Nutritious Party in a Glass: Green Smoothies

When I first started eating raw I took a lot of tips from Natalia Rose's book Raw Food Detox, and one of those was to start your day with a green juice, usually kale with apple and lemon. This was my least favorite part of the lifestyle. Upon waking I knew that I had to drink 8oz of this sweet and sour concoction, which I never felt actually changed my energy levels like so many said it would. That was until I discovered the GREEN SMOOTHIE! Its been a rocky road of trial and error to get the flavors and consistency just right but wow has it been worth it!! Now I can't start my day until I've had my fill of the green stuff. My energy has increased, I'm able to think even more clearly and it fills me up for at least 3 1/2 hours! I suggest everyone start doing it if you haven't already. I swear it was one of the best things I could do for my body. If you need some recipes or ideas to make your own I suggest goneraw.com they have amazing recipes! I frequent that site quite often and I never get bored.

Am I crazy?

The other day my friends came to my house and surprised me with lunch. Usually I would be excited for free food buuut when I saw what they had brought I lost my appetite. They had spent $3 on a piece of dead animal flesh, processed,fortified,enriched "wheat" , week old tomato slices and unhealthy iceberg lettuce shreds - GROSS!!! When I refused they looked at me as if I WERE CRAZY! Can you believe that! I explained to them what they were really eating but they didn't care instead they just teased me by waving a fry in front of my face. All I could do was laugh and grab an apple to eat!

HPV Vaccine

I went to have a routine checkup the other day and instead of the appointment being a short painless event, I was there for nearly an hour being convinced of why I need the HPV vaccine. This is how it went: I was taken to a rather large exam room, a nurse took my blood pressure which was 119/89 or something like that anyways after she took my temperature she told me that the doctor would be in. So there I sit, looking around the room waiting, kicking my feet back and forth, stretching, checking the time and playing with my cell phone. Finally after a half hour the doctor walks in goes over my chart and tells me everything is excellent: thyroid, blood count, etc. and then she precedes to tell me that I NEED TO HAVE THE HPV VACCINE!!! She gives me different pamphlets on the "perfectly healthy" vaccine and explains to me that I am doing myself a disservice if I don't get vaccinated. I refused the shot about 6 times while in that office! Good thing I had done my own research on this "miracle vaccine" and realized that it was nothing more than our manipulative government... but thats a whole different post- anyways, anyone who watches tv knows that these commercials are on every channel- I see at least 3 of them a day and its sad to think that they are vaccinating girls as young as nine. . . I suggest everyone to do some research on this vaccine and don't let them stick your arm with their experimental crap!!!

One Hundred Pounds

I knew once I took on this lifestyle losing weight would naturally happen, but that wasn't my main motivation. My reason for doing it was to purify my body and losing weight was just a plus! I started out at 5'5 and 115lbs. Slowly I have gone down to almost 100 lbs.!! My dad saw me the other day and commented on how skinny I was looking. Usually this would be a compliment but I'm scared of dropping below one hundred pounds. Guess I better start eating more nuts and avocados!!!

Because I don't want to end up looking like this ->

Raw food and flu resistance?

So many on the "Raw Food Diet" although it is not a diet AT ALL - say that after at least a few weeks eating raw they don't get sick like they used to, and a lot even say they don't get sick all together! I found this to be interesting and my inquisitive nature got the best of me and I decided to try it out for myself. Okay okay not the smartest thing to do I KNOW buuut.. some unexpected things were discovered. Before I tell you what those were let me give you a little bit of a background on my health.
Every year since I was a child I always got sick. Usually, it would be a combination of the common flu with strep throat and the occasional sinus infection. It never failed, every year I would get sick at least 3 times! When I went vegetarian it seemed to have cleared up a little bit but not by much. Then when I stopped eating dairy it went away even more, but I was still getting sick at least once a year. And when I say sick I mean SICK and for a long time too. One time I had strep throat for nearly a whole month and couldn't even drink water without vomiting :(

AFTER RAW FOOD

I noticed that I hadn't gotten sick! "Weird", I thought to myself. Then I thought back to all those stories I had read online and wondered if not getting sick could actually happen! So I decided to try it out. I went to visit my little brothers and sisters and new that they had to have some kind of germs * No offense* to them haha.. but what do you know, I got sick!!! I was even miserable for a WHOLE DAY! Waking up the next morning after contracting this God awful sickness I felt great! Everything had gone away! But was it the raw food? My personal opinion is yes. No No, I was not resistant to disease/sickness as a direct result of eating purely raw foods,of course not, but I did have a greater ability in fighting it off! That was the first time in my entire time of existence that had only been sick one day. My younger siblings got the same thing and it lasted longer for them. Lucky me!!