Music and Veganism

raw day 4.

The worst part about this diet is that because I have what I like to call “sensitive blood sugar”, I have been waking up shaky, weak, nauseous, and generally not wanting to start my day.  Then I drink some juice and life slowly starts to feel OK.

I think I’d have to say that yesterday was the hardest day so far.  Today was very managable, because I took enough food to work and I discovered kombucha is raw– it was a good pick me up (and very expensive, but i justified it as being the price of a draught beer at a bar, which i won’t be indulging in this week!) at the end of the day.  Today the end of the day was 12, since I started at 4.  Yesterday, on the other hand, I did not have enough food and my day was difficult and overall it just sucked.  I had some cooked quinoa for lunch– which is something I told myself I may do on my harder work days– and talked to a coworker I’d never met before who has done a couple of raw detoxes in the past.  She condoned my cooked quinoa and encouraged me to keep on keepin’ on, saying that it’s worth it in the end.  When I got home I just sort of napped and watched Season 1 of SNL until I made dinner and then went to sleep.  Too lazy to blog, and my food was a clone of what I ate the day before anyway.

I’ve been having juice and fruit every morning for breakfast.  For lunch today, I got a little creative and added some quinoa I had sprouted over night to my salad.

And for dinner, I got very creative and made a sprouted quinoa salad with no greens.  Good, I was getting burnt out on salad greens and baby spinach.  This was surprisingly filling and had to be eaten in two sittings an hour apart.  It has: red bell pepper, zucchini, corn (i heard frozen corn was raw but i think it may be blanched– does this count?), carrots, tomatoes, fresh mint, quinoa of course, and cashews.  The dressing is a vinegraitte that Phil made yesterday which also may not be totally raw because it has mustard in it (real mustard, not that yellow stuff) and I don’t know the rules about that yet.

I have some kale marinating in the fridge for lunch tomorrow and I’m trying– somewhat unsuccessfully– to sprout chickpeas!

As a side note, I haven’t weighed myself since the day after Thanksgiving and I don’t have a scale here, so I have no idea if I’ve lost any weighed.  I sort of assume I have– and I’d like to lose about 5 lbs– but that’s not why I’m doing this.  I’ll have to wait until I brave the gym to get a weigh in!