TriFruit

2012-01-26T20:51:00.000-08:00

I always get asked in interviews or by other raw vegans how much calories I eat. And I truly cannot answer that because I never count calories. I literally just eat 3 meals a day until I am happily satisfied. Thought sometimes I eat 4 meals which depends on how much of one type of fruit I have to mono with.

So today I did count calories though I never weighed everything exactly out. I just put it into nutridiary and guessed on the fruit size.

Today I did not run. It was a rest day.

breakfast - 23 kiwis
lunch - 8 bananas, 7 dates smoothie
dinner - green drink of 1 head of spinach, 1 head of cilantro, 1 carrot, 32 oz orange juice
3 huge fuji apples
roughly 3200 calories

My store has papayas in. The ones they carry are the red carribeans. They are usually very good. So I bought one. Waiting patiently for it to ripen.

And as you all know now, I am not a big banana person. I do eat them of course. But I prefer them blended with dates or papayas. Banana/papaya is one of my favorite meals. So I am looking forward to it.

And my kiwis are super delish. I am glad b/c I have 3 cases. I have been eating them for fuel on my runs. They really do sit very well with me. I usually store them somewhere on my run, in bushes and such. But now I am thinking I might try something different. I think I might blend them and but them in my hand held bottle. Though I won't be able to sip it through, I can take off the lid and drink it. I wonder how well it keeps blended. It being an acid fruit I would think it would hold up fine. I will try it this weekend on my long run and let you guys know.

2012-01-22T20:53:00.000-08:00

Geez, what a week! We had lost power for 4 days due to a snow storm and ice storm. Waaayy to dangerous to run. The trees were falling like toothpicks. So I took 5 days off of running. Not by choice. But it is what it is. I have no idea what my running hill is like. I am sure there are huge trees down. I might head up there in a day or two. But the weather is clearing so I will stick to roads for a few days.

We got lots of oranges in our fruit order. Hamilins and valencias are just fab right now. Been mostly drinking oj. Got lots of kiwis too.

I have been on a green drink kick lately, and the rest of the family too. Been increasing my calories because my running mileage as gone up so I find it easier to drink my greens. That leaves me more room for fruit. Plus, I don't know about you guys, but I find salads are way more tastier in late spring and summer. The produce just seems better I guess.

I bought a case of rainbow chard (so pretty), case of spinach and 1/2 case of cilantro. Each case has 24 heads. And since my garage is cold in the winter we store greens, oranges and apples in there and it keeps great. We just leave them in their boxes. The thicker greens works best, like kale, chard and spinach for storage like that. I have found that green leaf and romaine need to be stored in a frig for best freshness.

Today's menu
breafast - green drink (1/2 head of chard, head of spinach, head of cilantro, carrots, two apples and 32oz of oj)

a 15 mile run today turned into a 3 mile run due to unexpected high winds

lunch - orange juice and raw tacos

dinner - more orange juice and kiwis

Back to decent weather so hoping to get 70 miles in this week.
Oh that reminds me, need to get more bananas.

2012-01-10T20:29:00.000-08:00

Sunday's run was 21 miles with vertical and today's run was 14 miles with vertical.

I am kicking myself for not getting more cases of kiwis. I love sitting down to a meal of them like 20-25.

And I have to do a better job at keeping my stash of bananas. You got the greens ones and then the yellow ones and then the spotted ones which are ripe and ready to eat. My miles are picking up and I have to have my bananas. It is the middle of winter and this is the best source of calories for me right now.

I saw a facebook post from a friend the other day. She was talking about her diet and how much calories she's eating. Her typical intake a day is barely reaching 1300. Wow, even on a rest day for me I have eaten 2000 by lunch. A couple of friends I have seen in the past talk about their diet to loose weight. And it seems they just eat veggies and lean meats and are always complaining. I can't blame them, I would complain too. Then you see their pics at restaurant laughing that they are cheating. It is a wicked cycle. Glad I have not been on that roller coaster. And of course you see all the fad diets out their and a lot of them don't eat enough fruit. People fear fruit but they don't fear cheesy pizzas, and hamburgers. I mean I fear pizzas and hamburgers. Got cholesterol? I am not sure how so many people can be in the dark about high fat foods and cholesterol. They either are truly clueless or just wait for the next best pill to take to help them.
But also I think people are truly afraid to stop eating meat because they have a fear of not getting enough protein, like they are gonna fade away. So if this nation we live in eats so much meat, shouldn't everyone be walking around with huge muscles. No, most people walk around hunched over, for many reasons I won't go into. I think the typical american eats meat 2x a day. And imho, I think we are a very unhealthy society.
About 5 years ago I started swimming lesson (my first ever) to learn how to swim for a trialthon. I have a runner's body, not a swimmer's body, so my instructor told me I needed to add more muscles on my shoulders. So he told me to drink a huge protein shake. I nodded my head but was laughing inside. I already new the truth about protein so I didn't say anything. But I left laughing. Like okay, so I have a huge protein drink and go to bed and wake up with muscles. Doesn't work that way. You need to work out to build mucsles and of course protein is needed but not animal protein. You will run your body acidic and have disease. Look at the top olympic marathon runner guy. He is now in his 50's, he is a coach, thin and fit but had a heart attack. How does that happend? Diet. Too much meat and cholesterol. Period.

2012-01-06T21:44:00.000-08:00

Finally got our valencias in. Oh I haven't had oj in awhile. Those other oranges we got, I just couldn't eat them. They had the strangest taste. So for the next few weeks it will be kiwis, bananas, oranges, and apples. Our fuji we got last time were bad, but this time are super. So are the pinkladys.

And I got a case of kale. I am going to drink lots of green drinks in the next few weeks. I really like juicing my greens. I can juice two heads of kale, carrots and add oj and have a great drink. I highly recommend green drinks when you are sore from a workout. The lactic acid accumulates in your body and the best way to neutralze the acid is with a base, like fruit and greens, espeically greens. This is why me and others who follow this diet can recover faster. (Of course you don't have to juice them, eating them works just as well).

I remember years ago, I was training for my first marathon. I would run 18 miles and would be so sore for days afterwards. I would then proceed to eat meat, dairy, and grains to help aid in my recovery and get my protein in. Ya well it never worked. All that is so acidic to the body. And add that to the lactic acid already in you body from a tough workout, it spells disaster. It can lower your immune system, create injuries etc.

I ate the SAD diet and trained hard, and I am now eating a fruitarian diet with greens and training waaaay harder.

today's menu
breakfast - 40 oz of oj and kiwis
9 mile run 1200'vertcial
fuel (raw latte)
lunch - 1300 calories banana date smoothie
dinner - kale juice, tomato soup, satuma oranges

Raw latte? What's that? That is my new name for coconut water and dates. I would highly recommend this mixture if you are trying to give up coffee. So here is what you do. Take the liquid out of one young coconut (meat optional) into blender along with 10 dates. Blend until frothy. There is no pulsing on this drink. Let this one blend for awhile. Add it to your latte cup and there you go. This is so sinfully good! And when you get down to the bottom of your cup, you get sweet white froth. I have been having these daily. Oh and it will wake your ass up too! Well maybe your brain. The raw latte will not leave your teeth stained brown, it will not give you coffee breath (ewwww) and it will not mess up your adrenals. AND it doesn't contain any toxins. So drink up!

2011-12-26T20:41:00.001-08:00

Today's menu
Breakfast - honeydew melon
11 mile run 1200'vertical
fuel datorade
lunch - kiwis and orange juice
dinner - satsuma and taco salad

I just love datorade. I am not a fan of eating dates but I love datorade. You can do datorade two ways. One way is to blend 1 coconut to 10 dates, blend and strain out chuncks. I put this in my hand held bottle for running. I have to strain it because I can't sip the chunks through. A post run datorade is to blend but not strain. Drink chuncky. Eiher way if you are having cravings for chocolate this will take care of it. Sood good!

Have any of you heard of orange mango? It is a type of juicing orange. My fruit supplier did not have any valencias or hamlins. He said this was a great juicing orange. So we got 3 cases of them. They are the strangest oranges. Maybe it is an acquired taste. I make oj out of them and it is not bad, they are sweet. But these oranges have no acid in them. Not sure I will get them again. They are worth trying to try something different. But I still prefer my hamlins and valencias. I will get through the cases of those oranges just fine though.

And we got a box of fujis this week. They were all greem, WTF? They were not even close to sweet or ripe. My husband really needs to check the produce before get the cases loaded in the truck. Fujis are my favorite apple so now they will go to the horse, bunny, and dogs.

2011-12-14T21:08:00.000-08:00

I got a case of orange honeydew in my order. Oh wow, super delish! Soft and sweet and ripe. I blew through the case in two days.
It seems that every season I look forward to a new fruit. Persimmons are in and I am enjoying my persimmon/date pudding. And oranges are in full swing. Our supplier has hamlin oranges in and we got cases of them. And being a fruitarian for 5 years I will tell you these are, hands down, the sweetest oranges on the planet. I ususally juice valencias but now I can get my hands on the hamlins. The have a lot of seeds in them so they are best for orange juice. They make the valencias taste sour. I mean they are so super sweet. I can't get enough.

todays menu
breakfast - 50 oz of oj and 2 honeydew
10 mile run
lunch - more oj and 2 honeydews
dinner - more oj and kiwis followed by a huge green leaf salad

I usually do an early morning run but it is too icy in the morning so I wait until 11 or so now. So that means I have to eat more for breakfast because I am running later. My breakfast this morning was about 1000 calories and I ran about 2 hours later. This is the best part of a high fruit diet. You digest your food fast and get enough calories in to fuel your run. Tomorrow I will do a longer run so I will eat the same amount and take 2 bottles of datorade with coconut water with me.

And soon I will be odering some chocolate sapotes, oh yay! I love those!!!!!!!!

chocolate milk

2011-12-07T20:40:00.000-08:00

I have been spoiled by this fall weather we are having. This last week it has been dry, sunny and 40F. Can't beat that for nice runs in the mountains. Been getting some good miles in with hill training.

I made some raw chocolate milk for me after my run to add some extra calories for me. I take coconut water with some meat (though the meat is optional) and dates and blend. It is so full of sugar and sweeteness! The milk on the left was for my daughter so I strained out the chunks. The one on the right was for me, chunks and all.

And I have been still enjoying my persimmon/date pudding. I can't get enough of it. I sometimes add bananas to it to add more calories. I am really burning through the calories right now. I think maybe the cold weather has something to do with it too along with running everyday.

I so far have managed to avoid all the sickness going around too. Haven't had a sniffle in 4 years. Nothing! I hope it stays that way. Four things that are key for me for not getting sick: my diet, sleep, hyrdration and low stress.
Love my fruitarian diet!

2011-11-25T21:36:00.000-08:00

Thanksgiving day was spent with some wonderful friends. And yes they were all raw vegans. I met some new aspiring fruitarians. Everybody was wonderful and had great stories to share on their path of health. We all brought low fat raw vegan dishes. And of course I forgot to take pictures. But here is what was on the menu:

angel hair zuke pasta
fruit bowl (mango, pineapple, celery, grape toms)
fruit bowl, (can't remember the fruit but it did have pomergranate yum!)
squash soup (oh this was great! I can't remember the exact ingredients. Someome help me remember! I swear I will get you the recipe.
cole slaw
cranberries, oj and dates blended (soooo good, and i put it on top of my slaw, wow!)

and the BEST recipe BY FAR was
pumpkin pudding, but it didn't have any pumpkin in it. It had persimmons, dates and a dash of pumpkin spice. I kid you not it tasted exactly like pumpkin pie. It was a total hit. Some people put the pudding on top of their banana ice cream.
If you want to try this recipe here is the ratio that was used
7 persimmons, 8 dates, 1/8th of a teaspoon of pumpkin spice (or add more and go by taste but start with small amounts first).

So guess what I am getting my next fruit order, dates and persimmons. I don't ever hardly buy dates. I tend to only eat them racing. I am also getting bananas too. Haven't had any in a long time. I can't remember my last banana meal. I have been so fortunate to get really great juicy fruits which I prefer over bananas and dates.

My staple will be in the next few weeks, persimmons, kiwis (lots!), dates, bananas, honeycrisp apples, and oranges for oj. I am getting to the point where oj is a staple for breakfast. It has to be the most perfect breakfast ever created. I don't know about others but mornings I don't have a huge appetite (well at least not right now, just wait until my mileage starts going up) so juice is perfect for me. I like to drink about 50oz of oj before a workout. My biggest appetite comes at lunch and dinner.

2011-11-14T21:48:00.000-08:00

I made some raw pasta the other day. Haven't had it for awhile and it was so great! So on my next fruit order I ordered a case of cucumbers and 3 cases of tomatoes, some basil, 5 lbs of crimini mushrooms. My sauce is very simple. Blend chuncky: toms, basil, red pepper and green onions (optional) and chopped mushrooms on top. Add avocado to it if you like. I do recommend adding avocado to newbies starting out. It is more satisfying and savory. Sometimes I add it sometimes I don't.

I got 1 1/2 cases of green figs again. I keep thinking this will be the last case but my supplier keep supplying them. They are so good!

The fujis are super sweet too! And the navels weren't so good. They are early in the season so I won't let them go to waste so I will juice them. Lots of kiwis too and and ataulfo mangos (130ct).

Snow hit the ground today. Tis the season. I will bundle up and hit the trails tomorrow!

2011-11-02T10:31:00.000-07:00

I do believe green figs are my top 5 favorite fruit. It is like eating pure jam but better. I just wish they were cheaper and available year round. I did order more fig trees and one tree is green figs.

Today I am enjoying coconuts. Love the water. And orange juice of course. We did get some amazing apples in, fuji and honeycrisps. They are just wonderful. And my other favorite fruit kiwis. When I choose kiwis I have the option of getting either a smaller kiwi or a larger one. This is a perk of ordring wholesale. I always chooese the larger one. The bigger the kiwi the better. Same goes with apples. The larger the apple the more sweeter it will be. At least this has been my experience with the fruit we are ordering.

Still running but not a lot of miles. I am home schooling my oldest. So trying to get a schedule going. I will be picking up my miles next week. The last two months has been my "rest up before the real training starts". It has been a nice break and my knee and calf have been happy.

2011-10-26T14:03:00.000-07:00

I flew down to Florida to spend my birthday with some friends. My awesome friend has the same birthday as I do. We had a WONDERFUL time! We went to the farmers market. There they have it year round. Here we only have it for 8 weeks. The prices down there were unbelievable. There were so many vendors. It was huge. Really great deals. It is not organic but none-the-less. I really wish I lived near a farmers market like that.

For our birthday dinner we had raw tacos. It was just delish! In it was pineapple, onion, lime, corn, tomatoes, avocados and cilantro. Mix it all up and put them on top of roamine leaves or slices of cucumbers for chips and dip. And our birthday cake, well the picture speaks for itself, a watermelon cake.

