Quick Update

Finally- a semi-day off work!

I've been working every day since arriving home from vacation so needless to say I've really been too busy to think about posting (also Theron is hijacking the computer to watch the World Cup). And since I've been so busy with work I've really slacked on eating raw. I do try to remember that good/big changes happen slow and we're still doing good on recycling, spending, drinking our water, and other smaller changes. I've been trying to eat fruit for breakfast and make sure I get a good couple serving of veggies every day. It must be helping some because both Theron and I have already lost 8 lbs! What a difference it will make when we start exercising. Why is it so easy to be lazy?! I might try to add exercise next instead of switching to 100% raw. I'll continue fruit for breakfast and try having a salad for lunch, and maybe some nuts and berries for snacks. I really need to get off my lazy behind!

P.S.-- Sorry for looking so grumpy in my pictures; I'm generally a photogenic person (so my family will love this picture for my sour expression).

Our First Pictures

Here are our first pictures taken June 7th. We hope to see a wonderful transformation a year from now.

A Good Question

In case anyone besides Holly reads this blog yet, Holly posted a good comment under 'P.S.':

"Tell me about how you do your recycling, please! I really want us to start, but I have no idea how to go about it. Do you have local recycling pickup? I saw your recycling bin so I know how you sort. BUT. Give me more details on how it's working for you."

So for us it's pretty easy because we have recycling bins outside our apartment. The pictures on the lid of our recycling can are the items we can and cannot recycle in the blue bins outside. We went to a convention at the library and they gave us a pamphlet and we used it thus :) We can't recycle glass in our bins but we are saving our glass and looking into where to recycle glass.

I would recommend Googling your city + recycling. There you can find all the info you need on how to get your own blue recycling bin, or at least know where to take it. This is what Salt Lake City's page claims (http://www.slcgov.com/slcgreen/recycle/curbside.htm):

"Salt Lake City contracts with Allied Waste to collect recyclables from an estimated 45,000 residential homes, and 1,100 small businesses and multi-family complexes every day, five days per week. An average of 900 tons of material are recycled each month."

We'll have to take our glass somewhere to recycle, but it's worth the effort because it feels really good to do just a little bit better and make this world a bit better for the next generation!

P.S.

Our recycling has been going very well. We have recycled about 3/4s of our trash. It's amazing how wasteful we are. This is one of our goals this year is to reduce our consumption and trash.

Our First Day of Y4R

We did our best to eat raw all day but we had not really prepared ourselves in the food department so instead we just tried to finish a tamale leftover with black beans and guacamole. We had a salad for lunch with hard boil egg, tuna, tomatoes, on red leaf lettuce (and used some leftover dressing). For dinner we had a smoothie of bananas, peaches, cinnamon, blended in milk, sweetened with agave. As you've noticed not all of these are raw. So, a modest start. We are allowing ourselves eggs, seafood, and poultry. We will eliminate dairy in place of soy, almond, rice, etc milks.

We have taken all of our measurements from Height, to muscle size, to spine size. I'm working on a good way to present it on this blog. We'll take these measurements every three months (as the seasons change. Starting with Summer) and post them.

Look What we FINALLY did!

I think that says it all! We needed to do that, and when we did it felt GREAT! This is really going to help us in our Y4R quest. We will now only wait until we have the cash to get something. We are so excited for this change! Also, we started recycling (finally, we've been talking about doing it for 3 years now!).

Site Under Construction...

Up and running June 6, 2010!

This blog will journal our 4th year of marriage together. This year will be dubbed "Y4R" or "Year for/4 Raw". We are going to enjoy a 100% raw lifestyle (meat included-organic only), a much more green lifestyle, and a spiritual journey into our beliefs. We are going to blog about it the entire year to let you all know how we are feeling and doing.

We will officially start our raw diet June 6, 2010 in celebration of our 4th year of marriage!