Raw Food Weight Loss Challenge – Day 05

Oi oi :D Thank you to everyone who is making comments or asking questions on the blog or YouTube or Viddler! I love to hear from you – am now starting to dream that people are saying ‘you are brave’ when I sleep at night *lol*

Well here’s a shocking terrible video of me (yes I look like a demented chipmunk) but I did commit to doing regular video updates so don’t say I didn’t warn you. In it I chat about some good supplements to take if you’re thinking of going raw vegan as well as why I welched out on going up to London yesterday to see my big sister, Nicola Cairncross.

With regards to what I’ve eaten today I had apples, my home made trail mix (raw brazil nuts, cashews, pumpkin seeds, dried figs and some other things I can’t remember), red pepper /capsicum with the remaining houmous, some tuna with cucumber and pepper/capsicum and some mayonnaise and 3 litres of water… oh ok, I did cheat horribly (again) and had 3 dessert spoons of ice cream and some Nutella. I am wondering when I’m gonnna go a whole day without giving in to what are essentially, mental cravings. Oh arse, I just remembered I had 3 bites of Chloes tuna sandwich too before I made her put it in the bin. I wake up each morning though and consider it a fresh start :P

Exercise: I ran for 23 minutes, did 4×50 crunches, 11 full push ups and 10 on my knees, and 11 tricep dips. Running felt hard work when I set out today, not helped by the fact it was lovely and sunny when I went and I didn’t want to run without my jacket on as my skin is sooooooo fewking horrible it makes me want to cry *wails pathetically*. I hope it starts improving REAL QUICK before I get disheartened.

On the whole I am starting to feel more lively and I am remaining positive which is great! I will post some stuff on here that I am reading about raw food and start do do some reviews I think – watch this space x

Raw Food Weight Loss – Day 04

omg I was so lazy yesterday – so lazy in fact that I didn’t report in on here, how bad am I!!! *lol* I managed to drink my 2 litres of water but I didn’t have much appetite and felt quite tired.

When I eventually hauled my arse out of bed I went for a run and managed 22 mins! Felt really proud of myself but need to change my route as it’s not long enough to give me a cool down and psychologically I find it bad having to walk past my house without staggering in it hahahahah.

I was umming and ahhing about going up to London to meet up with Nicola and other lovely peeps from The Money Gym gang who were on a Rick Otton workshop but decided to just listen to my bod and veg out on the sofa under a blanket, watching a bit of crap TV and chatting on the net.

I slept soooo well – about 7 hours which was great and woke up to the sun shining this morning – woo hoo!!

Am trying to remember what I ate yesterday – I remember snacking on grapes, apples, banana and having red pepper (capsicum) sliced up with houmous but I didn’t make a juice which was bad of me and I did stick my finger in the Nutella jar … ermm twice.. (funnily enough I didn’t enjoy it that much tho).. and ummm I did eat *gulp* half a thing of Philadelphia cream cheese… Spencer will kill me – I bought it for him to have on toast.

My challenge was that when I got hungry I went looking in the fridge for something instant to eat… but was thinking ‘what is the worst thing in here?’. Oh the wonders of self sabotage. Luckily I didn’t follow through on my fantasies of peanut butter sandwiches ahahahah. I am definitely an emotional eater more than boredom eater but I also need to start planning some meals / snacks so I look forward to eating as already I’m feeling unstimulated, and there are sooooo many delicious things I could be creating to scoff. Please feel free to comment with your suggestions!

Anyway, it’s now Day 05 and I’m still in the house and it’s sunny outside! Am going to get up and go for a run then do something.. laterssss x