This was the first time I have traveled on an airplane as a raw foodist. I didn't bring food with me, not a big deal. The airport has fruit. I ate a huge breakfast and then ate some apples at the airport before I left. I did drink orange juice on the plane. I am so used to drinking fresh oj that the pasteurized stuff tasted weird and I ate some peanuts. And they did have have a dried fruit and nut bag. I did eat the dried fruit but not the nuts.
But it was a different story on the airplane on the way back home. I knew the turbulance is a lot more heading back west. And we did experience a lot of it. And I get motion sickness very, very, very easy. It doesn't take much. And dramamine doesn't work. And when I do get nausea, it will last a good 24 hours. Yeah not fun. So at the airport I bought some gluten free crackers as a back up just in case I get sick. I did bring a huge bag of the most sweetest grapes I have had in a long time. I ate those first and then of course I started getting sick. I felt like crap. It was such a bumpy ride. So I started eating my crackers and it did take the edge off of being sick. That got me through the rest of the trip.
I am a raw foodist that doesn't have a problem eating something that isn't raw. I do have a closet full of rice and beans for emergency food. You never know.

We are getting a fruit order in soon. So excited because I ordered 2 cases of green figs. My fav! And kiwis, oh yeah! And fuji, honeycrips apples, spinach, cherry toms, coconuts, oranges and grapes. Let the feasting begin. I wish they had this kind of variety at the airports and on the airplanes. Oh maybe some day.

2011-10-19T21:08:00.000-07:00

The color is orange! That is what I have been eating. I love how mother nature works. She provides us with beautiful foliage like orange and reds in the fall and so is my fruit, all orange. My staple has been orange juice, persimmons, and keitt mangos. Everything has tasted so great.

Breakfast is usually orange juice, lunch is orange juice and persimmons, and dinner orange juice and mangos. Though my skin hasn't turned orange......yet. haha.

I won't be blogging for a week so stay tuned though. Next week I should have some great pics of some new friends I am meeting up with and all the wonderful food we are going to devour. So can't wait!

2011-10-13T19:41:00.000-07:00

Ended my OJ feast a few days ago. My persimmons came ripe really early. Can't let those go to waste. So I still have alot of oranges to eat/drink and persimmons. I will say my OJ feast left me feeling cleaned out and re-energized.

today's menu:
breakfast - orange juice
9 mile run (beautiful fall day, clear and sunny)
lunch - green drink (chard/carrots/oj) and kiwis
dinner - persimmons

Rainbow chard is so beautiful to look at. So I made a really great wrap yesterday with the leaves. I took 1/2 of a small avocado mixed it with lime and little bit of sweet onion (a little goes a long way). Then I spread the mixture on the leaves and added some carrots and heirloom cherry tomatoes. Oh my it was so good! But now I am out of tomatoes. Next order will be cases of heirlooms. They are in right now and so delish!

2011-10-09T19:38:00.000-07:00

Helllloooo persimmons! We ordered our first cases of the season. Cannot wait to dig my teeth into them. They should be ripe in a week or two.

We got our oranges in too! I have been drinking my lovely orange juice. So sweet. Love it! Not sure if I will track everything like I did before but I will keep you updated. Will do juice for this week for sure. I also bought cases of greens and carrots. I bought some beautiful rainbow chard. Yesterday I was going to be gone all day so juiced 4 jars of orange juice and some green juice and took them with me.

I am feeling re-charged. I had some time off and now I am back running but not too hard. And since I have been on orange juice island I feel like I am well rested and ready to have a great race season next year. Crossing my fingers everything goes well with training for my 100 miler. I won't start my hard training until November. I have got some things going on in the next 3 weeks so I will lay low.

Once I start my training I will be back to eating lots so no more orange juice feast for me. Persimmons, kiwis, oranges and apples will be on my winter menu.

days 4,5, 6

2011-10-05T21:19:00.000-07:00

Days 4 and 5

Pretty much the same

menu - drank orange juice all day

sleep - 8 to 9 hours

water - plenty

exercise - 9 mile run, lifting

Day 6

I knew I wasn't going to have enough oranges. We are getting our fruit order in Friday night so I will be getting in more oranges

Breakfast - orange juice
lunch - watermelon
dinner - kiwis and a salad

I feel so great when I mono eat for a few days. I did get 5 days of oranges in. Though I am thinking of going another week or two. So I am ordering a ton of oranges. I want to go another week on oranges. But this time I am going to incorporate green juice too. I am ordering romaine, spinach and rainbow chard.
I am going to start over and day 1 will be tomorrow. I think I will have enough oranges, if not I will get some navels to eat.

I didn't notice any drop in weight. Only the first two days but that was because my body was getting rid of extra weight in my GI tract.

My hubby will be joining me in my orange juice feast. We will be ordering 8 cases, that will be 600 oranges! Most people eat one or two a week. Only if they new the importance of a fruit diet!

day 2 & 3

2011-10-02T21:41:00.000-07:00

Day 2
food: orange juice

exercise: none, just keeping up with the kids is work enough

water: not sure but like 32oz

sleep: 9 hours

Day 3
food: orange juice

exercise: 11 mile run 3000' vertical

water: lots of water didn't keep track

sleep: 9 hours

Had a great run with a friend today. Went on one of my favorite trails. She hadn't been on it before and loved it. What's not to love running deep into the woods!

Okay so this morning my body did a lot of purging. This was my goal of the oj feast. I had been a little backed up in that dept. I know you are probably thinking that I shouldn't be because I eat a great diet. Well for some reason if I am up all night with little sleep my body shuts down (which I was last friday night). I just get backed up and it takes awhile to get it going again. It doesn't happen often. And even though it is only fruit sitting in my system it still is not good. The food you eat needs to come out in under 24 hours.

I am an early to bed kind of person, and I get 8-9 hours a night. It just goes to show you how important sleep is. So much goes on inside us when we sleep. I do my best to get a full nights sleep.

Well I was hoping to go 14 days on oranges. But I forgot I had two cases of kiwis ripening. So they are still a week out so it might be 10 days of oranges. I won't complain about that. Usually in the winter I do some sort of mono eating one fruit for days at a time or a very short water fast. And it is usually in december when there is snow on the ground. But I am doing it a little earlier this year.

OJ feast day 1

2011-09-30T19:14:00.000-07:00

I'll call this a feast not a fast. Because a fast you are depriving your body of food. I am eating and drinking as much oranges as I care for.

I was going to keep track of my intake but didn't today.

day 1
orange juice all day.

exercise: 8 mile run 1200' vertical

sleep: 9 hours

water: 50 oz

Every sip of my orange juice tastes soooo good. Nectar of the Gods. I believe it!

We get our fruit every two weeks so I have a feeling the oranges I have will be gone by the time we get more fruit. So, since I don't want to buy cases of valencias at the store because they are double to what I pay, I am hoping that there are some oranges somewhere on sale, like navels. I use valencias to juice and I prefer to eat navels whole. So usually stores have navels on sale, though they may not be organic. Not a big deal. I will also get some coconuts and drink the juice since I am working out everyday. Have you ever had OJ and coconut juice in a drink together. Well then you are missing out.....yum!

2011-09-29T20:42:00.000-07:00

Follow me as I go to orange island. Goal is for 14 days. Drinking orange juice and eating oranges will be on the menu.

Why? The last few weeks my digestion as been a little sluggish. What contributes to that? Not enough sleep or water or stress. Who knows why. I don't have stress in my life but I could use more sleep and drink more water yes. I had two VERY late nights and it really shuts down my GI tract. I get fruit sitting for more than 24 hours and it gets uncomfortable. Most of time my GI tract runs smoothly.

And right now we are transitioning to a new season and the summer fruits are going out and the fall fruits are coming in. But the fall fruits really haven't come in yet. And I have 5 cases of valencias and an OJ diet sounds so good right now. I don't have any races planned until March so I will keep my mileage short in the next two weeks. Most likely 9-12 miles a day with a few days off. I tried an oj feast last year but didn't get through because of bad oranges.

Anne Osborne is my inspiration for this!

And then when that is done I will be ordering kiwis and persimmons, hopefully. Oh persimmons how I have missed you!

I will blog daily, or at least try.

2011-09-27T20:54:00.000-07:00

Here is a pic of my dinner for tonight. So all I did was slice carrots and a cuke real thin and laid them on the mushrooms. Then in a bowl I added some orange cherry toms, broccoli and a little bit of red onion. I mashed them a bit with my hand held blender and added that on top of cukes and carrots. Then I poured lime juice over it. The lime juice really added great flavor. I really like this dish alot! The lime juice acts like salt in that it amplifies the flavors of the veggies.

Today was my first run in the rain (downpour) in a long time. I had to get out the rain gear and gloves.....sigh.

today's menu
breakfast - orange juice
10 mile run 1200 vertical, chests and calf workout
lunch - bananas
dinner -orange juice, nectarines and stuffed mushrooms.

I think I calculated my calories and I got 3500 calories today. And in case any new readers are reading I am 5'7", 115lbs.

So I am not gonna lie......I am just not enjoying bananas anymore. I am really getting spoiled on the sweet juicy fruits. Winter time bananas are a staple but now that I have a wholesaler I can get really great juicy fruit even through the winter. Last winter I did not have much bananas. My lunches were made up of kiwis, which have pretty much replaced bananas. Kiwis are coming in so I will order lots. They are so high in calcium. If I can remember 15 kiwis equal the same amount of calcuim as 8oz of cow milk.....minus the puss....ewwwww.

Maybe it is a phase I am going through. We will see. But I really haven't had that much bananas this year. Maybe I should look into getting those little red bananas. That might be a nice change. Though I do love plantains!

2011-09-24T17:35:00.001-07:00

Check out the pic of the fig. I don't eat the skin because it burns my tongue. So I'll give you a little hint on how to eat a fig. Take a paper towel and rub the skin off. If the fig is ripe the skin will easily be removed. If you eat 4 pints of figs like I did at lunch plan on a few paper towels.

Apples are coming into season so I have been making raw oatmeal. My recipe is 3-4 apples to 2 bananas. I leave chuncky and raisins are a must. They are high in iron and makes it even more yummy!

Got our fruit order in and we got a ton of oranges for juicing, like 7 cases. And lots of kiwis too. I also got spinach, broccoli and carrots for juicing for the whole family. And our order got screwed up and we ended up with a case of limes, holy mangos we have a lot. So I will use them for salad dressings and maybe add them to my juices. That should be great! Any ideas on what else to do with them would be great!

I have at least 8 pumpkins growing in my garden. They should be ready for halloween. I'll get pics of those for sure.

today's menu
breakfast - 3 galia melons
lunch - 1/2 case of figs
dinner - 50oz of OJ. Portabella mushrooms stuffed

Oh darn I forgot to take pics of my dinner. But I took 2 portabellas and scooped out the middle. Then in a bowl I added a little bit of red onion and yellow cherry toms with lime. Smooshed that together and put them on the mushrooms. WOW! I have a dozen mushrooms and I will have that for dinner until gone. I typically don't eat much mushrooms, I love them though. Well I used to really love them sauteed in butter with onions. But I felt like getting a case. Glad I did!

And the other pic is me chilling by the lake after my run.....peaceful.....

2011-09-15T12:20:00.000-07:00

Back to my regular routine again. But this time fall is in the air. Ran 5 miles today and a weight routine. Muscles are sore from lifting. Woke up with a kink in my neck, ugh!

Menu - no breakfast
5 mile run
lunch - pears and bananas
dinner - OJ, strawberries, blackberries and a salad (heirloom toms, cilantro and carrots)

I am also lacking in the sleep department. Not good.

This is the first time I bought a case of pears. I love pears but when I started out on the fruitarian pathway I couldn't mono eat pears for some reason. So since fall is in the air and pears are coming into season I thought I would give it a try again. So for lunch I ate 4 large pears. They were perfectly ripe and sooo sweet. I could have had more but wanted to make sure I didn't get a stomach-ache from them. So far so good. Then a half hour later I ate bananas.

As with most fruits I don't eat the skin. Even though pears have a much thinner skin, I still prefer not to eat it. Skin has no taste by itself and so I am not attracted to it. Though I always wonder how much nutrients are in skins of fruit. I think I will look into it out of curiosity.

Fall/winter is approaching and so is the cold and flu season. I used to worry so much about getting sick because it sucks. But I haven't been sick in three years, nothing! Though the first year transition to this diet I did. Lots of detox going on. But as long as I keep a clean diet, stay hydrated and get sleep I can fight off anything. My diet is pretty much a muscus free, inflammation free diet. I remember when I first went off of dairy, the whole family did, in 2004. Taking it out had such shocking results. No more constipation, no more stuffy noses, no mucusy coughs. The list goes on. I remember ordering a latte and forgot to mention to order soy instead of cow milk. I started drinking it and within minutes I stared having to clear my throat. I drank half of it and realized there was dairy in it. I must have cleared my throat for an hour. Yuk! That also made me realize I didn't need coffee either. So I quit that too. And quitting coffee, oh man, what I difference too. But that is for another post.

2011-09-05T19:28:00.000-07:00

I am really enjoying the heat wave we are having here. I love the heat.

I have been mostly eating melons and green juices lately. We have been getting 30 lb seeded watermelons local here for $7. Unbelieveable price. And they are so super sweet. Full of sugar. And the other day I happened to eat 3 mint leaves from my plant and then proceeded to eat watermelon. WOW! Want a delish flavor! The mint amplifies the watermelon. You guys have to try that.

We also bought these enourmous cantaloupes for $2 each, got ten of them. Half of them were sweet and the other half were not very sweet. So I did not want to waste them so I blended them with orange juice for a really great drink.

We have tons of blackberries on our property so everyday I forage. Then I head to my garden for strawberries and peas. Great snakin'. Wish we could do that everyday.

I have not done any exercise for two weeks. It was a nice break but I always feel so lazy when I don't workout. I was super busy so it really was a good time for a break. But tomorrow I am going to start a 3 month lifting program and also I am so determined to work on my flexibility. My hamstrings are so tight. I will resume running here shortly. I want to make sure my hamstrings loosen up. When they get tight it affects everything.

And remember last week when I got no sleep that one night and it literally shut down my digestive system. It took 6 days for my system to get back on track. I asked Dr. D about it and he said that happens to him too. Of course we all know how important sleep is. Thank goodness everything is running smoothly again.

today's menu
breakfast - watermelon
lunch - watermelon
dinner - green drink, then tomato/celery soup (my fav!)

2011-08-29T20:48:00.000-07:00

Saturday I worked at a 100 mile ultra race. I was a sweeper. Bascically a sweeper hikes a section of the course, follows the last runner and picks up trail markers, tends to the injured and looks for lost runners etc. I picked a section that started at 5pm and roughly ends at 3 am, 30 miles total for that section. I really wanted to see this section of the course and this is the ultra I want to do next year.

Me and two other guys started out about 5pm. We basially hike, no running. Because typically the last runner of a 100 mile ultra is slow and they generally don't make the cut off time. And it was hot in the mountains that day so that tends to hurt people. I got to enjoy some amazing scenery. So beautiful. And I saw wild strawberries everywhere. They weren't ripe though.

