Day 14: An improved outlook

Today I was feeling quite a lot more positive. Given the task of making a tasty breakfast for me and my boyfriend (who's not a fan of green smoothies), I sliced up a bunch of bananas and some mangos and arranged them nicely on the plate. This set up my day really nicely. Later, we went to Boost again, and I felt decadent being able to order something out! After that, Mum and I ignored the menu planner and made a massive salad of rocquette, lettuce, cucumber, red capsicum and grated carrot, to which I added some kalamata olives, some baby capers and half an avo mashed with the juice of half a lime as a dressing. Dee-licious!

Dinner tonight was "fettucine alfredo", if by "fettucine" you mean spaghettified zucchini, and by "alfredo" you mean a raw vegan blend of macadamia nuts and some seasoning, why they do. It was nice, actually, and remarkably similar to its namesake (given, you know, that it totally isn't), but again it was far too rich for me and I only had about half a bowlful. These nut- and seed-rich dressings are tasty, but I can really only handle a tiny amount of them.

Halfway point tomorrow! I'm trying to persuade Mum to see the midday meal of December 2 (Day 30) as our last one of the challenge (since we began the fast the evening before Day 1), so that we can have the dinner as a celebration of our successes and enable us to have cooked food once again! I can't wait to cook again. The aromas, the process of bringing it all together, I miss it so much! I think that we will be so unused to animal fats that I might make a vegetarian meal, though, like a vegie curry with an assortment of condiments. I'm going out on the night of December 3 and I want us to be able to share the occasion with each other.

I must say, for all my down moods about some of the foods lately, I am feeling really strong and positive about my progress so far, and my ability to withstand cravings. I have lost a noticeable amount of weight, and I have (pretty) happily declined offers of non-raw vegan foods and withstood what could be described as mostly pretty mild cravings. I think a large part of this has been because I know that, if I really wanted to, on the 3rd of December I could make a list of all the foods I declined, all the foods I craved, and make myself sick by eating all of them, all in one sitting. Which would be stupid. But the fact remains that this is not forever (nor do I think it should be, although that is a topic for another day), and so I can manage this for another 16 days.

Current weight: 77.3kg (-4.8kg)
Current body-fat percentage: 37.8% (-0.6%)
Current feeling: Better than before