BiG Incentives: You Give us $10 and We’ll Give YOU $97 OR Stacey Will Sing!!

- By Stacey Terry

Sounds like a threat, eh?

No… we haven’t suffered a serious math injury around here.  Our arithmetic is still ticking.  Nor have I gone mad… (not counting the loose screw in my knee, of course).  I’m just a green-smoothie luvin’ gal on a mission.

I started asking myself what more *I* could do to help raise $10 000 for The Lower East Side Girls Club and our International Green Smoothie Day BiG Event.

How could I use my skills to create more value, more incentive, and add more enjoyment to this experience?  I needed to do the right twang.  Read more »

BiG Changes: Adding Choice, Love & Green Smoothies

Our BiG event is underway and we’re still working hard to reach out and make our goal of raising $10 000 for The Lower East Side Girls Club.  We’ve decided to keep the event open until we reach that goal!  We’re determined that at least 100 girls from the Lower East Side will have a choice this year… that 100 girls will be able to learn about smoothies, eco-living,  and self-empowerment rather than joining many who find themselves stuck in the traps of junk food, poverty, and self-defeat.

We’re going to need help to make that difference in those lives.  All it takes is $10. And we know we can.  We already KNOW what a difference just adding green smoothies for 10 days can make.  It’s not about being perfect… it’s about doing things differently and with more goodness.  We’d love to share a letter that came to us recently from a 10-Day green smoothie challenger.  Find out the difference that greens made for Marie-Eve! Read more »

10 Joyful Reasons to Believe in Green

- by Stacey Terry

You know that feeling… the one you get when you’ve just done something good?  Where a choice had no down side?  Where something you do for yourself has positive, valuable ripple effects for other people?

It kinda starts in your chest and then creeps into your throat, all the while expanding, bubbling, blossoming… and that feeling bursts into a grin, and if you’re a big ol’ softy like me, you feel your eyes glass up with even more joy because you can’t help but see the good, and there’s some kinda self-satisfying humbling glee in being part of something bigger than yourself.

It just. feels. soooo. good!

That’s how I’m feeling these days leading up to BiG!

I love that feeling… and it’s one worth sharing!  And I challenge YOU to join me in the joy bubble!  So here are 10 reasons for you to consider… pick your joy, any joy, and become part of something BiG! Read more »

Beet Greens and Baby Spinach: Recipes from the 3-Day Green Smoothie Challenge

My name is Tanya and I read about the Green Smoothie Queen for the first time on the Raw Diva’s website.

Now I have to say I was more sucessful with the 3 day challenge than with the first challenge I with the Raw Diva 7-day detox I did.  (heheh… Unfortunately I had a few slip ups my first time around, but it got things in motion!)  It has been an interesting process incorporating more raw foods and yummy green smoothies into my diet.

My boys (5 and 3) are very accepting and willing to try the smoothies (even the not so tasty ones).  Even my husband has also joined me on my journey, so I am very excited that this may work!   Since the Raw Diva challenge three weeks ago,  I have planted a garden for fresh produce and I’m making small changes daily.  I know myself and if I go totally whole banana, I Read more »

7-Day Detox Success: 3 Days Was All it Took to Turn Things Around

I’ve been on a bit of a success story binge lately! Just loving the letters that are coming in and wanted to share the most recent one with you! I am SO happy about our 7-day detox! It really is a winner because we get hundreds and hundreds of letters like this one! YAY!!  xo -tw

Hi,

I have kind of a crazy schedule, like most people, I guess.  So I haven’t spent a whole lot of time in the Powder Room, like I would have liked.  I did find it hard to follow the flow of the conversations.  It seemed that some of the threads where from two years ago, etc.  I did post, but didn’t receive a response.  So I was thinking maybe I posted in the wrong place. **shrug**  Or maybe I didn’t take enough time to figure it out.  I have only been a member of one forum before, so maybe I’m not forum-literate!  LOL!

Anyway, I wanted to tell you that since I started the three-day challenge, which immediately led to the 7-day detox, I have lost 13 pounds!  13 pounds! In less than two weeks!  I can’t believe this! I have stuck to the detox completely! I can’t tell you how many detoxes I have started and failed.  I have NEVER been able to finish one.  In fact, I had ordered all the materials I needed for another detox and was waiting for them to arrive when I found your Raw Divas site.  This has truly changed my life, and I wanted to tell you how grateful I am.

I know I have a long way to go.  And I have to say last night, Day 4, was definitely the toughest for me.  I was thinking about my favorite cookies. While I was thinking about them, though, I knew that if I started, I would not be able to stop because I was so hungry.  Why was I hungry?  I didn’t have dinner yet.  I was being lazy about preparing it.  But after eating my very big salad with strawberries and tomatoes, I was ALL GOOD.  No more hunger

Today is Day 5.  I am hydrating this morning, as every morning.  I drink about a liter of water before I have my first meal.  It’s 9:43 and I haven’t become hungry yet.  So weird.  I used to think I had to get up and immediately go to the kitchen to fuel my body, with stuff I’m now realizing isn’t even good for me and was actually what was causing my many issues that I am now free from — in less than two weeks!

All my aches and pains are gone, except for a nagging pinched nerve in my neck.  I wake up feeling refreshed in the morning, ready to start the day. No mood swings, whatsoever.  I just feel great.

Thank you,
Stephanie Bryant
Sunny San Diego