I had a 20 pound pack with warm clothes, headlamp, two waterbottles and 5 bananas. Had to bring gear because you never know what to expect. We hit our first aid station and found out that there was a lost runner and he was behind us. So after 45 mintues at the aid station trying to figure out logistics and where to look for him, the runner popped out of the woods. He was not doing well. Was suffering from a really bad stomach. One of the other sweepers had to continue on b/c me and the other sweeper thought we were turning around and back tracking. But we had to get the lost runner to the next aid station which was five miles away where his wife was waiting for him. He was basically done. So we, very slowly, hiked to the next one. It was dark by now and the trail markers were down, due to the other sweeper taking down markings, so we crossed our fingers hoping to stay on the trail. We did come across a section where there was a huge tree and branches down. We absolutely could not find the trail. And our lost runner was just sick. We eneded up findig the trail thankfully, and arrived at the next aid station. I had hiked about 10 miles thus far. Since we were the last runners I decided to help myself to all the grapes they had and threw them in my pack. By then the bananas were gone. Since the other sweeper was so far ahead we hitchd a ride to an aid station were we could meet up with him and sweep the last 6 miles.
It was in the middle of the night when we arrived there, and we sat waiting for 3 hours. My top was wet and I sat in the cold. I was not happy, I was shivering. Not only that, I got so car sick from the ride over on the bumpy road. I get sick at the drop of a hat.I was so sick. I couldn't even look up and see the beautiful stars. I thought it was going to be a full moon but it was a new moon which made the stars even more brighter. It was amazing. Anyway I couldn't continue on. Despite the aid station crew bundling me up with blankets. I got a ride back to my car and the two other sweepers did a fine job the rest of the way. I was so bummed though. I really was hoping to do the whole 30 miles.
I got home and fell asleep at 6 am and woke up two hours later. I had house guests and I could hear them so I got up and enjoyed the rest of the day. Still slightly sick to my stomach. I did get a full nights sleep the next night but still more sleep is needed. I will tell you the importance of sleep and restful sleep! No sleep really hit hard on my digestive system. It threw it all off. I got backed up and bloated. Wow! Still not on track but going to do OJ and watemelon tomorrow and I should be good in a few days. Crazy huh!

Today's menu
breakfast - juice made with a head of cilantro, carrots, celery, cuke and apples (delish!)
lunch - honeydew and charentais melon (oh these I get from my supplier, pure bliss!)
dinner - plums and a salad with 2 small heads of butter leaf and heirlooms.

I got spoiled today. Our out of town guests were 811'ers so that brought us an enourmous box of home grown heirloon toms out of his garden. One variety was orange and it tasted like a cross between a tomato and pinepapple. Sweetest tom I have ever had. I actully think I am growing these in my garden. Cool!

2011-08-23T22:33:00.000-07:00

I think I picked the perfect week to take time off of running. I have done so much to my house. I got rid of so much stuff. I am not a pack rat. I don't like buying things. I like my house nice and simple. I am really striving to be a minimalist. So I busted my butt for the last few days, organizing etc. Everything is so clean and clutter free. And we have so much going on that taking time off of running has given me more time to get everything I need to get done before the kid's head back to school.

We are literally out of fruit. So I have been going to the store everyday finding the best deals on fruit. Though we do always have ripe bananas. But I am on a budget so I can't be picky. I will have my fruit order come in on Saturday so in the meantime I decided to go to "watermelon island" for 3 days. I found some huge watermelons for $5 bucks and they are great. And now that I am pretty much done cleaning the house I can just relax, eat my watermelon and get some sun. Not sure how much watermelon I will eat. Probably between 1500-2000 calories. This isn't much for me, but it is only for 3 days. I don't want to be eating watermelons too close to bed time either. I'll add in bananas if I feel the need so we will see. It has been so sunny and warm, that sweet juicy fruits is what I am craving. Bananas are not appealing to me right now.

I have an exciting evening planned on Saturday night so stay tuned for a hopefully really cool blog post on Sunday. It has to do with hiking in the middle of the night, with an almost full moon. It is going to be amazing.

I am so drawn to the mountains and forest and full moons. Never before have I been so drawn. Is it my pure diet awakening my senses?

2011-08-16T20:52:00.000-07:00

Blueberries are in season and I am so enjoying them. If you have never had bananas and blueberries together you need to try it. I am not a smoothie person so I prefer chewing my food. Just chop up the bananas in a bowl and add blueberries. So perfect!

And remember when I said I don't like eating spinach. Well I did make a spinach salad that I really enjoyed. I added blueberries and chopped celery to a head of spinach. Then I blended blueberries and OJ for my dressing. Another must try recipe.

So I am slowing winding down my running. In a few weeks I will take some time off of running. I like to do this just to give my body a break. I like to think this prevents injury but who knows. Probably take 3-4 weeks off then start running again in preparation for next years 100 miler. I will do alot of biking during my rest.
And now that fall will soon be approaching, this is when I really hit the weight room hard.

In a few weeks I will be volunteering at the 100 miler race that I hope to do. Which guaratees me a spot in next years race. I will be a sweeper I will hike/run a 25 mile section of the course and make sure no one is injured and pull down trail markers. So I basically follow the last person on the course. I am excited about this. I get to preview part of the course and get to run in the middle of the night. Can't wait!

2011-08-12T21:01:00.000-07:00

Me and the deer (in the pic) almost had a collision on the trail. I was just starting my uphill run, not going too fast, and she popped out the bushes. I could have reached out and touched her. Never a dull moment.

So check out my new trail running shoes. I was running in Merrell's but I wore the rubber down on them. I love that they were very minimal but I didn't like the rubber and they wore down fast. So I will wear my Merrels on the road. These new shoes I got are Inov-8 bare grips. They have some bad ass traction on them. They look like soccer cleats. And the coolest part is, from heel to toe is "zero". So no built up heel. The are soooo flexible and feel like a slipper. You wouldn't think that when you look at them though. It really is hard to find a minimalist shoes with good traction. So when I saw these I freaked. I had to have them. I especially need them because I run on wet, muddy trails 10 months out of the year it seems. I love how they feel. This type of shoe really gives me the confidence to descent faster on the muddy trail.

My wounds are healing just fine. Just bruises nothing else. I ran 11 miles on Wed and 17 today. The big bruise is turning yellow now. And my scabs on my legs are itching.

Worked on my tan today too.

Drank alot of OJ and had my first seeded watermelon this summer. It was so wonderful. Need to go back to the store for more.

2011-08-07T21:29:00.000-07:00

Yep, took a spill on the trail today. I wish I had a really cool story behind it but no. I went on a very quick run today up the mountain and was coming down, my foot caught a rock. Landed on my hip. From my knee to my ankle I have a rug burn or dirt burn. I guess I am lucky that I didn't break anything. My ankle is a little swollen and tender so I will have to keep an eye on that. Thank god no one was around to see me fall. Trail runners tend to fall a few times a year. I took a hard spill two years ago and tore up my knee cap. But this time I landed on my hip. Towards the end of the day it turned purple and really swelled up. I have this huge lump on the back of my leg....lovely.

I have a very busy week coming up and on my run I was thinking too much, my mind was wandering and when that happens I trip more running because I don't pay attention to where I am going. I try not to think about anything on the trail. These trails I run on are technical, lots of rocks and roots.

Breakfast - kiwis (did I mention I am a kiwi addict :)
4 mile run 1200 vertical
lunch - kiwis
dinner - OJ and stuffed toms with spinach

You know I am just not a spinach person. I try to eat it in a salad but I am just don't like it. I think I have 15 heads left so I will just juice the rest. I like it juiced with OJ.

2011-08-04T21:13:00.001-07:00

We just got our fruit order in and wow, prices are so low for greens and a few other fruits. We ordered lots of fruit of course and 24 heads of spinach, and 12 heads of kale. I will juice some of the greens too. I do enjoy green drinks every now and then. Especially now since it is summer. I sweat so much I like to get extra green drinks in along with an evening salad.

Breakfast - green drink (head of kale, head of spinach, 3 oranges, 2 carrots) also ate 1 cantaloupe
lunch - a wonderful fruit salad made of raspberries, strawberries, kiwis
dinner - grapes and a salad. My salad dressing is tomatoes/oraganic corn/chives)
That dressing is really one of my favs during the summer.

Another great benefit eating this way is my skin. I have never had acne other than the occasional pimple on my chin. I used to have small little pimples all over my forehead, they were barely noticable. And it seems I had them forever. I really wouldn't call it acne. But now they are all gone. And for the last 4 years I have used no products on my face. I just take cool water and a washcloth and wipe down my face. And it is important to use cool water. Hot water dries your skin. Gotta love natural hygiene.

2011-08-02T11:21:00.000-07:00

Yesterday's menu
breakfast - donut peaches
17 mile run 2400 vertical, fuel apricots
lunch - watermelon
dinner - apricots and peaches

Today's menu
breakfast - donut peaches
12 mile run
lunch - watermelon
dinner (will be) - apricots, peaches, salad

I have an abundance of apricots and peaches so that is my staple for the next few days. Everything is delish!

I actually have been meaning to write a blog about teeth. Since I read all the time about people blaming the fruit diet on teeth. Well I look at it this way. I don't think mother nature intended fruit to destroy our teeth. Sorry I don't buy it. I have had cavities in the past prior to my diet change. And 4 years ago I have had enamel erosion on about 4 teeth right around the start of me changing over to a fruitarian diet. But prior to my diet change I had horrible digestion for about 10 years (well, I think even longer). I know I am either wheat intolerant or am a celiac. Never been tested (no need too since I don't eat grains) but I went to the celiac website and ALL the symptoms they listed I had. And you all know that when you destroy the lining of your GI tract you cannot absorb nutrients. I have been anemic for the last 20 years, (I have been so low that I have never been able to donate blood). And I had been a red meat eater, funny how that eating meat DOESN'T help raise your iron levels. And did you know that you can be wheat intolerant/celiac and have silent symptoms that go on for years. I am sure that is what happened to me, though most of the time my symptoms weren't silent. And it finally caught up to me. I did experience thinning of my hair. Though you couldn't tell, but I can. And another big problem that other celiacs experience is enamel erosion which slowly develops until one day your like WTF? And when I started out on the fruity path I am sure I ate unripe fruit and dates that were old. Not that those cause enamel erosion but since I was experiencing enamel erosion, those probably added fuel to the fire. Other things that cause erosion are lemons, white suagr, nuts, dairy. Had I not started the fruity diet my teeth would have continued to erode being on the SAD diet which is very acidic. So I have had some cavities filled in the last few years. The dentist says I have great teeth and very little plaque. I am one of his best patients. My teeth have gotten whiter on this diet, my gums no longer bleed and I no longer have morning breath like I used too. The enamel erosion has been taken care of so my teeth are no longer sensitive. So just remember, when you are blaming this diet b/c your teeth are bad or your always bloated or whatever your problems are. Don't just blame fruit. Look at your life prior to changing your diet. Remember it takes a long time to undo the garbage/toxins you put your body through. And rebuilding a healthy body takes years not months.
I must note that I haven't gotten any blood work done in years. But I can bet that my iron levels are above normal. I have been following the 80/10/10 diet for 4 1/2 yeas now, and it just keeps getting better.
I should add another side note that the cavities I did get in the last few years were because my old fillings had to be redone.
Oh how I wish that I was a raw vegan from birth. I would have not experienced all these issues. Can't look back just have to look forward :)

2011-07-17T16:13:00.000-07:00

Breakfast - 32oz OJ and 2 kiwis
11 mile run 1200 vertical
lunch - bananas (had to come home and watch the world cup game)
7 mile run = 18 miles total today
dinner #1 red cherries
dinner #2 apricots
dinner #3 salad

Our produce has been great lately. We got some apricots from our famers market (not organic though) and they are the best I have ever had. So juicy. I have a ton of cherries and apricots so I will be eating those for the next few days.

Our weather has been so cool and rainy. I am just in dire need of sun and warmth. And really, I just don't know how much longer I can live in the northen climate. I want sun all year around. I want to be able to garden year around not two months out of the year. My garden is pathetic though I think I will get a few veggies out of it.

I ran this morning in long pants and gloves. Come on mother nature, pleeeeease give me some heat!!!!

2011-07-10T20:22:00.000-07:00

Yesterday I ran with a friend who was doing an 18 hr run on a 1/2 mile track to raise money for charity. And half of the running was during the night. So I decided to run with her during the night to keep her company. She is an ultra runner so this was nothing for her. So I ran with her from 12:30 am - 2:00 am. This is the first time I have ever ran in the middle of the night. It was really cool. We were at a sloooow pace (11 minute) and the night was cool, so I warmed up a little. But I was wide awake and felt like I could have gone all night. That day I ate cantaloupe, watermelon, and kiwis. Since I knew I was going to run I ate until 9pm. And I never do that. Most days I stop eating fruit by 6pm. Though I don't mind eating salads late but usually I am done with dinner by 6pm. Since your body goes into a fast during the night and no longer needs food (unless you undereat) I felt no hunger during the run or after. I felt so good when I got done. I headed home and the warm car felt good and sleepyiness soon came. I headed up to bed and crashed. Woke up around 7 as I do everyday though I thought I would sleep in a little more. Wasn't too tired, but I have been getting alot of sleep lately. Ate a ton of melons and kiwis today. I hope to do another midnight run again. Now just got to find someone to do it with.

2011-07-05T15:50:00.000-07:00

Awesome run yesterday, 22 miles 5600' vertical. Beautiful weather with a slight breeze. I started out the morning with 5 banana smoothie and water. Headed out 1 1/2 hours after I finished it. I carried my camelback with two bananas. Ate two bananas the first 10 miles. Got to our halfway mark where we had our drop bags. Ate two more bananas then headed out on 3000' (maybe less) climb. We were out in a meadow without any trees and really exposed to the sun. It got real warm real fast. Hit one section and the smell of the wild flowers was amazing. Then we hit a section where we enter into the forest and out of the sun. It felt soooo good. Mother nature provided us with air conditioning, it really felt like we entered into a room with A/C on. The slight breeze and trees provided a cooling effect. Ahhhhh! As we made our way through we heard some loud crashing and tree branches crackling. My friend and I looked at each other and we knew a bear was close by. So we started talking really lound, hollering and clapping so the bear could hear us. I guess it worked.
Ate another 2 bananas by the time we finished, 11 bananas total. I really didn't want the run to end. I could have gone again. Still lots of leg left.
My post run meals were 2 lbs of strawberries and 1 lb of blueberries followed by a salad. Headed to the neighbors bbq and had a big cheese burger.....no......just kidding. Actually they had two huge bowls of fruit salad so I helped myself to a lot! Came home and ate plantains. Couldn't tell ya how much calories I ate but I didn't go to bed hungry.

Today I feel great. Could have used a little more sleep though.

2011-07-01T18:48:00.000-07:00

For breakfast I started out with one cantaloupe and 1 lb of strawberries and headed out for a 15 mile run 1200' vertical. I brought 1 lb of strawberries with me and stashed them in the bushes. I keep waiting one day for my stash of fruit to be gone. So many loose dogs but so far so good.

Many people on the trail today. There was one little boy probably 3, he was carrying a barbie doll with him. I usually don't see boys carrying barbie dolls but after I saw what he used it for, well then that made sense. He was holding it by the feet and using barbie's long blonde hair to destroy insects. And the ocassional bush or leaf he felt the need to wack. Hahaha too funny.

On my long run days, my pre-run fuel typically is between 600-900 calories and wait for 2 hours. This really gets me through a few hours of running, then eat some more and continue on. Anything under 9 miles I will typically drink oj before the run.

The rest of the day I ate blueberries, cherries and strawberries and oranges. My belly is full, my glycogen is restored and I am ready for another 15 miler tomorrow.

