shakti's Journal

First meal of the day at 1pm:

Smoothie with meat of two coconuts and water of one, one banana and agave nectar

1/2 avocado with onion 'bread.'

Lunch: Tomato and Avocado Gazpacho with kale salad and 'pad thai' with 'noodles' made from daikon radish

Dinner: a banana, 2 tbsp raw cacao mixed with equal parts agave, a bunch of raw pecans

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Breakfast: cacao kale spinach smoothie

Snack: blueberries and half a food bar

Lunch: Spinach and eggless egg salad

Dinner: cashews and pine nuts, 1 oz raw cheese, blueberries and the other half of the food bar.

Hovering just above 140lbs

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Eggless Egg Salad Recipe

This recipe comes from Kathy and Danny at the Borrowed Earth Cafe. It's a great meal for unraw people, simply because it tastes so good. It's also bright and colorful and fun to look at!

So, take 1 and 1/2 cup raw cashews, and put them in a bowl and fill the bowl to the top with water. This is how you 'soak' nuts; we always soak nuts because it gets rid of the toxins the nut naturally has on the outside and starts the sprouting process, which makes the cashew transition from a dormant state to an alive state, and the more live foods you eat the better.

Anyway, let cashews soak in fridge overnight.

Here are the ingredients at a glance:

1/2 cup filtered water or spring water

1/2 cup lemon juice (or the juice of two fresh lemons)

1 1/2 tsp turmeric

2 cloves peeled garlic

1 1/2 tsp sea salt

1 1/2 cup soaked raw cashews

1/2 cup chopped green onions

1/2 cup chopped celery

1/2 cup chopped red bell pepper

Combine water, lemon juice, turmeric, garlic, sea salt and cashews in a blender and blend until smooth.
Then, in a medium sized mixing bowl, combine the contents of blender with the green onions, celery, and bell pepper. Mix well and serve.

Now wasn't that easy??

Enjoy!

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Breakfast: cacao spinach kale smoothie

Lunch: eggless egg salad, spinach, blueberries and a food bar

Snack: red pear

Dinner: a whole bunch of celery, 2oz raw cheese

Dessert: a buttload of dates with a buttload of pumkin seeds and cashews.

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So, I'm a part of a pagan meetup group, mainly because I love dancing at pagan festivals (they understand the whole shakti-divine-feminine thing, and don't see me as a sort of glorified stripper substitute), and because I have certain Christian-pagan beliefs...I know it's weird, so I won't get into it.

BUT, I have noticed lately with this whole raw foods thing that my bio-energy feild feels as if it has increased in vibratory speed, and I can detect energies better, and I am all around more connected to the earth and nature in general. I've never felt such a connection to the earth as I do now. So I was thinking, 'hey, maybe I can host a meetup with the pagans about raw food fasts (since raw food lifestyle might be a bit much for beginners)?' I think it would be perfect; if anyone should be interested in eating living, vital, energetic foods, I would think it would be people interested in earth spirituality, no?

Well, I fired off an email to the leader of the group to see if he would be interested in me doing that. lo and behold, I accidentally sent the email to the entire group.

So now, I keep getting all these emails from people criticizing raw foodism and veganism and vegetarianism and pretty much attacking me about it. It's really weird how threatened people get about some things. I mean come on people, it's food for christs sake!

I've had the same kinds of experiences with the pagans before. In my experience, they seem to be even more judgemental and 'know it all' than christians! My, haven't the tables turned??

Oh, and don't even MENTION Christ around them...they go ballistic, unreasonably so! It's so strange...I would have thought them to be even more open minded given the fact that they're a social and spiritual minority.

I guess I have to talk to the new-agers if I want open mindedness.

*sigh*

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By the way, apparently, ants love rice bran oil.

I always thought oil was a repellent, because whenever I spray citrus oil on ants and other pests, they die almost instantly because they breathre through their exoskeletons and oil suffocates them.

But, apparently when you accidentally drop a few drops of it on the floor, the next day they swarm all around the oil with no problems.

Interesting.

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Period today. Feeling inward, and my body is doing some house cleaning (that's a polite way of putting it).

Went to the forest this morning. Saw the deer again. I think we like to hang out in the same part of the forest, because we see them there quite often!

