Happy Birthday to me- today I turn 36- I do not really care about age and birthdays, I am indifferent to them. I have no issues with age as long as I take care of myself the best I can. There are many women and men who look amazing for their age and I plan on being on of them. I want to feel young for the rest of my life and one way of ensuring that is to eat raw. Today was so great as far as my eating went. For breakfast I had another Green Smoothie which was better than yesterday's since I added a bit of apple juice and re blended it to make it smooth. Then I had a raw bar from the organic store (very yummy!); for lunch I had a pretty boring salad at a restaurant; and now I am having the most amazing salad and wraps that I made out of romaine lettuce. The wraps are soooo good- I used to eat wraps with Nori, but found the taste to be too fishy so I decided to try this lettuce as it is sturdy enough to hold all the veggies. I put an avocado/guacamole type dressing in the ridge of the lettuce and added very finely cut onions, tomato, carrots and celery- I then spiced it up with cayenne pepper. It is so unbelievably good!!

Eating raw makes me feel powerful and in control of my life. When I am raw, I have a lot more confidence and feel that anything is possible, I also become far more optomistic about life in general. In the past 3 months, I get it, I finally get it, and it has taken me 10 years of trial and error with Raw to finally "get it". My mind is now in the right place and I now know I am in this for the right reasons. My family was up visiting recently and I know they think I am crazy and that I am doing this as a "diet" or another weight loss thing. But it is not that at all, and I hope over time people will realize that. I am becoming more and more comfortable with telling people about this lifestyle. I do not want to be ashamed or embarrassed; I want to be proud. I think it is becoming more main stream than ever before and is only a matter of time before it is common knowledge. I can not believe the amount of info that is out there and how many websites and groups and restaurants exists. It is becoming very big! Even at the local Organic Store, they have an entire section dedicated to Raw foods and many different Raw bars right by the cashier. This means that there must be Raw foodists in my community which I find very interesting. Part of me enjoys the fact that it is growing so fast but another part of me enjoyed having something that not many people knew about- I just hope it does not become too trendy. The ultimate goal is improved health and of course I want everyone to benefit from it and so I want the message to get out. The world would be such a better place if people would eat a healthy diet which does NOT consist of any animal products and is primarily living foods.

Well that is all for tonight, I have lots of cleaning to do before I can get to bed. It is stinking hot here and sleeping is unbearable in this heat... Tomorrow we are off to the beach with some friends, I will have to pack lots of stuff to eat so I don't get too hungry!!