Yesterday, on Day One of the Raw Food Challenge, I ate: - Smoothie with 1/2 frozen banana, 3/4 cup water, 1/8 cup each orange pulp and kale pulp (both leftover from my juicer), 1/4 cup frozen blueberries, 1 tbsp each wheat germ and ground flaxseed, and 1/2 scoop calcium/magnesium powder…
Welcome one and all to the Raw Food Challenge! I like the idea of doing this challenge in January. Although it might be one of the colder months of the year, somehow a good health challenge always makes the time pass quicker and makes life in general more interesting. Also,…
I adored the Carb Lover's Diet Cookbook as last month's nutrition challenge - awesome tasty recipes! The only issue Mr. Science and I had was that we used brown rice pasta for the pasta dishes, and it was not filling. Anyways, this month is a transition to raw food! I'm…
It's been a few months since our last month-long nutrition challenge, which was veganism. To kick off the New Year, we're going for a brand new month-long nutrition challenge: a raw food diet! What is a Raw Food Diet? A raw food diet is a way of eating which includes…
March was supposed to be the month for the Mediterranean diet, but since Mr Science isn't a huge fan of seafood, and I received a lovely book in the mail to review (The Carb Lovers Diet Cookbook), I decided to make my new cookbook the nutrition-challenge-of-the-month! This book includes recipes…
Hello friends! I am home from NYC and back at last to the blogging world. I fully intended to blog all last week, but Mr. Science and I arrived home from New York late on Sunday night (the 18th), and then I was awake at 7am to begin my first…
For months now, I've been itching to do another nutrition challenge. It's been ages since I last did one! But I've been holding it off because I wanted to get emotional eating under control (I think that's a good enough challenge in and of itself). Thanks to Geneen Roth, I've…
I've tried a lot of different nutrition challenges, from eliminating added sugars to going vegan to going raw. And now, I'm going to try fasting. Why I am trying out fasting My reasons for this are, surprisingly, not to do with weight loss. I know that I've been talking about…
Productivity As crazy as it sounds, I think that eating raw has made me more productive. When you're eating raw food, your choices are kind of limited as to what you can eat. Basically, you've got fruit, vegetables, nuts, and seeds. Now, I'm not going 100% raw, so that means…
Yesterday, on Day 28 of the Raw Food Challenge, I ate: - Smoothie with 1 1/2 frozen bananas, 1 1/2 cups cold water, big handful spinach, 1/2 tbsp cacao powder, cinnamon, contents of 1 probiotic capsule, 1 scoop calcium/magnesium powder, and 2 orange juice pulp ice cubes - 3 eggplant…
