March 19. 2008: Smells
Day 7 of my new lifestyle.
The worst problem of the day is that I’m in between sizes on my belt. If I
put it in the fourth hole, it looks good but is a bit snug when I sit at my
desk chair. If I keep it in the third hole it’s more comfortable when I’m
sitting but looks bad when I stand up.
Solution? Stick to raw foods so that the fourth hole is simply good in
every way!
Steve Pavlina made a remark on his blog about how smells seemed to be more
noticeable as he moved further into his raw foods trial (I think it was on
Day 5 or 6 that he mentioned this). I have to agree; today I started
noticing.
It started while shopping for fruit (what else?). Someone in a military
uniform walked by, and I could immediately tell that he needed to wash his
sweater.
The next thing happened while my wife and children were eating at an
Italian cafe (I had an Asian Pear — my new discovery of the day. Crispy
and juicy — definitely recommended). Our 21 month old daughter was
extremely hungry and simply ate more than her stomach could hold and some
of it came back out — on my jeans.
Now these things are to be expected with small children — no problem
there. It’s happened in the past and you simply get used to such things.
What I didn’t expect was for the smell from my jeans to bother me — but
nobody else — in the car on the way home. I couldn’t wait to change
clothes.
And the last thing? I somehow got some chewing gum on the heel of my sock
(don’t ask me how; nobody chews gum in our house), so I stopped by a local
store to buy a new pair. As I was changing them in the car, I noticed the
smell.
So I still smell funny, unlike Roger Haeske, who claimed in a recent blog
post that he pretty much doesn’t smell funny (although his girlfriend
apparently thinks otherwise!).
Of course, it’s only been seven days now, so I still have a ways to go.
I’ve been extremely hungry today, and as the day progresses (I still have
8.5 hours to go on my shift), I might actually run out of food. That’s not
a good thing, but I can handle it. Just a few weeks ago, getting hungry
would have made me feel weak — to the point that I would have to find
something — anything! — to eat. Now if I get hungry, it’s just “hungry”.
The weak feeling seems to have gone away. I think that’s because the sugar
in fruit (according to Steve Pavlina’s blog) burns more evenly. The spikes
that come from eating other types of sugar simply aren’t there. My body is
already starting to experience the benefits of eating better food.
My mother was diagnosed as being hypoglycemic many years ago. She was told
to eat several small meals a day. That’s why I switched to that system…
except I don’t think that all of my meals were all that small, to be
honest. But now I eat a lot of mono fruit snacks throughout the day and all
seems to be well.
My father (who passed on five years ago this month) had burns on part of
his body. He got them because he pulled a pot of some hot liquid down onto
himself when he was a small boy (if my memory serves me correctly). While I
was thinking about him today, it suddenly hit me that my small children
will never pull a hot pan of anything down onto themselves due to my
cooking. So the raw foods diet has the added benefit of improving household
safety.
Smacznego,
Tom