2011-06-29T20:26:00.000-07:00

A week off of running and now I am ready to roll. Hubby was gone for that week so couldn't get a long in. But this weekend I really want to put the miles in. Super sunny and warm so it should be awesome. I was thinking of doing a local 50k here but not sure if I will do that or the 20 miler. Though if I do I will sign up race day hoping there is a spot open for me. But on Monday I am going out for a 5 hour run with a friend. It is my favorite trail with lots and lots of vertical. Can't wait. So I should have some good blog posts for you on what I ate and drank and how much I took in.

Getting our fruit order in tomorrow so perfect timing. Going to need all that fruit for this weekend. Our order will consist of kiwis (yay!), figs (yay!), peaches, cherries, grapes, valencias, blueberries, apricots. And my plantains are finally ripening. The soooo super sweet. So much sugar! I love sugar!

Yesterday I ate grapes and bananas all day long. I highly recommend that combo! Very satisfying.

2011-06-19T19:23:00.000-07:00

Megan from 30bad posted a recipe video on "hoagies sandwhiches". So I decided to make one for dinner. Basically you take a head of romaine, keep it whole, and stuff if with tomatoes and veggies or anything you like. First I ran some water in the leaves and turned it upside in a strainer to drain the water and let it sit while I prepared the rest of the veggies. I made a sauce of 1/2 avocado/green onion/tomato/lime. I spread it around the leaves and then I chopped up a bunch of veggies and non sweet fruits and stuffed them in the leaves, (tomatoes/carrots/cukes/cilantro). Then you eat it like you are eating a huge sub sandwhich. This was so great! I think something like this would be great for traveling. You make up a bunch of these and head out. Though I will tell you it was a little messy. I put a ton of sauce on it. There are so many variations of this. You can stuff it with bananas and dates. I was also thinking that maybe next time I would just blend the sauce with more toms and then just put it on all the leaves without any chopped veggies. Very simple.

Today I woke up and ate 2 bananas before a quick run but ended up running 13 miles, all on 2 bananas. Didn't bring any fuel with me, just water. Normally I fuel more for a run like that but it was nice out and I just felt like going a few extra miles. Felt great! But was hungry when I got home so I ate 1/2 a watermelon followed by endless amounts of strawberries and peaches. Dinner was more strawberries and my hoagie sandwhich.

As you know, I won't be running a 100 miler this year. I didn't get into the race I wanted too and so I thought I would sign up for a 50 miler. I like to stick with local races in my state. I don't like traveling much. The gas prices are ridiculous. So I am very limited on 50 and 100 mile races. Though there are a ton of 50k's. I am going to up the miles and vertical a ton and go for this really tough race in August. I got so busy in April, March and June that I barely squeaked out the mileage that I wanted too. I take these 50 and 100 mile races very serious so I want to be very prepared. So we will see how July goes for running. My kids keep me very busy with their activities and they are my first priority in my life, as they should be :)

I sure hope you guys are enjoying all the summer fruit that is out like I am. Pure bliss.

2011-06-18T13:21:00.000-07:00

I have been living off of melons this week. The store had a supply of tuscan cantaloupes on sale. Suuuper sweet, every single one. Watermelon has been great too. I typically don't buy organic melons from my organic supplier. I buy from regular stores. I can get better deals and I can pick out the good ones. They are not organic but not too worried.

We pretty much polished off all the fruit in two weeks from our fruit order. Except for the plantains. They are still ripening. Though I am waiting patiently. They are really big too.

We can't order from our supplier until the 1st (it is a long drive and there is not a day we can get down there). So now I have to shop at a regular grocery store every two days or so, looking for great deals. Just found cantaloupes on sale for $0.49/lb and they were really good. And I will get bananas too. That is my staple. I really won't pay high prices for fruit anymore. And I really can't afford too. Oh and I am not a big date person either. I like them but they just don't seem like fruit to me.

Breakfast - 6 banana smoothie
10 mile run 2400 vertical
lunch and dinner - cantaloupes and watermelon

It is 3 days until summer and I was bundled up with rain gear on. What the heck?!? My poor garden. I think I will just stick with planting greens. Anything else I don't think is going to make it, (sigh).

2011-06-07T20:57:00.000-07:00

Breakfast - orange juice
11 mile run 1200 vertical, strawberries for fuel
lunch - strawberries, orange juice and a salad
dinner - apricots, nectarines and donut peaches

In the middle of my run I ate one pound of strawberries. The strawbwerries sat well in my stomach. I have to practice what fruits work well. If I am going to be doing 50 and 100 mile runs I really need variety of fruits and to make sure they sit well. One thing that does not sit well at all are apples and whole oranges. I know in both of my two ironman races, by the time I got off the bike and on to the run I was sick of bananas and dates. Same thing happened in my 50k in March. But what I know will be important for me is to incorporate sweet fruit drinks like oj/date juice or date juice along with whole fruits for my super long ultras. I might look into blended cantaloupes or honeydews and see if I can sip it through my hand held bottle, hmmmmmm. Gonna have to try that out.

Oh man the donut peaches are absolutely sweet! I was enjoying every bite of them. The nectarines and apricots were good. Could have been better but still enjoyed them.

I talked to a lady who said they saw a bear and her cub near our house on the trail. Not cool! I don't mind seeing bears but I don't want to see a mamma bear, scary! We are having a very late growing season so the early berries that come in early spring aren't even out and I think the bears are really hungry. I saw they got into the neighbor's garbage. Wow, they tore it up. So far they haven't gotten into our compost.

My garden is barely hanging on. My lettuce and pumpkins are doing good but as usual my cukes need a little more warmth so I had to re-plant. I am not sure why I bother with a garden sometimes. We just don't have the best weather for growing. Hopefully we will get lucky this summer.

And one of our cherry trees has about a hundred cherries on them. Cool! This tree is only 3 yrs old so can't wait to eat fresh cherries right off the tree. I think we are going to have tons of pears too.

2011-06-06T21:06:00.000-07:00

Yesterday a 9 mile run with 1200 vertical. Today, 15 mile with 2400 vertical. And I got to run in shorts and a t-shirt. It was so warm out with a light breeze. Ahhhhhh! I was very happy. I also soaked up some sun on my deck.

Produce is really exceptional right now. Breakfast I started out with 40 oz of orange juice. They were super sweet navels. Ate some strawberries too. My run I ate 3 bananas for fuel. Lunch-dinner, well lets just say I grazed on pineapple, grapes, and strawberries. I am not a grazer but today was a day for it. Ate a huge salad too.

With the days getting warmer and my miles getting longer, I really need to make sure I am eating more greens. Trying for at least 5-6 heads a week. Normally it is like 3-4. I need the extra minerals because I will loose it through sweating. I like coconut water but they are really expensive right now. Can't afford to eat them everyday. Haven't bought them in awhile either.

And for those of you asking, I will not be attending fruitstock. I really want too. But just out of my budget right now. It sounds like it will be an amazing time. There are so many people that will be there that I want to meet. Oh and all the durian you can eat too. Oh boy, that would be just awesome!

2011-06-01T14:57:00.000-07:00

This was my dinner from a few nights ago. Really sweet and tasty! Sauce was grape toms, peaches and mangos. Cuke noodles of course. I am not a fan of zukes. Too dry for me.

Been getting in some really good miles in this week. Finally. Though today I had to cut it short. A storm blew in and the wind picked up. Should be able to get a long run in by the weekend and be close to 60 miles for the week. Also went to the gym and lifted.

We are getting low on produce. Only navel oranges left. I was just at the store and saw some cantaloupes. And upon inspection, they were all ripe. Actually that was the first thing I smelled when I walked in, their sweet aroma. And they are really big too and on sale. I guess that is why they were on sale because they need to be eaten now. So I will help the store out and devour as much as I can.

Breakfast - mangos
4 mile run 1200 vertical
lunch - mangos and orange juice
dinner - massive amounts of cantaloupe (these are just super sweet. gonna go back for more:)

So sad to be done with our ataulfo mangos. But I just saw that our supplier has grapes in, cool! And the strawberries are dirt cheap. Also going to try out the nectarines and donut peaches. Still a little early in the season so we will get only one case. Most of my calories in the next order will come from melons, grapes, oranges and strawberries.

And sad to see my kiwis go too. I really enjoyed having those as my fuel while running. So now I will have to stash grapes and strawberries on the trail. In tupperware of course so no critters get to it. Can't blame them :)

2011-05-26T20:36:00.000-07:00

Okay, I gotta funny story for ya. The other day my fiend who is a firefighter was working one day and got a 911 call come in from a teenager. When my friend and the other firefighters arrived at the scene, they found a very shakin' up teenager. They asked the teen what happened, and his reply was, "dude, I was involved in a drive-by fruiting". I was walking along the sidewalk and some guys in a car drove by and hit me with a watermelon".

Apparently it was hard enough to knock him on his ass. He was totally okay. But it was all the firefighters could do as not to laugh after he said he was involved in a drive by fruiting. Then the firefighters began to ask him some questions (again trying not laugh). "So is this your first drive-by fruiting"? "Do you have a watermelon allergy?"

I was laughing my butt off when my friend was telling me this. Of course he thought of me when it happened. hahaha.

Menu today:
breakfast - crenshaw melon
8 mile run 1200 vertical (was planning on a 24 miler but had to pick up my kid that was under the weather )
lunch - mangos
dinner - spaghetti: cuke noodles, sauce (peaches, cherry toms, mangos) so tasty!!!

Will try again for another long run this weekend.

Oh and I planted some of my garden. I found some black russian tomato plants and got those in the ground. These are so delish. I have a ton of heirloom starts but they are still in the house. Also put in the ground, cukes, greens, shelling peas, snap peas, radishes, halloween pumpkins. Okay now it HAS to get warmer. Grow garden grow!

2011-05-24T14:50:00.000-07:00

I have been seeing lots of cyclists on the road. I gotta get out soon on mine. And I have lots of friends doing ironman this year. I sooo wish I was doing another one. I really love that race. But the worst part of it is the swim training. I hate chlorine pools. But I will do another ironman sometime soon.

Had a nice run on Sunday with a friend. Eleven miles total with vertical. I get to go places I usually don't run with a friend. We went as far as the snow line. Was really not in the mood to run in the snow. Brought with me bananas and kept them in my camel back.

Anytime I talk about my diet to others, they hear I don't eat grains, dairy or meat and they say, "what do you eat"? I say, "fruits and greens". Then I tell them it is a fruitarian diet. For some reason when I say "fruitarian" they understand. But if I tell them a low fat raw vegan diet they don't get it. Which is understandable. I say most of my calories come from fruits. Then of course if they want to learn more, I say go read The 80/10/10 diet.

I mono'd watermelons yesterday. Man I love doing that. Today for breakfast I ate 4lbs of strawberries, every strawberry was delish!

I am just lovin' the fact that spring is here and that it is warming up. Gotta love that!

2011-05-21T16:03:00.000-07:00

I am still here just been so busy. Hoping to get 40 miles in this week. Not nearly what I want though. Really got to pick it up. Got to get back to putting in alot of vertical too, (a.k.a. hill work).

Breakfast - crenshaw melon, orange juice
ran 9 miles, then went to daughter's softball game and ate 2 lbs of strawberries-then ran another 7 miles, 16 total.
lunch - crenshaw melons, watermelon
dinner - oranges, cukes and toms

I am completely stuffed and happy!

Oh wow, we are getting crenshaw melons that are fab! Soooo soft and sweet. We have to eat them right away though, they are very ripe. We also got 16 lbs of strawberries and finally they are good. Well, they are beyond good! Super soft and sweet. I prefer all my fruit at room temp. Way better flavor. The navels are very good too.

Still planning on a few races this summer. My biggest being the 5o miler in August.

Did manage to soak up some sun rays too this week. I was in dire need of that.

2011-05-08T13:26:00.000-07:00

Yesterday 9 mile run.

Breakfast - watermelon (tis' ths season :)
9 mile run 1200 vertical
lunch - 4 lbs of mangos
dinner - more mangos and a salad

We are up to our ears in ataulfo mangos. They are all ripe. We have a lot of eating to do. We are getting some really good variety in our produce. We haven't had much bananas. Nothing against bananas but we eat so much in the winter that when all the other fruits come available we tend to stay away unless we have a day when we really need lots and lots of calories then we eat them. We are not buying them by the case anymore just at the grocery store. We always keep ripe bananas around just not in massive amounts.

Our next order will consist of strawberries/pineapple/navel oranges/cantaloupe/watermelon/mangos.

We have some big plans coming our way. Can't announce anything yet. Everything is in the works. So stay tuned. And it has to do with running.

Happy Mother's day all!

2011-05-04T16:43:00.000-07:00

Just when I thought I perfected a recipe it just got better. I was going to come up with a new recipe to stuff the tomatoes with but decided to go with my fav of spanish rice. I didn't have time to think of a new recipe. So I decided to go with the spanish rice because tomorrow is cinco de mayo. So this time I added pineapple to the recipe. Wow!!!!!!!! Sweet and spicy all in one. The flavors in it are just awesome. No doubt you could please anyone with this dish. I used 3/4 of a pineapple. I would have used it all but there was one section of the pineapple that just wasn't sweet. I also tasted it before I added the paprika and chili powder and it is just as delicious. But I prefer to add the spice. I make stuffed toms 2x a month so it is fun to add alot of flavor. I think this is the only dish that I add spices. All other dishes I used fresh herbs. If you would like my recipe just search my blog at the top left and put in spanish rice. You can do alot with this recipe too. You can add it to lettuce leaves for tacos. I also like to make a guacamole and drizzle it over the toms. I take an avocado with toms, cilantro and lime. Blend until smooth.

Breakfast - kiwis
11 mile run 1200 vertical
lunch - kiwis and oranges
dinner - oranges and stuffed toms

It is amazing what warm weather does for you. I was out running in shorts and I felt like I could have ran all day. Believe me, I wanted too. Lots of fruit + plus sun equals a good day!

2011-05-03T20:10:00.000-07:00

The combination of pineapple and strawberries is so fantastic! I am not much of a smoothie drinker but this is just wonderful. We have cases of pineapple and strawberries so we are feasting.

We have a case of tomatoes coming ripe so I am thinking of a new recipe for stuffed tomatoes. Hopefully I can come up with a new yummy recipe.

Sun. 9 miles 1200 vertical
Mon. 9 miles

Today:
Breakfast - honeydew, kiwis
4 mile run 1200 vertical
lunch - pineapple/strawberry smoothie
dinner - kiwis, cukes and toms

2011-04-30T12:59:00.000-07:00

April marks 4 years for me being on this journey of a low fat raw vegan. And it is a journey. I mean I never thought I would become a vegan. I think the best part of a vegan lifestyle is meeting other vegans. They are so passionate about their diet and health and everything around them. I just wish I could hang out with my fruity vegan friends all the time.

Looks like my busy schedule is not as busy as I thought it was going to be. I will be able to get more runs in. This month was not a very high mileage month but that is because I had so much going on. Now I am hoping to get more time in the gym and the mountains.

