Tom’s Raw Foods Blog

I’m going to have to sit down and come up with some better blog post titles!

Which vegetables and fruits give you more brain power?

A few observations:

• With my eating habits, I’m noticing that I’m most hungry in the middle of my day. I’m going to experiment, starting today, with eating the “salad” before the main meal.

I’m discovering that eating all of those vegetables really fills me up. I’m thinking that I might be able to actually cut down on the amount of food I eat at dinner if I eat the salad when I am most hungry. I also might be able to eat some fruit for dessert instead of the baked stuff.

If this works, it will really help me make the transition.

• I also need to ensure that I don’t go too rapidly.

I have a lot of enthusiasm right now for this (obviously), but enthusiasm will only take you so far. I read something somewhere once about forming habits; it apparently takes 21 days for an action to become a habit. I’ve decided that I’m going to stick with Phase 1 through at least the end of March to allow it to become a true habit — to become “normal” for me.

That, of course, may change if I think I’m really ready. I want to do things right — but also want to ensure that I don’t place artificial limits on myself in the process.

On the “Food Front”, things turned out to be a bit strange today. As I wrote yesterday, I know that I need to change my eating habits on the days that I don’t work, so I decided to really commit to eating well today. Although the day isn’t over yet as I write this, I’m going to try to eat something like this:

• A mono fruit breakfast (just one fruit).
• Frequent small mono fruit snacks.
• A pre-dinner fruit snack, followed by salad vegetables, then dinner itself.
• More salad vegetables for supper.
• A fruit “dessert”.

Dinner today will consist of some lean seasoned gyros meat and boiled potatoes (slightly larger than normal portions) with a chocolate muffin for dessert (NOTE: I added half of a pretzel roll… Cheater!). It should fit in nicely with everything else that I’m doing and eating.

I was hungrier than usual today when I woke up. I normally wait until around 5:00 PM to eat my breakfast but ended up eating two bananas around 3:00 PM, then half a cantelope at 4:00 PM. The cantaloupe seemed to take away (at least for now) my desire to eat some bread. I could eat some toast or waffles for breakfast if I wanted to (I’m only in Phase 1) but really wanted to see if I can make it through a day without baked goods. I didn’t quite make it, but that’s OK. The day will come — soon — when I’m ready. Instead of focusing on not reaching that goal, I’m happy about the other stuff I did accomplish.

I also had a dull headache when I woke up. Nothing serious; I worked through it, and it slowly went away as my day went on. Taking the dog for a walk also helped. I also seem to be exceptionally thirsty today and am drinking a lot of water. I normally drink a lot anyway but haven’t for the past couple of days. I buy gallon jugs of water that is purified via a reverse osmosis process (and recycle the plastic jugs; I hope you recycle, too). That way I can keep a jug by my desk and just drink when the urge strikes.

I didn’t mention it yesterday, but I wanted some chocolate later in the day but managed to not eat any. Another small step. I think that the key to this whole thing is to simply be aware, moment by moment, of the choices you have and the decisions you make. If I said that I want to give up chocolate for the rest of my life, that might seem impossible to do. If I decide to not eat chocolate just for today, that’s a bit easier. I can then make the same decision tomorrow, and the next day, and the next… Pretty soon you lose your taste for that kind of stuff (like I did with soft drinks / sodas, as I mentioned in yesterday’s post) and replace it with something different — and what seemed to be impossible is no longer an issue. You don’t even realize how far you’ve come unless you take a moment to look back at where you were.

That’s another reason I decided to start this blog…

My weight dropped again today, down to 244.

Today I’m working on a video training course that will help people better secure their WordPress blogs. It’s been in the works for a while. I’ve delayed releasing it because I want to pack as much information in it as I possibly can, plus I want to make it “evergreen”. I’m suspecting that it will need to be updated once WordPress releases version 2.5 anyway; we’ll see what happens. There’s also the normal routine stuff I do every day for my nascent business, plus time with the family.

In other words, about as normal as a day gets here!

One good thing is that I feel more like working today than usual.

Smacznego,
Tom