Beautiful_Reina

Thank you so much!!!!

well I think it would be good if more than one person suggested it, she might think its only me having the problem and I doubt thats the case...

Is it possible to "pin" all of these missions to one place so we can find them like the Adventurers did. I completely missed mission 2 and only found this one because someone sent me a link...

Thank you Pookie and Renegade!! Ya know, the Assassins have all of their missions listed together--very easy to find and convenient. I wish ours were that way too. But to answer your question, Avalonna--yes, as I said several times, I am not a raw foodie, just leaning in that direction. Right now I am trying recipes a couple of times a week.

hmm well I completed mini mission number 3--killing kobolds--but then I found out it was the adventurers mission and not the assassins. Ah well, I can't find the missions to save my life. Anyway as kobolds are easy to kill, the mission was to just kill more and more and more of them, as many as we could. And the kobolds looked like pushups....so I killed 4 sets of 12 of them until my arms are about to fall off. It was a good mission, even though it wasn't actually MY mission. Maybe next time I'll find OUR post =)

Most people who eat raw don't let the temp go above 115 degrees (the temp at which most proteins start to denature). As far as raw meat, if you have ever eaten beef jerky, it was most likely "raw" (industrialixed factories routinely raise temps to ridiculous levels) but good quality organic jerky is usually raw. Ditto with sushi. There are a lot of folks who follow a paleo raw diet, as Renegade said, but that doesn't mean bloody drippy raw meats. It would be more of the pemican and beef jerky style meat....and raw eggs were part of egg nog (hence the name) until recently, when the world became industrialixed.

ha ha ha ha you actually made me laugh out loud on that one!!!

Yeah, the food can be warm. The whole point is to not destroy the proteins and enxymes in it with the cooking. Whenever we eat cooked food, our bodies send antibodies to the site, as if the food were an invader.We can digest and live on most anything (as the SAD--Standard American Diet--has shown, but it isn't optimal for health. We are healthiest on food as it comes from the ground, or tree, or nest, or whatever. This is a quick refresher course from biology--you know how the proteins have either a alpha helix or a ladder configuration, then they have their secondary form, however they are twisted into a shape that is specific to that protein, then their may be more than one bonded together, then the whole thing is in a shape particular to it or them...cooking causes the shape to distort. It is called "de-naturing" the protein. It is the reason an egg cannot be un-scrambled--the proteins are de-natured and destroyed, so there is no going back. Raw food is eaten with the proteins and enxymes intact. It can be warmed, cut up, maniupulated in a lot of ways, just so it is still the same food as it started. You can even freexe it (as in, froxen bananas for smoothes), even though the freexing causes ice crystals to form in it that ruptures the cell walls, the proteins and enxymes are still intact.... I'm not really a physicist or chemist, but I've studied nutrition for maybe 25 years (lots of underpants!!) and this raw diet really speaks to me. I'm not a raw foodie yet but leaning in that direction. But about Pookie's comment, on a chilly winter day, a nice warm chili, a robust mushroom burger, some creamy soup--it doesn't have to be just cold salads. =)

A mistake a lot of people make is to assume that "raw" means eating cold food. This isn't true. The food can be warm, just not enough to de-nature it. That "hot" soup you crave in the winter, you generally let it cool to warm anyway before you eat it. A raw food diet is similar in paleo in that it eliminates most grains (all wheat), dairy, refined sweets (sugar and the like), and focuses on eating for nutrition and energy. The biggest thing about raw is that the food is still alive--the proteins and enxymes (sorry THAT key on my keyboard has stopped working, I have to substitute an x whenever THAT key is needed)--but the proteins and enxymes are still intact and not de-natured. You don't have to eat cold stuff and just raw fruit and salads. Last week we had a wonderful warm and spicy Tex-Mex soup for supper.It was as good or better than the cooked one we had last night.

I did the mini challenge but there was antoher challenge, which I posted on once but never could find it again after that. Is there a nack for being able to locate the challenges?

HI Renegade, thank you for checking up on me!! I'm doing great--it has been so cold the last few days that I've been walking inside, (Walk Away the Pounds, with Leslie), and it doesn't lend as well to photos ha ha But today I had a green smoothie for breakfast--It was my first one, and I made it sort of Tex-Mex because those type of foods are my favorite flavors. For breakfast I had: a cup of cilantro half a lemon and half a lime two tomatoes 3 cloves of garlic half an avocado 2 green onions 1 cucumber 1 jalapeno Pepper 1 red bell pepper and a little salt It made 2 glasses of smoothie--I think 2 servings? But no one else wanted any so I'm going to drink it all, for 281 calories. It is DELICIOUS, has at least 6 servings of veggies, very low calorie, and its a lot--will definitely keep me full for awhile! It isn't as spicy as I expected it to be, I think the lemon and lime tamed it down. I am tempted to add a little cumin to it but its really good right now so I am afraid to fix what ain't broke =) I am working on incorporating raw foods for breakfast, mostly juice, smoothies, or fruit. I shoulda got a pic of it =)

I wanna do it! I wanna do it!!

Hi fellow assassin! I love your goals--oh, yeah, its because they are also my goals ha ha We are both wanting to lose 2 lbs a week, eat healthy food at home and bring lunches, and start walking everyday. AND while you are studying Japanese, I'll be studying Irish! How's that for similar plans! But as we move towards the end of this first week I just wanted to say Way to Go!!!! and YAY, You! You are doing exactly what you need to do, to get yourself back into stealth mode and free running through shadows, and you can Absolutely do it!!! Reina