T-Minus Two Days

We've decided to officially start on Monday. In the meantime, we've been easing into our diet, experimenting with products* and recipes, and emptying our fridge of things we don't want tempting us during the next thirty days. I've been focusing a lot on guacamole, salsa, smoothies and dehydrated bananas. At the moment, we're enjoying the things we'll miss the most. As I sit here slogging down an ice-cold Surly Furious**, Kelly is bartering for a bottle of tonic water at the corner convenience store.

*One of those products

**Perhaps what I will miss the most. Goodnight, sweet prince.

All that aside, I've realistically been about 80-90% raw for the last few days. On a couple of those days, my only cadaverous, non-living food has been some whole wheat Saltines to go with the tomato salsa I made in the super blender.

I've noticed a couple things: 1) My appetite has gone down and I feel pretty good after my morning smoothie; and 2) Later in the day, I feel like I used to feel every time my parents brought me to a rodeo at the Met Center when I was a kid. People and objects appear as distant mirages, and I can't focus enough to really read and comprehend anything (as a child, the problem was more about just not knowing what the alphabet was yet). I'm lightheaded and disoriented.

I have no idea why I'm feeling off, but my guess is that I'm either: 1) Just taking in fewer calories than I'm using now, so my body has abandoned the higher brain functions in favor of basic tasks like keeping my heart beating; 2) Just missing a key nutrient that I was getting before; or 3) Going through some weird detoxification transition as conspiratorial chemicals are flushed away by fruits and vegetables and I metamorphosize into an uberhuman cherub who will begin aging in reverse.

I think I'm probably just not eating enough, and to counteract that, we're going to continue to experiment with more substantial recipes. We're also on a hunt for containers so we can begin sprouting***. More later.

***A sprouting container

-Nathan