Where last we left our intrepid heroine, she was looking forward to her next A1c test. That turned out to be a scintillating 5.8!

I’ve settled in to my high raw diet and I’m not fretting as much over the cost as before because I’ve developed a feel for the price of different foods and the amount I need to get to see me through a particular time period. I think transition can be more expensive as we learn what we can afford, how to stay within our budget, how much we can expect to eat, and how to avoid wasting produce that goes bad because we overbought.

I think I may go back to logging my food but not with the super-precision I was doing before; more loosely with rough amounts but not being so scrupulous about recording calories and percentages. I’m no longer so much in a mindset for counting calories like I used to. And I’m not so much bound up in judging myself over how well or poorly I can conform to how I want to eat.  I’m trying to be more loving toward myself and I think this is all a part of it.

But others might benefit from knowing what someone else is eating (please, I’m not a guru, I’m not a role model, I’m just someone else playing the cards she was dealt like we all are. Find your own path and I’ll walk beside you but please don’t follow me or expect to lead me.) and I might benefit from keeping the journal and being able to look back later, so my plan now is to post once a day and, if nothing else, report what I’ve eaten that day.  Some days I may add more details, some days it may be nothing more than a simple list of food.

I hope to be able to blog more about my spirituality as well, but that’s been kind of blocked right now as I’ve been in a bit of a spiritual crisis and I’m not ready to talk about it yet, let alone blog about it, so for now this bird will be chirping more about food and health than anything else.

I didn’t write down today’s food and I can’t trust to remember it so I’ll just give you a link to some really awesome chocolate-chia crackers I made that are the yum (I used carob):

http://kristensraw.blogspot.com/2008/09/chocolate-chia-crackers-and-amazing.html

And I want to tell you about my new kitchen toy, which is the Perfect Pickler – a mason jar with a fermentation lock that allows me to make sauerkraut in only four days with no smell and the jar sitting right here on my computer desk for me to admire while it ferments! No, I’m not a sales rep, I’m just super-pleased with this little find. I bought mine from The Raw Food World, which is my all-time favorite online living food shopping mall.

When I’m done making this post, I’m going to go in the kitchen and decant the shredded carrots I’ve had fermenting and mix them with a bunch of fresh cilantro and some other secret ingredients to make Incan Carrot Salad. Very exciting! In the fridge is a big (but rapidly dwindling!) jar of purple sauerkraut which is, if I say so myself, the bomb!

Today’s pedometer: 5415 steps, 21 minutes aerobic walking (2262 steps)

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