Another day

Todays news- I booked my seat at a green smoothies work shop given by Victoria and Valya Boutenko! I am really happy to have the opportunity to both see these lovely people and also to get a look at the other raw foodies out there. Maybe I will find some kindred spirits amongst them. Maybe they have some good places they can suggest to go out to dinner

My family are pretty sure you cant take me anywhere and they are probably right. It used to be difficult enough when I didnt eat carbs and I would go out and try and find one thing that didnt come with bread, rice, potatoes or couscous- I’ll have the salad please.

Today I biked to work, ran intervals at the gym, swam, did feldenkrais, and then biked home. I was supposed to have a hapkido class but we werent very organised and I will start next week. I wonder if I get my red belt? By the end of this year I could be a blackbelt- oooh exciting. That’s where your training really begins.

After all of that sweating I was exhausted and when I got home to a fruitbowl full of pineapples (god bless summer eh) I thought the easiest way to go was a pineapple and grape smoothie.

I had also been experimenting, as you do, and had some crackers drying in the oven.

They were made of

2 cups sprouted wheat

1 cup sprouted sesame seeds

1/2 cup ground linseed

1tsp agave nectar

1tsp brewers yeast

1tsp brown rice miso

salt

I blended them into a paste with some water- it smelled all nice and fermenty, and then I spread it on a baking paper on a tray and put it in the oven on a really low temp for ages. I turned it over once.

It turned out to be a really hard crunchy cracker with that nice sweet yeasty smell that bread has. It was also almost sour in I guess a grainy way- boy I am going to have to check out a better way of describing food

Any way I ate some and so did M who found them very morish and soon half of the tray was gone.

I ordered some rye from the health food shop so will give that a go next time. Maybe with some sprouted buckwheat as I recently found how easy that is to sprout.

I think I have found my rhythm with the soaking, drying, ‘cooking’ and all and it just keeps getting easier. Also I decided I wont go back to eating much cooked food at the end of my 6 week experiment. Who can be bothered with all that cooking? I love how clean my diet is.

See ya tomorrow

Day 33

Really scratching for something to write today…

I went into my fav health food shop and bought some of the food recommended in Brendan’s book Thrive, I got some Yerba-mate, dulse and maca as well as replenishing my stevia supply.

I did a pretty full on work out at the gym, nearly all upper body stuff and my trainer said he is running a competition to see which of his clients puts in the most training days and the prize is 3 comp trainings.  I am so up for that!  Apparently I normally hit the higher end of the numbers anyway at around 19 days per month and the rules stipulate you must take one  day a week off- mine is Saturday when I spend the day eating and resting mostly.

So target is 24 days in Feb and increase all of my weights I dont know how much by because I dont really know what is doable- that is Marks job.  Actually his job is to estimate doable and make it just that little bit harder. Sometimes I curse about it but mostly I am grateful to have an expert on my side,  thinking for me and knowing  what to do next.

Following the recipes in Brendan book has made the nutritional part a whole lot easier too.

It is great to have the wisdom of those who have gone before you at your disposal.

See ya

Running

This morning I got up at 4.30 am to beat the heat and by 5am I was on the road for my weekend long run.

I dont eat before I run but I do use sports gels along the way.  As I intended to be on the road for about 3 hours I took 3 gels to provide simple carbohydrates to feed my muscles.

I was going t0 run 28km but about half way through my run I decided to take it up to at least 30km, if not a little more. It is hard work for me running that kind of distance and all of my injuries bug me along the way but I relax into it, enjoy the music and then my own thoughts entertain me for the majority of the way.  I tell people I run to think and when they remark the distance is pure craziness I just tell them I’ve got a lot to think about.

So I was out on the road for 3hours and 12 minutes and I ran 32.6km.  I was pretty happy with that.

When I got back I had my usual magnesium drink Endura to replace electrolytes and then I followed the Thrive diet book and made myself a drink that had simple carbs, no fat and 1:4 protein ratio.

A punnet of strawberries, a spoonful of agave, a spoonful of raw cacao and spirulina, 2 spoonfuls of Protein powder and water. Blend and enjoy!

The difference between doing this and my usual everything in it concoction was enormous. I felt instantly better and I was able to digest it effortlessly.

Still following the book an hour later I had another smoothie with more protein in it, dates, spinach, cucumber, and carob.  This one was more like a meal and and again had a much better effect  on my energy levels.

I had to bike to the gym for my feldenkrais class and a soak in the hot pool so I took dried fruit with me and a couple of tahini balls.

For someone of my size a run like I did uses an extra 1800 calories on top of the 1200 I need in a day but you often dont feel hungry so have to pay special attention to getting the nutrition in.

Dinner was salad- I was craving the water content of greens, a piece of essene bread with olive oil and brewers yeast and a handful of pumpkin seeds.

I loved the essene bread but will go easy on it as I havent really eaten wheat or rye much in ages so need to test it on my body slowly.

I was in bed and out like a light by 9.45 -big day

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