No yoga for me today. I listened to my body and I knew I should take a rest day, so I did. I can’t wait for my date with Polly in the morning, though!
I wasn’t hungry when I first woke up. I didn’t feel like my usual warm lemon water, so I skipped that. I had a tall glass of plain water instead. After that, I had some herbal tea. When I finally got hungry, I didn’t know what I wanted! And guess what? I went crazy and had an organic Greek yogurt with frozen blueberries on top. Yeah, it isn’t raw but this is what I’m talking about when I say I sometimes craves a non-raw food, yet what I’m craving isn’t really junk food just because it isn’t raw. I’m still really close to 100% raw, really, but once in a while (once a day, once a week, once a month–whenever the urge hits), I have decided to treat myself to a non-raw (yet still healthy) food.
Oikos (Organic) Greek Yogurt

After my yummy-to-the-tummy Oikos Greek yogurt, I had my daily shot of E3 Live.
Snack/Lunch
Since I had a late breakfast (around 11 a.m., or so) I didn’t eat lunch at noon. Instead, I ended up having a snack around maybe 1 p.m.? I was a little hungry but not much, so I had a big banana with a spoon of raw honey. Yum! (No pic, sorry!)
Mid-Afternoon Snack
By this afternoon, I still wasn’t really craving anything–except chocolate! I realized I’d been craving chocolate all day, so I had me some! LOL Double the chocolate, double the fun, eh? I started with the totally delicious Amazing Grass Chocolate SuperFood bar. Yum-O! It has a thin layer of chocolate coating on the outside and nutty, green, chewy goodness on the inside. It’s healthy, tasty, and chocolate. What’s not to like? Seriously, I could eat one of these every single day! And they’re very dense and filling–AMAZING!
Amazing Grass Chocolate Bar

I decided to double up on my chocolate fix and had my other sample packet of Amazing Grass chocolate superfood powder, mixed with almond milk. Yum!
Amazing Chocolate Shake




(Just click on the photo below to read all about this yummy chocolate superfood powder!
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Dinner
It was most definitely time for some raw veggies, so I fixed myself a salad. And here’s the sad news: all of my camera batteries are dead and I’m having to charge them–so no salad pics tonight! Sorry!
Use your imagination, though, and picture this:
a base of baby spinach leaves
with chopped Napa cabbage
chopped heirloom organic banana peppers (from my garden)
diced heirloom organic bell peppers (from my garden)
sliced heirloom organic beets (from my garden)
Manitoba Harvest hemp seeds
scattered fresh blueberries
Yummy to the tummy!
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You are doing AWESOME on your first Post fast week! yogurt and frozen blueberries…. no worries there!
I had a starch dinner of green beans (garden fresh) and gnocchi! it was so comforting!
have a great evening!
.-= Cindy´s last blog ..Engines are down! =-.
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Raw Juice Girl Reply:
July 21st, 2009 at 11:41 pm
Thanks, Cindy! I said “splurge” because although the Greek yogurt is organic and loaded with probiotics, it isn’t raw. But I think my diet is clean enough that I can allow some non-raw stuff to sneak in sometimes.
Your dinner sounds delish! You’re doing awesome too, girl!!!
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wow I think it’s great that you are to the point where you crave HEALTHY non raw foods lol really it could be much much worse!!!…Glad you are keeping up with yoga (resting on days where you think your body just needs a day off is a GOOD thing) I love Polly also
The double chocolate fix looks AMAZING!! (ahaha amaaazzzing grass!)
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Raw Juice Girl Reply:
July 22nd, 2009 at 5:59 pm
LOL – yeah, organic Greek yogurt is HEALTHY!
I did miss my yoga time but I knew I needed to rest my muscles from it. It’s new to me and I want to nurse my bad back and take things slowly so I can keep up a yoga regimen for EVER!
Yep, Polly is AMAZING and so was that chocolate. Yum-O!!!
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