Secret Squirrel?

The past 5 months have been a blur. So much has happened I don't know where to start. I have lost a total of 15 lbs (whoo hoo) and my diet has been ecclectic to say the least. I went from raw vegan to adding fish and seafood back into my food regimen in addition to a 14 day fast (Master Cleanse) to where I am now which is 80 - 90% raw with occasional seafood indulges. My food regimen mainly consists of raw fruit and vegetables and green smoothies. After having been basically raw for almost 4 years I began to have some symptoms that I now know are common with those who have been raw for a few years such as lack of energy and cravings for sweets. In doing some research I found that my morning regimen of fruit wasn't as bad as what happened in the evening, a full blown nut and avocado binge!

I didn't realize the extent of my addiction until I started dating the bags of nuts and saving the empty bags. For a brief moment I entertained the thought of writing down everything I ate, a wonderful tool. But since I ate the same thing every morning just varying the type of fruit and greens and rarely snacked...until the sun went down (was I some kind of genetically mutated vampire?) I figured I didn't need to write down everything. At the end of the third day as I stared at the empty dated plastic nut bags in disbelief, I kept thinking that there had to be a squirrel hidden somewhere in the house. Yeah, that's it! He had sneaked in and was now neatly opening up the bags of nuts, completely devouring the contents, then stacking the empty bags on my counter. Like that made sense.

What did add up was that I was eating a whole lot more nuts than I thought. But I craved them. I tried to curb it but if they were there I ate them. I also tried not to buy them thinking "out of sight, out of mind" but if they were in the store I bought them. The turning point didn't come until I went on a Raw Food/Vegetarian outing. It was there that while I was discussing my nut and avocado cravings with another member a man I didn't know interrupted telling me that I wasn't eating enough greens. That following week I serendipitously came across articles, books, even a TV show extolling the benefits of green smoothies. The rest is history. The more greens I incorporated the less I craved nuts and avocados. I'm still considering keeping a food diary...who am I kidding?