etc. and that’s just not good enough. I have to make enough time for myself because I AM WORTH IT.

(Can I borrow someones 24hours each day? hehehe).

So here it goes…

- 8 hours sleep each night

- 5 min yoga each morning and evening. More is better, but let’s take small steps.

- RAW food all the way

- exercise regularly: bike and run

- relax and shut down the laptop at 8pm

I am hopeful . So I will do whatever I can to be the best I can be!

Foodie Blog Finds

Look what I’ve discovered recently…

Novel Eats

Taste spotting

Pink Stripes

The Daring Kitchen (thinking of joining hehe)

Vegan Bits

Raw foods

I also wanted to provide you with this link to a very interesting discussion…

It is about certain raw foods that people have cut out of their diets because of how their body responded to it. Very interesting, especially if you’ve been experimenting with raw foods for a while or have found that you’re just not feeling as awesome as you did in the past and you can’t find the reason for it.

Hope you’ll enjoy and find it useful.

Smooth(ie) Start to the Day

My green smoothies today:

Number 1:

- 1 bunch chard/silverbeet
- 1 banana
- 2 dried figs, soaked
- water to make 1 litre/quart of smoothie

Number 2:

- 1 bunch chard/silverbeet
- 2 bananas
- 2 oranges

- water to make 1 litre/quart of smoothie

Yumminess! I love my green smoothies. And soaked dried figs are an awesomely tasty addition to the mighty GS.

Have a fabulous day everyone and – eat your greens!

Social life

It’s been a busy weekend over here. A “Pirate Party” on Friday, a “Food of Origin Potluck” on Saturday and a dinner with my friend tonight. I feel sluggish and desperate for a few days of green smoothie cleansing.

That’s what I will do from tomorrow. Two Green Smoothies a day and munching on vege sticks for the remaining “meals” as I have noticed in the past that some crunch is certainly necessary for me. Gosh I can’t wait to get back to raw foods. I am lacking energy and vitality this weekend.

Went for a run every day since Friday. Friday’s run was good but I took it easy as it was the first run after having the sniffles for 4 days. Saturday’s run was awesome. Today, well it actually sucked. My legs felt so heavy and sluggish. Maybe water retention due to salt intake being much higher than normal (potluck dinner).

So cleansing is in order and a return to raw food 100% until Friday. Another birthday party… But it should be fun and it’s going to be at a Thai restaurant where there are vegan options so that’s great.

Bought heaps of fresh produce on the market today. LOL I bought 2kg of grapes (that’s over 4lbs) because currently I am addicted to them. I could eat a hole bag of grapes in one session .

Tomorrow I am back to university after a 2 week midterm break which actually seemed quite long and relaxing. I went on a little holiday trip to Auckland and worked quite a bit at the office. Did some baking, some running and was sick for a bit. Didn’t do much study at all. Should have but couldn’t be bothered .

Well actually I am not going to uni tomorrow because I don’t have classes on Mondays and Thursdays. But I am working tomorrow from 8.00-12.00 and will have to sort out some uni stuff. Then there will be study and finishing an assignment if I can figure out how to (It isn’t worth any points but I must hand it in, so if I absolutely cannot do it, I just hand in half of it, i.e. the stuff I have so far hehe).

On Tuesday classes are back on. I am looking forward to it but dreading it at the same time. Dreading it because I realised that accounting and commercial law are just not my passion and in the end, those 2 majors were really just a “responsible” choice, not one from my heart. On the other hand, I am looking forward to kicking off the final 6 weeks of classes for this year. Then next year I have 1 more trimester and by the end of next June I will finish my degree. Thank heavens!!!

How is everyone else doing? Who of my readers is raw? How are you finding it? Tell me a bit about you guys

A tour of my kitchen

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Vegan fun on twitter

Check out this great post about Vegan Breakfasts that I have received on twitter!

The article mentions Nancy’s Bagels, a place that bakes vegan bagels. Yum!

Discovered this Blog: Happy Vegan Yogini. Must add it to my Blogroll.

 

How is everyone doing this week? I’ve had a good start to the week with a shared dinner at Chow with some friends. Yesterday, due to developing a cold, I started my detox with a “water fast” on hot lemon, ginger and honey. Yes, I have started eating honey again, so what does that make me? An “Api-Vegan”? Or a “Beegan”?

I don’t care about labels quite frankly.

Anyway, so my fast was good and this morning I woke up refreshed and feeling light. I think my body liked having that break and managed to attend to that cold so that I am a lot less sniffly than the past 2 days.

Today I continued my journey back to a higher amount of raw food (so many social commitments and tempting cooked vegan recipes lately…) , by having a green smoothie for breakfast, a big salad for lunch, 2 apples for snacks and not sure yet about dinner. I think it will be nibbles: carrot and zucchini sticks, celery, grapes, kiwifruit. Yum!

It’s the second day of spring and we had lovely sunshine all day. lots of wind though. There’s a forecast for another chilly few days as a last breath of winter. We’ll see

Alright, I am back

Yes, I have neglected this blog and how many times have I promised to make the effort to post more often?

Well, we are going multi-media now, using Twitter, Flickr and so on, so my updates will come in one form or another.

I have recently completed Penni Shelton’s Raw food Rehab experiment and it was great fun. Now I am trying to settle into my own raw food routine that won’t be affected by uni stress as happened recently.

I have regained about 2kg over the last few months and they need to go and then some.

Currently my goal is for 4kgs to be gone by September 30 so I can start October slender, svelte and sexy. And from there it will just keep going.

So for anyone who cares to know I have arrived at the following conclusion for my ideal raw food day:

- breakfast: Green smoothie

- lunch: large salad with lots of veges

- dinner: nibbles of mixed veges, pickles, olives and some sort of dip, such as hummus, lentil-kumara dip, spinach dip etc.

I need crunch and while I love my green smoothies, too much liquid food leaves me unsatisfied.

I have recently started baking again, as in “Baking frantically”. I have also gotten back into vegan baking and am sampling my creations, even though they are not raw (or healthy for that matter).

More on that subject will be discussed at a later stage when I can actually discuss it .

I have 6 more weeks of uni lectures for this trimester and then the summer begins. Next year, I have to complete one last trimester, from March until June and then I will be done. And gosh, I cannot wait, I am getting sick of it. This is my last year and I can feel my motivation dwindling.

Okay, I am really sorry, but I have to tidy up big time here, so I better go and do that. Trust me, there will be more posts and you can also follow me on Twitter and check out my photos on Flickr

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