Saturday

Oh boy!  Well, I am starting to get caught up from my past crazy week.  Yesterday was the first day that I was feeling ‘normal’ and boy was I hungry!  For lunch, I ended up going to Chipotle and had a burrito bowl — rice, beans, guac, salsa, lettuce.  About 50/50 on the raw cooked scale.  Thats the first thing that I have had cooked in about two weeks and boy, it didn’t feel so great!  I was gurgly and then tired after eating.

The funny thing about cooked foods — they are addictive!  I remember when I first read Victoria Boutenko’s 12 Steps to Raw Foods.  She talks a lot about the addiction in there and I thought she was crazy.  That was four years ago.  Now, I totally agree.  If you don’t, just try to stop eating cooked foods and watch how your brain starts to rationalize.

Needless to say, dinner was rice noodles.  Breakfast this morning was American style — eggs, potatoes, some pancakes.  Amazingly, I don’t feel tired or sluggish, but I do feel weighed down and bloated.

Guilty?  Well, yes, a small bit.  Isn’t it funny how much emotional junk we have around our food choices?  Hard to let that go as I think it is really mixed in with the addiction.

Tomorrow, Sunday, I am planning on getting back into it.  I’m going to flush out the body with some fruit, and get excited for the week to come.  I am very eager to back to the gym and get this challenge flowing once more.  Hopefully, my work will cooperate a little bit more this time.

A local newspaper, the Aurora Sentinel, interviewed me about raw food.  You can read the article here.  Now this coming Monday, CW2 wants to have me on the air for a 3.5 minute interview and raw food demo.  If you are in the Denver area, watch CW2 at 7:45am to see how I do!  I will see if I can post the video live after it is done.

What day is it?

Ugh.  So work took a downward spiral on Monday when we discovered that database problems could only be handled by migrating to a new server.  That kind of work has to be done when the system can go down — over night.  Since I’m not on-call this week, I get the job.  Monday night, Tuesday night and now Wednesday night, I have had to work from 1am - 7am.  It really messes with your head when you don’t normally have those hours.

I have still been 100% raw.

I have not been back to the gym since last week.

I am giving myself the permission to go with the flow and let this situation pass, before kicking it back up a notch.

I will post again when life has started to return to normal (Friday?)