I've lost 7 lbs and am very happy about that. I am drinking Amazing Meal regularly and eating a lot more fresh, raw produce and fewer M & Ms and Cokes and fast foods. I'm doing yoga and walking, too. It feels good to be giving my body a chance to heal by creating healthy habits.

I'm nearing the end of my Blessed Herbs' Internal Cleanse. Honestly, I'm glad to see the end of the pills, tinctures and toxin absorber. But I am very happy with my experience cleansing with it this year. Two years ago I used this cleanse and had lots of symptoms. This year it was smooth sailing all the way. I didn't even drink the soothing green tea blend included in my kit. I highly recommend this cleanse (after the colon cleanse) to anyone who is interested in removing residual toxins and enjoying the happiness that comes from a clean system.

Yes, boys and girls, I've completed the Blessed Herbs Internal Cleanse. It's been fun yet I'm glad that it's over.
Now, I'm taking Vitalzyme and drinking Amazing Meal (a raw nutritional supplement) twice daily. It really helps me to balance my diet, meet my nutritional needs, and increase my raw percentage without really trying. It even tastes good. What more could I ask?
Well, I guess that it could be cheaper. But it's comparable to a modest fast food meal at under $3 per meal when mixed with almond milk or rice milk. And it provides superior raw nutrition, tastes great, and is easy to carry along with me. Why balk at $3/meal?
Why indeed? I've noticed that it's easier for me to justify $3 spent at the local burger hut than $3 spent on a pineapple. This occurs because some of the adults who cared for me wouldn't have spent $3 on a pineapple for me but they would stop for donuts or fast food on the way home from the grocery store.
It's an obstacle in my progress toward enjoying a high raw diet. I feel guilty when I leave the farmer's market and psychologically look over my shoulder for incoming financial doom. It's silly and I've decided to leave it behind.

I've been considering the possibility of embarking on a 92 day juice feast. Somehow the thought of juice feasting in the fall and winter seems counterintuitive. It would be easiest in the spring and summer, no? Nonetheless, I feel that I must strike while the iron is hot.
Today I noticed that in addition to lots of soy milk for my Amazing Meal, I bought some radishes, apples, cucumbers and a Coke. My cart looks much different than it would have looked this spring. It's coming naturally now to eat raw produce and lots of it. I am feeling really good about that.

Well, I plunked down $147 for four canisters of Amazing Meal this week. That's enough powder to provide 30 meals this month when mixed with soy, almond, or rice milk. The powder itself is raw, but I don't have the facility to soak raw almonds (which are hard to find these days) or soy nuts to make my own, rawer milk. I wondered if it would be more raw to drink the powder mixed with water and then later drink the milk but that seems kind of legalistic and silly. There's a great sale on soy milk in my area so I'll be stocking up shortly while using up my rice milk.
Drinking two servings of Amazing Meal really makes a difference in the way that I feel. I haven't weighed myself lately so I don't know if I've lost any body fat, but I do know that I'm establishing a healthy habit that I can continue throughout my life.
My yoga practice is continuing as planned. I really enjoy it and look forward to it. I'm walking more as I am able and enjoy that, too. Walking in the cool morning air is helpful in combating depression. I wish that I lived in a safer neighborhood and could walk within an hour of rising. I'm now rising naturally at about 5 am and generally wait until 7 am to leave home.
I've shelved the idea of juice feasting this fall. It's getting colder and I packed my juicer away. I did eat some delicious baby Yukon Gold potatoes with beets, Concord grapes and Empress plums. I haven't given up eating fresh, raw produce. One of my favorite simple meals is cubed yam with cubed apple. When prepared properly, it needs no seasoning and is as filling as a larger meal would be. I boil the water while cubing the yam, then cube the apple (I like Gala or Fuji in this recipe) into smaller dice when the yam is almost cooked. I drain the yam when it is almost ready, then add the cubed apple to the yam. Cover if you like your apple well-cooked, and let stand until the apple and yam have reached the desired texture (this is up to you). Eat and enjoy. It tastes good with a little maple syrup, honey, apricot all-fruit, clementine sections, nutmeg, lemon juice...it can be varied infinitely.
I would love to prepare this recipe without boiling the yam. If anyone knows how to marinate yam so that it can be eaten raw, please let me know. Thanks! and happy eating.