Me and Mr Scale met this morning like we do every morning and he had good news for me! I'm down 3 pounds!! That's 3lbs in 4 days! WHOOT WHOOT!!
Breakfast:
Fruit smoothie
Lunch:
spinach salad with strawberries and dressing (homemade raw dressing, of course!)
Dinner:
Pizza (raw, homemade - not sure why I feel the need to clarify that. lol)
2nd Dinner:
We went to dinner with some friends of ours so I brought our own dressing and ordered a green salad. It was yummy! And I wasn't even tempted by the bread that was brought and placed in the center of the table :) YAY ME!
Snacks:
couple bites of cheesecake
couple bites of leftover torte
couple bites of granola I have in the dehydrator (have to keep testing it, right!?!)
I think that's it!
I can't wait to go to my Biggest Looser Challenge on Thursday night. If I don't win I'm going to be a little disappointed. I'd really like to blow everyone right out of the water. I wish I had time to exercise because i think that would help with the weight loss even more! 10 more pounds and I WILL start working out. My ankles just can't handle it yet. It was a good day!!
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Monday, February 8, 2010
Day 4
Day 4 and all is well!! Russ said his energy level didn't bottom out around 2pm like it usually does and said he's feeling great!! "Pants on the ground, pants on the ground...." that's how I feel!! I haven't seen the scale move but maybe one notch to the left but my pants are falling down all over the place! We'll see what Mr. Scale says in the morning :)
Breakfast:
Fruit smoothie
Lunch:
a couple scoops of Fettuccine Alfredo on flax seed crackers.
Dinner:
Rest of the Fettuccine Alfredo (about 8 bites) and a slice of a torte I made (1 inch x 2 inches or so).
I keep thinking that I must have eaten something else but I just can't figure it out! The book says that your body will adjust to less food and I guess mine has!! It says that raw food is so high in nutrients that it needs less to survive on than dead, cooked food. Makes since to me! Can't wait to see what the scale says on Thursday night! I'm doing a Biggest Loser Challenge with a group of about 20 women. This Thursday will be week 6 of 10. I SOOOO want to win this challenge. IF I win, I will take the money (along with some tax refund money) and book a cruise with my hubby for our Anniversary. So far I've lost close to 7 lbs! I know I can, I know I can, I know I can....
Breakfast:
Fruit smoothie
Lunch:
a couple scoops of Fettuccine Alfredo on flax seed crackers.
Dinner:
Rest of the Fettuccine Alfredo (about 8 bites) and a slice of a torte I made (1 inch x 2 inches or so).
I keep thinking that I must have eaten something else but I just can't figure it out! The book says that your body will adjust to less food and I guess mine has!! It says that raw food is so high in nutrients that it needs less to survive on than dead, cooked food. Makes since to me! Can't wait to see what the scale says on Thursday night! I'm doing a Biggest Loser Challenge with a group of about 20 women. This Thursday will be week 6 of 10. I SOOOO want to win this challenge. IF I win, I will take the money (along with some tax refund money) and book a cruise with my hubby for our Anniversary. So far I've lost close to 7 lbs! I know I can, I know I can, I know I can....
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Day 3!
Breakfast: Smoothie
Can't remember exactly....I make so many but it was a fruit smoothie.
Lunch: Smoothie
Green Smoothie.
3 cups green grapes
1 stock of celery
1 cup frozen peas
1/2 cup broccoli
1/2 peeled cucumber
1 cup water
BLEND!
This was very good! I was impressed :)
Snacks:
1/2 avocado
1 cup fruit smoothie (made one for the kids and I had 1 cup full)
Dinner:
Samon Pate in a romaine lettuce wrap with avocado slices. UNBELIEVABLE!! It looked and tasted so much like samon, it was hard to believe it was walnuts and a few vegetables!! HA! No picture....I inhaled it. lol
Desert:
1 slice of cheesecake
Can't remember exactly....I make so many but it was a fruit smoothie.
Lunch: Smoothie
Green Smoothie.
3 cups green grapes
1 stock of celery
1 cup frozen peas
1/2 cup broccoli
1/2 peeled cucumber
1 cup water
BLEND!
This was very good! I was impressed :)
Snacks:
1/2 avocado
1 cup fruit smoothie (made one for the kids and I had 1 cup full)
Dinner:
Samon Pate in a romaine lettuce wrap with avocado slices. UNBELIEVABLE!! It looked and tasted so much like samon, it was hard to believe it was walnuts and a few vegetables!! HA! No picture....I inhaled it. lol
Desert:
1 slice of cheesecake
Just Like Cheesecake Recipe!
