Today I was hoping to go to the Menlo Park farmer's market - my boyfriend said maybe we could, but once I found out it closes at 1pm I should have known that wouldn't happen. His daughter left town in the morning and he's been so busy lately and he's going out of town this week and he needed a little time at home to relax, do yoga, maybe some housework. He probably needed more time than he actually got. I just ended up being annoyed because I like to know ahead of time what's going to happen, and I thought we would meet earlier and do farmer's market and then we didn't.
It all worked out, though. I really needed some oranges and I knew the produce store was closed for Easter, so I decided to take a one gallon water bottle to fill up and go in search of an open store. The discount grocery (pretty much my closest store, if you don't count 7-11) was open and I got oranges, grapefruit, cantaloupe, ginger, pineapple and three boxes of organic prunes. I was pretty excited to find organic prunes at the discount grocery - I think they were a really good price and they'll keep just fine until July so I'm already for Prune Day!
I did a really short yoga workout and wasn't even ready yet when my boyfriend came to pick me up at 4pm because I was making my green juice - then we went for a little hike at a nearby park. It's wonderful there are soooo many parks and preserves and nature trails around here and we are finally exploring them! After that he took me to Whole Foods and bought me a bunch of red leaf lettuce, a couple young thai coconuts and some carrots. So I guess it doesn't matter that I didn't go to the farmer's market. I want to get my bicycle up and running again, though, and check out all the farmer's markets in my area.
Then we went to see a movie and I had a tea there. I've never had tea at the movies before - normally I would have an icey or we'd sneak in a bottle of wine or something, but the tea was nice. I do question the quality of the water, but I'm sure boiling hot tap water is better for you than most of the stuff you get at a movie theater concession.
My boyfriend is worried that after this feast I am going to become 100% raw. He's also feeling like maybe I'm purposely using my juice feast to distance myself from him. I've tried to assure him that neither of those things are true. I know my juice feasting is something of an inconvenience to him - I mean, for instance he has some customers of his that want to go on a hot air balloon ride in wine country. If we take them to wine country during my juice feast, how is that going to work out? Not the balloon ride itself, of course, but there are sure to be restaurants and wineries and things involved as well. And then what about his family? Spending time with his daughter was fine, but we often have his family over and cook for them. I'm totally game to cook for them while juice feasting, but I'm sure he's thinking that would be really weird. Maybe I need to come up with a menu that we can all enjoy. You know, a juice everyone will like, a soup with a broth that I can have too, and then maybe he can make some bread to go with it or something. Maybe this weekend we can try that.
As to the 100% raw part, I don't really want to do that. My boyfriend is vegan - well we both are although we eat honey (haha, I hate that when people say "well, I'm vegan but I eat fish" or "I'm vegan unless I'm out to dinner with my friends" or whatever weird qualifiers, and now I'm doing it too) I guess...I should say...we eat a plant based diet, and we do it for both health and ethical reasons - the ethical part is more me, but I think that you're going to cause suffering no matter what. I'm not convinced that eating agave nectar grown in Mexico under who-knows-what conditions and then processed under who-knows-what conditions and then shipped to who-knows-how-many different places or how far is better than eating locally grown honey purchased directly from the beekeeper who harvested it. And, from a health perspective I think the honey is healthier, although we shouldn't be eating too much honey anyway.
Yeah so, anyway...I don't want to be 100% raw, but I want to make better choices, and to me juice feasting is a short cut of sorts. I do this for three months, lose weight, get healthier and make a fresh start and better choices afterwards. So for instance, before at one of our favorite restaurants this would have been my typical dinner:
bread with olive oil
vegan cheeses with oily crostini
portobello sandwich with lots of aioli on oily focaccia bread
chocolate peanut butter pie
3+ glasses of wine
But what I'd like to choose is more like:
seasonal pickled vegetables
salad with tempeh
soup
1/2 glass of wine
The second menu is a totally normal amount of food to eat for one meal, but it's just not what I do when I go out to a restaurant, and I want to change that. It's also a lot more raw food, but it's not 100% raw, and that's fine with me.
All the words in the world may not convince my boyfriend about this - I guess I just have to show him with my actions.
Weight: 204
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