It’s my blog and I’ll do what I want to

My intention for this blog was to chronicle my progress with cycling and weight loss.  I planned on having only articles related to these two topics.  Well, I think I may have changed my mind.  I figure in order to help explain where I’m coming from, it helps to explain things that are important to me.  So I’ve decided that I will regularly feature content on veganism and raw foodism.  I don’t plan on doing stuff in a preachy way, but just basic things like what I made, how I’m feeling, and food related things.  I hope everyone from BikeForums is ok with this.  I also hope that you VeganFreaks don’t mind a cycling post every once in a while either.  Oh, what the hell am I saying?  Who is going to read this anyways. :p

I don’t have any real stories for now, but check back real soon and I’m sure I’ll have plenty to ramble on about.

No riding today

Today was probably the worst that I’ve felt in a very long time.  As I mentioned in an entry a couple days ago, I’m trying the raw vegan thing.  Along with that comes the wonderful detoxing process.  Apparently it’s a lot worse if you quit cooked foods cold turkey, so to speak.  And, well, that’s what I did.  Today I was nauseous and had a headache most of the day.  This is only the second day since I started riding that I didn’t even touch my bike.

Around 5 though, I started feeling better and made a trip to Border’s so I could get a raw cookbook.  Cookbooks are much easier than internet sites for me for recipes.  I got “The Complete Book of Raw Food.”  Since I wasn’t feeling up to eating a whole lot tonight, I made lunch for tomorrow, because I couldn’t wait to try some of these recipes.  So I made “raw chow mein.”  Instead of noodles, you slice up butternut squash real thin and then add a whole bunch of stuff like mushrooms, sesame oil, garlic, ginger, cilantro, scallions, and probably a couple other things I can’t remember.  I had just one “noodle” before I put the meal in the fridge and oh my god was it ever good.