I've been fascinated by raw and living foods for about 3 and a half years since I saw the exquisite book Raw Food/Real World in a book store.  It totally shifted my view of what food could be.  Raw food is not all about carrots and celery.  There is enormous sophistication and flavor that can be created with purely raw, organic, delicious, healthy ingredients.  One of the most sumptuous meals I've ever eaten was at the raw restaurant Pure Food & Wine in New York City.  I've dabbled with a raw diet now and then and done a few stretches with it, but never stuck to it for more than a few weeks.  I absolutely love how I feel when I eat this way, but have found it to be a real challenge to stick to that when working crazy long hours and eating out for business.  Hopefully I've learned enough from my prior experiences to succeed this time.

Today is my 37th birthday and it's time to get a bit more committed and serious to my health.  I aim to stay at 95-100% for the next 90 days and report my progress.  As of this morning I weighed 210lbs. and 28% body fat.  I know from a few short-term experiments that I may lose weight very fast eating raw, or I might not.  I haven't worked out why it can take so long sometimes and other times the weight just falls off.

The other thing I will be incorporating into my diet over the next 90 days are superfoods.  I recently saw David Wolfe speak and I read his book brand new book Superfoods: The Food and Medicine of the Future .  I guess I remain a bit skeptical about some of that, but like most things it's worth testing for oneself.  I've begun to introduce superfoods into my diet now and will continue for the next 90 days, primarily on a daily basis with goji berries, cacao, maca, raw honey, fresh coconut or coconut butter, spirulina, hempseeds, and occasionally aloe vera.  I also will  also eat kelp and chlorella on a daily basis as they are listed as honorable mention superfoods in David's book.  I will also start out taking MSM, milk thistle, Vitamin D, and alfalfa supplements on a regular basis during the 90 days, but may make adjustments as I see fit.

I'm planning to post fairly frequently on my progress as well as give people an idea of what I have been eating.  I think that the staple of my diet will end up being a large daily green smoothie.  I started today with one that was just a cornucopia of goodness.  Here's what I threw in:

• 2 bananas
• 1 orange
• 1 apple
• raw honey
• frozen peaches
• coconut butter (2 tbsp)  - at this point I blend it and give some to the kids then I take the remaining and the rest
• cacao (2 tbsp)
• ginger (very small chunk)
• maca (2 tbsp)
• MSM (1 tbsp)
• hempseeds (3 tbsp)
• basil leaves (3 today - really adds a nice flavor)
• aloe vera (1 small leaf fileted)
• spinach (2 large handfulls)
• turmeric (1 tsp) - I'd never tried this before, but thought it would be nice

Blend that up and it's 30 oz. of total goodness that I drink over a period of 30-45 minutes.  It keeps me going for a good chunk of the day.

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