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Ok so it has been 8 days sense i decided to go on raw foods. I start each day out with a green smoothie filled with kale greens, celery, apple,pineapple,lemon. Thanks to the book Green for Life. It gives me lots of energy and fills me up too. Guess what, I am not hungry all day anymore!

 And i have to say I love living raw (so far). My sister swares i will began craving meat and looking at people like pork chops soon, but i beg to differ. I think i have completely made up my mind and it has been a long time coming for me to decide to give up meat and such. I am pretty firm in my conviction, i am just so happy that Mr. Big decided to do this for a month with me so i don't have to overcome any temptations.

 But I purposely went to the store and around cooked food just to see how i would react and actually it was not so bad. My main problem is sweets. i love ice cream and cake and chocolate and stuff. But that is all good too because there are so many things i can make with raw chocalate and natural sweetners like agave.
I also find that i love raw granola, i had some for breakfast with hemp seed milk this morning, yummmmy!

I am also learning to be a raw food chef. I made this green seaweed pate wrap and it is a wonderful  great taste in the mouth. And filling without the worry of calorie counting!

Seaweed and greens pate rollup

Also i have released 5lbs! So that is a plus. Looking forward to continuing on the journey.
I made my own ice cream with nuts and seeds and added a banana and it is yummy. I never knew real food could taste so good.

Raw bananasplit

I spent most of the morning looking for  somewhere to buy organic foods in Atlanta. I was amazed to only be able to find a few whole food supermarkets that actually carry food for the  raw vegan lifestyle. I am so tired of the S.A.D.
( standard American Diet) that i have been eating for all my life and now i am at the cross roads and a wake up call of which i fully plan to answer..YES! TO RAW and a new life. New energy, new, just new.,.

I am so excited and a bit nervous about going completely raw, but hey I decided to quit smoking 10 yrs ago and Once i layed down my last puff i didn't look back, I am hoping the food will be the same. I feel a strong committment to my feelings towards food these days. I have actually grown to hate eating, it use to be my gratest pleasure, now it is almost my greatest night mare, by going raw i hope to change the way i feel about food and my body in general.

I found a great grocerie store in Marrietta, i called the lady there she gives classes on going raw and i plan to take the class on may 20th. But i am happy to find a place to begin. to night i am going to change my kitchen around. It will become a raw kitchen.

Mr. Big has decided to go raw with me so that makes it all the better and a lot easier for me not to have to cookj seperate meals for anyone but My son Chris. I am also excited about learning how to become a raw chef. And hoipefully help someone else in the future as well. So now the journey begins,. Lets start with a picture.
I am not happy with this pucture but right now it will do.
This is me before My raw life begins.

• Age 50
• weight 215lbs

After 50 yrs of diets,pills,drugs,drinks,and other chemicals, my body is beginning to say NO!.

 LATELY NO MATTER HOW MUCH I EXERCISE OR DIET I CAN not seem to overcome the back pain, the headaches or the weightg gain. I have become prisoner to my eating habits and my flesh.
I now fully realize that Cooked and processed Food is killing me!

 Each year around this time i go on a fast and recover for a while. But As i get older i am finding that i want something real, something lasting, something meaningful health wise. So i began some research and studies a few weeks ago and have come to the conclusion that getting back to live foods and natures way of eating is what I really need.

Yes i know after all these years of cooked and processed foods it will be hard to go raw but I have made up my mind and so it will begin. On may 1th i amgoing raw. I will pop in each day and post about the journey, but that is all I will have time for.= As I am still also on spiritual  shut down.

I need something meaningful and real in my life. We live in a superficial processed world and I need more.
I need to get back to the garden, the way God planned it. The way nature requires it.This month
I am reading...

Eating in the Raw: A Beginner's Guide to Getting Slimmer, Feeling Healthier, and Looking Younger the

The Cure: Heal Your Body, Save Your Life

Rainbow Green Live-Food Cuisine

The 80/10/10 Diet

The Raw 50: 10 Amazing Breakfasts, Lunches, Dinners, Snacks, and Drinks for Your Raw Food Lifestyle

Living on Live Food

12 Steps to Raw Foods: How to End Your Dependency on Cooked Food

Juice Fasting and Detoxification: Use the Healing Power of Fresh Juice to Feel Young and Look Great

The Raw Food Detox Diet: The Five-Step Plan for Vibrant Health and Maximum Weight Loss

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And I am spending time on these websites"

What is raw
Give it to me raw
Living raw chat

Sorry i haven't been around the blog much, and I am gonna be gone for the whole month of May.
hang in there ya'll and see you when i get back. hugs and smooches.

yep in a few hours i will be 50. And I am feeling pretty good about it after all.

