Day 52 - Food porn?

No! Not that kinda porn! Raw food porn... as in pictures of raw food that make you drool and wish it was April 14th already so you could start soaking those prunes and dreaming of binging on an entire bucket of raw pesto! :P Just kidding just kidding! :)

Regarding yesterday's slump, I'm happy to report that I'm feeling much better today. I'm just really hungry. Between the kale salads on Carrie's blog and all the raw food porn I've been looking at today (on Gliving and other random sites)... my tummy is rumbling. I honestly cannot wait to start on my new journey of raw foods....especially with all the new friends I've been making on welikeitraw.com. I'm not concerned that I might fall 'off the juicy wagon'... it's more like a kid fascinated with the toys under the Christmas tree....waiting in anticipation for the big day. Feast breaking is 40 days away.... Although that looks like a big number to me right now, I know the end of the month will be here soon and I'll be freaking out about only having 14 days left.

Enough about that. I'm feeling MUCH better today. There was a freak snowstorm out today... we got 1 foot of snow overnight/throughout the day... my bus was 43 minutes late! We've had a terrible winter here. Here's an excerpt from today's Ottawa Citizen (local newspaper):

Snowfall to date (Feb 28) 313.1 cm
Total volume 234.83 m3
Total weight 37,572 kg
WRE 16.34

Mr. Lange says: "Less the additional centimetres we've had the last few days, I've shovelled approximately 41 tons of snow off my driveway - approximately the weight of a humpback whale.

And this from CFRA News Talk Radio:

The winter of 2007-2008 is now the second snowiest on record in the City of Ottawa.

Environment Canada's Geoff Coulson tells CFRA News the winter is now "firmly" ranked second after 28 cm of snow dumped on Ottawa on Wednesday.

Ottawa has now received 355 cm of snow this winter. The record for snowiest winter is 444 cm set in 1970-71.

The 28 cm of snow on Wednesday set the record for most snow on March 5th. In 1993, Ottawa received 15.8 cm of snow.

For the Americans out there... 355.cm is roughly 12 feet of snow. I really want spring to get here soon!

NOW! The good news about having crappy weather is sometimes your branch's VP sends out a cryptic message saying that whenever you feel you should leave to make it home safely, you should do so.... which basically means "meh! leave whenever you want!". :) I was home by 3PM! Sweet! ... I spent the rest of the day under the electric blanket though! Damn... I really should have done some yoga or something.... fuck it! :P It's a snow day for fuck's sake!
Today I had:

1.25L celery/spinach/cilantro+kelp+E3live+Himalayan salt
1.25L pineapple
1.25L grapefruit/carrot
500ml coconut water+E3live
1L apple/spinach+Himalayan salt
Probiotics (lesser dose)
Enzymes
1Tbsp bee pollen+agave

Today I did:

Skin brushing
Parasite Zapper 2-3 hours (more on this in a sec)
Acupeds
MSM lotion (handmade by me)

Okay okay! I know I said I would wait until the weekend to try the zapper but I guess I just wanted to test it out. I was scared of it and fascinated by it. As soon as I had the battery I couldn't help myself. I stuck that thing near my ascending colon and was surprised to see that... I couldn't feel anything. Well 10 minutes later it started to itch/burn there so I moved it (as per the directions)... I stuck it on the descending colon and it didn't take long for it to itch/burn there. I moved it around like that for about an hour and finally stuck it in a sock and wore it on my right foot for a few hours (you don't have to worry about the itch/burn on the palms or feet because the skin is thicker there). I decided I wouldn't wear it overnight though... I'm doing the acupeds tonight and I'm targeting the colon this time; I've got an acuped on each foot, landscape style across the lower middle part of my feet (just above the heel). I know it's nuts... but I already feel tingly sensations there and I've only been wearing them for 20 minutes. I love these things!

I'm craving pesto again! Argghh!

Hmmm... What else did I want to talk about? Tomorrow is mega groceries day which is a good thing... my fridge is almost out of fruit... but I still have lots of greens so that's good. I guess I'll be drinking more greens tomorrow LOL.

I didn't get to this yesterday, but Poppy has begun her transition back to solids yesterday and we are all SO PROUD of her for listening to her body and doing such a great job. Poppy was like my little juicy sister; we were only 2 days apart on this raw journey and it's been great juicing alongside her. I encourage all the new juice feasters out there to check out her blog and read about her amazing journey. Poppy's writing style is very poetic and inspirational, so I'm sure you'll be absorbed by her juicy journal. Congrats again Poppy! Grosses caresses! :)

Whoa! It's fucking midnight already? shit I better get to bed!

Schlaf gut!!! :)

- Ben