Day one: Challenge!

Today is day one of my 30 day raw food yoga challenge. I just went to yoga because we have filming tonight. Morning yoga, ugh. Makes it easy to avoid food beforehand but my back had almost no flexibility. Fortunately I didn't give a crap, because I was still waking up. I took it pretty easy. Now time to make a fruit smoothie.

What does one eat all day long, you might ask, when following the raw diet? Actually there are a lot of choices it turns out. I'm focusing on making lots of sauces, spreads, and dressings, so that it's easy to pull something together when I'm feeling lazy. I've got plans to make stuffed mushrooms, live pizza, and sushi with miso soup in the future. Made some sesame milk last night so if I ever get it together enough to make some granola that's a good combo. There's so much controversy surrounding whether rolled or cut oats are raw that I'm tempted to just avoid it (I don't really like the heavy nut-based raw granola). I'm still pretty confused about when to soak nuts and seeds, when to sprout them, and when to just eat them. But I'm home alone with plenty of time for reading.

I'm pretty sure I won't ever completely give up meat and fish, but hopefully this whole thing will get me inspired to cut out all processed crap and focus more on whole foods. I think a 75% vegan raw/ 25% animal products and the occasional cooked meal out sounds ideal, we'll see if I ever get there.