Clean, fresh, RAW Challenge for JULY!!!

Sounds like a lovely time Ummbinat!! I can't wait to get off this island so I can travel! Plane tickets from here are so EXPENSIVE!!! Hope you have a great time & when you get a chance shoot me a message with your address.

I burned my leg yesterday making popcorn for my husband Yet another reason not to eat cooked food!!! I was all about laying out in the sun & doing some running today but everytime I go outside my leg starts to get hot. Totally sucks.

OOOOOHHHH Yeah!!! Just what we were looking for!!! Santiago from Raw Food Muscle is putting together a raw fitness challenge!! I'm signing up anyone else?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWHEyV77OQc&feature=related

sawwweeetttttttt! Really excited for this!! Apparently there will also be something on their main website therawfoodmuscle.com - not sure when that will happen and if it will go off of there or the facebook - can't wait for all the details!!

Its YOUR journey!! You do whatever you are comfortable with now and reevaluate when you feel necessary to make changes or adapt to how you feel - that's the beauty of all of this!! Raw is one thing and vegan is another. There are raw folks who eat raw meat, eggs, and milk...personally the cleanliness aspect would just never be good enough in my opinion. There are raw folks who are more like vegetarians and eat raw milk, eggs, and honey. Then there are raw vegans who don't want to use any animals for entertainment/food/profit. Find what your comfortable with. There are some folks who shoot for 50% raw and others who say 100% or go home. there are some folks who eat clean raw and others who have processed "raw foods". Nothing is wrong or right, its your journey and just where you are.

The best start would be to shoot for 51%+ of your diet being whole unprocessed fruits & veggies. You need at least 51% to counteract the other non raw foods you eat (cooked foods are treated like foreign objects in the body not food - they make your pulse and blood pressure rise, the white blood cells increase as if they were combating an infection). Now anything above this 51% will go to fixing, helping, and nuturing the body.

The best way to do this is to have a large fruit smoothie for breakfast - fast, easy, and gets you pumping for your day. then for lunch either have fruit again or fruit & veggies either in salad, just a huge plate of whatever you want, blended soup, zuchinni noodles & marinara, raw chili, whatever really. Then if you must you can have your cooked dinner. I would recommend keeping the processed foods down & stick with whole foods, rice, baked potatoes, stirfried veggies, and lean meats (cagefree, grassfed type stuff).

Or you can just say I'm going to do a week of raw and see how I feel after that. However you must do this correctly. So many people are scared of fruit and this is why they fail. Eating veggies all day and then some nuts only gives you nutirents & fat. You need fruit for energy! Believe me I have failed on raw many times because I did not realize this. I was tired and felt crappy - not the amazing results so many had told me about...I was missing the fruit aspect! After a week they feel like junk and say - yeah - raw is not for me!! Well those people do it incorrectly. Lots of fruit for breakfast and anytime you get a sweet/carb craving. Large amounts of dark leafy veggies for iron & protein. On average a handful of nuts or half an avocado per day for fat.

Hopefully some of this helps and there is really no way to say what will work for you - you just need to try it out. Its really the easiest thing to do - just eat more fresh fruits & veggies. You don't need a degree to know that is good for you.