DAY TWO RAW
Tuesday 10-24-06

SOUL-
A Gasp in the Unknown
Dawna Markova
My grandmother explained that we all walk a spiral path she called the wisdom trail, and we walk on the foot of risk, then the foot of mastery, then back on the foot of risk. As I understood it, if a person stays on the foot of risk too long, they find themselves nervously hopping from thing to thing, never settling in and developing mastery On the other hand, if they stay in their mastery too long, they get stuck in the mud and their soul never really gets to develop fully.Each time we shift from the foot of mastery to the foot of risk it takes a leap of faith, a little gasp in the unknown where God can enter.
Source: I Will Not Die an Unlived Life

Is that not good.... I am on the foot of risk, I do not even want to say what I am doing for the fact it feels so risky. But, I tend to stay to long on the foot of mastery (comfort)...
The SAD (standard american diet) is comfortable... but yet very uncomfortable now that I think about it. :)

BODY- I am feeling really good... some weird aches in the PM yesterday ... my feet hurt (isn't that weird and then one side of my legs... really hurt). But now I feel so good. No low blood sugar this morning and that is pretty surprising. So far so good. I think I am
day 2 100%!!! When I say I think it is because I am not fully educated yet.

MIND-
I can not wait to get my cookbooks and other books in. But, I am actually glad I do not have them right now because I am content and about the time I get frustrated, I will have some inspiration. I am feeling a little ignorant, but it is nice too to be creative and experiment.

Books I ordered:
Sundood Cusine
Complete book of Raw Foods
Raw Reform

FOOD-coming alive
For Lunch I had a beautiful salad with strawberries, cucumbers, avocados and greens and tried a dressing recipe that had oranges juiced, really good! I wasn't even hungry going into lunch... I really am so surprised. I think because I did not let myself eat fruit for so long it feels so decadent... The avocados and strawberries... they are very indulgent foods. It is exciting going shopping because of all the things to try... I got a pomegranate and a persimmon when I went. Hey, I got a young coconut from HEB hoping that it has thick skin and is OK. They were so cheap. What about melons, I think I remember reading that melons are esp bad non organic because of their water content? I know they are going out of season, so they are shipped, etc, etc.. I just really wanted some melon to aid this first stage.