Raederle

I can state with absolute certainty that on June 29th 2012, I spent six hours and thirty-five minutes being creative and crafty. The following day, the 30th, I spent an insane 10 hours and 40 minutes at the same activity! Sadly, that day I only spent one minute exercising. I also know that from June 1st to July 8th I spent an average of three hours and three minutes in the kitchen daily. How do I know these things? And why does anyone care? Raederle on August 2nd 2012 | Local Organic Kale Salad | Photo taken by Lytenian Daily Logging For the past ninety days I have logged everything I've done. I wrote down what I was doing, the time I started, and the time I finished. Then, in the next column I wrote how much time I spent doing it. (If I started at 11:00am and continued until 11:10am, then in the next column I wrote "10m" for ten minutes.) To make this log a viable tool to see how I'm spending my time, I then created ten categories of act...

September 7th 2010 | Day 5 | Failure & Success Oh where has the day gone! I have failed at doing an all-water cleanse. However, I have been 100% raw for longer now than my usual, with lots more green drinks in succession than I've ever had in my life. I am finding some success at raw foods at last! I've got to admit that I have had more energy today than I can remember having in weeks. (I've been closeted up with my novel and not spending enough time making salads or exercising...) I sanitized the trash-bin today. (Trying to continue to clean something thoroughly each day. Parasites of all shapes and sizes: Begone! ) I did a lot of work-outs and went on a thirty minute walk with my husband today. (This would have been impossible for me a mere few months ago!) I took a very long shower after working up a good sweat which is excellent for cleansing the pores of toxins and healing troubled skin. Total consumption overview for the day: 2 he...

September 6th 2010 | Day 4 | [11:22pm] I've discovered that the herbal parasite killing pills are really hard on my system if I'm not eating anything. I've gone similar periods of time without eating without the effects of the past few days. I was fine today however. I slowly put very tiny of portions of food into me throughout the day with lots and lots of enzyme pills (so that nothing would be left undigested for parasites/bacteria to eat). Throughout the day I finished the apple I started yesterday, essentially three bites at a time, a handful of blackberries, a handful of raw pistachios, half a banana and a green drink which contained celery , cucumbers, spinach , lettuce, carrot and carrot tops. Last night I discovered how truly important enemas are while detoxing. If you're flushing toxins from your muscles, they just end up somewhere else if you don't get them out of your body. Clean intestines make a world of difference to how I feel. T...

September 5th 2010 | Day 3 On today's original agenda:  Water  Garlic Tea  Shower  Vacuum & Clean Desk Surfaces  120 Crunches [9:28pm] It's been a tough day. I have not done any of the above except drink water; and not nearly enough of that either. I woke up again nauseated, like yesterday. I went to bed last night with my circulation so low that resting any weight at all on any of limbs made me go numb. Now, this may sound shocking, but this is something I experience on a somewhat regular basis when very tired or depleted because I have such a weak circulatory system. It was a nightly occurrence when I was at the lowest point in my health (and my life) at the age of sixteen. I've been doing some serious re-thinking on how I'm going to detox. Firstly, I think eating up all the cooked foods around the kitchen was a bad thing to do on the week before. I was overeating, and eating a number of things that were not particularly heal...

September 4th 2010 On today's original agenda: Water Garlic Tea Shower Clean Kitchen Sink & Counters & Floor 20 Push-ups [8:30pm] – Nausea I woke up this morning very early with horrible stomach pains. I've felt hunger pains before, and I've experienced bloating, gas, cramps, and so on and so forth in the past but this pain was unique in my experience. I felt better after vomiting, and based on everything I experienced, this was my conclusion: Because I took one of those really powerful parasite-killing pills (raw pill containing dehydrated herbs), but didn't eat anything or take any probiotic tablets yesterday, there was nothing to absorb all the things in my stomach that the herbs killed. It is recommended to take a probiotic with the parasite-killing pills, but I didn't expect to need to take them for a while. Effects of Eating Habits I recovered from the mishap over a very small portion of 'rice cakes' (which were s...

September 3rd 2010 Today's agenda:  Water  Garlic Tea  Onions & Garlic & Cinnamon oil in the ears  Shower  Clean bathroom sink and toilet  100 Crunches  Take "Before" Pictures [12:12pm] So far I've taken my shower and taken my first detox tablet. And of course I've had some water. I'm already thinking about how I don't want to do a water fast. The two most important things about the first stage of this detox is having nothing sweet and nothing solid. Doing all-water is just taking things to a higher level than that. A complete reset on the way my body works. Gah! This is going to be really tough. I should start on those 100 crunches if I ever want to get through them today. I'm not feeling very high energy. I stayed up way too late last night thinking about my novel and the movie my husband and I went to see last night; Avatar. [At the time this was written I was working on a fantasy novel.] It's not an au...

Today is August 28th in the year of 2012. Buffalo, New York – August Weather The weather has been fabulous this August. Mild rains, warm days, a few hot days reaching ninety-one degrees Fahrenheit, but mostly ranging from a pleasant 75 to 85. It's a cool morning. Last night we had a gentle rain. My Garden The garden is doing fabulously. I've hardly needed to tend anything whatsoever. The weeds cause a diversity of insects that prevent herb-eating bugs from getting out of hand. All I need to do it cut back a weed when it starts shading my lettuces or chard too much. The partial shade from the weeds keeps my plants from wilting in the hot sun. I've spent a lot more time harvesting food from the garden than I have cutting back weeds. This is an early lesson for me in permaculture. In years to come I look forward to learning more. Breakfast Two oranges, with the pith. I've been enjoying cutting off just the orange outer layer and eati...

March 18th 2012 Traveling I'm on a road trip. Lytenian and I drove here to Moline, Kansas from Buffalo, New York. We left on Monday, March 5th at 10:00pm and arrived here on Wednesday at 4:00am. That is a thirty hour journey . We plan to leave on Tuesday to head for Georgia. We've only thus far traveled to our first destination of five. (We're headed to Florida, Georgia and two places in North Carolina as well.) Photos, maps showing our progress, and so on, can be seen in this facebook photo album (click here) . Getting Some Sun It is nice being out in the country and breathing in fresh air. Last week I was able to sun-bathe four days out of the week. (And it is March!) I purposely did this with my arms covered but my mid-drift and legs bare. I know I'll be getting plenty of sun on my arms later on. Photo of Raederle in Kansas, taken by Lytenian (March 2012) Yoga & Zumba I've been doing...