Breakfast - 24oz of oj and 6 kiwis
13 mile run 1200 vertical, kiwi for fuel
lunch - 1/2 a watermelon, followed a little while later with strawberries and kiwis
dinner - oranges and a green drink with apple/spinach/carrot/cuke

We got our order in and we have LOTS of apples and spinach so in order to eat it all I will juice some of them. I can get a lot more in me that way.

Sun is on its way this week too!!!!!!

2011-04-22T20:37:00.000-07:00

The sun was out today, though a little chilly. Enjoyed my run.

Breakfast - 1/2 honeydew, kiwis
10 mile run, 2400 vertical
lunch - mangos and kiwis
dinner - mangos and a salad

The mangos are absolutely delish and we are about out. Going to get more for sure while they have them. We don't get mangos like this very often. Watermelon season is coming too. Can't wait!

My salad was really good too. Sometimes I get cherry toms that are really sweet and some not so sweet. But these are very good! And my salad dressing was really savory and very simple. The flavors work really well together.

Ingredients (serves one):
1/4 of a haas avocado
juice of 1/2 lemon
handful of cherry toms
hand full of fresh chives
green onion (as much or as less as you like)

Blend well.

2011-04-17T14:31:00.000-07:00

No running this weekend or for the week. This weekend we did spring cleaning. Not that it felt like spring because we had snow flurries.

Today's menu
breakfast - watermelon
lunch - kiwis and mangos
dinner - more mangos and tomato soup

total calories 2700

Another busy week ahead. But hopefully a sunny long run on Friday. I really want to go out for 5 hours.

2011-04-11T19:09:00.000-07:00

Quick update,
I slept so good last night. I woke feeling great! I will tell you I am surprised, I thought for sure after the 50k I was going to get sick. It just boosted my confindence even more about eating a low fat raw vegan diet.

I won't be blogging as much maybe once or twice a week. The next two months are going to be busy for me. I will only be running Fri, Sat and Sun which means alot of miles in those days. If I get a minute or two during the week, I might post what I am eating and calories. I know I get asked alot how much I eat in a day.

My next big race will be in August, a 50 miler with lots of vertical. Might pick up a 50k in June.

Until then lots of weights and core too. Still working on benching my body weight. I just need to get in the gym more during the week.

2011-04-10T17:11:00.000-07:00

I wish I could say my 50k went well but it kind of sucked. I woke up this morning feeling off. I have been around sick people for about two weeks. So when I woke up my left gland was a little sore and my throat was slightly scratchy. The last 3 years I have not been sick though sometimes if my body is fighting something, I get this and it usually subsides within a day. Normally a day of rest and all is good. But no rest today. I felt fine this morning despite not being 100%. And of course it didn't help that it was 40F and pouring rain. I should of stayed in bed.

The course is 15 1/2 miles up and 15 1/2 miles down. I think when I hit about 20 miles that is when my energy was drained. Just didn't have the energy to race. I was wet and cold. I kept going though and finished. My last 50k, the course was alot harder and I felt way better than I did today. So yay, I was fighting something. Today I finished in 5:50. It should have been between 5:00-5:15.

For breakfast I had melons, fuel during the race was grapes and kiwis, post race was mangos, oranges, kiwis and a salad.

I am feeling better tonight. My gland is no longer sore. Maybe I got a good lympatic drain from my run.

I have eaten, I am warm and I should sleep well tonight. I will never say I won't ever get sick, I just have been lucky so far. I do my best to stay hydrated, get sleep and keep my diet on track.

Hopefully this summer I can post a most excellent race report! I tend to race better when it is warm and I am in shorts and t-shirt :)

Have a fruity week everybody!

2011-04-08T20:02:00.000-07:00

It is mango time! Each person in our family gets 4 boxes with our names on them. We do it this way because it is a knock out drag out fight for the ripe ones, haha :) They are still green so won't be ready for a week. Until then it is oranges, kiwis and apples for me.

Race day weather went from sunny and no rain, to 100% chance of rain. I will do my best not to complain on Sunday, *sigh*.

I guess the faster I go the faster I get done. Let's hope I feel like going fast.

2011-04-04T20:40:00.000-07:00

42 miles for last week with 7200 vertical. The rain hit us really hard. I will tell you I am just tired of being soaked. I am looking forward for the warmth of the sun and drying out a little. I have another 50k this weekend. I think I am going to luck out with the weather for the race, 60F.

Getting our garden ready too. Just have to wait for the soaking rains to pass. Last time I planted last year, my garden was submerged in water. So my little starts are in the house and are so ready to go to the garden. Our soil is so rich. Our own homemade compost. This year the garden will have greens, heirloom tomatoes, shelling peas, snap peas, corn, cukes and might try some melons. And hoping our young fruit trees will give us some fruit.

Still enjoying kiwis, apples, and oranges. Though I am getting some good melons.
I think melons and kiwis will be on the menu for fuel this weekend. My "crew" will take good care of me. I should have some good pics. This race is on the trails I train on. Can't get better than that.

2011-03-29T19:45:00.000-07:00

I made Spanish rice for dinner tonight. And this was the best one yet! I added lime which I forgot to add last time. I was going to add the rice to iceburg lettuce leaves for a taco but the lettuce didn't cooperate. So I just chopped the rest of the lettuce and had a taco salad. I really like the flavors of this dish. I normally eat very simple dinners but on the occasion I like to make dishes like this. Some people who eat a raw vegan diet might have a problem with the green onions and jalapeno pepper. But I have a cast iron stomach. And I don't use very much and it is divided up between two people.
Here is the recipe again: (I seem to use different amounts of ingredients everytime I make it but since this was the best batch yet I wanted to write it down).
one head of cauliflower (shred)
one red pepper (shred)
one bunch of green oinion (shred)
one bunch of cilantro (shred)
one jalapeno pepper (shred)
1 pineapple (shred)
3 pints of cherry toms (blend chuncky)
1 carrot (shred)
juice of one lime
1 tsp of paprika
1 tsp of chili powder
1 tsp cumin

sauce:
1/2 avocado
juice of one lime
1 tomato
paparika
dill

We are expecting 5-10 inches of rain in the next two days. Part of our town will flood, and our neighboring town will flood. Our house will be safe, we are up a big hill. I will not run in the mountains. I am worried about mud slides. I might just take the next few days off. I don't mind running in the rain, but this is going to be a soaker.

No breakfast
8 mile run 2400 vertical
lunch - kiwis and mangos
dinner - kiwis, oj and spanich rice salad

2011-03-28T17:44:00.000-07:00

Geez these mangos I am eating are huge. I have completely stuffed myself with them. For us to get good mangos here is a miracle so I am enjoying them. And hopefully next order they will still have them and I will buy a ton!

Breakfast - kiwis
13 miles 2400 vertical, fuel kiwis
lunch - kiwis and tomato/celery soup (delish! haven't had this in awhile)
dinner - mangos and strawberries

I think this is the first winter that I have managed to have very little bananas. Our supplier has had such great fruits like kiwis, oranges and apples. I think kiwis have replaced bananas for me. I can't get enough of them. Nothing against bananas, I love them with papaya but I will take kiwis over bananas anyday.

On my run today I did the hill run twice so I always lap people. Alot of people know me now who hike the trail. But today I passed a few people I haven't seen before. So when I passed these two women for a second time they pulled off the trail to let me go by and they startred clapping, haha too funny.

2011-03-27T17:58:00.000-07:00

Mmmmm, strawberry and black sapote, nuff said!
And today was the first time I tried black sapotes cold. We had so many that I had to put them in the frig to slow the ripening. Normally I prefer room temp fruit but black sapotes are really good cold. The taste definately reminds me of cold chocolate pudding. Very good!

Breakfast - 2 mangos
9 mile run
lunch - 40oz of orange juice, 6 mangos and 1 lb of strawberries
dinner - at the in-laws house, ate a ton of fruit and veggies.

We got some ataulfo mangos in our fruit order. When we order, we can order different sizes of the mangos. This time I ordered the larger ones and wow! So absolutely sweet and tender. So much better than the smaller ones. The smaller ones were more bitter. These mangos are really big for ataulfo. And we got some honey tangerines. They taste like syrup. And the pink lady apples are great too. I ordered the bigger size of the apples too. It seems the bigger the fruit the better.

Ordered some more black sapotes. I will tell you, if you are backed up (you know in that dept.) you will become regular real fast if you eat one meal of these babies. My meals have a turn around time of 14 hours now as compared to 20.

This winter I have managed not to get sick. Third winter in a row. And I mean not a sniffle. I always hear people tell me "oh I am never sick, maybe a few times a year". Well, I can say I used to be sick at least three times a year and it would last for over a week. And right now I am around school kids all the time. So I guess if someone tells me my diet is not optimal, I am gonna have to disagree big time. If it isn't optimal, wouldn't I be getting sick. I mean look at everyone else's diet. Full of animal products and garbage. They are getting sick. You can't argue with results.

I should say the only time I felt funny was when the stomach flu was going around last year. I remember eating breakfast and then for the rest of the day I didn't have an appetite. Which never happens, me loosing my appetite. But I guess that was my body telling me to rest for a day while it takes care of whatever bug I encountered. So yay, I have not had a runny nose, cough, sore throat, congestion etc. Not to say I won't ever get sick, but as of now, I am doing great!

2011-03-25T08:11:00.000-07:00

I encountered another bear on my run yesterday. It is really warming up here, getting up into the 50's so animals are coming out of hybernation. I was coming down from the top on the trail, I had my headphones on though I only put one ear piece in and I keep the music low so as to be aware of my surroundings. On the hillside I heard a very loud rustling in the bushes and then some sort of growling. I did a few double takes in the direction and saw part of a black animal. I thought for a split second that it was the black lab dog growling at me that I passed but he was a on leash. And the black mass was way bigger than a dog. I wasn't too startled but enough to know I didn't want to stick around. I continued down and came across two scared women. They told me they heard growling from the bushes. Man they were freaked. They said they wanted to run with me the rest of the way down. I told them I would walk with them since they weren't runners. I didn't have the heart to tell them that if that bear were to charge us, I would leave them in the dust to be bear bait, hahahaha.
Bears here generally leave us alone. I think this might have been in a den and it could have been just coming out with a cub. This is a very busy hiking trail and wild animals are rarely seen here if at all. So I am sure it will be long gone by my next run.

26 miles 4800 miles already this week. Hoping for a 20 miler this weekend.
Getting our fruit order tomorrow. Ordered 4 different types of oranges, yum. And a ton of toms and mangos.
Today I am eating cantaloupe, oranges and apples.

2011-03-21T19:07:00.000-07:00

So sad my fruity friend is leaving tomorrow. We would make great training partners.

Two days post race and I am feeling great! Acmae and I ran some hills today. Always good to get out after a race to see how things feel. This diet puts all your nutirents back into your body, helps with inflammation and latic acid. Recovery time is fast. Though you still need to rest. And I slept so good last night. Sleep and water is another important factor.
Today for breakfast I ate some kiwis followed by black sapotes about two hours afterwards. Ran too soon after the sapotes so lessoned learned. We did 2 loops on the hill for a total of 8 miles with 2400 vertical. Came home and I blended papaya and orange juice for a smoothie. Oh so yuummmmy! And dinner we finished off the stuffed tomato tabouli and had more kiwis. The flavor of the tabouli was awesome. It sat for 2 days in the frig. I think stuffed toms are the best after 2 days. I made an avocado dip to drizzle over our dinner. I blended 1 avocado with the juice of an orange and added dill and cumin. Oh this was sooo good.

Spring is approaching thankfully. Really looking forward to some long runs in the sun :)

2011-03-20T13:13:00.000-07:00

More race pics.

The one with the goofy face is the one where I got handed some honeydew. It was a look of satisfaction. It hit the spot.

2011-03-20T09:16:00.000-07:00

We are lucky enough to host another fruitarian friend, Acame for the week. She was supposed to race with me on Saturday but she was injured. It is always fun to have people of similar interests stay with you. We share the same love of running and fitness and fruit!

Saturday was race day,50k trail marathon with 4800 vertical. We were so lucky it wasn't raining! But the wind kept it on the cool side. The night before the race I didn't sleep well, I think I managed 5 hours. I woke up at 5am and ate about 6 bananas and drank water. I carried only a camel back with water, a hand held bottle with straight celery juice (20oz) and dates.

The first 6 miles of the course was relatively flat with a few hills. So I just started out nice and easy because I knew 3 climbs come in the middle of the course. About two hours into the race, my foot clipped a tree limb, my body went one way and my knee went the other. Totally tweaked my knee. Then I tweaked it a couple more times planting my foot wrong because the footing was narly and a ton of mud. There is one section where it is not even a trail, you are just climbing over rocks and trees. There was a very steep section going downhill and it was all mud. I lost my footing and slid down on my butt. I was glad that section of the course was done. The last climb is called chinscrapper. And it is a one mile climb where one section you literally climb it like a rock wall, except it was mud. Then they put a photographer right there on top, I guess to get a good laugh.
And the mud was unreal. It was mud/clay, your foot gets stuck in it. I was glad to get to the downhill section and off that part of the course. My last 6 miles I was feeling fine and felt hunger coming on. I couldn't think about eating another date or banana. But when my family handed me a bag sweet honeydew, it was like winning the lottery. That hit the spot. The last 6 miles I came comfortably in. Still had legs left. I felt great. Knee was a litte sore though.
I haven't done any speed work since last summer, I just did more long distance and hill work. The hill work paid off. But there were flat sections that a I could have made some good time on but held back. I tend to do more speed work in summer.
After the race I ate two awesome cantaloupes and oranges. And dinner we feasted on black sapotes and durian!

I feel great this morning, knee seems fine. We made a huge batch of stuffed tomatoes with tabouli for tonight.
Today's menu is kiwis for breakfat, black sapotes for lunch and oranges and stuffed toms for dinner.
I will be back running on Monday getting ready for another ultra in April.

2011-03-15T19:16:00.000-07:00

We got some wonderful navel oranges in. They are so soft and ripe and sweet. And my order of black sapotes came in so I am excited to have meals of them

Resting this week, race on Saturday. Looks like race day will be nice.

Been busy so not much time to write. Fruity friend coming tomorrow for a week. We are stocked with fruit. But only a few things are ripe. By the weekend it will all be ripe. Looking forward for this weekend. Lots of calories will be burned so lots of eatin' to do.

There weather is turning nice. It has been too long since I have felt that warm sun.

2011-03-09T12:18:00.000-08:00

I think I have become a kiwi junkie. They are just so fabulous. We have a huge fruit order coming in this week and I ordered 4 cases. (There is a certain someone who is just as fruity as me coming to stay with me for a week. And she's a kiwi junkie too. It could be an all battle for ripe kiwis.) This next order will last us 3 weeks. We are able to make our fruit last that long because right now we can store bananas/oranges/apples/kiwis in the garage which is usually between 40-50 degrees. We can slow the ripening down of the bananas and kiwis. We just pull boxes out every 4-5 days for ripening. The bananas that stay in the garage end up discoloring but have no problem ripening and tasting great. When the weather gets warmer we won't be able to buy as much bananas in bulk from our wholesaler. Just have to make a banana run to the store to keep our stock up.

