Transitioning

I was thinking today about this journey I'm on and how much it has changed me already. I am not doing the total raw anymore as I think I needed a little more transitional time to get my calories up. I was seriously undercarbed almost the entire time, and it was starting to put me in the starvation mode which I wanted to avoid. So I switched to "Raw til 4" (RT4), which means that I eat raw fruits (mostly) and veggies (occasionally) until dinner time. Then I have a cooked high carb meal. I am still striving to eat as close to 90% of my calories as carbohydrates, 5% protein, and 5% fat (90/5/5), but the numbers are coming out closer to 80/10/10 which is still okay in some books.

I'm still struggling to know how much food to buy and keep it from spoiling before I can eat it. There is a serious learning curve with this lifestyle, but it is not so much difficult as different. I am enjoying the challenge, but I don't want to take too long to figure it out as I'm running out of time. 6 decades of bad eating is not going to change overnight.

Here's my food for the today:

Breakfast: 6 bananas

Lunch: 1 qt apple/cherry juice

Dinner: Roasted red pepper sauce, pasta, vegan Parmesan

Total calories: 2445

Caloronutrient ratio (carbs/protein/fat): 85/10/6

I didn't start out doing this for the planet as many of my young friends have done. I think that's a great reason to do it, but I never felt motivated enough to actually make the change for the animals' sakes, especially dairy and eggs. Since going vegan 3/24/15 (one whole month YAY) that has changed, and I am increasingly repulsed by meat, eggs, and dairy products. It is very strange really. That's not to say they do not seem inviting to me when I prepare them for my family, but when I think what they are, they no longer appeal to me, and I feel a little sick. If we did not have a freezer full of sacrificial animals, I would be unwilling to prepare them for my family. They have been put on notice that I will no longer purchase or prepare animal products for them when these are gone. They will have to get their fixes elsewhere. I'm trying not to be snotty about it as I have spent the better part of the 6 decades eating my friends, so who am I to look down on someone else? But it is increasingly disturbing.