Long Time No Post

I have been such a bad blogger!

Since I posted last I got married to Will. Our wedding was on April 18th at the Acadian Ballroom. It was the best day of my life and I love being married to him.

Will and I

My bridesmaids, bridesman and I

All the groomsmen and Will

Since about October, maybe November I have totally falled off the raw wagon and I feel like crap. I was planning on trying to ease my way back into it when I woke up this morning and my body told me that I really needed to start today. I guess that's what I'll do then. This morning for breakfast I had a green smoothie, which was huge so it was a snack too. For lunch I had bell peppers, broccoli, cucumbers, and tomatoes. I need to go to the store and get food, I wasn't very prepared for eating all raw today. I'm just going along with it. I have not felt well like I did when eating raw, I have less energy and my digestive track is way off. When eating raw I am very healthy and love it.

I was just reading my previous posts and felt inspired. Who knew that I could inspire myself? I didn't really think that a time would come that I was going to need to read my posts to be motivated but I am so glad I had them to go back to. I need to be better about blogging, that way when I start to turn back to SAD I can read and see all the reasons why I eat raw. I hope to continue to blog, hopefully atleast weekly, we'll see how that goes.

September Fun!

Here is my update:



My birthday was on September 4th which was wonderful. I turned 22 and came into work with a decorated office; I had to duck under the streamers to get in!




For dinner my family and I went to the Blossoming Lotus. It was the first Thursday of the month which is very busy because the art galleries around have their wine nights and the place gets packed! After waiting a little over an hour I decided it looked like it was still going to be awhile so I got some food to go and the rest of my family ordered pizza to eat at my parent’s house. The food was WONDERFUL! I love all of the raw options at the Blossoming Lotus. Maybe someday they will have even more, that would be fantastic.

Will and I had a week of vacation and with weekends our days off were September 13th-September 21st. It was so nice to have some time off together. We spent time wandering around down, went to the Saturday Market where there are vendors off all types. If nothing else the people watching is great. There are entertainers everywhere! I got two new toe rings because the one that I have had on for years finally gave out and broke.

Durning our vacation Will and I spent two days camping at Camp Indian Henry. It was a lot of fun and it was just the two of us and one other couple in the whole campground. The other couple was a guy that Will works with and his Fiancé so it was nice to meet new people and make new friends. Stacy is Vegetarian so she didn’t think I was completely crazy in the way I eat, although I did splurge and have some chips while we were there. The chips had only 4 ingredients if that counts for anything. = )

On Saturday September 20th I went wedding dress hunting with my two sisters Kristi (24) and Samantha (11) and my mom. The first place we went I found a dress I liked for $250. The next place we went I found a dress that I liked even more for $1,500. The last place we went and the place where I got my dress which I LOVE I got for $449. I was happy to find a dress for such a decent price, I didn’t want to spend a ton of money on a dress I would only wear once although I did want to love it, which I do. Don’t get me wrong, almost $500 is a lot of money, but wedding dresses are not cheap!

I have been doing great on eating raw. I still love the way it makes me feel. I do know that I need to be eating more dark green leafy veggies and I have not been and do not feel any want to so…I have added in fish once a week. I will be eating fish that is low in mercury and is only wild and not farm raised. I want to make sure that I am giving my body everything it needs. Fish once a week will guarantee all the protein I need so I can continue on eating raw. I have been told that there has never been a deficiency in protein in history but I just want to make sure I am doing what it right for me. I will not be eating any other meat or dairy, only the fish, once a week. We’ll see how this goes. If I find that it isn’t working for me or I don’t like it, I will stop.

That’s about all that is going on with me. How are you doing?

I'm Getting Married!

Last night around 10:45pm Will asked me to marry him! I'm so happy and can't wait to start planning the big day. Tomorrow is my birthday and our 4 1/2 year anniversary so it was the best present I could ask for, spending the rest of my life with the person I love the most!

This is me right out of bed before my shower.

You can even see the shower in the background!

Will proposed with his moms ring. Her name was Linda and she passed away when he was just a little boy so this ring means a lot to both of us.

Needless to say, I'm restless and just want the day to come. We're thinking that we will be getting married May 23rd, 2009. Only 8 months!

Healing Like a Champ!

While preparing for my sisters birthday dinner on Monday 9/1 (Labor Day), I was using one of my moms new Cutco knifes. I don’t know if you have used one of these knifes before but they are VERY sharp. We were having tacos for dinner, so I was cutting up avocado for the family and cutting avocado to go on my salad. My salad was great by the way, I want some right now! Anyhow, in the process of cutting I had the avocado in my hand and I was going to cut it into strips while being in the skin still. Apparently I didn’t understand how sharp they really were because I went straight through the avocado right into my hand! It hurt so bad, not right when it happened, the knife was to sharp to feel it completely but right after I cut my hand it started to bleed and sting pretty bad.