Breakfast - 24 oz of orange juice plus 1 head of spinach juiced and 10 kiwis
9 mile run
lunch - see above pic. 14 bananas, large papaya and handful of dates
dinner - not sure what is on the menu, but I might hunt down some cantaloupe and strawberries

Anybody not a big fan of spinach? I bought a 1/2 case. Some peeps in my family like it in their salad. But I prefer romaine and green leaf. I do eat it just not at the top of my list. I do like to rotate my greens though. I do juice spinach too.

So yes I do have a friend coming next week. We are racing the 50k in a few weeks. So stay tuned to see how us endurance fruity freaky chics hang, eat, run, re-fuel and have a good time. Lots of pics with video, I promise.

2011-03-08T18:13:00.000-08:00

I recently just did an interview for Allison's website www.loving-it-raw.com. So stop by and check it out. And check out her websites too, extremely good information. She is wonderful!

But if you have read it already, there is one part that I am asking her to change. Sometimes when I write my brain gets way ahead of my typing. There was one part talking about cravings and I had said "even if I was starving I wouldn't touch cooked food". What I meant to say is if I was in a room with cooked food and fruit and I was starving I would go for the fruit. When I re-read it I thought this sounds like I have gone crazy. I would touch cooked food if I was stuck somewhere and no fruit was in sight. I do have a closet full of rice, beans and canned food. That is my emergency stash if the world goes into chaos or we have such a huge storm we are cut off from the world. And yes I would eat what it is my closet. But right now, I can find healthy fruit and veggies and there is no excuse for me not to eat healthy.

I do get asked alot how I can be so disciplined. Well a few reasons. I do see so many sick friends and family, and I don't want that for me or my family. Also I used to work in a lab as a research scientist. And for years I was around horrible chemicals and even though we were under hoods, the vapors were still in the air. So this scares the shit out of me. I worry something might come up later in life and so for me to be as close to a raw vegan as possible is important. I wish I could go back and re-do certain things but it is what it is.

Breakfast - bananas
8 mile 2400 vertical
lunch - 15 bananas and dates
dinner - oranges and oj and a salad

I ran 24 miles with hills on Sunday and I think I was out for 5 hours. Eight of the miles were so slow because of the slushy snow on the trail. I had no footing even with my microspikes. And after my run I feasted all day on fruit and the next day. And today I felt like I could have done another 20 or 30. So if anyone tells you, you can't possibly train on a fruit diet then they haven't read my blog or the Fruitarian's blog or Durianrider's blog or Acey's blog. Before I started out on the fruit diet, a run like that would have taken me a week to recover. I just can't wait for spring to get here so I can run longer.

I have this 100 mile race that I want to do in August and sign up was a few weeks ago. I actually didn't get in because I didn't sign up in time. It sold out within hours. This was a shock because this race is not known to sell out in a day. I did sign up that day but was a few hours too late. Yes I am bummmed! So I know things happen for a reason. And the next few months are going to be crazy busy for me and not sure if I will be able to maintain high mileage during that time. So new plan. I think I will just stick with 50k and 50 milers this year and next April there is 100 miler I might do. And then sign up for the 100 mile race that I actually really badly want to do :) It is in the mountains where I live. I will volunteer this year for that race that way I am guaranteed to get in next year. Who knows if training goes good through the summer I might think about this 100 miler in Sept. But, it is unlikely. Doing a 100 miler is just like ironman, something I just want to try at least once. I do like pushing my body out of my comfort zone then digging deep to find anything left. I had a friend tell me once that I am good at suffering, not sure if that is good or bad?!?!?!?!

2011-03-06T18:34:00.000-08:00

Breakfast - bananas
24 mile run 2400 vertical
fueled with celery juice and bananas, I just drink the celery juice straight.
lunch - strawberries ,kiwis and watermelon
dinner - cantaloupe, oranges, oj and and a salad

One big feast today. I have been eating all day long.

No time to write tonight but tomorrow's post will be longer.

2011-03-01T17:03:00.000-08:00

Breakast - orange juice, cantaloupe
8 mile run 2400 vertical
lunch - bananas and pink lady apples
dinner - course #1 orange juice, i used mercott oranges, these are a deep orange and so very sweet. It is like syrup. But now I am out of then :(
course #2 mango, strawberry and date salad. This is a treat. Dont get this very often. Strawberries too expensive.
course #3 - spinach and heirloom salad. Dressing: a dab of avocado, tomato, oj and basil.

Still lots of snow on the ground. ANOTHER wind storm heading our way. I was on the trail today and so much trees and branches down. Now more will come down after this storm. The trail workers cleared a bunch a few weeks ago but there is way more now. There is alot of work to be done.

I just want the snow gone. I am hoping for a couple of twenty milers before my race. It just takes too long to run that distance in the snow, especially when it is deep.

2011-02-25T15:24:00.000-08:00

Breakfast - orange juice
lunch - dates and bananas
6 mile run 1200 vertical
dinner - orange juice/apples/celery

Didn't get much in for running this week. Lots of snow and wind. This is usually how it is in the winter. Normally I don't like to have a race scheduled early in the season but this race coming up is pretty cool. Just hoping to finish feeling good. Not too concerned about time though I would like to be under 6 1/2 hours.

Todays run was hard. Knee deep snow in some parts. Climbed the hill and it was a quad burner. Snow makes it tough. Lots of trees and branches down too.

Warmer weather and rain is coming. Hoping to get a 50-70 mile week in. We will see. It gonna be muddy when all this snow melts. Way to break in a new pair of shoes.

2011-02-23T19:21:00.000-08:00

Not very happy about the snow. There's alot. And it is going to stick around awhile. Looks like I will be doing hill work, alot of walking through deep snow which still is a great workout. But no long distances. Glad I got my 20 miler in on Monday. It was windy too. We were building a snowman today and heard a tree go down on our property. Freaky.

On the menu today, chocolate sapotes and kiwis and a salad.

Got my new barefoot shoes but haven't had a chance to try them out. They feel like the treksport vibrams but don't have toe slots. They feel great. Can't wait to see how they feel on the trail. They feel very sturdy but are very flexible. Perfect for a trail shoe. They are called Merell Trail Glove. Gazelle Sports sells them. Hope to do a video on them soon.

2011-02-22T16:49:00.001-08:00

We are getting hit with a big snow storm this week. Along with some major winds, though not sure if the winds will hit our area. If they do then I won't be running for a few days. A foot of snow will fall by Thursday they say. I will try to do some hill work if the winds aren't bad. I have micro spikes that slip on my shoes so I will be hiking some deep snow. It is a great workout. Today I hiked the hill with 4" of snow. I was the first one to the top so I made fresh tracks. Well except for the deer. Glad it was only deer tracks I found.

Breakfast - 3 chocolate sapotes
4 mile run 1200 vertical
lunch - orange juice and kiwis
dinner - chocolate sapotes and raspberries

Thanks Kim for the raspberry idea. That combo is delish! I am loving the sapotes right now. Still have to get through more. They need to be eaten by tomorrow.

2011-02-21T16:17:00.000-08:00

The chocolate sapotes I ordered decided to ripen all at once. Oh my! I actually get to eat a meal of them. Never had that happen before. So guess what is for dinner tonight!

I made a new recipe for stuffed tomatoes. I usually make tabouli but went with a mexican theme, Spanish rice. I had a raw recipe for it, but omitted the salt and olive oil. This was awesome! I used jalapeno peppers without the seeds to give it some warmth without the heat. (This recipe will be great in the summer when corn is available to add.)

ingredients: in a big bowl combine
1 head of cauliflower, shredded
4 green onions, diced
1 orange pepper, shredded
1 tomato chopped
1 jalapeno deseeded, shredded
juice of one lemon
1/2 head of cilantro
1/2 avocado
1 teaspoon chili powder
1 teaspoon paprika

I actually doubled this and was able to stuff 28 tomaotes. I also took the avocado and lemon juice in a separate bowl and mixed it smooth. It made for a nice thick sauce. I added the sauce to all the indredients and mixed it up. This recipe and the tabouli recipe is really good the next day and a few days after.

Breakfast - 4 bananas and water
20 mile 2400 vertical, fuel bananas
lunch - orange juice and kiwis
dinner - bananas and chocolate sapotes

2011-02-18T18:44:00.000-08:00

Oh baby, my chocolate sapotes arrived today. And wouldn't you know it, one out of the 40 I got was completely ripe. So me being the nice person I am, shared it with the whole family. As opposed to the old me, who would have hid in the closet and ate it.

So far this week I have 41 miles with 7200 vertical (I think). I took Thurs off so I will try to get a long run in on Sunday to put my miles at 60. The weather has been cold and very icy out. Had to change up my running plan. Snow is in order next week so not sure what next week's plan is. I have 4 weeks until my 50k.

Breakfast - kiwis
11 mile run 2400 vertical
lunch - kiwis, little while later bananas
dinner - tomatoes

2011-02-11T16:10:00.000-08:00

Breakfast - orange juice and kiwis
9 mile run 1200 vertical
lunch - kiwis
dinner - apples and a salad

Been spoiled this week with the weather. Next week looks like wet and windy. Hoping to get 70 miles in.

This weekend will be orange juice and apples all weekend. And the weekend is my rest days. I like taking two days in a row completely off. My muscle fibers can do some repairing and by Monday I feel great with fresh legs.

2011-02-10T21:15:00.000-08:00

Breakfast - honeydew and watermelon
8 mile run 2400 vertical
lunch - bananas/apples
dinner - oranges and a salad

Our last order we got navel oranges and they didn't juice very well. Weren't the tastiest either. Thank goodness this next order we got Hamlin oranges (pic on the right). Wow, they are the sweetest. And we also got one box of cara cara oranges (pic on the left). Okay these are just wonderful! My kids were like pranas on both of these oranges. And we got some murcotts too. They are really good. Like a satsuma but a little bit bigger. Oranges on the menu for awhile. Gotta get through 7 boxes. And still eating kiwis, bananas and apples(pink ladys). No complaints though, everything is really good.

Was hoping to get 70 miles in this week but it will be more like 50. This is the last week I am helping my friends out so I should be back to my normal schedule next week.

2011-02-08T14:51:00.000-08:00

Cold and wet this morning but had a great run. Hit the snow line close to the top but it was just on the trees not the ground. My vibrams kept my feet just fine.

The only problem I have with being on a trail that a lot of people hike is the dogs. There's just so many stupid dog owners that won't but their dog on a leash. This is a singletrack trail with cliffs and steep hills that a dog could easily bump into you and down the hill you go. Most of the hills you won't plummet to your death (except one section) but still they are steep. I keep my dog on a leash because she is golden retriever and she's a very bouncy happy dog, well a total spaz. She actually would bump into someone. Then I have to deal with the morons who have three dogs running loose and ganging up on my dog. My dog is a total wuss. Why I take her for protetction I don't know. But today, these two women had their dogs loose, I didn't have my dog with me at this time, and they were laughing because they thought their dog was so darn cute when it jumped up on my back and I about fell on my face. Hello?? are you that stupid?!?! I could trip and break bones or blow out my knee which wouldn't take much considering one is probably hanging by a thread. Well, as the saying goes "you can't fix stupid".

Breakfast - cantaloupe and coconut water
21 mile run 3600 vertical
lunch - orange juice, kiwis, celery and grape toms. I normally head for the bananas after a run like this but my body was craving kiwis and celery. Gotta obey the body
dinner - bananas

Yesterday - nice easy 6 miler

2011-02-04T18:15:00.000-08:00

Breakfast - one mini watermelon, then kiwis
11 mile run 1200 vertical (wanted to go longer but the wind picked up)
lunch - orange juice and kiwis
dinner - apples and a salad

I will tell you the importance of staying hydrated. When I got done with my run (8 miles) on Wednesday, I started on lunch and got a telephone call from my friends that needed help. I have been helping them with their newborns (10 days old) and toddler son while she is recovering from her c-section. Well that day she needed to be rushed to the hospital from some complications from her c-section. I headed out fast grabbing 6 bananas and some water. I got there and I was the one to take her to the hospital. Everything turned out fine, she had minor surgery. But with all the craziness I was trying to remember to drink water. Anyway I headed back to their house to help take care of the kids. In the meantime ignoring myself. I did eat 6 bananas and 2 apples at the houe that day and that is it. I did drink some water but not nearly enough. I was dehydrated all day and my urine was yellow. The next day I was still feeling a little off so I didn't run. I was fine just knew I needed to rest, refuel and hydrate. There are times when you can get sidetracked like I did on Wednesday but it was so minor. And as little as I ate on that day I still had energy to help out. But having little water really slowed my digestion and left me feeling blah towards the evening. I am taking the weekend off from running so I will be having lots of orange juice, kiwis and water. My run today was fine. Just soaked from head to toe, well I should say drenched.
And another thing, that night when I went to bed after my crazy day, I couldn't sleep. I was up for two hours. That happens to me when I don't meet my caloric needs. My body was keeping me up because it wanted me to eat. I did have a few kiwis right before bed but I got home late and was too tired. I suppose next time I should have eaten more before bed.

Oh and we are getting some fabulous mini watermelons from Costco. Wow, every single one is a deep red color and so sweet and melts in your mouth. I so wish I could mono these but I have so much other fruit I need to eat and I am saving them for kids. They're devouring them.

Have a good weekend!!!

2011-02-01T21:26:00.000-08:00

The amazing view from my run today. Wow!!!!!!!
Eight mile run today with 1200 vertical. Feeling great getting stronger. Kiwis when I got done. Apples a little later, then orange juice and some wonderful mini watermelons and honeydew. Oh and a head of celery.

Spent 5 hours helping a friend out with her newborn twins and 18 month old. Oh my! Had to be on my toes today. I had a baby in my arms the whole time and trying to get an 18 month old to like me. He seemed to like me better when I opened up my watermelon. The watermelon was so sweet and juicy, he was chowing. I have to help them out on thursday and it will be just me and the 18 month old. I will win him over with ripe bananas and watermelon. You just watch me, he he. I think I burned more calories babysitting than I did running.

2011-01-31T19:48:00.000-08:00

No breakfast this morning, headed out early for a run. Ran 9 miles with 1200' vertical. I brought no fuel either except for water. This was a short run so my body used its reserves for fuel. Had a great run. Weather has been perfect lately. I am spoiled. Drank a lot of orange jucie and ate apples today. Had a large salad too.

And now for another topic, shampoo. I have not used shampoo in two years. I am sure I have blogged about this before but just wanted to give you some tips on how to go about it. Though I must say, out of the last two years, I probably used a shampoo maybe three times. And that was because I couldn't get the smell of campfire smoke out of my hair. Though next time this happens I have an idea on how to remove it without shampoo. But I will have to wait until this summer to try it out.
But tonight I was just noticing how amazingly soft my hair is. I have no grease build up, ever. I would have never guessed in a millon years that I would give up soap and shampoo (let alone go vegan) but I decided to get back to nature. Get back to where we should be, eating from the garden of eden and bathing in a cool stream.

My first two months of going without shampoo my hair was greasy. I did use some lemon juice but for the most part my hair was going through some "detox" and I just had to ride it out. Because the weird thing about it, you literally wake up one day and the grease is gone. And then after that, you will still have to deal with some mildly greasy days but soon the grease is gone for good. And your hair feels squeaky clean all the time. I always new I had curls, but when I would shampoo my hair, it would strip the natural oils out leaving it so freakin' clean (too clean) that it was so unmanagable. Now I have natural oils in my hair (which is why it is so soft) that now I have spiral curls. I actually had no idea I had them. Oh and I love them. I always had past the shoulder length hair and now I am growing it out. I haven't cut it in 1 year and I have no split ends. I will probably cut an inch off here this month just because. But I am loving my long curls.