Breakfast: Cacao smoothie with kale and spinach

Lunch1: A couple tablespoons of cashew cheese and a handful of spinach

Lunch2: a raw gyros at the raw restaurant, a couple tablespoons of eggless egg salad and a pile of greens

Dinner: A slice of raw apple pie

Snacks: various taste tests at the restaurant, such as yerba mate late, a couple spoonfuls of raw ice cream, a couple little pieces of raw chocolate, etc.

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A little lighter on the food today, as I've been heavier this past trip.

The good news is, I've held steady at 142 for the past week.

Breakfast: Dates and pumpkin seeds

Lunch: Cacao smoothie

Snack: Sunflower seed and pine nut 'cheese' made with lemons and spring onions with spinach leaves as 'chips'

Dinner: A big bag of frozen strawberries

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Now that my supplies are running low (I'm in Tennessee), I've been having to rely more and more on cheese. Which is bad. I had raw cheese, but everyone ate all of it, so today and yesterday I've been left with pasturized cheese. I've been only eat small bits of it, though, which is good.

The thing is, I'm in Tennessee, right by some awesome rural areas that have great organic produce and organic raw dairy and fresh, local items, but the crowd I'm hangin with is all about the pork and biscuits and gravy and deep fried bologna sandwiches. It doesn't have to be about that! But, example, I went to a really down home southern restaurant today called dotsons, and the only produce they had on the menu was deep fried okra and green beans from a can heated into submission and glazed baby carrots. I ordered a side salad. There was cheddar cheese on top, and iceberg lettuce, and that was it. So, I had some cheddar cheese. Whatever. I'm just running low on funds and I don't want to buy anything else this trip. Thankfully, we leave tommorow.

By the way, my grandpa got all offensive at dinner about the way I eat, and I find it interesting that everyone hates someone who makes a big deal about being vegetarian and who acts disgusted with other people for eating meat, but those same people have absolutely no problem ramming their own 'you need to eat a steak' mentality down vegetarians' throats.

I have to walk around the house with a shawl because they keep it around 65-70 degrees in here, and that's a cold for me, especially considering the fact that it's 90 degrees outside. And my grandpa tells me I'm cold because I need to eat a steak. Excuse me for not physically adapting to two separate climates 20 degrees different from eachother at the same time...if he thinks its so natural to eat meat, is it so natural to keep your house the temperature of a morgue during the height of summer? My apartment is usually only 10 degrees different from the outside weather at most. Anything more stresses my body out.

Breakfast:

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Two things bothering me:

Work is without me for a week, and they rely HEAVILY on me and I'm basically screwing them over by not being there this week for a whole entire week which I have NEVER done...

And my parents. Being around them all the time, I feel suffocated as I did growing up, and those old feelings of...I beleive it was called, 'disassociative depersonalization disorder,' started to to come up again. Their energy is so intensely agitating, and not because they're agitating me, per se, but because they are just always in this panicky, hurried state, and it really messes with me.

I can't count how many times I'm talking about something and my mom, distracted and 'busy' as always, gets up and walks out of the room as if I wasn't talking. Or worse, she starts out listening, but then all of the sudden turns and starts joining in on a neighbouring conversation randomly as if she weren't listening to me to begin with. Every time I talk to her I feel as if I have to rush out everything I'm trying to say before she gets distracted or yells at the dog or my little brother. I feel suffocated, and even worse, my mom, who was my best friend for years and years and years, seems to have lost the ability to get to know me, mostly because I never have her attention anymore. I'm still growing, and I'm still changing, and she has missed out on all of that the past few years. And she always has excuses. But it hurts.

So anyways, theres all that. I came up with that after examining why today was a more difficult day than I've had in months.

I also beleive that having all that unraw cheese and ranch yesterday not only clogged up my system, but made me go on craving overdrive.

The good news is, I ended up eating raw still the entire day (except for an ounce of cheese at the end of the day...*sigh*), I just ate a lot of whatever I ate. More than usual. So, hopefully it's out of my system.

Breakfast: Cacao smoothie with blueberries, raspberries, banana, kale, etc, a couple handfuls of cashews, flax crackers and raw cheese

Lunch: mixed fruit

Lunch2: more flax crackers, a bowl of dehydrated raw granola, goji berries, a drizzle of honey and a banana

Dinner: Large mixed green salad with unraw cheese, tomatoes, olives, etc, and 2 raw food cookie dough bars.

Whew! That was a lot of food. I feel icky.

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