Day 10: You Burger, You Brought 'er.

Learning from my smoothie fail from yesterday, I had a super simple breakfast smoothie of

1 cup almond milk
1 and a bit cups of strawberries
1 banana
1 chunk of ginger.

I love spinach in my morning smoothie but we ran out. Tomorrow morning's mission is a huge restocking of some essentials. (I may take a photo to demonstrate the ridiculous amount of fruit we've been going through).

My mid morning snack was the by-now usual of a banana and some dried fruit (yes, apricots...apparently I am a glutton for delicious punishment!) and some coconut water, and I had another banana about an hour later with some amazing fresh figs. I love figs.

I cheated at lunch and bought a Subway salad. I wasn't nutritionally hungry, I just wanted some filler for my tummy as I had to do some emergency counselling for someone and doing that with low blood sugar is a terrible idea. I also had some more coconut water. I have a total weakness for coconut water-it's zero fat, tastes like a treat, has more potassium than bananas (watch out, bananas!) and is naturally very hydrating. Potassium is good for relieving muscle cramping, so I chug it like it's going extinct around That Time Of The Month but I enjoy it pretty much constantly. You have to be careful to get the stuff that has no sugar added, though, or else it's more-or-less just fancy soda pop. I drink this stuff.

I had a couple more apricots and coconut water for an afternoon snack. I was eating light because of what was to come for dinner!

Dinner was some amazing dehydrated mushroom burgers, served on a lettuce bun with home made guacamole, home made salsa, home made mustard and chopped peppers and cucumbers (not home made). As with all fancier raw foods, these guys were preparation heavy but well worth it. They had a great texture and density although even though with putting in half the amount of oil as they called for they are still quite high in fat (walnuts). Even with eating light I managed to eat waaaayyy too much fat for my carb balance today. If I'm hungry later, I'll have to eat some more fruit to try to balance myself off a bit. Right now I can't *imagine* being hungry, but I've noticed on this raw diet that things move out of my tummy very quickly and I have to eat something about ever 70-90 minutes.

I really feel like I'm getting into the swing of what I can/can't eat to balance my 80/10/10 more or less properly. I know I ate too much fat for dinner this evening, but I wanted a Friday night treat and a burger and pie was too good to pass up. But, honestly, if my idea of cheat food is a home made dehydrated vegan mushroom burger with from-scratch trimmings-well. I have very few problems, then.

The Dehydrated Mushroom Burger in it's Natural Habitat. 

I felt quite good all day, even though that counselling session totally aborted my plans for some salon time for myself and I forgot my phone at work so I won't have it for the weekend. I had a slight energy dip in the early afternoon, around 1, where I usually would have some caffeine but it wasn't as bad as previous days. Compared to most Fridays, when I'm a rage beast who can't wait to clock out, today was a cinch.

Here's what I ate today: pie in the sky!
as you can see, I should not have had pie AND burger...but it was the last piece of pie, and I am a weak weak woman when presented with appley-cinnamon-y goodness.