So here are a few things I do to manage my hair (everyone is different but this works for me):
-I rinse almost everyday with warm water, (not hot)
-I make sure I rinse my hair after a workout. I will get a grease build up and flaky scalp if I don't. It is important to rinse the sweat from your scalp.
-I massage my scalp with my fingernails everyday.
-I never blow dry my hair.
-Once in a very long while I will straighten my hair.
That is about it. Not complicated at all.

As you can see I am very low maintenance. No make-up either. Actually, I have never really worn make-up. Tried it in high school but what got me to stop was looking at all the other girls and how they applied theirs. Some looked like a freak show, others, after awhile, their make-up would be smeared. I thought I didn't want to look like that so decided to go all-naturale. Glad I did.

If I can remember, I will try to take a pic of my curls.

2011-01-30T15:04:00.000-08:00

Breakfast - orange juice and kiwis
17 mile run 3600 vertical
lunch - apples, orange juice (grazing all afternoon on this)
dinner - huge romaine salad

Okay so I am really wanting some sun right now. This would be my weakest link. February around here can be nice so hoping to lay out soon. Haven't had sun on my body since Oct. I am just ready for spring to get here. I am not a fan of winter and do not like snow. I am definately a hot summer person.

2011-01-28T16:40:00.000-08:00

8 mile run 1200 vertical
51 miles for the week with 8400 vertical

eatings today: orange juice, kiwi, apples, bananas and tom soup.

I am in orange juice heaven right now.

2011-01-27T13:36:00.000-08:00

We got our fruit order in. Finally we have oranges. We haven't had any for awhile, just some navels that were okay. Couldn't juice them though. But we are trying a new variety called Hamlin. They are like a valencia. When I sliced it opened it had a yellow color. Not a dark orange that I am used too. I juiced a few and it was full of juice and to my suprise it was awesome! So sweet! It had a different orange taste that I am not used too. I need to venture more on variety. And then I got some royal mandarins. They were for the kids but have a ton off seeds in them. Kids frown on seeds. They are a small orange but a little bigger than the satsuma. So I decided to juice them too for orange juice. And again, so wonderful. Very sweet. So yeah, we have 7 boxes of oranges to get through. I am very happy. Got one box of pink lady apples and they were really great. The last box I got was so so. And the last case of celery was horrible, very bitter and this case I got was wonderful. So there are times when the produce is not so good and then there are times when everything is great.

Breakfast - 32 oz oj hamlin oranges, 15 kiwis (1100 cals)
15 mile run with lots of hills 3600 vertical (ate 7 kiwis for fuel and carried a bottle of celery juice and orange juice)
lunch - 40 oz oj mandarin oranges and tomato soup (toms/celery/carrot/dill). I got yellow grape tomatos this time b/c they didn't have my regular kind. So that is why my soup looks greenish yellow
dinner - busy night so heading out with a bag full of apples and bananas

By lunch time I already consumed 2500 calories, 40g of protein, 102% calcium, 68% iron, 800mg sodium. This does not include my dinner tonight.

Today's run was so nice. When I got to the trail head the sun was beaming down on my mountain I run on. It was about 40F starting out and got to about 50 when I finished. No rain, no wind and I was in shorts. Oh yeah!
Though I do feel sorry for my east coast friends and their frozen eyelashes. Hang in there guys!

2011-01-25T16:49:00.000-08:00

breakfast - 15 kiwis
8 mile run 1200 vertical
lunch - 20 kiwis, stuffed peppers
dinner - apples and plantains

Yes, I have been eating a lot of kiwis. I have one more meal left of them. They have been great.
Getting our fruit order in tomorrow, and here is what we are getting:
3 - 38# boxes of bananas
4 boxes of navels oranges
2 boxes of hammlin oranges (haven't tried these yet, though they said they are like valencias. Bummed they didn't have valencias)
1 box of pink ladys
70lbs of clementine small oranges (for the kids)
30 heads of celery
12 heads of romaine
18 pints of yellow grape toms (haven't had these yet, can't wait to try tom soup with these)
3 cases of kiwis
15# of large tomatoes
15lbs of carrots

It seems we have been ordering 650lbs of fruit and it lasts us 2 1/2 weeks. We get such a variety that not everything is ripe all at once. Since we found this wholesaler, it makes it so much easier.

Oh and those plantains that I have been ripening. Well the longer they stay black the mushier they get. I thought maybe they were over ripe but it seems I may have been eating them slightly underripe. I knew they had to be soft and black but when they get really mushy they turn a dark orange and they are even more delish. Ha ha it is like a science experiment. After 4 years doing this diet, this is the first time that I have tried plantains. So I am learning as I go.

2011-01-24T16:49:00.000-08:00

I will take 45 degrees, light rain, no snow/ice, no wind! Great day and it is only going to get better this week. But I can't get too excited, it is still winter and you blink and it is storming again.

Breakfast - kiwis and cantaloupe
15 mile run, 2400 vertical
lunch - kiwis
dinner - kiwis and stuffed peppers with a 1/2 head of lettuce and toms

I stuffed these mini peppers with my tabouli recipe and it was great! Actually when you stuff either peppers or toms with this recipe, if you let it sit for a day to two, it gets better. Everything mixes well.

For my fuel today, I brought a bottle with coconut water and orange juice. I haven't had that since summer and I have missed it. Then during the half way point of my run, I went back to the truck and ate some kiwis. I have never fueled with kiwis before (during a run) but I really liked it. I never know if a certain type of fruit will bother my stomach while running. So far the only fruit that does is apples. Though not sure how I would carry kiwis on a run, but when I train I plan my long runs to where I head back to the truck and pick up food. And for races you have aid stations with drop bags so I am thinking kiwis will be in my drop bag. I could always carry 4-5 kiwis in a little baggie and just hold the baggie. Cool thing about kiwis is that they have their own perfect package and you can easily pop them open, eat, and then disgard them into the woods for little creatures to enjoy the scraps.

2011-01-21T11:49:00.000-08:00

7 miles today, 43 total for the week 4800 vertical.
Saturday and Sundays are my rest days. Rest, rest, rest.
I need sleeep.

Next week I start increasing my mileage. I will get to where I will be running 65-75 miles weekly up until my 50k in March.

Have a good weekend :)

2011-01-20T20:38:00.000-08:00

breakfast - kiwis
12 mile run, 2400 vertical
lunch - kiwis and stuffed toms
dinner - apple and plantains

I am so lacking in sleep right now. Trying to catch up. Hopefully this weekend I can catch up.

2011-01-19T19:00:00.001-08:00

I stuffed about 29 tomatoes that I had ripe with my raw tabouli recipe. I put it in a large container so it will be dinner for the next few nights.

I bought 4 cases of kiwis and now I am down to 1 1/2. Been eating a ton of them. I did notice that one case hurt my tongue a little. And also noticed they ripened kind of funny. They got sort of soft and then they hardened and wrinkled. But the other cases softened up just fine and were sweet. So I think I finally got kiwis figured out. Trying to learn how all these fruits ripen and how long it takes can be a task. But I think I am getting the hang of it.

So yeah, kiwis are on the menu. I think each case is 20lbs. That is alot of kiwis. And they are extremely high in calcium :) Good thing about kiwis is that not all of them ripen at once. And their color is so pretty.

breakfast - kiwis
9 mile run
lunch - kiwis and tomato soup
dinner apples and stuffed toms

2011-01-18T15:03:00.000-08:00

Breakfast - 25 kiwis (1000 cals)
15 mile run, 2400 vertical (didn't eat anything during the run but did drink water and coconut water. The 1000 cals for breakie held up fine. Had I had half of that I would have needed fuel for the run.)
lunch - 23 kiwis, tomato soup
dinner - bananas and plantains (as much as I can eat)
should be close to 4000 calories

Switched my lunch and dinner around. I will be busy tonight. So I will blend about 32oz of banana/plantains for a smoothie and then take the rest of the bananas with me to eat. Pack it all in a back pack and I am good to go. Fast food take out, the best.

To smoothie or not

2011-01-17T16:48:00.000-08:00

If you follow my blog you will see that I am not a big smoothie person. I know alot of fruitairians or raw fooders or whatever like to drink some of their meals. I for one don't. I get more satisfaction out of my meals if I chew.

I was observing my big dogs chew their meaty raw bones and how strong their jaw and teeth are. How they keep their jaws and teeth strong by doing so. Anyway that got me thinking about smoothies for this blog today. (Not sure where I am going with this, haha).

But I do make my pudding where I take half the ingredients and blend it and then chop the other half in bowl and pour the blended over it. (I got the idea from Dr. Graham's daughter. He was telling us one day her favorite meal and it was chopped bananas with blended bananas poured over it. What a smart little girl).
And the same goes for my tomato soup. For me I need to chew.
With the exception of orange juice in the morning. Though most of the time when I drink oj I follow it with some kiwis or melons. So ya I chew.

I am not at all against smoothies. More power to ya if you drink them.

breakfast - 10 kiwis
no run, lifted
lunch - bananas/plantain pudding (oh wow delish!!!!!!!) I blended 3 bananas/2 plantains and poured it over 3 bananas and 2 plantains chopped.
dinner - 15 kiwis and my fav tomato soup
2500 calorie day

Lifting today I was able to bench 70 lbs (2 sets of 3 reps though the last rep I needed a spot). So then I did 65 lbs 3 sets of 3 reps clean. When I do lift I make sure I touch the bar to my chest. I do not cheat, just sayin' :)
Gettin' strong!

quick update

2011-01-16T19:00:00.000-08:00

Okay quick update on me:
I have ran the last two weeks since taking the whole month of december off. My body feels wonderful! I don't think I had plantar fascitis. I know after ironman I had that knot in my calf which was pulling on my achilles and heel. My heel was the last thing to heal cuz I am on it all the time. None the less I will never wear running shoes again even if they are minimal. I am in my barefoot shoes (vibram five fingers or my aqua socks) forever. I have been running in them for the last five years and look what happened when I went to my racing flats for one summer and it wasn't very many miles. My body has adapted to barefoot running and doesn't like anything else, lesson learned. And thank goodness for my vibram treksports. It is the best trail barefoot shoes ever. Love them!

I am still doing no hot showers and my skin is great!

I have a new love, called plantains. Wow! A total calorie sugar rush. Where have you been all my life!

I will try to write in this blog as much as I can. I get alot of positive feedback so I think it is important for me to show how I eat and train on this diet. I do not count calories but will give estimates on my calories. Though sometimes I eat so much I forget to keep track. So if anyone has something they would like me to write about just send me a quick note. Training is going to really pick up and i will start on my long training runs now (weather dependent of course). I will definately be blogging up until my 100 mile ultra in August. And keep track of my miles.

Have a fruity week my peeps!

new recipes

2011-01-12T20:11:00.000-08:00

Had a snow day today (along with the other 49 states so I spent some time in the kitchen. I bought some young coconuts from my supplier. I haven't had coconut water in many months. And I drank one yesterday and it was so wonderful! Anyway I decided to make coconut milk for the kids. I have never made it before. So I blended the water and the meat and then strained out the chuncks. Wow! so awesome! My kids loved it. Then I had dates soaking so I threw in some dates and blended it with the cooconut milk and it tasted like chocolate coconut milk. That was a hit. Very good. I didn't have to strain that mixture because the dates blended well.

I also made apple juice and then blended soak dates with it. I have been wanting to try this mixture to get the taste of caramel apple. And it was fantastic! It was a major sugar hit. I wonder if I could use this as fuel. For some reason I cannot eat apples before a run, even if I give myself time for digestion. Might try it though on a short run.

Wanted to clarify on my post about drinking water. I drink water because I am highly active. I feel I need additional water. I don't speak for anybody else but I am sure there are fruitarians who drink very little water and are thriving.

Let me know if you guys try my recipes. I always like feedback, (thanks Kim ;)

2011-01-11T18:46:00.000-08:00

Twenty nine degrees with 30-50 mph winds and I went running. The hardest 6 miles of my life, lol! I went where there were no trees so I was safe. But man, I was getting knocked over and at one point the wind just stopped me. I was layered and very warm from head to toe.

I have my own gym in the garage. Paid $3000 for it in 2000 and it paid for itself. Today I was able to do my full set of 5 sets of 3 reps at 65lbs on my own. Then I decided to add another 5 lbs to see if I can cleanly to one rep and I did. So I will on my next chest day do at least one set at 70 lbs and the other 4 at 65 lbs. After my chest workout is done then I do push ups until failure, ouch. I did 22. Not bad after a hard chest workout.

Oh and I just tried a new combo, persimmon/plantain pudding. Lets just say I was speechless. And sad at the same time because I am very low on persimmons. I will have to remember this next fall.

Breakast-orange juice from minneolas (awesome) and kiwis.
6 mile run, weights
lunch - kiwis
dinner - satsumas, tomato soup

2011-01-10T20:21:00.000-08:00

We are expecting wind all week. So bummed. I can run on snow and ice (which I have been) but the wind, no way. Three trees already went down in the past two weeks on the trail. And today on my run it was freaking me out. I got to the top of my hill run and it started blowing hard. I was getting pelted with ice chuncks from the trees. Then I heard the trees creakin'. Had to cut my run short.

We picked up our fruit order today. About 600 lbs. So excited because the grape toms are fantastic (2 cases). And I got a case of cilantro and celery. All that makes for a great tomato soup. See recipe from a few weeks ago. I will be eating soup every night until gone. We have so much cilantro that I juiced the kids apples/oranges/cilantro/carrots. They loved it. It was really tasty.

We can't get valencia oranges so decided to try minneolas because the navels were okay and not very juicy. But the minneola were full of juice though not as sweet as valencias but still great. I haven't had much oj lately and I have been missing it.

