Ugh, i feel so modern, starting a blog and eating raw food. i'm not a luddite, i just tend to scorn trends. but eating a raw diet isn't really modern either (chimps do it don't they?) oh yeah, I'm a 24 year old girl.
So this is mostly to keep track of how i am doing. i have a few reasons for starting this new food lifestyle.
-curiousity. i'm an experimenter and i'd like to give it a try for a while to see how if might benefit me.
-fitness. in truth, i hope to lose a few pounds eating this way. not a ton, just 10-20. for the past 8 month i've been exercising a lot (and i don't really eat junk food or drink junk drinks) but the scale has never budged more than a pound or two around the same number. and i am a thick limbbed Amazon/tough viking girl.
but i have a weakness for sweets and baked goods. but when i know i am only eating raw, i seem to have the willpower to avoid bread. (there are sweet raw fruits of course) i've heard and read that you can just eat as much raw food as you want. and that it is impossible to overeat and hard not to lose wieght. a customer told me she had to stop eating completely raw because she was too skinny.
-timing. it's summer and there are a lot of yummy fresh foods available. i also work at an organic healthfood grocery store right now, so that makes it easy to get food.
i have been cooking for myself and my boyfriend for over 3 years. he can be picky about food.(hate fresh fruit, likes warm meals, and doesn't like cold ones except dessert) BUT, he just went out of town for a few days, so i can eat what i want without being tempted by the type of food he eats (pasta, bread, beans cheese...) and i don't have to cook it for him, in fact, i won't be cooking anything!
-commitment. i care about the health of the planet and by eating food that has not been processed, and for the most part is not packaged, i'm causing less pollution just to fed myself.
i have a dehydrator and a very small blender, and a mandolin type slicer. and i just got a cheap old nut chopper thingy at Goodwill. i could really use a food processor but maybe i'll get one later. i also have normal things like knives and peelers...etc
i'm mostly finding recipes online and in library books. but i also tend to invent recipes and go my own way with them.
i'll be keeping track of items i eat during a day (at least at the start). and some websites or recipes that i think are helpful.
edit: oh yeah, for anyone reading this, if there are any, you might already know the reasons for eating raw, but if you don't... raw foods are alive and still contain manye living enzymes that help you body digest it. when you eat a dead food, say cheetos, your body must make its own enzymes to digest it. cooking your cook kills these enzymes and denatures the proteins in it, as well as make it more acidic in your body. all this causes your body to work hard to digest the food (and eventually tire itself out), store toxins in the body... this page explains some of the reasons why you want to avoid foods that turn acid in your body http://www.thebestofrawfood.com/alkaline-foods.html
i'm sure there are some exageration and peusdoscience at work here. but at least i know this can't hurt me. it's a better plan than eating only porkrinds or something. i should becareful that i don't develop any vitamin deficienies or anything. but we'll see what happens.
here i go!
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