Day 1. "The distance is nothing. It's only the first step that counts."

Ok. The first step is taken. I have been thinking about eating healthier for quite a while now. It was a craving, a hankering inside me. I disliked the food I was eating at my partner's home, too much meat, too little vegetables.. just not my style at all. I need this sense of health and freshness. Not only in my food, but around me.
And one good day I stumbled upon a video by Therese de Wolf. (Rawdownunder). I really instantly loved her videos and her journey.
Then I looked much deeper into raw food, read many many pages on the internet, and it was like it clicked instantly.
I am totally unprepared at this stage, but today it's Sunday and so I went out, found some wild greens and made my first green smoothie.
Not too bad (though not delicious either..) for a first smoothie.
Luckily I just had a blood test done, so I have something to compare with in some time from now.
I wish I could stop all treatments right now, and as soon as I start in earnest (e.a. have all the right foods that I need) I will stop the thyroid treatment. Sadly can't stop the hormones, as they're inside me, but in 2 years time, I will hopefully be in full swing with the raw diet and will not carry on with it. See what happens.

On a more personal note, it seems I have just become single again. And it feels quite final this time.
So this is the right time to change things in my life. I have the strength and determination. I FEEL it's good, it pulls me.
I have also signed up for a 10 day meditation retreat.
So I'm on my way to a better me. I hope to see myself as a calm, balanced, healthy, vibrant person in not too long from now.
I am starting to feel my health slowly decline and I don't want it. I'm ONLY 45 and that's far too young to have bad eyes and arthritis menacing around the corner.
So I will assess myself and see how all these symptoms behave.
I hope to be able to say that they've gone very soon.

Ok, so today my first smoothie contained:
1 banana
some wild greens
some wild cherry tomatoes I found
organic rice milk
chia seeds
apple juice
ground goji berries.

Am making lists at the moment and will empty my cupboards soon.

So. Let's see what happens.