ups and downs on a bumpy road.

Its been a while since I wrote here or anywhere else, even my daily journal has been missing my writing. 
I wouldn't say that this period of time was easy, with prolonged winter in UK, lengthy grey days even till now! we are still wearing jackets and it is quite depressing. maybe it is another reason of not writing. well anyway I am back and I am typing. 

Lots of things happen and firstly I am no longer fully 100%, yes its been hard for me emotionally with the full time job, and pressure from taking my herbs. I put back some weight. I ate a lot of different things and sometimes not vegan as well.  But gradually I am going back to raw. I hope sun will visit us here very soon and it will be a bit uplifting.

Maybe I have digital overdose? Well I see like everyone writing the blogs, posting things on Facebook, twitter and instagram.... and I don't want to be in that at all.... I feel like I want to be just an audience, just detach myself from it and watch. I must admit I don't even read many things,  I feel I had enough. Just want to be free and not expecting likes, views and comments. This is how I feel at the moment. I think I need sometime for myself. 

But I have a plan! A watermelon plan! 

I always wanted to do it, but last year it didn't happened. So this year I am more convinced. It is a watermelon season in UK at the moment and I plan to go on mono watermelon fast. First for 3 days. 

Here is how I see it will work: 

1,2,3 days - breakfast and lunch - watermelon, dinner - any other fruit or salad 
4,5,6 days - mono watermelon paradise. 

Usually people start from Monday, but I will start tomorrow it will Wednesday, I like Wednesdays :) 

I will post the results. 

LOVE 

Juice Fast update and results!

Failure or Victory? Are there such things in detoxification?

In this blog I would like to be as honest as possible and reveal some of the dark sides of raw food diet. And lift the curtains of positive blogs all over the internet.

I have ended my juice fast on the 5th day in the evening. First 4 days were absolutely fine, heavy detox, my tong was covered in white mucus and I had the same on my teeth.  It wasn't pleasant.  I had mood swings and I also was feeling waves of energy and waves of weakness during my 4th day.

So what happened on the 5th day of my juice fast and why I decided to break it?

I woke up as usual around 9am and had my glass of water with lemon, with a bit of added honey. Then I  juiced my lovely oranges as usual and was enjoying them. We decided to go for a walk, as in London, UK finally we had rays of sun, I juiced my apples. It was about 1pm and I was feeling a bit anxious. I did not had much appetite, but had severe cravings for smoked salmon and bread with butter. Oh yes... And cravings started to come out the night before. I coped for the whole day, and at around 3.30pm I decided to have my juice. After about half a bottle I felt nausea and could not drink the juice anymore. We walked around our favorite Brick Lane and decided to go home. On the way back I bought some bananas because I decided to make a smoothie when we are back home. Just thinking about juice made me nauseous!!!!


At home I had my favorite banana apple cacao smoothie, and it felt great! Well, for sometime. As it was nearing evening time I felt weaker and weaker, had tears in my eyes and I was not very stable. I did not feel very hungry but I craved to eat something. It went on for a while. All this time I was sipping my herbal tea and it felt like it was helping. I couldn't think about any juice as nausea would come up straight away. Then at around 6-7pm my body started shaking and I could feel that I can't hold my cup of tea, and I was very close to passing out with vision blackout. I got scared! And now as I am writing, i can see that these were detox symptoms that I was waiting for, and ideally I should have gone to bed to sleep. Anyway, I was roaming around the house not knowing what I need to or what I want to do. I decided that I need to balance myself out somehow.I got out white cabbage and cooked it with carrots and a bit of spices and immediately I felt better. Well also my detox stopped at that point.

The next morning on Monday I felt very hungry as soon as I woke up. I had four bananas before I got to the office and then the whole day I was munching on some grapes, blueberries and hazelnuts. In the evening I had the same cabbage dinner as the night before and (terribly!!!) I had some plain crackers (store bought, not raw).

On the other hand, I noticed that I don't eat as much as I used to and my appetite is regulated somehow.


