Ok. So.

So this is good. We're learning we're very...interested...in...well...protein...fat...and salt.

And that's, okay.

I know I haven't said much about Jinjee's year-long raw challenge plan thingy (the "Raw Empowerment Program") yet. I've been mistakenly daunted by it. Finally had a look around tonight, though, and it's so much simpler than I'd thought. Also big-hearted, exciting and sensible.

Sensible thing #1: She's got different "tracks" you can make meals from, depending on what you're really interested in (losing weight, low-sugar/carbohydrate, "balanced" or high protein).

Big-hearted thing #1: For each track, right upfront she gives you a year's worth of recipes, shopping lists and menu planners, and you can download materials for all four tracks at once. I think the idea might be to get comfortable from one track, with the online "community" and rhythm of meals, and then go exploring as other tracks call.

Another lovely big-spirited aspect of the plan is how often we're scheduled to eat! Breakfast, brunch, lunch, snack, dinner, snack! How civilized. I have been getting hungry sort of soon after each raw-food-intake this week.

Oh, I'm so excited about starting the high protein track tomorrow! (No, I don't have a life -- and that's, okay.) I guess the way it'll work is, breakfast -- any fruit recipe; brunch -- any nutmilk recipe; lunch -- any "veggie" recipe; afternoon snack -- any nuts'n'seaweed recipe; dinner -- any "veggie/nut" or nut recipe; and evening snack -- any green juice recipe, or a piece of whole fruit.

Fing how rich is this life!!?!?!?! I'm the luckiest girl in this whole studio apartment!

First Day

Hey there! So this is my first, not 100% successful, day of meeting Jinjee Talifero's all-year-all-raw challenge dealio!

My it's expensive! I did one of her programs a couple years ago, though (when I could afford it), and by a mixture of this and a blessed bit of confusion on Jinjee's part about which Maggie Sullivan I really am -- I don't publish "Natural Awakenings" -- confusion I only learned about after she'd approved my profile submission -- well here I am getting to do the pretty thing for free! Thanks God!

Fresh-squeezed tangerine-grapefruit juice in the morning (only because citrus juicers are cheap), then the somehow grainy (possibly pencil lead) end of a dark-chocolate-almond-sea-salt bar left in my purse.

Well, it had to be rid of. (And brings up a point: how bad is a vice, really, if it doesn't have gluten or dairy?????

What if this is asked in italics????)

Later, a handful of raw though not soaked nuts from fridge (yes, love, I dabbled in raw before we met...but never with such commitment or anticipation).

It's 4 pm and I'm HONGRY!!!!! Not raw's fault but New Year's Day laziness. Am now trying to figure out how not to go to Starbucks. From past dabbles I know I can lose weight ingesting such evil, as long as I get 3 raw deals/meals a day. Never tried it long enough to see what might happen next, though.

This time we shall see! Onward, loves!