Phase 1 - February 28, 2008
I want to talk briefly again about vitamins and supplements. I haven’t researched it too far just yet, but I did see something on one of Roger’s sites where he said something about taking a B12 supplement, just to be safe. I think I’ll take my multivitamin supplement for now, but will take it every second day. I think that should suffice until I can learn more about it.
Today was a bit different. I don’t work at my job today, but it was our shopping day, so we were on the road a lot. I decided to give myself a little more slack today which, in retrospect, wasn’t exactly the best idea, but I did learn from it — and that’s good (more on that a few paragraphs down). Since I got up much earlier than usual to accommodate the shopping trip (and I’m seldom hungry when I first wake up), I took a couple of bananas with me. That worked out pretty good; the only problem was that my 20 month old daughter would see the banana in the car and would tell me that she wanted it. So I’d unpeel it, try to give it to her, and she would say “NO”… So I didn’t get to eat when I wanted to, but it still worked out.
I took the dog for a walk after we got home, and when I returned, my wife had already cooked dinner. I am trying to avoid using the microwave as much as possible (another benefit of a raw diet) and decided to skip the pre-meal fruit and salad and just ate with her. It wasn’t a big meal; just a breaded chicken cutlet and a rather large spoon full of macaroni and cheese, topped off with half a piece of poppyseed cake and some apple juice mixed with mineral water (Apfelsaftschorle).
After dinner I got incredibly sleepy and took a nap for a couple of hours. I’m not sure if it was due to the meal being eaten “wrong” or because of my sleep patterns. As a night shift worker, I usually don’t get up much before noon, even on days off, and today I had to get up at 9:00 AM to do the shopping. I also got to bed “late” last night (early for me, though, as a night shift worker), so that may have had something to do with it.
The rest of the day didn’t really go much better. My wife made some potato pancakes, Polish style, and I had one of those for supper (after the other half of yesterday’s cantaloupe). I also had a few cookies and never made it to the raw vegetables.
That’s OK, though; I now know that I need to plan family meals a bit better and find a way to stick to my new way of eating (it isn’t really a “diet”) while still taking advantage of the social benefits that eating as a family provides. Better to discover this lesson now that two months after I switch to a completely raw diet!
And even with the “setbacks”, I still ate more fruit today than I would have a week ago.
And I think that moving to the all raw foods way of eating gradually will help me uncover these challenges long before they become major issues, which is much better than doing it “cold turkey” and getting discouraged every time something like this happens. Just one more benefit of checking out Roger’s blog (see the “Blogroll” for the link).
Weight: 244.5 pounds today, up a bit, but not really enough to make a difference.
Smacznego,
Tom