House of Pearlman

Been back from the annual family cruise now since Saturday evening. Started on raw, Saturday morning in the airport, where we had to wait 5 hours for the plane. Ouch.

No deviations, so far, and no major cravings. There’s something pretty powerful about restricting yourself to food which is almost entirely without any addictive quality. It highlights for me how much my eating has been driven by something other than real hunger. With the really yummy stuff off the menu, I’m finding that I’m a lot less interested in eating altogether.

I think I’ve probably lost 2.5 to 3 pounds in the first 48 hours. Feel perfectly fine. Heartburn already gone.

The things I’ve eaten so far (that I can recall):

• Bananas
• Dehydrated apples
• Salad greens and fresh mushrooms with a balsamic vinaigrette (made from balsamic vinegar, extra virgin olive oil and raw tahini)
• Fruit salad (grapes, pineapple, honeydew melon, strawberries)
• Cucumbers dipped in raw almond butter
• Carrots
• Raw almonds
• Raw pecans
• Raw pistachios
• Avocados with balsamic vinegar
• Orange juice
• Apple juice
• Water

I think I may need to give up orange juice, apple juice, and balsamic vinegar as I think the acidity is exacerbating my psoriasis. A good replacement would be pineapple, which I’m 95% sure has no effect on my skin.