Day 15

Two weeks done! Week-end was so nice, I was feeling a lot better and I even met new people:D (which I haven't done because I spent my time in bed...)

On friday I had especially nice day, cycling around the city with my new friend. Lucily it was a sunny day and I catch some nice pics... And eating fruit all day:)

So happy I finally got my butt up to see new places! And on saturday I was checking Barcelona's nightlife, I have never been in such a big bar and after that a club called RazzMatazz. I did drink a couple of drinks though and ate some rice and beans at night. I think it's okay, now continuing eating fruit and salad in the night. And I also started with new herbs today:) Stomach, lymph system & nodes and kidney formulas again...+ skin formula. Let's see what happens:)

It's like a rollercoaster...

...one day feeling awful and next fay fine:D Well at least something is happening. A little headache again and some spots on my shoulders and face>:[

I was in fruitmarket and bought again some strawberries (oh how they smell like summer), mangoes, cucumber, tomatoe...and one honeymelon. On my way to market I noticed one bike wheel fastened around a street lamp with bike lock...yes the rest of that bike was stolen. So I'm happy I bought a full secure lock system in my bike:D Stealing is stupid...

Rest day I was drawing and at my tablet... Not really energy to go sightseeing some tourist traps.

It's Snufkin!

day 9

Feeling a bit heavy right now, like when I'm about to get a fever. This morning I had a little pain in my throat and I have been coughing today. I'm not worried about getting fever (it would actually be a good thing) but how I have energy to buy food and water, I have to dress up and go out:D

So yesterday started to eat a big cucumber-tomatoe-springonion-salad with some olives (still googling for bio olives, have to buy some). Good to slow down my detox a bit. Feeling better now, except for heavy feeling:)

end of the week 1

At last, one week done:) This week-end was just resting and today I was watching raw food
videos all day long... I want to eat all those delicious looking dishies they were making and I can't wait to try all the recepies!

I have been eating oranges and mandarines all week-end and now I'm so done with them:D Tomorrow I wake up and go to the market and buy some grapes, mangoes/papaya and tomato & cucumber because I need something slightly savory.

Detox going okay, felt a bit tired and depressed today. At least it was sunny day!

Just a quick post before going to sleep! Good night!:)

lazy day...

Yesterday I was looking for used bikes shops in Barcelona on the Internet and found this: greenbikesbarcelona.com ! So I took a metro to the center and after some searching I found this cute shop...

They rent bikes for 10e per day and also buy old bikes to renovate them and then sell them to new people. They also had this "buy-back" guarantee, perfect for me! So I asked the cheapest bike they had, and seller showed me this bike for 125e:

Peugeot:3 I have a car Peugeot 306 in Finland! So I had to buy it. And actually the cost is about 60 euros because I will sell it back before I leave...not so bad. Now it is quick and easy to move between places.

Last thing to do was to buy some food for this day, fruitmarket was calling...

Found some nice green grapes 0,99e / kg, and I took 3kg... They sell these fresh natural juices of every flavour! I couldn't resist them, I bought one strawberry-mango and gosh it was good!

At least I didn't buy these sweet little evils;)

Nothing special today, I decided to rest this day in hostel because I was soo tired yesterday after biking to the hostel..and slept like 12 hours. Mmm I love sleeping;)

Thoughts about carbs, calories etc.

Sometimes people are how can I stay just eating fruit, or only eating one fruit for days, the biggiest deal is not to restrict your eating (or carbohydrates)! Eat whenever you feel hungry, especially during the day (otherwise you will feel these huge cravings in the evening).

And biggiest thing I learned during the five weeks I was volunteering in the living food center was not to restrict carbohydrates. The food there was mostly based on vegetables and greens (very low in calories), sprouts (protein), nuts & seeds (fat) and some dried & fresh fruit. So most of my calories came from fat. Well I found out that even if I ate the amount I was supposed, I still felt... well not hungry but somehow unsatisfied. Cells use carbs as a fuel (glucose) and when I was eating high-fat, low-carb diet, I felt lazy and slow all the time. Body can also convert fat and protein into glucose if it doesn't get enough carbs. But it takes a LOT more energy converting than eating simple fruits. And when you have more energy, your body has more energy to heal itself:)

So when I'm not starving my cells from carbs nor calories, I feel so energized and happy! Well of course we must also remember that detoxing isn't always only fun, especially at the beginning!

And the other thing about calories, I eat about 2000 calories (actually kilocalories, but I will use word calories) and it feels good, I don't feel hungry. Many people say it is too less on a fruitarian diet, so I should eat more. But it is very important to learn to listen to your body AND keep in mind that sometimes; what works for you today might not work in the future. So right now my body is detoxing and I'm craving for oranges, mangoes, apples, grapes, watermelon... everything pretty light and detoxing. So I eat them, take my herbs and rest a lot. Sure I will be eating & exercising a lot more in the future, when I feel my body is cleaner and healthier:)

I have spent half of this day by watching those addicting youtube videos...:) I love Robert Morse's videos, FullyRaw Kristina, Loren Lockman, Bananagirl... just to mention few.

Btw, I took my super old rollerblades with me here "to move faster" to the center...well not exactly:D I did a trip with them but the walking roads are mostly not paved with asphalt so...it wasn't so pleasant trip. I really need to buy a cheap bike somewhere! But where...

