Living Rawesome

The Raw Muscle Challenge Practice Day #1

August 31, 2010

Note to readers:  I started on the wrong day, so I will consider this practice;-)

I am posting this many hours too late, but better late than never. Yesterday was filled with excitement!! My hubby bought me the best present ever, a brand new Ford Escape. We spent all day at the dealership on and off, but I was able to eat good all day, besides a few slip ups, and was able to hit the gym!

I have been craving sprouted buckwheat in the morning, so that has been my breakfast for the last week. It fills me up and I am not hungry for a few hours:). Which is very rare.

The Food I ate:
1/4 cup of buckwheat sprouted
1 apple
1 T sunflower seeds
1 T pumpkin seeds
1/2 cup water with Garden of Life Raw Protein
cinnamon and stevia

2 apples

Before Gym:
Buckwheat wrap with banana and almond butter
After Gym:
Kelp noodles with Marinara Sauce
Salad with honey mustard dressing, made with honey, mustard, and olive oil
Banana Smoothie made with 1 banana, tons of ice and Carob and Mesquite and Raw Protein

My messup:(~I ate some Amy’s No Cheese Pizza, it is vegan,but def. not raw! Anyhow, I learned my lesson, I got heartburn.
*Note* I was very stressed out, we can’t locate the title to our van, so I didn’t have time to fix anything raw, even though I wanted to eat celery and carrots, I felt bad about not looking so I grabbed what the fam was eating.

So then I had a carrot, pineapple and then later had Ezekial bread with some AB.

I have to say, even though I didn’t eat completely raw, I felt energy…ALOT of it, I cleaned my entire closet and kitchen. But to no avail, NO Title!

My Workout: Arms and Cardio
Warm up set of arms with light weight, then I started.
1. Barbell Curls with 40 pound ez curl bar for 3 sets of 10 superset 3 sets of 10 Preacher Curls with 30 pound easy curl bar.
2. Rope Pushdowns with 40 lbs. 3 sets of 10 superset 3 sets of 10 Bench Dips
3. 90 Degree DB Preacher Curl with 30 pound ez curl bar for 3 sets of 10 superset 3 sets of 10 DB 12 lbs, then last 2 were 15 lbs. DB Incline Curls
4. V Bar Pushdowns 3 sets of 10 superset 3 sets of 10 DB Kickbacks with 12 lbs. I have bumped up in weights since I first started this workout.
Cardio for only 15 minutes, I had to come home to get Christian:)
I am supposed to include ABS, but I ran out of time. Also figured I would do them at home, wishful thinking, we had Kumon, Football, signing contracts! Busy, Busy, Busy!

It was a great day, I am looking forward to this day ahead!

Today I will hopefully walk the dogs, if weather permits and hit the gym.

Announcing my new challenge~The 30 Day Raw Food Muscle Fitness Challenge

It has been too long since my last challenge. I have been going back and forth about doing this challenge. I know it is rather difficult to stay completely 100% Raw, but for the next 30 days I will be mostly raw. Perhaps some days I will be 100%, but others I may eat less than 100%. But I will honor my body and make the best choices each day!

The Contest:

I came across The Raw Food Muscle website through Facebook. Philip McCluskey had a link to a man named Santiago. So of course, curious me had to check it out. I fell in love with his wife and him. They are an adorable couple and he inspires me. He has been training in the gym for many years and he found out about raw food and it has been changing his and his wife. They have videos on YouTube and I just have so much fun watching them. They are filled with Energy. They announced the challenge a few weeks ago and I decided yesterday that I am in it.

I took my measurements and weight, which I would rather not share, but I am sending them to him. I will reveal my measurements at the end of the 30 days. I have been doing raw food on and off for over 3 years but sorry to say I have only gained weight on it. Many other very beautiful things have happened in my life because of raw food. Yes, I am not 100%, but I love feeling the life in the food. This will be my first journey of working out and doing mostly raw and really focusing on it.

I will strength train, and do cardiovascular work. I plan on walking more too. I have been avoiding that for too long. I will be writing down everything I eat using a program called Fitday.com. I will post my workouts and food intake with recipes when applicable.

So stay tuned…

II Timothy 1:7
For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline.

Carrot Macaroons with White Chocolate Orange Cream

It has been several weeks since I have written here on Living Rawesome , but I am still here and thinking about what I will do next.  I thought about another project, similar to what I just finished with, but nothing has come to me.  The only thing I know is that I love to create recipes and so I was inspired one day watching the Cooking Channel and came up with these awesomely delicious Carrot Macaroons.  The White Chocolate Orange Cream can be drizzled over the Macaroons or as a dipping sauce for fruit.

Enjoy this wonderful recipe, it is made with L.O.V.E.  (Living Organics for Vibrant Energy).  All of my food is made with Love and L.O.V.E.  I recently bought another domain for my business, it is lovefoodprep.com.  I will be working on it this next year, and hopefully launching it with recipes and info about my classes and things to come, so stay tuned:).

Until then I will be posting the many recipes I make here at my lovely abode.

Carrot Macaroons Recipe
1 3/4 cups Shredded Unsweetened Coconut
3/4 cup pecans, soaked and dehydrated, then ground into flour in food processor
3/4 cup carrot pulp, or chopped using ‘S’ blade in food processor
1 cup dates, pitted and soaked
1 cup date water
1/4 cup coconut oil
1 t vanilla powder
1 t cinnnamon
1/4 t salt