You Can Poop Out!

Lori's "Big Ass" Green Smoothie

Lori's Chocolate Pudding

This journey Lori is taking reminds me of the story Matt Amsden tells in his book "RawVolution." One night, on his way home from the late shift at work, he was listening to Howard Stern on the radio. Howard had David Wolfe on as a guest. After listening to David, Matt went all raw and never looked back, eventually opening restaurants and writing a book.

Sometimes raw just fits like a juice.

Today's Food:

Breakfast:

32 ounces lemon water

Snack:

1 bag Living Nutz Cheesy Almonds

Lunch: At the blissful "Catch a Healthy Habit Cafe" in Fairfield, CT; owners Glen Colello and Lisa Storch; Lisa and Glen are beautiful friends who offer beautiful food, classes, lectures, and inspiration.

"Platter" with raw: 'crab cake' with olives and citrus, hummus, 'refried' beans, guacamole and salsa; with flax crackers

Sesame kelp noodles with almond butter, sesame seeds and ginger lime (and more)

Dessert:

2 solid chocolate cups

Dinner:

The remainder of yesterday's pate made with soaked sunflower seeds, mixed vege "poop", nutritional yeast, olive oil, dulse flakes and sea salt

with cut up carrots

Just a reminder on healthy elimination. Lori reminded me of this topic when she mentioned today that she is pooping alot. I said, "Great, that's the way it's supposed to be; meal in, meal out 20 minutes later (or sometimes sooner). It's normal to have 3, 4, 5 or 6 poops a day! Yes, that's true, and I often do (no pun). It is not healthy to be pooping only once a day or once every couple of days. Your system is then clogging up and holding on to too much waste, or fecal matter. This means something in your food is off balance; usually too many acid-based foods that are not digesting and assimilating well.

That means it is time to reduce your animal protein, white flour, white sugar, dairy, caffeine, alchohol and salt, and start increasing your plant-based protein, leafy greens (kale, collards, chard, spinach, dandelion greens...), cruciferous veges (cauliflower, broccoli, cabbage, brussel sprouts), nuts, seeds and fruit.

If your poops are not firm, a good size and easy to produce, then take some psyllium seed powder for a couple of weeks.

Please write in with any additional questions about this topic.