Clean, fresh, RAW Challenge for JULY!!!

Ahh!! I feel so behind on everything! My husband came home yesterday & we also got two itty bitty puppies yesterday AM so I've been running around like a crazy woman. Puppies are bathed and husband is at work. You have all been quite busy!! Glad to have you join us Ummbinat!!
So far here is the list of RAWkin peeps:
Ummbinat
Sailady
RMcCully
Yentess
MoreVeggiesPlease
Rahshe03
Eliblish
Butterfly08uk

Ummbinat, the diary is the food log here on MFP - you can also refer it to a RZ recipe & i don't mind checking it out - I might even make it too!! Congrats on your first full raw day - glad your feeling great!! Your day sounded amazing!! I can't wait until things mellow down around here and I get some "health & happiness" time - hopefully tomorrow.

Way to go Sailady! I would love to try Bikram - they don't offer anything like that around here though. You are doing a very easy detox through raw foods & I would think that bikram would cause detox anyway. I would just make sure to drink plenty of water and just know that you are eating the best foods possible!!!

Yentess - cutting veggie juice with fruit is probably the easiest. Apples & pears are great for that. Cucumber, carrot, and celery are easy to disguise. I can even put a couple handfuls of spinach into smoothies and not even taste it - usually turns out green but its thick and bubbly because of the smoothie & you could tell him its slime!!!! Slime is tasty - most kids know this

Keep rawkin' it out beauties!!

Woohoo!! Hope everyone had a great weekend!! Mine is over and sadly enough my husband is off again for a couple more weeks.
Sounds good Ummbinat!! I might have to try that pear recipe - I don't usually eat them either (the texture is weird for me) but that drink looks really yummy!! I'm so glad you got 80/10/10 Butterfly!!! It is a real life changer I need to read it again as my husband is now starting to ask a lot of questions since we are switching his diet up quite a bit as well. He doesn't have time to read it so I need to make sure I have all my answers down for him. Michael Pollan's book looks like an interesting read - thanks for the recommendation I might have to buy some for christmas presents this year Sailady, I hope you get the tired feeling worked out - in the beginning that can happen quite a bit. Many people don't give it more time to work out or they don't change things up to ensure they don't get the run down feeling. Its a real shame because I've never had more energy in my life. A quick glance through your diary & you probably aren't eating enough!! If your doing "a few hours of agility training" (oh my gosh!!) then you need to fuel up Try adding more fruit in the mornings.

When eating raw you are restricted to fruit, vegetables, nuts & seeds, and some grains. So you have fruit which are carbs and calories (energy). Veggies which give no calories but are loaded with vit/minerals. Nuts/seeds which are mostly just your good fats and a bit of nutrients. Then grains which really are just there and don't offer all that much to the table. So where do your calories come from? FRUIT, we add in veggies for nutrients but we don't get calories from them - you would have to eat all day long to get enough of calories just from veggies. Nuts are not a good source of calories because they are overt fats and too much will clog our organs up....if you eat a diet of 30% fat then your body will eventually be 30%fat (this is why there are skinny fat people - like some models who don't eat a good diet but still look skinny however they are not fit or healthy & are really just blubber). At 30% fat you are overweight. Since I need to lose fat I must eat a lesser % of fat then I want to have on my body. Anyway back to fruit. If you are not getting enough of calories or carbs you won't be high energy and you will find your feeling run down all the time.

What is the difference between 3000 calories of McD's & 3000 calories from fruit? Fat, sodium, quality carbs, natural balance your body can use & digest. After a 3k McD's meal you feel exhausted, run down, a little mentally slow, and you are probably going to be hungry in a couple hours even though you've done nothing but sit around. After 3k from fruit you are already out the door, running a marathon, hiking, surfing, biking, feeling satisfied & ALIVE!! Don't be afraid of fruit!! The only people who should be afraid of fruit are those that don't want to get out and live life. If you would rather sit on your bum all day feeling depressed, lonely, and worthless then by all means never eat fruit again & especially don't eat more than one banana in a sitting.