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Eating All Raw and Living Foods Requires Discipline

I’m carrying on with the raw and living foods challenge on Day 17. To read about what the challenge is all about and why I’m doing it, click here.

This morning my weight was 118.8 pounds. As is my healthy habit, I began the day with a glass of water followed by BarleyMax, one teaspoon in water. About 30-45 minutes later I ate one-half cantaloupe. A couple of hours later I had a banana/prune smoothie (it’s good!) made of 1 banana, 2 prunes, small pinch of nutmeg and 1 cup of water.

Guacamole

For lunch I prepared guacamole (avocado, onion, garlic, cilantro, tomato, pinch of Celtic salt) accompanied by dehydrated crackers (flax, sesame and other seeds) and sliced cucumber. It was tasty but I couldn’t eat much because it’s very rich and heavy. Later in the afternoon I ate 3 dates and 2 walnuts.

Dinner was a large salad with an oil-free salad dressing of lemon juice, honey, Celtic salt, basil, oregano, onion, garlic; and a spoonful of guacamole from lunch. This dressing recipe came from Recipes for Life: From God's Garden by Rhonda J. Malkmus. After dinner I ate a spoonful of yummy UliMana Cacao Liente! It’s organic, raw and hot (with cayenne).

Discipline

Thoughts about discipline have been drifting through my mind today. I’ve been feeling ready to stop the challenge, but I won’t. There is more than one reason for my wanting to stay the course:

One, my friends and I are doing this together, and I don’t want to let them down. Plus, I’m enjoying the interaction and words of encouragement amongst us. In a way, I think this support process is as much a part of the challenge as my challenge subject (eating all raw and living foods) itself.
Two, I feel so good… energetic, clear, extra intuitive at times, just plain healthy.
Three, I want to prove something to myself, and I think it has to do with discipline. I believe by successfully completing this 30-day experiment, I will have learned something useful about discipline that can be carried over into other aspects of my life. Even when I’m longing for a comforting warm meal, or I feel I’m missing something, yearning for something (and I don’t even know what!), there’s another part of me that deeply wants to complete this challenge, to see where it will take me. I’ve already had some outstanding results; who knows what else could happen?

Click here to read Day 16.
Click here to read Day 18.

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