I've had many requests today for the cheesecake recipe. Keep in mind, it is TOTALLY raw. NOTHING is processed, was never heated, never cooked, TOTALLY RAW. I know, it's hard to believe. lol I've never seen RAW honey. It was pretty cool! And I've never even heard of Coconut Oil....it was pretty cool too!! Everything can be found at your local health food grocery store. I bought everything at Sprouts :)
Just Like Cheesecake
- by Emily Lee Angell
Makes: 24 slivers
Special Equipment: Food Processor
For the Crust:
2 cups raw macadamia nuts
1/2 cup dates, pitted
1/4 cup dried coconut
For the cheese:
3 cups chopped cashews, soaked for at least 1 hour
3/4 cup lemon juice (or lime juice)
3/4 cup honey
3/4 cup coconut oil
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 teaspoon celtic sea salt (optional)
For raspberry sauce:
1 bag frozen raspberries
1/2 cup dates
DIRECTIONS
To make the crust, process the macadamia nuts and dates in the food processor. Sprinkle dried coconut onto the bottom of an 8 or 9 inch springform pan. Press crust onto the coconut. This will prevent it from sticking.
To make the cheese, blend the cashews, lemon, honey, gently warmed coconut oil (do not use microwave), vanilla, sea salt (if using), and 1/2 cup water. Blend until smooth and adjust to taste.
Pour the mixture onto the crust. Remove air bubbles by tapping the pan on a table.
Place in the freezer until firm. Remove the whole cake from the pan while frozen and place on a serving platter. Defrost in the refrigerator. (I didn’t defrost it all the way)
To make the raspberry sauce, process raspberries and dates in a food processor until well blended. (Do not use a blender for this or the raspberry seeds will become like sand.)
Yummy!
Just Like Cheesecake
- by Emily Lee Angell
Makes: 24 slivers
Special Equipment: Food Processor
For the Crust:
2 cups raw macadamia nuts
1/2 cup dates, pitted
1/4 cup dried coconut
For the cheese:
3 cups chopped cashews, soaked for at least 1 hour
3/4 cup lemon juice (or lime juice)
3/4 cup honey
3/4 cup coconut oil
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 teaspoon celtic sea salt (optional)
For raspberry sauce:
1 bag frozen raspberries
1/2 cup dates
DIRECTIONS
To make the crust, process the macadamia nuts and dates in the food processor. Sprinkle dried coconut onto the bottom of an 8 or 9 inch springform pan. Press crust onto the coconut. This will prevent it from sticking.
To make the cheese, blend the cashews, lemon, honey, gently warmed coconut oil (do not use microwave), vanilla, sea salt (if using), and 1/2 cup water. Blend until smooth and adjust to taste.
Pour the mixture onto the crust. Remove air bubbles by tapping the pan on a table.
Place in the freezer until firm. Remove the whole cake from the pan while frozen and place on a serving platter. Defrost in the refrigerator. (I didn’t defrost it all the way)
To make the raspberry sauce, process raspberries and dates in a food processor until well blended. (Do not use a blender for this or the raspberry seeds will become like sand.)
Yummy!
Saturday, February 6, 2010
Fettuccini Alfredo
This is a recipe from the book Living on Live Foods by Alissa Cohen.
Excerpt from the book: It tastes so much like genuine Fettuccini Alfredo that my cooked food friends adore it! You'll love the ease in creating it, along with its creamy Alfredo taste and texture. For added color and more variety you can add thin slices of red bell pepper, mushrooms or any other vegetables.
FETTUCCINI:
2 zucchini
2 summer squash
ALFREDO:
1 cup cashews
1 cup macadamia nuts
1 cup pine nuts
3 tablespoons lemon juice
2 cloves garlic
2 teaspoons Bragg Liquid Aminos
2 tablespoons water
FOR FETTUCCINI NOODLES:
1. With a vegetable peeler, peel zucchini and summer squash into long thick strips, These will be your "fettuccini noodles." Set aside in a large bowl.
FOR ALFREDO SAUCE:
1. Place the Alfredo ingredients in a food processor and blend until smooth and creamy.
2. Remove from food processor and place in bowl with "noodles".
TO ASSEMBLE:
1. With your hands, blend the Alfredo sauce through the noodles. This will take a few minutes as the sauce will be thick. The water from the vegetables will help thin it out while you kneed it together with your hands.
