Day 14 at Hippocrates

Saturday.

Today I only had a 1/2 hour worth of treatments, so I basically had the day to myself. Today I finally reached my goal of walking 9 laps around the one side of the campus.I've been slowing building up the number of laps as I'm feeling stronger and better each day. I'm not sure how many miles that would be but I'm guessing about 5 miles because it normally takes me about 20 minutes to walk a mile and I walked for like an hour and 50 minutes with a stop now and again for water and green juice!

Then spent the rest of the day resting, reading and hanging out in nature.

Dinner was "light" consisting of a delicious salad mix they prepare with spring mix lettuce, sprouts and avocado all mixed up and you can put it in a huge raw collard green or a sprouted, whole grain flat tortilla-type wrap. I tried both when they had it last week and I preferred the collard green, so that's what I went with this week. And tonight was ice cream night, so that's a happy time around here! I went with the nut ice cream again since I'm not supposed to eat fruit and it was delicious.

I think I have the recipe for it, but once again I forgot my recipe packets in my room, so I'll start posting soon!

Tomorrow a bunch of us signed up to go to Chef Renate's house where she will be giving a raw food demo of a 4-course meal and then we sit down to enjoy the food she prepared. She's very creative so I'm hoping to get some nice ideas from her since I would love to be able to do that some day. My town house is not that big so I couldn't have quite so many people, but I think it would be fun.

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