New Years Resolution Widget Needed

I really wish someone would create the following control- I call it ResolutionKeeper.

Something I can insert in a page:

It would allow someone to create graphs:
How many miles did I run each day?
How many servings of fruits and vegetables did I eat each day?
What percentage of my daily intake was raw?
That kind of thing....

I could add it to a page at blogger.com to show how many days I ate raw/ what perecentage of my food was raw.

Family Menu (is for the non-raw) Spring

Postscript: We did eat from this menu- but I never made a raw carrot muffin. Whew, that was ambitious.
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Breakfast:

1. Daily GVJ- just celery juice or spinach, celery, quarter of an orange blended in a Vita-Mix
2. Chopped sprouted & dehydrated almonds, blueberries, sunflower seeds, nutmylk
3. (Hot oatmeal with cinnamon, and grated apple)
4. Raw almond butter and banana w dehydrated sunflower seeds or Banana and nutmilk "shake"
5. Raw carrot almond muffin

Lunch:

1. Salad with lemon juice/olive oil dressing, and sunflower seeds or coleslaw
2. (Legume-based cooked salads: three-bean, chickpea, lentil)
3. Soups: raw carrot-ginger, (cabbage based- vegetable, black bean, lentil, split pea)
4. Raw Hummus w dipping veggies
5. (Kids have left-overs, lentils and brown rice with vegetables, PBJ sandwiches & fruit)

Dinner:

1. Pasta marinara: zuchini noodles on top of Russell James almond polpetta
2. (Baked vegetables: eggplants and tomatoes are not in season- but you can use it if you have some canned) Raw cauliflower macaroni and cheese from Mathew Kenney's book, (my family wont eat even homemade real mac n cheese) Califlower is in season though- baked cauliflower with vinagrette on top, served with brown rice
3. Vegan pinto beans w sautéed bell peppers (bells are not in season) onion, zuchini
4. Gratitude raw almond-dill dip with crudite
5. Admundson vegetable stir-notfry
6. Raw Food Real World spicy indian cauliflower samosas and lemon tahini
7. Homemade Pizza from Raw World

Snacks:

Glass of water to start, more GVJ, more soup, cucumber/carrot/bellpepper plate w raw hummus, (apples, bananas, not-too-sweet-flax-oatmeal cookies)

must make juice

It's 6:20 am, must make juice.

GoneRaw

The site redo for GoneRaw.com feels disastrous for me. I'm trying to trust their motivations for the redesign but- the site is so much less usable.

Correcting Course

It has been about three months that I have been off course. It seems amazing- how could this happen, knowing what I know? I have not been preparing foods that support my perfect blood sugars and my raw journey.

Lessons learned:

1. Things may fall apart during times of transition and stress. (Nilsu had to go back to school. It was a major shift around here.)

2. The issue is not what I am eating- but what I am preparing. If I get up and make cooked oatmeal for the kids- I eat cooked oatmeal. If I make baked oatmeal cookies- I eat baked oatmeal cookies. If I have fresh blueberries around, and a salad ready for dressing waiting in the fridge- I will eat blueberries and salad.

3. I still have this issue- mostly in my head- that raw "costs too much." And, "takes too much time."


So- we begin again....

I have been reading Philip McClusky's blog http://www.lovingraw.com/, and it so inspiring and beautiful.

He was recently in San Luis Obispo- a place I've spent plenty of time- and I can't believe his adventures there: "Brandie owns Smiling Dog Café, and works there along with AmyRuth. Smiling Dog Café is a branch off of Smiling Dog Yoga Studio, and did I mention it’s raw!" I am really happy for him, curious about the raw food scene in SLO. I can't wait to go there!

So- again- we begin again.

I so desperately need some time to myself. From 6:30 am - 8:30 pm I am on mommy-mode, and then I watch a little television or read. I so desperately need an hour alone. I can't remember the last time I had an hour alone. Well- at least I have a party to go to this weekend, and a date with my husband coming up. But- that's not exactly time alone.

O.K. - Wow

I have had this amazing experience- after the Yoga Family & Friends weekend I was introduced to a friend of a friend who long story short introduced me to Mithra and Adya.The class was held in a pale golden room filled with flowers, greenery, unscented candles and a golden sculpture of a woman. I found myself sitting for hours- something I had never done before, and contemplating God. It was officially a Reiki workshop- but truth be told I just showed up because I - I don't know. I was just drawn to be there.

My husband took me to lunch today and he said- "That yoga last weekend (it's Wednesday) was really good for you. You seem so relaxed and happy." My face tends to look pintched and a hundred years old when I haven't had any sleep- and that makes me look grouchy. Uhhh-huuh. Well, I didn't do any yoga last weekend but that's beside the point. You know- today is the same as Wednesday last week- the babies were waking up all night long, etc. And I feel relaxed, peaceful and energized. And nothing has changed with my sleep schedule. And I think that my face looks a little more open and bright. And I don't want any coffee, and I don't want any sweets, or bread or meat, etc, etc. I don't need any "quick energy to get me through." It is suddenly so easy. In fact- reading through past posts- they seem awfully silly. Which is not a judgement that they are silly- I just can't relate to having written them because it (perfect blood sugars/healing) feels so easy right now. I am really OK with me having had those challenges- because anyway I think that's what most people choosing to heal themselves with diet and alternative healing (along with the work I do with my "western medicine" doctor)- it's what we all go through.

Mmmmm... possibly a little insight. Before it was as if I felt like I was fighting "the culture," "tradition aka Halloween Candy and Christmas Pumpkin Pie" and "Madison Avenue" and whatever else- it felt like that was on one side- and I was lucky enough to have my little support crew on my side and there was a struggle. How can I say this? My body is healing- and the whole universe is supporting this. The whole universe is on my side. And there is no struggle- because all time is collapsed and the healing of the entire planet is inevitable and present.

Now- how to maintain "no expectations" about this new beingness?

Cool Stuff

http://www.radgaladventures.com/ I missed my opportunity to learn to surf.

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On an unrelated note:

Go to http://www.wonderartprogram.com/ to learn more about Caroline.

http://www.yogartretreats.blogspot.com/ to find out more about Kristen and Caroline's Family & Friends Sangha Weekend.