Eating Raw Foods
Day 10 of My 30-day Challenge

Here are the details of my diet during the day, followed by some comments about becoming clearer and doing deep inner work.

About raw food weight loss...

Weight: 120.2 pounds. I thought I might have weighed more after the avocado and rich “chocolate milk” drink yesterday. Steve Pavlina (a new window will open) has written about his raw food experience of not gaining weight when on raw foods, no matter how much he ate. However, if he wanted to lose weight, he had to make it a low fat diet.

As usual, I started the morning with BarleyMax – 1 teaspoon in water.

Breakfast: I’m low on fruit in the house, so instead of my usual melon, I made a banana/prune smoothie consisting of a banana, 3 prunes, 2 teaspoons of sunflower seeds, pinch of cinnamon, 1 cup of water, and 3 ice cubes. It’s quite tasty, considering I wasn’t sure how it would turn out. I’d make it again.

Click here to learn about how I prepare extra smooth and creamy smoothies with the Blendtec blender.

Lunch: I prepared a recipe from Vibrant Living by James Levin, MD, and Natalie Cederquist. I love this cookbook but have a tendency to forget about it. The recipe I made is really delicious if the corn is sweet. Unfortunately, the organic corn I bought today was not fresh, and not sweet, so the finished product was so-so. But I heartily recommend this recipe—it’s fabulous if you can get fresh corn that tastes sweet. Here it is:

Tomato Corn Jubilee

• 1 cup sweet corn, cut from cob (1 ear)
• 1/4 cup green onion, minced (I used white onion)
• 1/4 cup red onion, minced (I used all white onion)
• 2 medium tomatoes, seeded and chopped
• 1/4 cup lime juice (2 limes) (I used lemon, but lime is better)
• 1/2 cup avocado, cubed
• 1 garlic clove, pressed
• Freshly cracked black pepper to taste

Put all the ingredients into a bowl and toss together well. The avocado blends in, making a creamy sauce. I served it on some chopped Romaine lettuce. You could use spinach or arugula.

Afternoon Snack: Pear

Dinner: Marinated greens (kale) (recipe here), 1/2 sesame/flax cracker, 5 olives.

Some strange negative emotions came up in the afternoon. For an hour or two I had urges to eat cooked food and drink wine. I just stayed with the feelings and didn’t act on the urges, and they went away. I like to view this as more old negative emotions being cleansed as a result of the cleansing raw foods and the raw food detox process.

Eating Raw Foods, Transformation, and Intuition

I go back to The Sunfood Diet Success System by David Wolfe so often. In it he writes, “A diet of raw plant food presents a whole new paradigm of health, wealth, success and possibility.”

Eating a diet of raw foods involves so much more than just improving your physical health. That may be the initiating factor, but along the way other things start to happen, other wonderful things.

Over the last two days, I’ve been doing some deep inner work about a business issue that’s been unresolved and nagging at me for months. I feel I’ve finally come to a place of clarity where I can move on with this issue, and I believe this is a direct result of eating raw foods.

Ideas have come to me and I’ve made connections among facets of this issue that seem more complex than I could ordinarily arrive at on my own. David Wolfe writes, “…the more perfectly clean your body, the more perfectly it will radiate your super-natural powers.”

I interpret “super-natural powers” as intuition. That’s what I believe is starting to awaken in me. I can feel it stirring. The last two mornings I’ve awakened early and started journaling, and ideas and revelations came seemingly out of nowhere.

“When you eat raw plant foods, your instincts become stronger. Your intuition becomes more reliable—clearer—and decision-making becomes effortless.”
     -David Wolfe

This is a tremendous benefit of eating raw foods that keeps me excitedly and expectantly on the path.

Day 11 of the raw food healthy diet plan challenge.