New Challenge

Hi Guys,
Long time no blog...sorry for my absence, I have just been extremely busy at the moment, more so than the usual working full time with a family :).  With organising my eldest daughter's formal (or as you call it in America 'Prom'), to my youngest daughter's high school interviews, which I cannot believe I am doing already!!!  I have also been helping train my brother-in-law's horse for endurance events that are coming up and also training myself for a 96km bush walking challenge in July.  This is a team event and it must be completed in 39hrs, this is to symbolize the 39th battalion that took that amazing trek through Kokoda (Papa New Guinea) by our brave soldiers in World War 2.
So as you can see I already have a challenge on the go, but as I enjoyed the last challenge so much I feel it is time to try another.  Well, it is probably not a challenge per say, it really easy just following an eating plan for 21 days, but challenge sounds more exciting. :)  So what I have decided to do is follow Natalia Rose's '21 Day Raw Food Life Force Energy Program'. She is the author of one of my fav Raw books 'The Raw Food Detox', definitely recommended.  I have started the progam a couple of times and never stuck with the whole 21 days, so I never got to feel the full benefits (If there are any!!).  I bought this book in 2008, so it is definitely high time I make use of it.
I am starting tomorrow, and I will blog everyday telling you what I ate, along with any extras including her suggestion of a colonic...arghhh. Yes I am finally going to give it a go and see if it is worth the pain and embarrasment I am sure will accompany me there.:/
I am quite excited to see how this compares to my raw food challenge!
Till tomorrow :)

Day 7 Raw Food Challenge

Hi Guys,
Well I have made it, one week along and still going strong?  I was a bit intimidated to jump on the scales this morning, cause of all the raw cake I had been eating :)  But thought it would be something people might be interested in, though I am not telling you what I started out at, a womans perogitive!!! I will tell you that I have lost 1.2kg..yeh :D That is pretty good for me as I do not lose it easily.  But that could just be all the cleansing aka loss of water. I am not doing this for weight loss though, but if it happens ;)  But the most important thing is, is that I am feeling amazing! I have got over my tiredness and ready to take on the world. Even though I am eating lots of fat, I feel really clean and light. Which is great!
So breakfast today was the last piece of cake....note to self, next time make half the amount as I am the only person that eats it in the house, and if it is there I will eat it.... Though I did manage to take a couple of pieces to my lovely friends at work who said they really liked it (best $50 bucks I spent..lol) .
Lunch was a bunch of grapes with 5 dates...love those things, if you like sweet you will love these.
For dinner I made a raw pesto with zucchini pasta, I know I keep making the pasta but it is so quick and easy and yummy. Beautifuly combines with any sauce, I don't like it cooked but raw 'bella'!

Raw Pesto

1/2 cup pine nuts
1 bunch of parsley
1tsp dried basil
1/2 cup olive oil
Blend together and you have it.

Really amazing sauce, best dinner I have made yet!!! 
See you all tomorrow :)

Day 6 Raw Food Challenge

Hi guys,
So it is day 6 and I don't know if I am having a delayed detoxing response (cause I have had anything yet), but I am soo tired.  It is 8.45pm and I'm struggling to keep my eyes open.  But that is not too bad as I haven't had any other reactions to detoxing like bad headache's. So I am pretty happy about that :)

Raw Taco's

Today I had a smoothie for breakfast, well it was actually my daughters, reject smoothie, which she was going to throw out. See she has been having smoothie's for breakfast too, it's good to see some of my good habbit's rub off on her and not just my bad ones ;). Well anyway she made a smoothie with what she thought was an orange but was actually a grapefruit.  Take note, grapefruit is not a tasty addition to a smoothie, or juice for that matter...hehe.   Lunch was leftover zucchini pasta with tomato salsa sauce from last night.  Dinner tonight was some 'raw taco's', inspired by Natalia's Rose's wonderful book, 'The Raw Food Detox Diet'.  This book is what first got me into raw food in the first place.  It is so easy to read and understand, and the recipe's are wonderful.  It is a wonderful read for anyone interested in getting a little healthier as there are different levels of eating plans.  I will put a photo of the book in tomorrow's book, actually I might put in a couple of books that I have that are really good.  I have read a couple that are a bit blah, blah, blah!!!
Ok, so that is me for the night, don't forget to let me know if there is anything in particular you want to know. See you all tomorrow :)

Day 5 Raw Food Challenge

My lovely boredom cure

Hi Guys,
Well today did not quite work out as planned. I could not go on my hike today as my training partner was not feeling well :( and it was pouring down raining this morning so a run did not exactly excite me, so it was a sleep in for me!  Now I had no plans and no money (spent it all on my food processer...hehe), what is a girl to do?  Well I did what any normal person would do, I watched tv and ate.  I had 3 pieces of my raw cheesecake before lunch.....arghh, the positive is at least it is full of healthy ingredients :) and it is really filling as I could not have possibly fit any more in.  Does anybody else relieve boredom with food???
For dinner I was still feeling lazy, so I whipped up zucchini pasta with a tomato salsa sauce in 5 minutes.  That is the beauty of raw it is so quick and easy and because I did it in the food processer the cleaning up was just as quick and easy. :D  Also there was enough there for lunch tomorrow, so that is done too. Oh and then I had another small piece of cake for dessert...lol which is when this photo was taken, it is not the best, but a day on the couch eating cake, I think nobody looks their best ;)
I hope everybody had a wonderful weekend, as they are over so quickly, and I will see you tomorrow. seeya:)

Mad About Raw: Day 3 of my Raw Food Challenge

Mad About Raw: Day 3 of my Raw Food Challenge: Hi Guys, I am a little tired tonight, felt really good this morning though. One thing I have noticed that I am not waking up hungry of a mo...

Day 3 of my Raw Food Challenge

Hi Guys,
I am a little tired tonight, felt really good this morning though. One thing I have noticed that I am not waking up hungry of a morning, as I usually am.  Did a 5km run, and felt really good during, think I even went a little faster!


Chocolate Moose Heaven

Breakfast was a green smoothie, really loving these at the moment.  Apple for morning tea and leftover dinner (my tomato rice special) for lunch along with some salad.  That was really filling and kept me going till dinner time.  Sitting down with my girls watching Charlie and the Chocolate factory and guess what I felt like......chocolate!!!! You can actually buy raw chocolate bars at Mrs Flannery's (the new one with Johnny Depp :)), but I was too lazy for that.  So I decided to make my own Chocolate Moose.  I put 2 frozen banana's, 1 avocado, around 2tbsp cacao powder, 1 tbsp virgin coconut oil and 1tbsp of agave nectar and a little water in the blender and gave it a good go.  What was the result was a beautiful, chocolaty, velvet moose.  It was so decandent, especially with some added strawberries.  I am really loving chocolate at the moment, and actually prefer the raw chocolate flavour, which is more of a dark chocolate taste. On a lot of websites Cacao is actually classed as a Superfood as it is high in antioxidents......so I am looking after myself. ;)
After this antioxident feast, I was not hungry for dinner so that was it. 
I am off to bed now, so till next time. :)

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