Here I Am!

My life with raw food isn't really going very well, at least not in the food dept. Well I mean it is, but it's not raw. The funny thing is how I can look around myself and see soooooooo many ways to just get on with things and yet I choose really odd courses of action.

Anyway, I certainly digress. Here's how I'm living. I'm essentially vegetarian, mostly vegan even with some raw food thrown in there for effect. What I mean by essentially vegetarian is that I bought some organic, turkey gravy tonight to throw on some mash potatos, which had a little sour cream, tons of buttery spread (which is vegan and organic), salt and pepper. It's our pre thanksgiving day feast if you will. The funny thing is the rest of my week may be vegan, although not likely.

Tomorrow we are headed to Manhattan for my wife's 40th birthday. We are headed to this amazing raw restaurant called Pure Food and Wine, which is about the dumbest name in the world if you ask me but yet when I think about it, it's pretty darn cool, dichotmy at its finest. I've ordered a $125 birthday cake. It's a raw tiramisu. I'm looking forward to trying it but the entire trip for 3 days is costing us as much as it would take to get ALL our instruments fixed and everything in order pretty much. Grad student life isn't really made for $400/night hotel stays, but hey you only turn 40 once. And yeah.. I love my wife that much.

So anyway, tomorrow night's dinner will be raw. We'll probably stop at Whole foods when we first get into town and pick up some raw snacks and kombucha, man I love that stuff!!!. Then we'll hit the town. Hitting the town entails a lot of shopping. My hot 40/yo wife has to go to Banana Republic and get more clothes that make her look hot as hell. My daughter has to tag along and be super awesome and beautiful (we may get her almost 6 y/o ears pierced), and I get to go shopping at Casual Male, which is a big and tall mens store to basically minimize the damage when we go out tomorrow night. You see I'm a big fella. I'm tall, but not that tall, 6'1" and about 270. I'm a good 80 lbs overweight, which says a lot about how raw I really am.

I'd say I average a solid 30-40% raw food intake now and that's again on the upswing. I've been down to as low as 245 and eating 80% raw, and I felt great too, but that's not me right now. Funny thing is that I don't really see this as all that much of a struggle. I only see it as a series of choices based on what I think I want to do. Simple eh? well yes and no, see there's that damn dichotomy again... but whatever... really... all I can say is there have been a ton of benefits from my ways of eating. Take for instance I've only been sick really once in the last 5 years. My allergies are at least 30% better than they used to be, I'm not as angry, don't feel as aggresive, my skin has stopped being as dry, I think more clearly, and I less phlemy!

I'd say that's all pretty good stuff if you ask me, but there's more and lots more to be had.

Anyway, that's it for now. There's a lot more to my life than this little snipet and I'm sure I'll get into it at some point, but now is not the time. I've got to go pack and get ready for the trip. Oh just so you know, Manhattan is only a 4 hour drive away from where I am.

Talk to ya soon!