Today I ate propably 5 kilos of oranges, can't eat more:D I also started with lymphatic system & nodes herb formulas. Good day, only a little stomach ache.

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food

Nice day today, just a veryvery little headache in the morning and my neck feels like a bit stuck... I ate the rest of the mangoes and I found some really cheap oranges while walking on the streets. Only 0.50e per kilo, so I bought 10 kilos:D Ohh what work to drag them to hostel...

So I have my food for tomorrow, mmm.

I am suprised that I felt so tired today already at 6 p.m. even though I slept so well last night. But I believe my body really needs it's rest now. Just few pictures before I go to meet sandman:)

 I was walking through a huge market place and there was soo much stuff!

eating mangoes

So today I started this, eating 100% fruit. So kind of fruit fast, like Morse says :) And taking herbs to make sure my kidneys are filthering;)

I woke up about half past nine and took my map to see where there is the Boqueria (one of Europe's largest and most famous food market, with lots of fruit stalls!) So I took my backpack and headed to the center. Finally I found the market and after walking all around it, I found a stall with nice ripe mangoes 1,39e / kg, and asked the seller to weight them for 10 euros. He was looking me a bit akward but started to weight my 7 kilo mango meal:D I have a budget about 5e per day to food, so this should last for two days... and today I have eaten almost half of it.

When I finally got my mangoes I was already starving! So I saw a nice and big looking park in my map, just ten minutes walking from the market. So I found the park and ate two HUGE mangoes:P yammi

Rest time I was just walking around to see all the nice shops in the center area, ohh so many clothes shops and I just have to be satisfied trying them on because I have to save the money to my mangoes;D

I have felt quite normal and good, no headache or any else "detox symptoms". Maybe not yet. Just feeling cold but it is only about 10 degrees outside and it's not too warm here in the hostel neither. But going to bed soon to make sure I get enough rest and sleep!

Ps. I started with kidney, stomach, parasites G&M formulas and heal all tea 1/2 cups three times a day, continuing next two weeks...

New blog:)

I decided to start a blog about my journeys & life in general. I also write it in english so everyone can understand:) Trying to write as good english as I can.

I love travelling so I do it quite a lot. I have also some health problems that have inspired me to search how to live life healthy and what affects one's health. My biggiest problem have been my stomach.

I have always had some problems with my stomach, but about 2 years ago my stomach was hurting so bad, that I went to hospital to get some days off from work. It just happened like this: one night 4 am I woke up to an awful pain in my stomach, something I have never felt before like cold and burning at the same time.. it's hard to describe. I waited for the next day and the pain relieved. Afternoon I was hungry and cooked some rice and chicken... after half an hour of eating the same pain came SO bad I had to ask my father to take me in hospital. They couldn't say anything and I didn't want to use any painkillers. So when I came home, I rested and ate something very light like berries and fruit.
Since that I have had this weird feeling in my stomach especially in the morning. I left meatproducts about one year ago because of both ethical reasons and because my stomach didn't seem to digest it anymore. I didn' like it anyway:)

So right now I'm in Barcelona, Spain. I just arrived here yesterday and I chose this city because I saw some super nice pics about fruit market in Barcelona and one estonian friend of mine have been there!

Yes this is my pinky flowery bag which might seem ridiculous but I think it's genius! No one can mix it to their baggage and this bag can never be lost!:D

And before this I was september-october 2012 in Spain, starting my journey from 811-friendly fruit festival in Andalucia, it was amazing! Then I continued to Malaga because I didn't have any plans... stayed there for over a week (a very nice & cheap fruit market there also!). One day I was chatting with my mom in fb and she told me about this Camino de Santiago she found from Internet. When I read about this Camino I decided that there I must go! So I travelled in Roncesvalles northern Spain by trains and buses. I got my pilgrim passport there and walked for 25 days about 20km per day and I ate only fruits and nuts during day and a HUGE  salad with cooked rice in the evening:) I felt so energized & amazing and that was the longest time completely VEGAN :) Walking the Camino was such amazing experience anyways! I totally recommend it for every person ready to have few blisters and muscle pain for this magnificent experience! :D

Just a few pics from the camino... (maybe I'll do a post about it some time?)

30.11. 2012 I came back in Finland for over a week and then continued to Skeppsgården, Sweden in the Living Food Global Center. I stayed there for 5 weeks volunteering and I met so many amazing people and learned a lot there! Especially I miss one lovely swedish girl, we came along so well!:) So this time I stayed now first time so long RAW VEGAN but in my opinion this Ann Wigmore raw vegan style has too less fruit and too much nuts, seeds, and some savory things like tamari and spices. It didn't actually make me feel best physically but much more better than eating Mc'Donalds food;D Here I also met this one swedish guy and he told me about Robert Morse nd (naturopathic doctor) and his videos in youtube. I watched few and addicted totally! All he was telling made sense to me and I agreed everything!:) So I started planing where to go next... some place with lot of cheap fruit and a cheap place to stay: I found Barcelona and bought one way ticket. I decided to start the real detox (also ordered some suitable herbs from dr. Morses webpage).

So now I'm kind of combining travelling and improving my health:) I will be posting here things about detoxing feelings, my life here and other thouhgts!

And in the end some pics from my stay in Skeppsgården...

I just have to put this pic in the end:D I didn't know should I laugh or cry when I saw these in the shop... must be a joke? :D ( Well now we know where the happiness was hiding all the time lol)