Had a unique lunch,
Served with a goblet of coconut juice and lime. And a dash of wine (for mine).
Starts off sweet, bitter aftertones.
Well here I am at the end of day one. I wound up spending about 90 minutes outside today, 20 minutes of which was spent sunbathing (10 on each side) and five in the hot tub. Then there was reading and hanging out with the kids. The weather has been very mild, in the mid-eighties, so being out there is very enjoyable. I notice, however, that time passes much slower for me when I’m outside. Nice easy way to live (subjectively) longer, spend lots of time outdoors. =)
Here’s what I ate today:
Well today I spent about an hour outside, cutting the grass. I can’t wait to get started. My family’s coming in town tomorrow to have an early birthday dinner with me, then at midnight I’m all raw, baby. =)
So I’ve been researching B-12. For a long time I’d heard you could get it from spirulina, but that doesn’t appear to be the case. Check this out:
And this:
Now, like David, I want to get mine from a natural source, not a supplement. Unlike Dave, I’m not quite ready to start eating ants. WaiSays recommends raw egg yolk, but that grosses me out. Then there’s the solution offered here, which involves poop.
So I don’t know what to do about it. Any bright ideas feel free to pass them along…
Man spends his days in boxes. Box at home, box at work, box to get you back and forth between the other boxes. Yet nowhere in nature do we find 90º angles. It’s a personal theory of mine that this messes with the head, puts you out of balance. In my opinion it opens up your susceptibility to destructive patterns and addictive behaviors, generally weakening your constitution. For that reason I will be putting heavy emphasis on spending as much time outside as possible.
This afternoon was really nice, around 80º and sunny. Not too hot, not too cold. I spend around an hour and a half outside. I started off laying in a reclining chair on the deck and doing some pranayama and mantra work.
Pranayama can refer to many types of breath exercises. The one I practiced is called 1-4-2 breathing and is meant to stimulate the lymph system. You breathe in to whatever count, hold your breath for four times that count, then exhale for double the count. Anyway I did 40 of those.
A mantra is something you repeat to yourself over and over again. I’m using them to help program the things I want to embody, acquire or achieve. To that end I used the mantra “I glow with radiant health.” That’s definitely something I want to move towards. I repeated that mentally to myself 200 times.
After that I played with the baby some, blowing bubbles for her. Then I got the other kids to watch her while I began clearing out a long-neglected area by the shed that has been acquiring detritus for years. I uncovered layer after layer of chicken wire and wooden boards, exposing many generations of earthworm and cockroach. I’m planning on using the chicken wire to make compost bins. How very green of me. =)
Hi. I’m Josh. Let me tell you a bit about myself. I’m 30 years old, I have four kids, and I live in Florida. I’m a smart guy, but I used to be smarter. I’m a quick wit but I used to be quicker. I eat too much, don’t move enough, and I’m getting scared of a permanent decline.
I’ve experimented with various alternate eating patterns over the years. Vegetarian, vegan, caveman, primal, I’ve been around the gastronomic block. But years ago I had a run with a diet that changed my perception of food and its effects on every aspect of our lives. Raw plant foods.
In the summer of ’99 I ate a strictly raw diet for some 70 days, and the results were amazing. I remember saying I wouldn’t take a million dollars to go back to cooked foods. I slept four hours a night, woke up completely refreshed without an alarm clock and had total recall of each of my dreams. I had energy I’d never experienced before, my mind was free to think in ways it never had before and my powers of visualization were incredibly intense. I could practically see whatever I focused on floating in front of me. I was as thin as I can remember being in my adult life and I was incredibly joyful.
Then I fell off. I was broke and eating on about three bucks a day. My work was giving away pizza and I broke down. I took my pizza in the bathroom (everyone knew I only ate raw) and ate it in defeat.
After that I intended to eat about five percent cooked food to help with my occasional cravings, but it didn’t turn out that way. Very soon it was more like five percent raw, and i would up eating a lot of my meals at Dairy Queen & Pizza Hut. The diet I was eating when I was raw hadn’t been terribly balanced, and I think my body was somehow making up for lost time.
Since then I’ve had ups and downs, but I’ve always intended to go back to raw when the stars were right. I’ve done several 10 day stretches since then, and a 25 day juice fast. Then I realized the whole raw adventure happened the about the same time my two oldest daughters were born. Now they’re nine. Enough is enough. I’m not getting any younger. The stars are as right as they’re ever likely to be. The future starts today.
So here’s the plan. My birthday is coming soon. This Tuesday the 30th I’ll be 31. From that day until September 30th, 2009 I’m eating raw. My raw year (and a day, actually). I don’t expect this to be easy, at least at first, but it will do a couple important things.
Anyway that’s the plan. I still have a couple days of deadened indulgence before I go all epic. Stay tuned…
