I read this article on the cnn website about a raw food vegan. I thought it might be interesting in light of our recent conversation.

Darby,
Funny that you just posted that because I JUST read it...it's very interesting indeed!

international hug a vegetarian day?? awesome!

Thats a great story. I love reading about others success!

Thanks for posting that! Very interesting!

I am in an incredible cooking mood. I have a feeling this week will be full of experiments!!! If I come across anything good, I'll post them.

I'm such an experimenter...it gets me in trouble :x lol

theheather... definitely let us know =] hope they turn out good

SW: 158/158.5
CW: 154
GW: 154 (Sept. 30)

I had given up on reaching my September 30th goal, and I got here 2 days early! No guarantees I still be there on September 30th though

You're doing great Julie!! I'm so PROUD of you!!! WAY TO GO!! Way to kick it in the butt.

OK mini update on my raw progress.
Being the poor student that i am and was on my feet ALL day at work yesterday i grabbed a vegan pastry type thing!
It was that feeling when you reeeeaaaalllly didnt wanna eat it and you would regret it after but my blood sugar was low and i didnt care
Up til then my scales have been going doooown
Literally i couldnt believe i was seeing my hips/waist again. I feel like crap physically today cos of the pastry and it had soya in it which i now know makes me ill, but up until then the raw thing was fantastic. Im going back into it today which means i have to go through the detox stage again.grrr other than that its fantastic! When i get paid tomorow im gonna start creating more dishes but im shocked at how many things you can make, and they take LESS time cos your not waiting for them to cook!

http://superchargeme.com/

http://www.shazzie.com/

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=raw+vegan+&meta=

I typed in the google search so you can pick the ones you want but i promise you you will lose weight on it. Im starting to feel more positive about getting to my target for halloween woop woop

Julie...well done on your weight loss

Heather...did you blow anything up?

Go Jade

Hmm not sure if you're talking about me or theHeather cooking
I'm stepping out of my funk today hopefully! The not smoking is finally over being painful and on top of my mind ever second. Not that it won't continue to be a battle but it's easing up. Food - getting back in control as of today and exercise to follow. We have a kickball game tonight and then I'll be back in the gym. I have no real plans for next weekend (thank god - too busy lately) and I plan on reading up on the raw foods and planning at least one raw day for the following week.

I hope everyone has a marvelous day

I don't know how I missed that you quit smoking - but how exciting! It's never easy, so I'm impressed.

You can do it Heather!!!

So ladies... as of yesterday my throat has been sore and scratchy! So today I really wanted some hot soup... so since I don't have any I was using some lentils to make lentil soup. The dad of the house walked in and was like what are you doing, so I told him since I don't have any soup I'm making lentil soup. He said "We do have soup!! There is chicken noodle, cream of chicken, etc."
I said.. I do not eat any products from an animal, remember.
He said just pick out all the chicken before you eat it. It's not that hard.

I said... Well the broth is also chicken based and that is the same thing (disgusting!)

He was like.. You're being a baby.

Oh my! Men! Some people just don't understand, and thats fine as long as they don't put in there own input all the time. I don't care who eats what so why do they have to care about what I prefer.

He's getting a reaction from you. It won't go very far if he just stops getting any reaction from you other than "OK," and then proceeding to do what you want .

I'm sure my day with this with my family will come soon.