Results Jan - Sept 2010

46 lbs released since January 1, 2010. I look forward to releasing another 20 or so. My body will know when it's comfy. So far this year with a high raw diet I have lowered my blood sugars from the mid 200's to the low 100's and am off all diabetes medication. I am healing nicely from the after-affects of taking cortisone for so long. For those of you out there with drug induced Cushing's Syndrome - it took me about 15 months to start feeling better after weaning off the cortisone. My gastropresis is much better when I eat a diet high in raw fruit and veggies juices, smoothies and soups w/ a small amount of nut & seed butters. I also eat a smaller percentage of cooked veggies and do on occassion eat a small amount of seafood.

Namaste' Ya'll

16 Weeks Results

At the end of 16 weeks I released 22 lbs. I also stopped my diabetes medication. I start 16 weeks part II on Dec 1st.

Today was juice and smoothies:
BR: banana smoothie
LN: grapefruit/orange/apple juice
DN: Romaine/spinach/carrot/beet juice - slightly sweet and refreshing. Rick hated it. He likes fruit!

See ya!

Week 13

I just finished week 13. I'm still down 15 pounds and have stayed on the raw track. There have been times I strayed, but all-in-all I'm doing good. The rest of the family chose not to continue the journey which is fine.

I'm trying to get off my diabetes medication (metformin) by comsuming a low fat raw vegan diet. I've been 100% raw today. Yesterday I was almost all raw. I had 4 pretzels at bedtime. I'm not gonna beat myself up over that. Heh.

I'm doing smoothies mostly. I'm saving for a vita-mix so I can have some great soups!

Oh! I started running a couple weeks ago. I'm up to 1/2 mile at a time. Wicked cool!

Week 6 - Down 15 Lbs

I've lost 13 pounds in 17 days (15 total)! It's been really amazing with raw foods and this week I'm going to try a new recipe from Rawvolution.

Happy Birthday To Me!

Ok so it's two days early. Heh. We made a raw melon cake and I made raw banana-strawberry parfaits with sunflower seed pudding which everyone liked except Tasha. ;-)

Matt Monarch & Angela Stokes

Rick and I went to Tulsa to see raw foodists Matt Monarch & Angela Stokes. It was a fun night.
We got to try dehydrated mulberries & cheese flavored kale chips. Good stuff! Rick liked them! Rick bought me the Rawvolution cookbook for my birthday! :-)

Speaking of yumminess here is my lastest...taco salad. Walnuts w/ cumin & coriander, guacamole and pico de gallo. Awesome!

Week 5 - May 20, 2009

I'm down to 179! That's 11 pounds total! Looking at the timeline it seems like I lost 11 pounds over 5 weeks, but that isn't really the case. I gained back up to 188 as of May 11th (which is when I started high raw). I lost 9 pounds in 9 days! Whoo Hoo!