Chips and Pizza for lunch

Hello Every one,

Chips and pizza for lunch.

Raw Foods gave me the opportunity to enjoy the most popular comfort food. I can eat a Raw version of pizza without feeling guilty.
A trip down memory lane...... Being a teenager meant having two slices of pizza and a big bag of chips. Hey, no problem for me. Did I worry about the amount of fat? NO. My metabolism was high and I was thin as a rail. The years caught up with me later with a slower metabolism. Giving up the foods I loved, like Pizza made me angry. Getting older meant I couldn't enjoy the fun foods anymore. This sucks !! And that concept of eating smaller proportions didn't work for me either.
I carried anger inside.............Why must the foods I love be so fattening?!

The anger left after eating Raw Foods. Freedom felt good for a while. Then an old problem surfaced. After the first year I noticed weight gain over the summer from the increase of nuts and fruit. It was not the same weight gain from eating cooked foods. The big lesson to learn - Just because I eat Raw Foods doesn't mean I'm free from the Fats. I still need to watch wear the fat comes from. Raw Fooders can average 60% of fat intake. It is true. The nuts and seeds that are eaten, replaces meat and diary. In every Raw food kitchen you will find Raw nuts, seed loafs, nut pates and nut cheeses. These are our staple. The fact is, nuts and seeds contain larger amounts of calories than meat.
Don't get me wrong Raw fats are without question far better for you than cooked fats or fried. The Raw fats coming from the whole plants are healthier as opposed to extracted oils or cooked animal products. But like everything else, too much of a good thing is not a healthy practice.
What to do? Go on-line and look up Diet Analysis sites to see the nutritional value of your intake of food. The key is to maintain a successful balance on a Raw food lifestyle.

Tomorrow I will have a simple menu. The Eggplant pizza is prepared with a delicious walnut cheese. I've been feasting on this for three days.
Here is my menu.

Breakfast
one medium size Papaya fruit.

Lunch
2 bananas with half a bunch of Romaine lettuce to make a smoothie.

Dinner
A celery Red Peeper Soup. One celery, one small bell pepper and one large tomato.
A fennel Salad. Romaine lettuce and fennel, with a few figs. Oil, lemon juice, salt and pepper to taste.
Enjoy.






In memories of the 80's , I found this vivid sweater. Love the mixture of pink and orange. A while back I was visiting the Fashion Library and had fun looking at a reprint of a Sears catalog from the 1900's . I remember reading about the invention of Sweaters . They were called "knitted shirts". These knitted shirts first appeared on various British and Irish islands. Sweaters were knitted by the wives of fishermen. The natural oil in the wool could absorb the rain or salt water without feeling damp. By the 1800's the "jersey"was being used by the American college athletes, who called it the Sweater. Would you believe the word " sweater" was too bold for genteel people to mention in polite company. Today every body has a wardrobe of sweaters. Who could get insulted about that.

vintage 80's sweater

black leggings

shoe boots- John Fluevog

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