In conclusion I can say that every time I do a juice fast it throws me back to cooked food. I always crack in the middle! However, I am very proud that I did 5 full days on juices only, and next time it will be even better. It can be that morally I am not really ready for deep detox at this moment. What could have happened is that I forced my body into this detox and actually could not tolerate this level. There is so much to learn on this path to ultimate health!

7 Day Juice Fast!

It is already February, time passes so quickly. Spring is coming and it is time to prepare for healthier spring and summer.

I decided to do 7 Day Juice Fast! Only juices and herbal teas during 7 days! The completion of this plan is not that easy. Last year I have done 3 days liquid fast including smoothies and only 3 days of juice fast as it got very intense and uncomfortable.  This year I would like to go for full 7 days and beyond if I would feel good. But initial plan is 7 days!

There are countless juicing benefits, one of them is that your body is going to fast and concentrate on eliminating cellular waste in the mean time it gets all the nutrients and vitamins through the juice. Basically when we are removing the fibre from the fruit or vegetable it is easier for our body to absorb nutrients. Yes fibre is important, but I believe that systematical juice fasts during the year are good for the body. My goal of these 7 days is to eliminate as much waste as possible and loose couple of kilos and also to bring me closer to the fruitarian diet. 

When someone is doing a juice fast it is important to stay focused and do not let temptations or mind to dodge you. It is very easy to talk yourself out of it, especially on day 4 of the fast. So lets speak about the days and what to do to stay focused and succeed until the end of day 7.

On the first and second days usually everything is fine, excitement is kicking and you cope with the detox symptoms (depends how clean your body is, sometimes first few days are very hard) fairly easy. Then starting from day  3 the detox goes deeper into the cells and the body aligns itself on elimination of cellular waste. On day 4 usually people break down. And yes I did the same thing last time on day 4 I could not cope, my mind was fuzzy and all I wanted was to chew something, and I slipped. Here is a short but inspirational video. This video really inspired me and I want to go till the end of day 7. 

After day 4 I can`t say anything as I haven't done it yet, I believe that it gets easier with each day as it goes. I will share my experience after completing this juice fast. 

I decided that I will start my juice fast on Wednesday  which will lead me to have day 4 on Saturday, when I can stay at home and stay in the bed if I want to. Otherwise Saturday is my Bikram Yoga day, but I will tell you about that in some other post. 


Inspiration during the juice fast is very important. The best inspiration for me is Dan The Man or Liferegenerator on YouTube and Dr. Robert Morse. These two are inspiring me everyday to stay on this journey! Also I have a couple of books that I would be reading through. One of them is Arnold Ehert "Mucusless Diet" and "Rational fasting" and Dr.Morse book  "The Detox Miracle Source book"  I read them all but I will be going through them again. Videos and books will be my inspiration during these 7 days. I may also read a novel just to relax. 

I plan to keep away from TV, not that I am watching it all the time, but it is in the background when my husband does watch. It will help me not to see food adverts on it. It may trigger the hunger and mind to eat something.

Then to keep away from the recipe pages! Oh that would be very hard, as I love to research on raw food recipes  and I know myself that I probably will look into them. 

I will be concentrating on rest as much as possible, although I am an office worker, so I will be working full time Wednesday to Friday and all the evenings rest rest rest! Rest is very important during the fast, it will help you eliminate toxins. 

Another important thing that I will incorporate to this juice fast is an enema, on the third/fourth day. When the toxins will hit hard on the body it will be good to do an enema.  It will be easier to eliminate those toxins in the intestines and it will stop the craving and give you light head. 

Plenty of juices is the key to stay till the end! For this - the key is planning!  Make sure you have plenty of produce available at your disposal at home to make juices for the day. I will also be drinking Heal All Tea and 3 Lung tea to go deeper in my detox. You can also drink water or/and coconut water if desired. 

It is also good to have a variety of juices, but not that important. Just to have something different in taste. My juices  will be of few in variety - orange or citrus juice, apple, apple+carrot and green juice. In my following posts I will share the recipes that I will use. 

Healty hair update

Here is my update on the experiment with the healthy option to washing hair, you can read my previous blog on this topic here.

My hair is my pride, and when I totally was ready to leave the whole story with the apple cider vinegar and home made shampoo the revelation came to me! 

Here is my little story. 

