Raw Vegan Day 6 and 7 and so forth...
Phew, I made it!
Well let's review the last two days of the raw vegan challenge!
Friday Day 6:
Stuck to the same breakfast on Friday, woke up a bit late, so threw a bunch of fruit and veggies into a bag with a jar of tahini and made my smoothie to go.
Breakfast: 2 bananas, strawberries, 2 mandarins, chia
No snack today, in meetings all morning and didn't get out till lunch time.
Lunch: Made a mixed large salad: spinach, red cabbage, white cabbage, raisins, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, carrots, tomato, radish, topped with tahini dressing.
Snack: all natural fruit roll up, clementine
Dinner: This was a treat, I didn't have that much food all day so after waiting 6 days, went to the only Raw Food Restaurant in the city. Yong Green Food on Brunswick st. in Fitzroy. It was really good, but I think because I had been raw all week, wasn't very filling despite ordering appetizer, main and dessert, I think it was quite impressive but I was hoping to feel more full when I left, but it definitely stuck to the principals and tasted good.
I had raw nachos with avocado, sunflower dip and cashew cream cheese. The nachos were made from Chia and the cream cheese from cashes. Then I had a salad with a veggie burger made from seeds and vegetables. It was good, but a tad dry (probably because it isn't cooked). Nico had a raw Hawaiian pizza and that was really yummy, it was Chia flat bread with tomatoes, cashew cream cheese, sprouts and pineapple. Then we shared a raw chocolate cheesecake and I don't know how that was made, but it was absolutely delicious, would go back purely for the dessert!!
Went out for a few glasses of wine that night (it was Friday after all, not sure if that's considered raw, but I had a great week and one more day to go!)
Saturday Final Day, Day 7!
Woke up Saturday to find that I was almost completely out of fruit, besides some kiwis and lemons there wasn't much to make a smoothie again, so decided to skip straight to the veggies. I added in chic peas and lentils today as that will be the direction I am moving after day 7.
Breakfast: avocado, green pepper, tomato, and chic peas
Lunch: rice paper rolls, rice paper rolled with avocado, carrot, and zucchini with a cold salad of lentils, carrots and celery
Dinner: Spinach salad with lentils
Spinach salad with mixed veggies, seeds and lentils, lemon juice as dressing.
And then I made it! Although the last day would only be considered "high raw" it included all raw food except lentils and chic peas.
Results: Felt great doing the challenge and have a new appreciation of eating healthy and raw, the more raw fruits and veggies the better, still working my way through the Book, Becoming Raw, it's quite interesting. Will continue with a high raw diet for one more week in which I am including into my diet only the whole foods of quinoa, brown rice, lentils, oats and beans. I will eat two raw meals a day and one cooked meal, or at least 66% of my diet will be raw, no bread, no processed foods and nothing that has any "unnatural" ingredients. Basically only whole foods. I lost 3 kilos, or 6.4 pounds, which is pretty drastic for one week, could definitely tell, not only my clothes feeling different, but a sense of lightness the whole week. Looking forward to warm food again and cooking, as I really enjoy cooking. Continued goal is to lose 3 more kilograms at a slower rate by eating whole foods but not restricting calories over the next three weeks. Tune in for overall month results!
Here is a look of my high raw diet this week:
High Raw Diet day 8 and 9
Day 8:
Breakfast: brown rice with chic peas
Snack: grapes, clementines, one banana
Lunch: Home made veggie burgers with mushrooms, blueberries and strawberries
Dinner: green beans, bok choy, mushrooms, and onions lightly steamed
Day 9:
Breakfast: oatmeal with raisins and chia
Snack: walnuts and almonds
Lunch: Mixed green salad with tomato, radish, carrot, pumpkin and sunflower seeds with all natural balsamic dressing
Snack: banana, clementine
Dinner: Indian food (whole grain rice with black lentil curry)
Yummmmm.
Well let's review the last two days of the raw vegan challenge!
Friday Day 6:
Stuck to the same breakfast on Friday, woke up a bit late, so threw a bunch of fruit and veggies into a bag with a jar of tahini and made my smoothie to go.
Breakfast: 2 bananas, strawberries, 2 mandarins, chia
No snack today, in meetings all morning and didn't get out till lunch time.
Lunch: Made a mixed large salad: spinach, red cabbage, white cabbage, raisins, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, carrots, tomato, radish, topped with tahini dressing.
Snack: all natural fruit roll up, clementine
Dinner: This was a treat, I didn't have that much food all day so after waiting 6 days, went to the only Raw Food Restaurant in the city. Yong Green Food on Brunswick st. in Fitzroy. It was really good, but I think because I had been raw all week, wasn't very filling despite ordering appetizer, main and dessert, I think it was quite impressive but I was hoping to feel more full when I left, but it definitely stuck to the principals and tasted good.
I had raw nachos with avocado, sunflower dip and cashew cream cheese. The nachos were made from Chia and the cream cheese from cashes. Then I had a salad with a veggie burger made from seeds and vegetables. It was good, but a tad dry (probably because it isn't cooked). Nico had a raw Hawaiian pizza and that was really yummy, it was Chia flat bread with tomatoes, cashew cream cheese, sprouts and pineapple. Then we shared a raw chocolate cheesecake and I don't know how that was made, but it was absolutely delicious, would go back purely for the dessert!!
Went out for a few glasses of wine that night (it was Friday after all, not sure if that's considered raw, but I had a great week and one more day to go!)
Saturday Final Day, Day 7!
Woke up Saturday to find that I was almost completely out of fruit, besides some kiwis and lemons there wasn't much to make a smoothie again, so decided to skip straight to the veggies. I added in chic peas and lentils today as that will be the direction I am moving after day 7.
Breakfast: avocado, green pepper, tomato, and chic peas
Lunch: rice paper rolls, rice paper rolled with avocado, carrot, and zucchini with a cold salad of lentils, carrots and celery
Dinner: Spinach salad with lentils
Spinach salad with mixed veggies, seeds and lentils, lemon juice as dressing.
And then I made it! Although the last day would only be considered "high raw" it included all raw food except lentils and chic peas.
Results: Felt great doing the challenge and have a new appreciation of eating healthy and raw, the more raw fruits and veggies the better, still working my way through the Book, Becoming Raw, it's quite interesting. Will continue with a high raw diet for one more week in which I am including into my diet only the whole foods of quinoa, brown rice, lentils, oats and beans. I will eat two raw meals a day and one cooked meal, or at least 66% of my diet will be raw, no bread, no processed foods and nothing that has any "unnatural" ingredients. Basically only whole foods. I lost 3 kilos, or 6.4 pounds, which is pretty drastic for one week, could definitely tell, not only my clothes feeling different, but a sense of lightness the whole week. Looking forward to warm food again and cooking, as I really enjoy cooking. Continued goal is to lose 3 more kilograms at a slower rate by eating whole foods but not restricting calories over the next three weeks. Tune in for overall month results!
Here is a look of my high raw diet this week:
High Raw Diet day 8 and 9
Day 8:
Breakfast: brown rice with chic peas
Snack: grapes, clementines, one banana
Lunch: Home made veggie burgers with mushrooms, blueberries and strawberries
Dinner: green beans, bok choy, mushrooms, and onions lightly steamed
Day 9:
Breakfast: oatmeal with raisins and chia
Snack: walnuts and almonds
Lunch: Mixed green salad with tomato, radish, carrot, pumpkin and sunflower seeds with all natural balsamic dressing
Snack: banana, clementine
Dinner: Indian food (whole grain rice with black lentil curry)
Yummmmm.
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