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Lunch Today was a simple salad with romaine lettuce, cucumbers, red onions, and olives. The dressing was lemon juice, olive oil, chopped parsley, and salt and pepper.
Sometimes simple food is the best food.
(Source: weeatplants)
Hi guys,
So I’ve decided to take this raw foods thing a little more seriously. I really want to be able to build a community around this blog, so I’ve started a new tumblr account independent from my main one, so that I can follow people and hopefully grow this blog.
So please follow me over at EatRaw.tumblr.com
Hello everyone, I’m Sarah Cooley, a blogger, vegan and all around food lover living in New York City.
So how did I end up here, writing a blog about raw foods? I’ve been flirting with being raw for some time. I was a vegetarian back in 2009 when I first went raw for a 7 day cleanse and I felt great. I knew how great I felt when I was eating a mostly raw diet, but I ignored it for some time.
Then I started eating really poorly (lots of carbs and dairy) and I gained a lot of weight. So in February of 2010 I went vegan, and it was fairly easy to lose 25 lbs. But after some time my love affair with carbs continued to hurt me. I was starting to feel sluggish and not very healthy. I knew deep down that going back to raw foods was the answer.
But could I give up traditional cooking? I love cooking. I know that food will always be a big part of my life and I am hoping to attend 105Degrees Academy in August 2011 to become a raw foods chef.
But until then, I’ll be here sharing my food journey with you.
I previously had a blog about raw foods called Raw for Real, but it was only a blog under my main tumblr account, so I couldn’t really interact with the community the way I wanted to. So here I am. Feel free to check out that blog for my previous raw food posts.
(Source: weeatplants)
For the past 2 weeks I’ve tried my best to eat a mostly raw diet. But these last few days a slipped up and had some rice and beans. Each time I ate them I didn’t really feel great afterward, but I kept telling myself that eating this kind of food was normal.
I started having strange feelings about admitting to myself that I want to eat a raw foods diet. I keep telling myself that it’s only temporary, until I lose extra weight, but I don’t think it is.
I feel the best when I’m eating this way, and every time I deviate from it I feel horrible. So why am I so sad about giving up cooked foods?
Is it just the culture of food that I’m worried I’ll miss? Or is it the act of cooking (that I enjoy so much) that I don’t want to give up. Why am I getting tripped up on this?
So this is Cleanse day 7. It hasn’t been fully a juice cleanse and I haven’t stayed 100% raw, but I have been eating a lot better.
My day’s consist of mostly juice with the occasional raw food treat. I have had some cooked food, I slipped up and had some chips, but I kept it gluten free and yesterday I made a sweet potato.
But what this cleanse has really made me think about is how do I want to keep on living my life. Sure trying to be a raw foodist presents its challenges, but the more time I spend eating raw foods the more interested I’ve become.
It makes me a little sad because I love cooking so much, and when I think about choosing a lifestyle where I wouldn’t be cooking a traditional way, I’m not sure how I feel about that.
I’ve also been thinking a lot about my future. I’ve worked really hard in my career and I know it’s something I love, but more and more something keeps pulling me towards a career in food. Or something food related.
I was telling someone the other day how much I loved to cook, and they asked me why I didn’t go to culinary school. It’s always been something that I’ve thought about in a romantic way, like wouldn’t that be nice. But now that I am vegan, and more and more leaning towards raw foods, a traditional culinary school would never work.
Then I found out about 105 Degrees Academy.
More on that later.
(the photo is of a raw burrito I had last night from Blossom du Jour)
Cleanse Day 3
Today I was planning on doing just juice, but once again I found myself in the city longer than I had planned, so I was unprepared and getting hungry,
I stopped into One Lucky Duck in Chelsea Market on my way home and picked up a Raw Falafel Salad. I ate about half and it was so yummy!
I might finish the rest later but we will see.
Overall so far, this cleanse has taught me that a lot of my cravings are mental, most of the time I’m not really hungry.
Today I did a little better, I made it to 4 pm before I really wanted a salad. So I made a simple salad and I was happy with that.
Later I made a smoothie.
I’m hungry now, but I’m just going to go to sleep.
Hi Anessa,
I first tried out raw food in the Spring of ‘09, I committed to stay raw for a 7 day cleanse. That was before I was even vegan. I was only vegetarian at the time but I was loving the way raw foods made me feel. I stayed raw for a few weeks, but then I went on a cruise and I feel off the wagon. (hard)
Then a dealt with a lot of personal issues in my life, and food once again became my comfort. I stayed vegetarian but I was eating a diet full of carbs and cheese. (not so good)
I gained 50 lbs and I realized I had to do something about it. So I went Vegan. I’ve been vegan now since February ‘10 and I’ve lost 25 lbs. I was feeling great, but as the holidays rolled around I found myself eating lots of carbs again, and generally feeling like crap.
So now I’m doing a juice fast, to try and reset my system, and I am going to try my best to stay raw for 3 weeks and see how I feel.
So today I was going to try and do all juice, but I was starting to get hungry around lunch time, and I just happened to be very close to Pure Food and Wine.
So I stayed raw and gluten free and got a taco salad. If you’ve never been to Pure, the salads are huge here.
I could only eat about a third of it. But it was absolutely delicious!!
I know I haven’t written on this blog for a while. I’ve stayed vegan, but I’ve had a hard time getting back to raw. Over the last few months I have been eating a lot of starch and I know my body isn’t happy about it. So I’ve decided to do a juice cleanse for at least a week.
I’m hoping I’ll be able to stay fully raw for three weeks but I know it will be hard since it’s winter, and I will need a lot of support!
I will keep you posted and I will be using this as a diary for my cleanse to record my moods and detox symptoms.
If you have any experience with juice fasting, I would love your advice!
Ok, I have a confession to make, I’m pretty sure I suck at yoga! Sure I tweet about it, and I like it, but I’m not very good at it. When I realized that I wasn’t very good at it I stopped doing it for a while because it was discouraging. But after losing 25 lbs I realized that in order to lose the rest of the weight it was going to take some serious excersising to do it.
So I decided to start doing yoga again. I’ve always enjoyed yoga but I’ve never really taken it seriously in the past. Sure I would drop in on a class from time to time, but mostly I did yoga at home. Doing yoga at home is nice but it can be hard to push yourself when it’s just you alone in your living room. I realized I needed to find a studio where I can regularly attend classes and really start to take my practice seriously (even if I still think I suck at it). Last night I went to a class at Laughing Lotus Yoga Center, it’s only a block away from my office so it was convinent to go there after work.
The class was a basics class (which I thought I could handle, but I was totally sweating 10 minutes in) and it was an hour and a half long. The instuctor said something that really struck a cord with me, he was talking about doing inversions:
“it’s kind of like dating, you just have to keep trying it, keep courting it, until you get it”.
I realized that I was afraid to really try most yoga poses, I knew I couldn’t do them, so why even try. Well if you try a little bit more every class, eventually you will get there.
I bought a week long unlimited pass to Laughing Lotus, so we will see how I feel after the week is up. Today I am sore, but I’m going to stick with it and go to class again tonight.
