I need food

Wow, I have definitely learned a lesson this week:  raw food diets are not for me.

You see, I had mentioned something on here about doing the Whole Living Magazine's 28 day challenge, and I started it on Sunday.  The first week you are supposed to completely detox and cleanse your system by going completely raw.  As in, eating only raw fruits and veggies.  They don't even allow nuts, but I thought that was crazy, so I got a bunch of raw nuts and dried fruit for snacking purposes.

I did something like this last summer and lasted for four days.  This time I made it only two.  Last night, after the second day of nothing but carrots, celery, cauliflower and pepper I started developing a massive headache.  I knew this came with the territory and thought I could fight through it.  I actually had made some rather tasty raw food dishes like a kind of cabbage slaw that we put on huge leaves of romaine lettuce and ate like lettuce wraps.

However, I went to bed feeling dizzy and headachy.  I thought I could sleep it off and be good to go in the morning.  Not so.  This morning, after a restless night I was still dizzy and my head was still throbbing.  W demanded I go eat some FOOD and"screw the diet, you're too skinny!"  I called in sick and wobbled to the kitchen, amidst spinning walls, and promptly made some hot oatmeal.  In the mean time I managed to put some ingredients in the bread maker so I could have some hearty whole grain bread by lunch.

After some healthy nourishment of whole grain carbohydrates I finally started to feel better.

This is just another example of a resolution gone bad.  Sometimes I don't know what I'm thinking.  It's not like I'm super unhealthy and eat junk food all the time.  I think that's what these kind of diets are for.  I, on the other hand, am already thin and in good shape and don't eat unhealthy at all!  I promise!  Me eating junk food is having two M+M's at Christmas time.  My husband makes fun of me all the time because when I go to the kitchen to get a snack, I come back with carrots and celery sticks or half of a pomegranate.  I am already a health-food freak, so why did I decided I all of a sudden needed to go on this extreme diet?

I've come up with some crazy notions lately.

So for now, I'm going back to my normal healthy diet.  But since I have $100 worth of fruits of veggies and fruit in my fridge, I'm going to have to get creative this week...

Speaking of food and being creative with it, check out my other blog Eat Your Veggies