One week :-)

Alright!! I made it a week!! Smooth sailing from now! haha yeah right.. But I feel pretty good all in all. I feel like I can breathe deeply, and my mind is clear, things feel pretty good right now I have to say. I did 3.5 miles today to celebrate a week of raw, living foods. Albeit they were 3.5 slow 11:30-pace miles, so what! Still felt great! I'm proud of Chris for running 3 miles at a way faster pace than me - around 9:30 pace, and I couldn't even keep up with him, I could have tried but I knew that I wanted to pace myself so I could last longer.. Maybe in the coming weeks I will start training and doing faster miles, but for now I'm happy slowly getting back into the game..

I have a lot of great recipes that I'm really excited to try when I get back up north and order myself a spiralizer. Maybe I will go ahead and order the spiralizer so it will be there when I get up there. hehe. So far I've been keeping it pretty simple and doing orange juice, banana smoothies, and salads.. Tonight I skipped the salad because I'm so damn full from the 12-banana smoothie I made, I clocked in at 2180 calories today, which is probably a little on the lower side. But I really feel like I couldn't eat more.. I had a 5 mango smoothie earlier in the day and water. and that's all i had today. Tomorrow I will focus on the fruit but also the greens and have a great salad and I will probably make that carrot soup again, which was just delicious, yumyum!.

Anyway, a week from Friday we leave Asheville, and I am feeling pretty good about it. I am looking forward to what's next and finding a place to finally settle down - hopefully not Brooklyn for too long - I feel like Brooklyn, or at least Marine Park, is a bad place to be a fruitarian. Yes I know there are a plethora of fresh markets and produce to choose from in the metropolitan nyc area, but getting around and transporting everything is a pain in the ass.. I was told to look into wholesale produce terminal markets - they have a lot of discounted produce and you can buy stuff in bulk, and they are in most major cities. There is one in NYC but it's in the Bronx, about 30 miles away from the ave. R house, which in nyc means probably an hour, with tolls, etc. Seems like a hassle. Maybe I will check it out once though, what have I got to lose? I guess other options will include, checking into other small grocery stores and buying things by the case, ordering things online, etc... I'm hoping I can still try to do this, everything is so expensive in nyc.. ahh, try not to stress... I will look for folks on 30bananasaday who are in the NYC area and see what they do to save money... there's gotta be some folks out there who have some suggestions. Other than that minor setback, I'm still looking forward to leaving..... We shall see what I come up with..... Night!