Done (But Really Just Started)

A quick update:

I'm done. The 30 days trial has officially ended and I did have a lunch with cooked food today. I am so full of feelings: Apprehension, excitement, pride, a little fear...

This trial has been a wonderful experience for me. Of course it had its ups and downs, and I hope to go into all of that later. I want to do an official post-mortem of my 30-days RAW trial soon, but perhaps at the week's end, since this one's a busy one schoolwork-wise.

So lunch today was a Vietnamese-style "street" sandwich. It had meat, and what I think was a dairy-based spread, on a 6-inch piece of bread, with a few greens tossed in. The flavors seem more intense than they did before, and it definitely tasted pretty salty to me. Cooked food really has a lot of salt, and I'm no longer used to the [over]abundance of salt in it. It was somewhat humorous, since my friend with whom I ate lunch was adding salt to his food...I'm happy about my new feelings towards salt, since we get much more in our diets than is healthy, anyway. There were also chili peppers that I assumed were mild, but I think my tolerance for spicy foods has gone down somewhat, since I didn't get too much of that with raw food.

Portion-wise, I think before this trial I would have complemented the sandwich with some chips or a dessert, but today the sandwich was enough. I got used to eating smaller portions on my RAW trial, just because the fiber-rich food would fill me up so quickly. So I ate the sandwich slowly, savoring each bite, and I was satisfied.

I must say, in comparison to raw meals, cooked food is "heavier" in my stoamch. I know it sounds strange, but it seemed like the raw food felt so light. It would just pass right through me, and it never tired me out, if that makes sense. But this cooked food seems more like a weight in my stomach. I'm actually wary about eating too much cooked food, especially on this first day back. I think dinner will just be raw greens and celery tossed with some "live" salsa. I also have plenty of fruits to choose from, and I've been snacking on dates, blueberries and cherries today.

This is about it for now, and I hope that lunch wasn't too much of a shock to my system. I'll put up a more thorough post mortem of the trial soon, and I have many more recipes to put up still, so look forward to it!

Peas out,

Jessica