Food eaten: most of a mediterranean salad
Quality of life: Vaguely nauseous, headache with growing strength, short tempered.
Activity level: Prisoner of gravity
Estimated Raw Food Percentage: 95%
I suppose this'll have to be the month of as close to raw 100% raw as I can manage. I mean, this is important to me and all, but there's limitations to what's possible.
Anyhow, basically I'm just going to have to accept that in the occasional events where I can't avoid going out to eat I'll have to be mostly raw with an allowance for slight discrepancies. Which will mean a lot of avoiding going out to eat. Still not entirely sure how to handle thanksgiving. Lots of salad?
My last meal yesterday was a whole bunch of pitchers of beer, some tequila, a lamb burger and a cigarette. At midnight I switched to water and envy. The lamb burger was pretty unsatisfying. The cigarette was 100 shades of awesome but probably put me back a few days on the chemical withdrawal. I don't really know how that works actually. I believe this calls for research.
Wikipedia's entry for nicotine withdrawal is fairly... stark. Suddenly reducing or stopping nicotine intake "...can lead to the person becoming irritable; craving cigarettes and suffering from intense headaches" which is accurate, but doesn't give me much new information.
Let's try to find something a little more, technical. huh, the Wikipedia on nicotine itself is fascinating. Apparently there are theories that the 75-90% of schizophrenics who smoke do so as an attempt at self medication and that some aspects of the nicotine compound could help in the reduction of symptoms. No formal studies have been done. It doesn't sound like this is the most promising lead toward a breakthrough in schizophrenia treatment.
Anyway, tomorrow less hangover more raw food! YAAAAAAAAAAAY!
Having a cold and getting drunk the night before starting this wasn't the best idea, but so far its working out pretty well. I'm definitely not hungry and I didn't even finish the salad thingy I got at white spot. Though it was irritatingly not 100%, so technically I've already failed. Woooo.
Sadly the raw food restaurant was a little further away than I could make it and I had promised my mom I'd meet her for lunch. Kind of pisses me off though. I guess if it really keeps bothering me I can go an extra day into November, but still. Aw well, what's a little feta.
Sadly the raw food restaurant was a little further away than I could make it and I had promised my mom I'd meet her for lunch. Kind of pisses me off though. I guess if it really keeps bothering me I can go an extra day into November, but still. Aw well, what's a little feta.
I suppose this'll have to be the month of as close to raw 100% raw as I can manage. I mean, this is important to me and all, but there's limitations to what's possible.
Anyhow, basically I'm just going to have to accept that in the occasional events where I can't avoid going out to eat I'll have to be mostly raw with an allowance for slight discrepancies. Which will mean a lot of avoiding going out to eat. Still not entirely sure how to handle thanksgiving. Lots of salad?
My last meal yesterday was a whole bunch of pitchers of beer, some tequila, a lamb burger and a cigarette. At midnight I switched to water and envy. The lamb burger was pretty unsatisfying. The cigarette was 100 shades of awesome but probably put me back a few days on the chemical withdrawal. I don't really know how that works actually. I believe this calls for research.
Wikipedia's entry for nicotine withdrawal is fairly... stark. Suddenly reducing or stopping nicotine intake "...can lead to the person becoming irritable; craving cigarettes and suffering from intense headaches" which is accurate, but doesn't give me much new information.
And the rest of the internet seems to generally be interested in reminding me that quitting is hard, but I can do it...ah this is nice, "I can assure you, along with thousands of happy former smokers, that if you follow the right strategies and make the small sacrifices to get over the physical dependence of nicotine, you'll think all your birthdays have come at once." http://www.quitguide.com/nicotine-withdrawal.html so that's something to look forward to. I wonder how many unhappy former smokers there are. Well, not counting the dead ones.
Let's try to find something a little more, technical. huh, the Wikipedia on nicotine itself is fascinating. Apparently there are theories that the 75-90% of schizophrenics who smoke do so as an attempt at self medication and that some aspects of the nicotine compound could help in the reduction of symptoms. No formal studies have been done. It doesn't sound like this is the most promising lead toward a breakthrough in schizophrenia treatment.
Anyway, tomorrow less hangover more raw food! YAAAAAAAAAAAY!
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