Day 12:October 12th 2009

Catch up log:

Day 10

Food Eaten: Fruit salad, Strawberry Hemp Shake, Olives, Grapes, Apples, Stuffing, curried yams, pumpkin souffle, chip chocolate cake
Quality of Life: Giving Thanks
Activity Level: Awake all day on 2 hours of sleep. That's kind of odd.
Raw Food Percentage: 40 at best

Day 11

Food Eaten: Apples, Olives, Bananas, Strawberry coconut hemp shake
Quality of Life: Hungry
Activity Level: Off the island and back to work.
Raw Food Percentage: 100

Day 12

Food Eaten: Breakfast shake, gazpacho
Quality of Life: Back on the wagon, feeling calm
Activity Level: Cleaned... a bit.
Raw Food Percentage: 100

Thanksgiving was nice, even if I had to break my fast to do it. No meat and no booze though, which is probably for the best given the morning after when I woke up and realized I couldn't eat any leftovers was pretty depressing. If I'd gorged myself properly I would have felt even worse. Or would I have felt better if I'd made myself sick on real food to go back to post-modern pasta?

Regardless, back in the saddle now, eating gazpacho and having put all manner of things I found at the grocery into a shake. On the upside, found agave nectar, on the downside its really pricey. Currently the breakfast shake is composed of soy beans, hemp seeds, strawberries, banana, water and coconut milk and a few precious drops of agave nectar. It's delicious, although it makes me feel like I'm eating bread someone already chewed for me. The gazpacho has also had avocado added to it, which results in a smoother fresher flavour, though its now bright green.

Sprouting has commenced, I am currently staring at some beans soaking up water. Soon, soon they will sprout and I shall consume the flesh of the living bean. And become one with the bean spirit or whatever the hell it is that's destroyed by cooking.

My personal experience with raw food is leading me to a fairly negative view of the whole thing. I'm not finding my health is significantly improved over just eating the proper amount of vegetables, cooked or not. I do feel better than normal, but that might have something to do with not having a drink or a smoke or any junk food in all this time. Still, its early days yet. We'll see.

Research and recriminations abound as we approach the halfway point. Perhaps the sun will come out from behind its cloud and my mitochondria will dance with a compound made of ATP and hope. Or perhaps this blog will end 19 days from now with the utter rejection of raw food.

In the meantime, I need a more balanced diet. The breakfast shake is a good start, it has a lot of
stuff I need. We'll see how the sprouted beans work out, have to figure out something to eat them in. Maybe ground up into a raw taco? I'll have to hold my skepticism and examine some of these raw food sites in more detail.

I relinquish my self, briefly, to the great spirit of nutritional mysticism.