Day Two

24 hours of all RAW food!  This has been fun!

For yesterday's breakfast I had a "Green Smoothie" with an apple, a banana, handful of baby carrots, spinach, and strawberries.

For yesterday's lunch I had a huge salad with cucumber and tomatoes.  The dressing was homemade with a tablespoon of cold pressed olive oil, a dash of sea salt, juice from a lemon, and 1 clove of garlic.  It was very good!

For yesterday's dinner I snacked on cauliflower and cucumbers dipped in avocado.

Total calorie count 1286

I'm going to have to adjust how I eat food to get enough calories.  Three meals a day is not frequent enough on a raw diet, because the raw foods digest faster.  Also I stuffed myself silly and was still way low on the calorie count.

So for today, Day Two, I'll do things a little differently.

Breakfast = Banana, strawberries, and orange juice smoothie.  286.5 Cal

Brunch = Almonds, Banana, Cashews, Walnuts.  495 Cal

Lunch = Another huge salad, with spinach, bell pepper, and the same dressing. 287.8 Cal

Dinner = A quick banana, with a bowl of strawberries. 224.7 Cal

Snack = A glass of orange juice. 204.1 Cal


Total Calorie Count for Day Two = 1498.1


I've been starting the detox symptoms that many of the blogs and sites I've been reading talked about.  If I had eased my way into this diet by slowing increasing the raw food, I may have been able to avoid this.  However I don't do things well when I'm only going halfway, so I decided to risk it.

So far the only thing bad has been a nagging headache.  I'm looking forward to day 5 when I should be "out of the woods" in regards to detox symptoms.