The Live Green Smoothie Diet

It’s A New Day What a great relief, on both accounts. It feels so good to be “kitchening” again after such a long hiatus. Setting up a new homestead, settling into the rhythm of a new job, adjusting to life in a new town, and stabilizing all these changes took awhile to sort out, but [...]

  Going Down a Size… Day 4 started with my putting on size 10 pants for work, rather than size 12. So… although the size down is snug, I’ve worn them only twice since buying them (at the same time as the 12s… for “when”), and I wore them comfortably all day and that’s a [...]

“Tree of Life, Vigor, and Vitality”, art by Elle Nicolai Energy! Things seriously started to kick in Day 3! Staying higher raw starting to become easier… living foods start to have their own magnetic pull, as if they’ve deposited something in my bloodstream that makes me turn to them with more ease. And the feeling [...]

Sandra Taylor’s Art – “Blissful Heart” water color Bring On The Bliss! Woke up this morning with that “raw bliss” settled neatly on my heart. Happens so quickly for me when I’m jacking up the raw with LGSs, like I’ve tapped intravenously into the Living Joy of the universe. Truly, Live Green Smoothies are “liquid [...]

Update on yesterday’s first day with my own 2011 Live Green Smoothie 85% Challenge… Came home from work and rested, and resting segued into more resting, then deep resting, then sleeping, then deep sleeping… and waking fabulously refreshed this morning!!! Haven’t felt so refreshed in zonks! And that is worth not having pushed the envelope [...]

The Starting Point Weight? I don’t weight myself… I don’t have a scale, even. I go by clothing size, which for me is a better system. So… size? Loosely fitting size 12. After spending years normalized at a 6, ballooning up from too many filling-but-cheap-carbs is not comfortable. Size 12 was a celebration back in [...]

It’s Soooo Good To Be Back! Well, after a looong stretch of moving up from Florida back to my “native” New Jersey… and then moving again and settling into a permanent residence (and my own kitchen — yay!) after not having one for quite some time… I’m finally and delightedly ready to start up regular [...]

I’m picking up where I left off with documenting my own Live Green Smoothie 85% Challenge activities, including what I’m eating, my estimated cost, and any exercise or other commentary that seems relevant to the experience. Last told, I documented through Day 17, but I stayed with it for about a month, at which point [...]

Haven’t posted on this all week, but have still been with it, even though Monday was a day off (my dad’s 70th birthday with associated marginally raw festivities, and I just was too bizzy to prepare properly the rest of the day). In fact, I’ve been happy with whatever percentage I’ve been all week — [...]

Had a bit of interruption in my own LGS Challenge… first Memorial Day, on which I decided to just go with the flow with family grilling and other traditions, so it was a day off from the Challenge. Then I spent Days 10, 11, and 12 staying respectfully raw considering there were few, if any, LGSs [...]