My hair was very oily and dry at the same time and dandruffy.  I was panicking as I hate dandruff and itchiness. My husband was already saying - just get the shampoo and done with that. 

But as i am stubborn, I decided to give it a last try, and I switched completely to baking soda and water shampoo method. It is so easy! Just in the empty shampoo bottle put one spoon of baking soda and one cup of room temperature water, shake it and vuola! your shampoo is ready. Then simply apply to the roots massaging your head and leave it for few moments. After that just wash it out thoroughly under your shower

Now for the last 2 weeks I use this method and it is a miracle! My hair is silky and smooth again! I can brush them easily and now I can leave my hair down. Yes I might hear you saying - OMG its too long for transition. But I think if I would start straight with the baking soda it would be much quicker. 

I must say I have alternate my methods. I use less apple cider vinegar for conditioning my hair and I use it only on ends and with baking soda I use it only on roots.

It makes miracles! I highly recommend this method! 

Mono eating

Lately I have been attracted to mono eating.

What is mono eating? When you consume only one type of food in one seating. In my case one fruit at the time. No mixing, no dressings.

It states that mono eating is fantastic for optimal digestion. When you give your stomach to absorb all the nutrients of the fruit and not be bothered with dividing one from another. The food is easily digested due to the enzymes that it contains. When our body is not busy with dividing different enzymes and nutrients in can be doing what it does the best - self healing and detoxification, removing all the undigested food in our intestines that we have collected for years of consuming refined foods, meats and diary. raw food it self already working as a scrub on the intestines  and in this way I think it will be working in more efficient way. 

More I research on this topic more it resonate with me, my body telling me that this is the right way for now, for this moment. 

It is easy to follow: hungry - eat one fruit - no mess, no recipes  no cooking, no thinking of what to prepare with what I had some issues previously as I always was thinking of what I will eat for lunch and dinner. Now my problem is sorted. 

I will give it a go and I declare a mono eating challenge from today! I am not going to set the counting days, just going to take it day by day and see where and what it will bring to me.  

New Year Night Cupcakes

Hurray! The New Year Night was absolutely amazing, I was eating my melon and drinking my orange juice.

I have enjoyed the night in between people I didn't knew and in the arms of my husband. I missed him last year as he was away, this night was magical.

Back to business of cupcakes. I have made them, but did not take them with me as I did not anticipated the quantity of dates that I had.

it is simple and delicious recipe with few ingredients. Here is what you need:

First step is the base:
1 cup of nuts, any nuts like almonds, walnuts or pecans.
1 cup of dates
4 table spoons of water
1 spoon of raw cocoa or carob

Crush the nuts in the food processor and set aside. Then mix the dates and water in food processor it will make paste like consistency. Then mix in the bowl date paste and nuts, you will get nutty dough. I really liked to add water in the dates and only then mixing with nuts, I find it much better rather then just blend it all together.

Fill the cupcakes forms with the nut base.

Next step is cream:
500 gram of ripe persimmons
1/5 tea spoon of cinnamon



Just blend the persimmons in the Vitamix.

And pour the cream into the cupcakes.
should look like this:


Cupcakes are ready to go to the freezer just for one hour. I thought it was to little and I left it for the whole night - big mistake!

The next morning the cupcakes turned into the ice cream.

The recipe needs alternations that I came up with. After the base is made put the cupcakes in to the freezer for few hours, I think the more the better. Then when you are about to have your party or guests pour the cream in the forms and back in the freezer for about one hour. This way the cream will not become ice cream and the base will not fall apart.  I hope you will enjoy this recipe!

Happy New Year!!!

Happy New Year to everyone!
This day and night I wish you spend with your family and friends and after midnight you will have amazing party!!!!

From where I come (Latvia, Russian origin) we say - the way you spend your new year night will be the way you spend the following year. So let it be filled with loads of smiles, happiness and love!!!

As for me, we are going with my hubby to the friends party. It will be a little test for me, as I plan to stay fully raw and sober! For that reason I plan to take a jar of juice, melon and some grapes with me. And for the guests I will make raw sharon fruit cupcakes. Recipe will follow in the next blog with photos.