Day 1
I start the day with a banana, mango and blueberry smoothie which is actually no different to how I start most days so this is no biggie, it's only after I've been researching raw recipes online all morning and start to get hungry that I realise that I'm going to need a lot more preparation as I've not got anything for lunch or dinner unless I wish to snack on bananas all day. By the time I'm ready to go out into the world I'm already famished and have to snack on some cherries.
Once out I head to holland and Barrett where a spotty teenage boy regrets asking me if I need any help and recoils in horror when I tell him about my raw food challenge. After he's scuttled off to hide in the store room I browse the shelves unsure of what I'm actually allowed to have and whether I can get any of it cheaper in tescos.
I leave the shop having been signed up to the points card system and after purchasing a jar of vegan mayonnaise, some vegan mozzarella and some raw snack bars in a variety of flavours. Again I am so hungry that I crack open the cashew nut one and chow down before I've even pocketed my change. I'm a bit put off by the look and texture of it but it actually doesn't taste that bad.
I run round tescos trying to avoid eye contact with the cheese and trying to ignore the smell of freshly baked bread while I stock up on spinach and salad items and a bit of cous cous for good measure.
Now so hungry I'm actually growling at people, I pay for my shopping and run home to make myself a hearty salad before I kill someone.
The salad actually fills me up so I head to rehearsals for the evening feeling a little bit happier but this is short lived. About an hour into rehearsals the hunger returns in full force. I've found that you don't get slightly hungry first it just comes as a full throttle smack in the face hunger that descends with no warning. I drink some water to see if this helps. It doesn't.
I make someone take me home as the thought of getting two buses with this hunger is too much to bear and I console myself with a nice bowl of cherries. It's not the same as some toast and marmite and I go to bed hungry.
Day 2
Ok new day but still not feeling great about the whole thing. Doesn't help that Mazza is doing the challenge with me for the first seven days and her first diary entry is light and breezy as though she's going to swan through this no problem.
Again I start the day with a banana mango and blueberry smoothie but I put more mango and blueberries in this time. As I'm going out house hunting today I put another snack bar in my bag along with a tub of vegetables containing carrots, baby corn and mange tout drenched in balsamic vinegar as that's the only way to make them palatable when you're in a hurry. Once again when I tell my friend about the challenge he recoils in horror and tells me about the bacon sarnie he had for breakfast while I grind my teeth and stuff my face with carrot batons.
It's on the bus home that the hunger returns and I feel that if I eat another vegetable stick I'm going to kill someone so we have to get off the bus and go to tesco where I stock up on brazil nuts, a pot of pineapple chunks, some oats, honey and some innocent smoothies as I can't wait til I get home to have something, anything!
The smoothie abates my hunger somewhat but it's not satisfying at all. You know when you get hungry when you're out and about and you can deal with it because "it's ok, I'll have some nice hearty beef stew and dumplings when I get home" and you know you'll be satisfied until breakfast in the morning but this hunger is awful because you know that whatever you eat isn't going to fill you up for long and the hunger cycle is going to continue.
I go to the opening show and take my brazil nuts with me to snack on but it's just not the same unless they're covered in chocolate.
Get home to bed just as hungry and miserable. Read Mazzas second diary entry, think she's starting to crack too. The hunger will get you in the end and when do these cravings stop!!!
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