Result:
EXCELLENT!! I doubled the recipe thinking the kids would eat it but they didn't care for it. We had TONS of sauce left over. Next time I will make the sauce as is in the recipe and only double the noodles. But now we will use the sauce on chips and breads and so forth. All raw, of course :)
Excerpt from the book: It tastes so much like genuine Fettuccini Alfredo that my cooked food friends adore it! You'll love the ease in creating it, along with its creamy Alfredo taste and texture. For added color and more variety you can add thin slices of red bell pepper, mushrooms or any other vegetables.
FETTUCCINI:
2 zucchini
2 summer squash
ALFREDO:
1 cup cashews
1 cup macadamia nuts
1 cup pine nuts
3 tablespoons lemon juice
2 cloves garlic
2 teaspoons Bragg Liquid Aminos
2 tablespoons water
FOR FETTUCCINI NOODLES:
1. With a vegetable peeler, peel zucchini and summer squash into long thick strips, These will be your "fettuccini noodles." Set aside in a large bowl.
FOR ALFREDO SAUCE:
1. Place the Alfredo ingredients in a food processor and blend until smooth and creamy.
2. Remove from food processor and place in bowl with "noodles".
TO ASSEMBLE:
1. With your hands, blend the Alfredo sauce through the noodles. This will take a few minutes as the sauce will be thick. The water from the vegetables will help thin it out while you kneed it together with your hands.
Result:
EXCELLENT!! I doubled the recipe thinking the kids would eat it but they didn't care for it. We had TONS of sauce left over. Next time I will make the sauce as is in the recipe and only double the noodles. But now we will use the sauce on chips and breads and so forth. All raw, of course :)
Day 2!
Day 2 is a wonderful day. Sun is shining, wind is blowing, temperature is PERFECT! And best of all? I fit into a pair of jeans I haven't been able to wear in a LONGGG time :)
Breakfast:
Smoothies!
1 orange
1 cup frozen peaches
handful of green grapes
1/4 lime, peeled
1 cup of ice and 1/2 cup water
BLEND! YUMMY!!
Lunch:
You guessed it, another SMOOTHIE!
This time I prepared a green smoothie (will add the name of it later):
3 cups green grapes
1/2 cup broccoli
1 cup frozen peas
1/2 avocado, pealed and pitted
1 cup ice and 1/2 cup water
YUMM!! This was SOOO much better than that tomato one from yesterday :)
I fixed Russ a salad to go with his juice and I had a few bites. The salad consisted of baby spinach, some green onion and sprouts. The dressing is as follows:
1 lime, pealed
juice from 1/2 a lemon
1/2 orange, pealed
1 1/2 avocado, peeled and pitted (I used the left over 1/2 from the juice above)
A little Dill and Cayenne seasoning
Blended it up in our Blendtec and BHAM! Awesome dressing! Next time I will use only 1/2 a lime. It was VERY powerful, but good! I had a few bites.
Later I am going to make a "Almost" Cheesecake, some corn tortillas, flax seed crackers and pizza bread!
Snacks:
handful of black grapes
handful of raw almonds
Dinner:
Fettuccini Alfredo!
WOW! Was this ever delicious! I will post the recipe, directions and a picture soon. Who knew eating raw could be this good!! lol
Cheesecake is chilling...can't wait to get to try it!! Seeds are soaking and I'll make the crackers tomorrow.
Breakfast:
Smoothies!
1 orange
1 cup frozen peaches
handful of green grapes
1/4 lime, peeled
1 cup of ice and 1/2 cup water
BLEND! YUMMY!!
Lunch:
You guessed it, another SMOOTHIE!
This time I prepared a green smoothie (will add the name of it later):
3 cups green grapes
1/2 cup broccoli
1 cup frozen peas
1/2 avocado, pealed and pitted
1 cup ice and 1/2 cup water
YUMM!! This was SOOO much better than that tomato one from yesterday :)
I fixed Russ a salad to go with his juice and I had a few bites. The salad consisted of baby spinach, some green onion and sprouts. The dressing is as follows:
1 lime, pealed
juice from 1/2 a lemon
1/2 orange, pealed
1 1/2 avocado, peeled and pitted (I used the left over 1/2 from the juice above)
A little Dill and Cayenne seasoning
Blended it up in our Blendtec and BHAM! Awesome dressing! Next time I will use only 1/2 a lime. It was VERY powerful, but good! I had a few bites.