This is a picture of my hand the day after I cut it 9/2

This is a picture of if today 9/3 just two days after cutting my hand. I’m thinking that another observation while eating raw is that I’m healing a lot faster than I would have when eating SAD.

I’m still doing really well, I did have a piece of cake on my sisters birthday, wasn’t worth it. It didn’t even taste all that great like it used to. I won’t be doing that again. I haven’t weighed for awhile; I feel like I may have lost more but if not then my body is defiantly shifting. I love how eating raw makes me feel.

Alcohol and Raw DO NOT Mix!

*Disclaimer*

I'm aware that alcohol is not raw. = )

Saturday night was going to be so much fun. I had two bachelorette parties to go to from 6pm through the rest of the night and I was ready to party! That's what I thought anyway. The night started out with dinner and bowling at a really neat place that had a full restaurant and in the bowling area there were leather couches to sit on instead of the lousy chairs bowling alleys usually have. After 9pm there are no minors allowed which means there are servers who come to your lane and serve you like you're in a restaurant the whole night. That was fun. I had a couple drinks, bowled horrible as always, but it's fun so it doesn't matter. We were then off to a bar where we would mingle with friends for awhile and wait for the next bachelorette to arrive. I had one more drink which was fine. I was now at a point where normally I could maybe drink two more in the past and been drunk but still functional. A couple of minutes later I felt extremely drunk and didn't have much control over myself. I knew it was a big problem when I suddenly found myself hugging the toilet at the bar. EWWW! My mom was there as well and found me in the bathroom and was nice enough to take me home although I'm sure she would have loved to had stayed. By the time I got home the alcohol had kicked in so much that when I opened the car door I fell out! I'm sure you can imagine where this all went from there but I'll tell you, it wasn't fun! I spent Sunday feeling horrible and not sure if I was sore from bowling, throwing up or what. Moral of the story is, although I don't drink much as it is, I used to be able to keep up with those around me and that isn't the case any longer. I'm going to have to remember that if I drink at all I should have maybe two and leave it at that because it is going to catch up with me faster than I know it. Another learning experience I guess.

Will and I at a Wedding 8/16

21lbs...GONE!

I feel so great! I have now lost 21lbs. I had lost 16lbs and when I got sick I lost 5lbs more for a total of 21lbs. I knew that I was going to gain weight back, that's what always happens when I loose weight while being sick. I decided not to weigh my self for a week to see what would happen and to not discourage myself. About 3 days ago I weighed myself and I had lost 20lbs all together. So between losing and gaining after being sick I was happy about the 20lbs lost. Today I weight again, and I'm down the 21lbs officially. Although this is a lifestyle change and I do not have to try to loose the weight other than keeping myself from eating foods that are not raw, it is a huge positive for me right now. I did have weight to loose and to have done this so quickly shows my body really did have some unwanted weight.

I have not been using any shampoo. I did shampoo my scalp on Friday 8/15 because on Saturday I was going my cousin’s graduation, graduation party and a wedding that night. My scalp was getting very waxy and I didn't want to go to these big events looking like I don't take showers haha! I have continued other than that day not to use shampoo but I have been washing with conditioner, maybe I will try to cut that own to a couple times a week and slowly stop that even. Slow steps.

My face is clearing up a lot, I love it! The thought of cooked food is not even intriguing to me anymore, my stomach always hurts afterward and it isn't worth it. I have been known to have a bite of a friend’s french fry on occasion, not often though. I think I'm doing pretty darn good!

I had been drinking a lot of water, I'm still trying to drink a lot but with all the fruit I'm eating I know that I'm getting all the water my body really needs. I know I can always use more so I'm trying to continue working on that. My new goal has been not to eat after 7pm. I've done this the last two days and it is working fine so far. It is kind of hard not to grab some fruit while watching TV. I didn't realize how much of a little snacker I am. It's not like I'm hungry that late if I've eaten earlier.

I love eating this way and I feel so grateful to know the people I do and have them in my life. I hear so often that people don't want to talk about the way that they eat because they are told that they need to eat "normal" and that they aren't getting enough nutrients. I don't make a point to talk about it but everyone it has come up to has been very supportive and are nice about trying to find places that I can eat too when we go out. I think more than anything it has opened others eyes to this healthy lifestyle and especially at work there are more people trying to eat more fruits and veggies. I love the support; it makes it so much easier to keep going.