It's been the first week of raw food eating and running/hiking. So far everything feels amazing. I have done raw before, but have never felt this great this fast. I think some of the reasons this time feels different are because I am exercising everyday, I am not going through detox because I prepared the last two months for this, and I am also not making salad dressing with olive oil.
Exercising daily has been something quite fun for me. I used to dread doing anything that would make my heart rate go up, but now it is how I start my day. During the runs I am pushing myself just past my comfort zone, but not too far. The last thing that I want to have happen is that I over do it and stop running, or stop enjoying my runs. The running training I have starts fairly slow, so I am following those guidelines and not trying to over do it. Right now it is between 2-3 miles daily, which for a beginning runner is just right.
The past few months I have been eating more and more salads and raw food for meals. December was a vegetarian eating month with 80% of my meals being raw. Doing this has allowed for me to skip the horrible detox symptoms, which in my opinion are the reason most people feel that the raw food diet is deficient. Depending on what your health is and past eating habits prior to going raw there will be different levels of detox. In the book I am currently reading (and highly recommend) "Eat to Live" by Joel Fuhrman M.D. he says, "In order to detoxify, you need to feel worse, not better; then after the withdrawal symptoms are completed, you will truly become well." By adding greens into my diet and letting them take over the majority of my diet I have been able to skip the hardcore detox.
When you are overweight and in the process of trying to be healthy, adding a ton of salad dressing to your completely raw salads doesn't exactly help. Olive oil is great for someone who is at their ideal weight for their body type, but I am not. During the process of becoming healthy and finding my body's ideal weight I have decided to use only a teaspoon of flax seed oil(if any) with my dressing. Mostly I use apple cider vinegar and garlic for dressing. It is simple but I enjoy it. By cutting out the olive oil from my diet I have found the smell of cooked foods much easier to handle.
Today was the sixth day of my new years journey. I feel proud of myself so I rewarded myself with some food from the amazing Cafe Gratitude here in LA. I highly recommend it, especially if you want to reward yourself for a healthy week of amazingness.
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