Later I am going to make a "Almost" Cheesecake, some corn tortillas, flax seed crackers and pizza bread!
Snacks:
handful of black grapes
handful of raw almonds
Dinner:
Fettuccini Alfredo!
WOW! Was this ever delicious! I will post the recipe, directions and a picture soon. Who knew eating raw could be this good!! lol
Cheesecake is chilling...can't wait to get to try it!! Seeds are soaking and I'll make the crackers tomorrow.
Friday, February 5, 2010
DAY 1!!
Well, by lunch time we hadn't eaten any cooked foods so we figured, let's call today DAY ONE!! Here's the run down:
Breakfast:
Fruit Smoothie (I made 3 different ones...here's just an example):
1 orange
1 apple (cored)
1 banana
1 cup strawberries
1/2 cup blueberries
1 cup water
1 cup ice
BLEND and DRINK! YUM!!
Lunch:
Vegetable Smoothie (I wasn't thrilled with this and will probably never make it again unless my taste buds do some serious changin'!)
3 tomatoes, quartered
1/4 onion
1 medium carrot
1 stalk of celery
1 cup ice
1/2 cup water
BLEND and DRINK! YUCK!
Note: I managed to drink 2 cups of this stuff. Russ drank 2-3 cups and it made about 5.5 cups!
Snack:
This kinda goes against the raw diet thing because the nuts are roasted but I JUST bought them the other night and it is WONDERFUL!!! There is this nut and goji berry mixture/trail mix stuff at Sprouts that is to DIE FOR! I ate maybe 3 handfuls and savored every minute of it. lol I also made some fruit leathers today and tried a piece of each. I think that's it as far as snacking goes! I guess I need to be keeping a food journal - that'd make this a whole lot easier!
Dinner:
We went to dinner at Beets! It's a raw restaurant in Austin. YUMM!!!
I ordered a ELT. This was an awesome sandwich on flat bread with avocado, sprouts, tomato lettuce, some special sauce and best of all, eggplant "bacon"! I have GOT to learn how to make that!!! We also got a salad sampler which was great and to top it all off, we got a chocolate "cheese" cake! I highly recommend this restaurant to ANYONE who would like to get a taste of what eating raw food is all about :)
Can't wait to get started tomorrow! I need to go to the grocery store in the morning for the week...making the grocery list now. Wish me luck!
P.S. Current weight as of Feb 4 is 138. Let the games begin!!
Breakfast:
Fruit Smoothie (I made 3 different ones...here's just an example):
1 orange
1 apple (cored)
1 banana
1 cup strawberries
1/2 cup blueberries
1 cup water
1 cup ice
BLEND and DRINK! YUM!!
Lunch:
Vegetable Smoothie (I wasn't thrilled with this and will probably never make it again unless my taste buds do some serious changin'!)
3 tomatoes, quartered
1/4 onion
1 medium carrot
1 stalk of celery
1 cup ice
1/2 cup water
BLEND and DRINK! YUCK!
Note: I managed to drink 2 cups of this stuff. Russ drank 2-3 cups and it made about 5.5 cups!
Snack:
This kinda goes against the raw diet thing because the nuts are roasted but I JUST bought them the other night and it is WONDERFUL!!! There is this nut and goji berry mixture/trail mix stuff at Sprouts that is to DIE FOR! I ate maybe 3 handfuls and savored every minute of it. lol I also made some fruit leathers today and tried a piece of each. I think that's it as far as snacking goes! I guess I need to be keeping a food journal - that'd make this a whole lot easier!
Dinner:
We went to dinner at Beets! It's a raw restaurant in Austin. YUMM!!!
I ordered a ELT. This was an awesome sandwich on flat bread with avocado, sprouts, tomato lettuce, some special sauce and best of all, eggplant "bacon"! I have GOT to learn how to make that!!! We also got a salad sampler which was great and to top it all off, we got a chocolate "cheese" cake! I highly recommend this restaurant to ANYONE who would like to get a taste of what eating raw food is all about :)
Can't wait to get started tomorrow! I need to go to the grocery store in the morning for the week...making the grocery list now. Wish me luck!
P.S. Current weight as of Feb 4 is 138. Let the games begin!!
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