I had about 50 apples left (pink lady and honeycrisps). I had one day to find a way to eat them all because we were getting three more boxes the next day. So I juiced 25 for apple juice for the kids (they drank it all in one sitting). The other 10 I ate and the other 15 I dehydrated. I have never dehydrated pink ladies and honeycrisps before, holy mangos they are awesome dehydrated! So sweet. Perfect for the kids lunches or chopped up and added to raw oatmeal (apples and bananas). I don't eat dried fruits hardly ever, I let the kids have them. Oh the apple juice was out of this world too.

breakfast - plantains and persimmons
4 mile run 1200 foot climb
lunch - apples
dinner - kiwis, tomato soup

to drink or not to drink

2011-01-07T13:37:00.000-08:00

So there is a big debate going on about water amongst raw vegans. When you are on a low fat raw vegan diet, one would think we do not need to drink water because of the high water content in fruits. I think thousands of years ago that would be the case. But most of the world lives in an unnatural environmnet. And the body uses water to flush out toxins. And god knows we have toxins these days.
I am going on my 4th year as a raw vegan. I have finally learned to listen to my body and not listen to anybody else, (except for Dr D who has decades of experience). I have to drink water. I know I didn't drink enough starting out on this diet because I thought I was getting enough with fruits. But when I increased my water intake everything got better, skin, bms, chapped lips....the list goes on. I do not claim to have exceptional health. I am healthy compared to most people. For thirty some years I abused my body with alcohol and a SAD diet and do you think after 4 years on this diet my health is perfect? Heck no! I have 30 some years of repair to do and who knows I could be beyond repair, lol!
Here are some things in my environment that zaps the water from me and makes me want to drink water:
1.) It is winter and it is cold and dry, and my skin is always drier in the winter, not in the summer when there is more humidity.
2.) the heater runs all day to heat the house (I believe there is a difference between dry heat and moist humid heat you get from the tropics
3.) I bundle up a ton when I run in the winter (more than all my friends that run, they actually make fun of me). So I sweat alot underneath my clothes.
4.) my fruit sits for a few weeks on the shelf and frig and looses some water during that time (not exactly sure about this but this is my guess. I think if you take a freshly pick fruit from a tree compared to one that sits for a week there would be a difference in water. Most fruits sitting out eventually shrivel up.
4.) I drive a car and even though I live in a small town there is toxic fumes in the air. I breathe it.
5.) I am an athlete who sweats everyday
I am sure I can find other reasons but if I am exposed to all the above in one day (which I am) you can see that I need water.
How much do I drink? Well that changes from sesaon to season. But right now I am drinking 65 oz. It will increase when I have longer runs. Even when I wasn't working out hard in december I still needed to drink. The dryness in the air here zaps the water from my body. Of course how much I need to drink varies. And yes, I get that dry feeling in my mouth which is a sign for me to drink.
If I don't drink enough water, I get bloated, and my bm's go to 1-2 a day, when I drink enough I go 4-5x (bm's).
I do pee all day long but it isn't like every 20 mintues or anything. I do prefer to get up once in the night to pee. Then I know I am hydrated. When I wake in the morning there are times when I am really thirsty and my urine is very yellow. Doesn't happen alot but in general when I do wake up I crave water and I think that is natural. I mean we are breaking our night fast.
I also notice that when I eat bananas I need even more water. The only time I drink water while I am eating is when I eat bananas. I think, for me, when I drink water with my bananas it aids in better digestion. So for all other fruits, I just drink before the meal and then wait 1/2 hour after my meal to start drinking water again. I do not eat dried fruits. I have not eaten a date in a very long time (since ironman I think). I only eat dates when I race or have a very long training run.

Like I have always said, listen to your body. Eat until you are full and drink enough water. When I know I am drinking enough is when: I wake up once to pee at night, I pee throughout the day and it is mostly clear, I have 4-5 bm's a day (as much fruit as I eat I should be going that much :)

Oddly enough, it seems I am more thirstier in the winter than summer. Summer is a time for melons and sweet juicy stone fruits and also a time when I am out for hours on a long training run in the sun. But I still drink water. I do know that I have gone many months without drinking sufficient water thinking I didn't need any. Though eventually it caught up to me.

When I write about topics, it is what I have experienced and what is good for my body. What I do could be different from somebody else. Not everybody lives where I do and worksout like me.

Though, I do alot of things different now then when I started out on this diet. I am always learning and changing.

Breakfast - persimmon pudding
7 mile run
lunch - fruity cereal
dinner - persimmons, salad

2011-01-06T20:23:00.000-08:00

We are getting down to 4 boxes of persimmons. And I think a few have gone bad. Our supplier is no longer selling them so this is it for us(sniff,sniff). I will enjoy every persimmon until they are gone. I have really enjoyed them, especially my persimmon pudding I make. Today I had some celery I needed to eat up. It had been sitting in the frig for a week and a half. It looked a little old but still fine. I had a bite and couldn't believe how sweet it was! Celery, really? Wow the whole stalk was fantastic. We really do get great celery from our supplier. I used the celery as a spoon for my pudding. It was so great!

Our next order will be bananas, apples,kiwis and oranges. Hubby and I will live off that probably until melons come in. Some people would think that it would get boring just eating that. But for dinner I made my fruity cereal. In a bowl I chopped up apples and kiwis and then used orange juice for my milk. It was so great. I can and will be quite happy eating that for a few months.

breakfast - persimmon pudding
6 mile run 1200 feet of climbing (I think I burnt more calories shivering than running, it was heavy rain and 35F. I was soaked and cold. I need better rain gear).
40 minutes lifting (chest was still sore from Monday but managed to lift well today.)
lunch - persimmon pudding
dinner - fruity cereal
3000+ calories

2011-01-04T20:32:00.000-08:00

Oh yea baby, I am sore! Chest and legs are tender. I ran today and thought each leg weighed 200 lbs. Did some hill climbing and really felt it then.

My mood is so much better when I get my heartrate up. I don't know what it is but it is a natural high.

Breakfast 7am - 1000 calories of persimmons/banana pudding
10:00am - 9 mile run 1200 feet of climbing, (the last 4 miles was a walk/run due to the ice on the trail)
40 minutes lifting weights
12:30 - 1300 calories of persimmon/banana pudding
dinner - 15 kiwis with a salad
total calories 3300

2011-01-03T17:28:00.000-08:00

I have lots of persimmons and bananas ripe. So I have been making persimmon pudding. I blend persimmons and bananas and then chop bananas into the bowl. It is so creamy and deish! I can eat about 1500 calories of it for lunch. That last me about 4 hours.

So I have a new gaol for me, not a new year's resolution or anything but just a goal that I have been wanting to do for a very long time. I want to be able to bench my body weight. This is a huge accomplishment for any female. I only know of one chick personally who can do that and she is a friend and an ex bodybuilder. So technically she doesn't count. But really very few women can do it. You need to train very specific for it and train hard. So my goal is to bench 115 lbs. That is 35lb plates on a 45lb bar. I have been lifting since college. I have never really stopped. Some months I push myself harder than others. Typically in the winter when I really go hard. But even pushing myself in the gym isn't too extreme. I do the tyical 3-4 sets of 10-15 reps. Then throw in some heavier weight. So I asked my hubby, (ex college linebacker) if he would write a program for me to meet my goal. I am thinking it will take 2-3 months to get there. So today was day 1 of my lifting program and I will tell you I am gonna be in a bad mood tomorrow. I think every muscle in my chest and legs are gonna hurt. I was able to bench 65 lbs comfortably at 5 sets of 3 reps. The last two reps I needed a spot. So when I can that without any help I will up my weight.
And all on a fruit and green diet!!!

I ran today for the first time in 4 weeks. Everything feels really good. I ran 4 miles nice and easy. Our whole town is an ice rink right now. Not too many places to run without ice. I took it careful today. Things should thaw out this week.

Breakfast today was persimmons and bananas (600 calories), lunch persimmon pudding, dinner was kiwis (I have so many that are ripe) and tomato soup.

2010-12-29T13:20:00.000-08:00

Yes, my dreams have come true. I finally have dozens of haychia persimmons ripe. I am making a meal of them and it is awesome! These are huge too. The only problem is now my bananas are coming ripe. That means I gotta go workout hard and I will. The more I burn, the more I can eat.

When the kids get back in school I will head to the mountains and get lost on the trails. I have taken time off this december, which I usually do every year. I can't go hard all year round, the body needs a break. I did some fasting which was awesome. Now I can't wait to sweat and get the heart rate up again. My next race is in March, a 50k, lots of climbing. Some big names in the ultra world will be there. I have 10 weeks to prepare. I won't be at my strongest then but I will finish just fine. And it will be a nice long training run for me. And my fruitarian friend Acey will be coming out from the east coast to run in it also. Can't wait for her to get here. It will be a blast!!!!!!!

2010-12-23T16:53:00.000-08:00

I just made this soup tonight and was just so fabulous I had to share. But the weird thing is that it was soooo good, I cannot explain the taste. It really had a very salty taste to it. I don't seek out anything salty, I am waaay over my salt cravings but I think it was the tomatoes I used. I have been eating beef steak tomatoes and using them in my soups I have been making. Now they are gone and I just got my fruit order in and I ordered some grape tomatoes. These were just the BEST. I had one bite and the flavor that popped into my head was rootbeer. So when I soaked all my ingredients into hot water, it intensified the flavor of the grapes toms.
It is cold here so lately I have been making warms soups where I soak all my ingredients for 10 minutes in hot water (100F). This makes a huge difference in flavor and it doesn't warm me up but it just feels good on a cold evening.

Ingredients: 2 pints of grape toms, 1 stalk of celery, 1 carrot, handful of cauliflower, handful of chives.
Take 1/4 of the celery, 1/4 of toms, carrot and cauli and chop up in small pieces and put them in bowl. Then take the rest of toms,celery and chives and blend. Pour over chopped veggies.

You know how you make something and then try and make it again and it doesn't seem to be exactly the same. Well I have a case of grape toms and celery so I will make it tomorrow (and the next night) and I am hoping it will turn out the same. I am sure it will. The flavor was so intense.

Also I really prefer eating my soups or salads with wooden bowls and utensils. I don't like using silverware. Can't really explain it you will just have to see for yourself. Mabye the cool metal of the silverware takes away flavor from food, ???.

2010-12-19T18:15:00.000-08:00

I have one box of apples left. They are loosing their taste a little. Still good but not ultra satisfying. I thought mabye since they were so cheap I would just give them to our raw dogs and the horses. But then my brillant kids said they wanted a fruity cereal. So this is what they came up with. They chopped up apples, oranges, kiwis and then used oj for the milk. They couldn't finish it all so I ate what they left. Wow, I was suprised. The apples and the oj went really good together even though the apples are subpar. So then I made myself a huge bowl of apples/oj cereal. It was just delish! Looks like the apples will get finished. Which is good. We are running low on fruit and not sure when to get back to the wholesaler.

I won't be blogging much in the next week or too. But I should be come first of january. Hoping to include videos too.

recipe

2010-12-16T17:08:00.000-08:00

I think I just made the best soup ever! It is called creamy tomato soup. Sometimes I make a tomato/celery soup but this time I added 1.5 oz of avocado. Oh wow!! I got the recipe from www.the-raw-advantage.com. Thanks Chris! You can get his 101 Raw Recipe e-book from his website by donation. He has some great recipes and tips. I can come up with some recipes but it is nice to see what others have. He has some fruit combos that I would not have thought of, like pineapples and cherries. Can't wait to try some new ones.

This soup really hit the spot today. I pre-soaked all my ingredients into a bowl of hot water. Well the water wasn't really hot, tap water hot. Fifteen minutes and the soup had a nice warm texture. Occasionly, I do soak my cuke noodles in hot water for my spaghetti. Especially when it is cold. The soup was creamy. It doesn't take much avocado either. I added cilantro for my herb. And the celery was the inner stalks so that just made the soup perfect!

Headed up the hill today for a hike again. When I was just about to the top of the ledge I looked left and saw a bear in the distance. Ya I know, I am a bear magnet. I didn't see its face but saw the body moving and he was heading up and away from me. I had my dog with me but not sure what good she would be. She'd be the first one down the mountain if a bear came charging. At least it wasn't heading straight towards me at a dead run like the last bear I saw.

Today was kiwi day. Still have tons left. Orange juice, persimmons and apples were also on the menu.

2010-12-15T13:10:00.000-08:00

Breakfast this morning was 24 oz of orange juice and 5 kiwis. Headed out for a hike again. I climbed 2400 feet, 8 miles. All power walking. Got the heart rate up. It was about 33F and I wore my VFFs (which I wear 100% now). The trail was wet and muddy in parts. My feet got cold but were not bothersome. Jan 1st is when I hope to start running again in the meantime walking the hills will keep me in hill shape.

Came home and discovered my bananas are ripe. So I made oatmeal using 6 bananas and 6 fuji apples (the apples were big) and raisins. This was soooo good. Our organic bananas are super creamy and sweet. I put everything in a food processor and pulsed it. You gotta leave it chunky, way better that way. In the pic it doesn't look like much but it is half the batch. I can only put in 3 bananas and 3 apples in at a time. This will be my staple for the next week.

2010-12-13T21:21:00.000-08:00

Went on a hike today with my Cinnamon. Ain't she cute! I hiked the hill that I normally run on but I didn't run. I walked pretty fast. Fast enough to where my dog had to jog. The monsoon we had hit yesterday sent some serious rains down. I was a little nervous on the hike. The water was seeping out of the hills. Perfect recipe for a land slide. But it takes a lot to keep me away from the mountains. I am going to keep up hiking the hill. At least I can stay in hill shape. Not sure if it will slow down my recovery. Right now I just don't care. I need to get out or I will go insane.

I am on week 3 or so of bathing in cool water. My skin is unbelieveable! So soft. And my scalp is perfect. It will be interesting when the weather turns really cold and dry. That is when dry skin really hits. Right now it is warmer and rainy so everything is moist. So I will continue this and when the dry, cold weather hits I will report back and see how my skin is holding up.

Two days after my 3 day fast, I still had a foul mouth and kind of felt stinky all over. So today I juiced 2 limes and 1 orange and used that as my soap during my bath. I put some on feet and let sit. My feet can get stinky during the winter because of the running shoes. They get wet and then get shoe funk b/c they don't dry out throughly. And my feet don't get sun. But after my lime/orange bath I felt soooo fresh and smelled so good. I was smelling myself all day. You can also take orange peels and rub them on your arms. I felt so clean after that.

I have 15 heads of kale and 15 heads of celery that we either need to eat right away or I need to juice them and freeze. So I took all the kale, juiced and froze them. This will be for the kids and I will add them to their oj. I tried giving them a kale salad but they did not like the kale, bummer.

I love eating celery, but really love the inner stalks. There are about only 5-6 inner stalks that are good in a head, the rest can have a more bitter taste. So since i do love eating that part of the celery I decided to not juice the inner stalk and keep them for eating. I juiced the more bitter stalks and froze them. Hubby has been adding the frozen celery juice into his smoothies. This works out great. I just love the inner stalks. I think I could eat 50 lbs in one sitting.To me this is my salty chip addiction :) My next order I will get more celery and do the same again. Having frozen celery juice works perfect for working out. And if I do the juicing all in one night, I don't have to get the juicer out everyday. It is a pain in the ass to set up, wash the food and clean. Do it all in one night and not have to worry about it for 2 weeks.

Menu today was orange juice, persimmons, apples and a few kiwis and a small salad. I have two boxes of kiwis I am waiting to come ripe. I love kiwis.

broke fast

2010-12-11T13:03:00.000-08:00

So I broke my fast this morning. I did not want too. But because of my plans on Sunday I thought it was best. I might do a 5-7 day fast between xmas and new years. Most likely for sure. I really liked my 3 day fast.

I woke up at 5 am and couldn't sleep. I still had a foul mouth and lost another lb, 7lbs total. Suprisingly I felt good. I made 24oz of oj and had about 4 satsumas. A few hours later I had 2 persimmons and more oranges. Then I was craving greens and toms. So I threw together a garbage stew. Turned out really good. (Only raw foodist can appreciate this stew). The ingredients are pictured above (note: I did add the juice of two oranges). The herb I used was cilantro. I took half of the ingredients and chopped them in a bowl and the other half I blended. So if you are craving minerals this is the stew for you. The rest of the day I will finish of the box of satsumas and apples pictured above.

My energy has come back. It was only a short fast, so not suprising. My stomach is digesting everything just fine. One more day of rest and I will get back to working out.