 I was looking to be in London/Paris this weekend but so much other stuff is going on in my life right now, no time to travel just yet. So hopefully i will get there before the year is over.

Anyhoo i will be out in the fresh air tomorrow so i decided to post my 50 picture today.,

Mybirthdayphotoshot

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In a few hours-The city of Sydney Australia will turn off its lights for Earth Hour, beginning what will hopefully be a very large ripple effect around the planet of city after city doing the same. So today I am changing all my websites to black and grey in honor of Earth hour. The black web colors use less screen energy and symbolize the efforts at the same time. I encourage you to do the same. Have an awesome earth hour. Help save the planet.

On March 29, 2008 at 8 p.m., join millions of people around the world in making a statement about climate change by turning off your lights for Earth Hour, an event created by the World Wildlife Fund.

Earth Hour was created by WWF in Sydney, Australia in 2007, and in one year has grown from an event in one city to a global movement. In 2008, millions of people, businesses, governments and civic organizations in nearly 200 cities around the globe will turn out for Earth Hour. More than 100 cities across North America will participate, including the US flagships–Atlanta, Chicago, Phoenix and San Francisco and Ottawa, Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver.

Not enough time in the day to hit all my blogs right now- so this one may go unattended for a while,.

I am feeling a little detached today but no time to really stop. I am going to an election event today and working  with the grassroots to help get people in my neighborhood registered to vote.  It will be a busy and an exciting day for me.
However today is also a day of mixed feelings for me.

One year ago today mother took off her earth suit and stepped out of now, into eternity. We had said many goodbyes in the weeks and months before, as much as we could in her present state of mind. Over the years she had increase  with the disease of Alzheimer's and  by her 75th birthday she had no recollection of who I was, just a nice lady who took care of her.

 Every morning she would hug me and say "May the good Lord bless you and keep you". Then she would proceed to tell me how she was waiting for her mother to come and get her. So last year on this very day,  at around 11:30am, I can only assume that her mother did indeed come to get her.

In the months before mother's death several interesting and yet strange events took place, I was not in the dark, i knew everything before it unfolded right before my eyes.  (I can tell some of them now). There were many times I wanted to blog about the events that were unfolding back then, however I knew everyone would probably think me to be insane as such so I kept it all to my inner circle.

There were events such as one premonition of knowing to get my brother home from Iraq and get his orders in before my mother  crossed over, it was as if an urgency of knowing I needed to get him home, so I set all that in motion weeks ahead of time,( even though he still did not get here until 2 days after her death). I tried to get him here as fast as I could.

 There were other things that happened yet I can not bring myself to share them as such,however one particular thing of interest that I will never forget are  the white dusty angel like shadowed figures lining my hallway.

 None spoke or made motion to me of any kind, they were lined up as if they were going into the room and visiting mother, I believed then as I do now that it was some sort of heavenly receiving line. They lined my hallway for weeks before her death and I could not make out any faces of my knowing, but they were indeed here to see mother. Once she gave up this earth suit and crossed over in to the spirit realm the shadow figures of cloudy white dust all left my hallway also.

I keep waiting for her to visit me, but so far as it has been a year and I have not seen or hear from her not even in a dream, I assume she must be very busy and not yet had the time to even think of this side of the realms, and if I should never see her again on this side I am comforted and assured by my faith that I will indeed see her again someday in the great by and by on the other-side,.

So today I blog in honor of her memory with the  pictures we took on the day of her home going service, and I remember all the things she tried to leave us, the legacy of her very being.

 She was the most beautiful yet complicated, strong, straight forward, elegant woman I had ever known, and  at times in my life I misunderstood and even disliked her ways, but before she left this earth, and today I love her and in the very end, I finally understood her, no validation required.