Day 3

Hannah & Emily setting the table for Thanksgiving Dinner!
You can see Roxy cruising the table for food. She's such an opportunist!

It's about time for my favorite part of the day; sleep! I get to got to bed, yeah!! I love my sleep when I'm fasting. It's always soo restful, especially when I get to bed earlier than my norm.

Today was a pretty uneventful day! I had to go out to my car and nap around 3:30pm. I think I napped for about 30 minutes. Hopefully tomorrow I'll have better energy! Not too much to report at this time, except that I'm happy to be on this fast.

-Doug

Day 2

New Years Eve with Anita! (My Wife)

We spent the evening in San Francisco with friends. It was a great evening with food, fun, and good friends!

Day 2 is just about over and I'm poopeid! I spent about 3.5 hours in the kitchen preparing our juice. My wife is fasting with me, but only for a few days! Maybe she'll go 5-7, but I don't expect her to get much further! (I would never tell her that however!) I'm sure she'll go as long as she needs to go! ;-)

About done juicing the greens!

Then Anita came in and made something sweet for the kids! OMG, it smelled awful....YUCK!! (Not!) Maybe someday I'll be repulsed by the aroma of freshly baked cookies! (That's my large vat of fruit juice next to the pan of cookies.)

Anyhow...I'm glad this day is about over! Looking forward to getting to sleep! I love my sleep while fasting! It's just so restful!

OK, good night then! I'll write more soon! (Hopefully tomorrow!)

--Dougie Fasting Fresh

Get Ready, Get Juice, Get Fast, GOOOOOO........Day One

Happy New Year!

This is it; today really is the first day of the rest of my life! I've written these words before! I'm sure I wrote them on the first day I started this blog! I've wanted to become 100% Raw ever since I read the book by David Wolfe, The Sunfood Diet Success System, last xmas 2006! A whole year later, I'm finally ready!

I've got many goals for this year and the first goal was to be 100% Raw starting 1/1/2008! The next goal was to complete a 90 day Juice Feast which starts today! I'm soo stoked to be here!

So much more to write about in the coming days as my mind clears!

Thanks again to all who have visited and sent to me well wishes, positive vibes, kind and encouraging words!

More later....

Thank you!!!

Thanks to all of you that have left comments and, most importantly, prayed and or sent to me good vibrations of healing, positivity, strength, courage, and LOVE! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

I truly love this raw food community! If you have any clue of what the raw food movement/LIFESTYLE is or are in the beginning stages of research and discovery; then you know or feel you're on to something HUGE!

I recently watched a video of a guy on you tube! (Courtesy of QWLIR, of course.) He was talking about how BIG this raw food thing is! "IT_IS_WAY_BIGGER_THAN_YOU_OR_ME" It was so funny the way he said it. (Not because he is from England either!) It was funny because I could so relate to what he was talking about!!!

Paraphrasing: If you think you can do this thing without slippin up, than you're in for a surprise! If you can, than more power to ya. If you can't no big deal because this raw food thing "IS_WAY_BIGGER_THAN_YOU_OR_ME" Don't beat yourself up! JUST_START_OVER!! There's no raw food police around that's going to arrest you for slippin! (LOL) JUST_START_OVER! Tomorrow is a new day and you can start fresh! The important thing to remember is to NOT BEAT YOURSELF UP!! and TO START OVER!!! No matter what!

Those of you who are doing and living the RAW_FOOD_LIFESTYLE, you are my heroes and my mentors! Thank you for blogging! Thank you for your words of inspiration and love!

Cheers to YOU and Cheers to US! May you have peace, love, and happiness in your life ALWAYS!

I'm slowly but surely transforming! It's an amazing journey! I love it!

Thanks again!

--Dougie (Rawesome) Fresh ;-)

I need help!!

If you believe in the power of prayer, please say a prayer for me! If you don't pray, just think about me, Doug, and send to me a vibration of strength, courage, and love! I believe I'm on the cusp of change and I need all the help I can get!

I've been praying and meditating a lot lately. Something inside told me to reach out and ask for help. Asking for help is one of the hardest things for me to do, but I know there's power in humility! I need help!

There! Sending this out to the universe with love and gratitude for you and everyone!!

THANK YOU!!!

I love yoga!

I haven't been to yoga for quite some time. I went to a class tonight and I'm so grateful for that! Yoga is such a great work out for the mind body and spirit! Just as we got started the instructor said to dedicate this practice to someone or something meaningful to you in your life! OMG, the first thing I thought about was my RAW food lifestyle! I felt a strong emotion from deep within arise! It was awesome. I'm going to try and hold onto that feeling and stay on the path!

My goal is to be a yoga instructor some day! (Just thought I'd put that out there to the Universe!)

I decided to start another fast, again. I'd like to create a little distance from food so when I start eating again I will appreciate RAW food mucho!

I took a picture of myself tonight in my boxers. It will be my BEFORE raw pic. I tried my hardest to give the Anthony pose from Raw Model! I think I came pretty close! LOL!!! If I could only develop his 6 pack, I'd be really stoked! We'll see! I'm working on it!

Speaking of Anthony, you gotta check out the interview with him that's posted on We Like It RAW! He's got a great story and it's really worth checking out.

Well, I made it over the hump day and I'm stoked and inspired. I'm also getting a little sleepy eyed.

Good night...

Ctrl+Alt+Del..Reboot

I love resetting myself, my expectations, and my desires!! Life is a such a trip. Especially when trying to stay RAW let alone fast for any particular amount of time!

Today is a very exciting day for me, besides being our 12 year wedding anniversary, I've decided (again) that today will be THE DAY I have my last cooked food and go 100% RAW!! YAHOO!! I'm so elated and pumped for me!! Yowza Baby!! (I know, I know, I've said this before, but this time is REALLY it!!) I've experimented enough over the last year, that I've realized I feel the best when I'm eating or drinking living foods! Seriously! I'm so looking forward to the rest of my life without cooked food! I'm ready to get off this awful roller coaster!

It seems fitting I had my last cooked food meal with my wife. My original intention was to have October 1st be my last cooked food meal, but since I blew that date, this date will be much much sweeter! I was tempted to tell her over dinner, but decided against it, as I didn't want to make too big of a deal! She knows I've been struggling with this issue for some time and has been very supportive! My hope and dream is that she will eventually follow my lead!

I've been reading a lot of inspiring blogs lately. I recently watched Kris Karr's documentary, Crazy Sexy Cancer! OMG, it was sooo good and sooo inspirational! Thank you for making this movie!!! FUCK canSer!! Fuck fucking canSer!! (I'm sorry, but I had to put that out there!) I'm so thankful I don't have it! I'm so thankful I have some knowledge about how to live and eat in a way that puts the odds of me not getting it in my favor. So many people are getting canSer, it's very scary!

Okay!! I'm ready for bed now! I didn't over do it tonight on the cooked food, so hopefully my hangover will be minimal!