Second day and I feel great!

Yesterday I ate about 80% raw.  I did a fruit detox all day until 7:30pm and for dinner I ate Japanese food (teriyaki chicken, rice, a cucumber/avocado roll, and some miso soup).  I also did a personal training session for a friend who has not worked out in years!  Actually as she put it, she has NEVER worked out.  We had a long conversation about raw foods and nutrition and I pushed her to her limit in the gym.  She could not stop raving and that made me proud.  It also made me realize that this is what I want to be doing again.  I want to be a curvy fitness trainer like my girl in NYC, Diane Williams, who owns a fitness center called Curvy Goddess.

I have been a personal trainer since 2000 when I lost my first 100 pounds.  At that time I did it with the wrong intentions; to get skinny so I could be a model.  But when I found out that I could be a plus-size model and not starve myself I kinda let go and over the years through challenges, I have gained most of my weight back.  I'm still down by 20 pounds, but I have a new life and new intentions.  I never work out and eat healthy so as to loose weight... I do it so as to feel great!  And I do.  I work out all the time and I love it! I love training.  I love helping other people learn that they too can love their body at any size, but just do the right things for it... sometimes that does include losing weight, but if you are doing the right things for your body it will naturally get better (i.e. losing weight and healing itself).

I'm not sure how much raw food I will be able to consume today because I have to go to a funeral and I know what kind of food is provided at the gathering that follows.  I just woke up and had my banana tangerine raw dream again.  It is such a refreshing thing to wake up to!  This time I added cinnamon and it reminded me of oatmeal.  A couple more days and i'll be back in Columbus and able to jump right into the raw community there.

I have another training session later with a friend who is out of shape.  I'll be taking her for a nice jog in the neighborhood; up and down the nice hills here in Spring Valley.  It will be a welcomed workout for myself too, since funerals are so sad and the food will also be so s.a.d. - will touch back in later, until then check out my new twitter account!