Progress and Plateau (posted by Janine)

G'morning!

Aunt flow came to check in today which means I'm basically clockwork every month which makes my planning and tracking of moods fairly predictable which I like. So now that this huge relief is setting on, I'm looing forward to improved moods and an end to this plateau. Funny how you can live off raw foods for 19 days and have a whole 5 days where you actually gain weight. So weird. I don't eat giant quantities of food, and my appetite isn't insatiable and ravenous these days, so I was wondering what the scoop was. Hopefully the water weight will evaporate and I'll start feeling like I'm making progress again. But I certainly can't ignore the progress of just eating and enjoying raw foods. Feeling like I'm giving my body a break from everything over-processed and over-cooked. Spring cleaning, so to speak. Treating myself to fresh juices and home-made treats. Last night I made more freezer fudge but this time I followed the recipe closer. The fudge batter in my food processor was so thick that my food processor had a hard time cutting through it and it started to smoke and eventually just shut off. I thought that was kinda funny. I'm hoping that bring my fudge to the party on Sunday so everyone can try a bit.

I'm looking forward to having lighter, less crampy and less bitchy periods. I know that eating raw foods halps to even all of that stuff out. Getting you back to a more supple and natural state that you were meant to exisit in so that your internal functionings and emotional responses aren't muddied by chemicals and stuff that you consume that isn't actually food. Emma told me that her cramps completely disappeared when she went vegetarian years ago. Her cramps used to be the dibilitating "stay-in-bed-for-3-days" experiences. So it shows that for many people, vegetarianism is an ideal diet. I feel similarily about eating vegan and raw-vegan. Everyone just has to find out which kind of consumption helps them perform best.

I'm in the midst of building a new raw vegan website. I'll have to write more content before I can launch, but I'll launch soon and let you all know where you can go to check in.

Proud to see many of you on board and working hard. One weekend until second weigh in. Have you all met your goals? Remember to be aiming for 1.5 - 2 lbs a week and we'll get there!

neenie