I'm finding new ways to manipulate my data, since there is no hard way of determining the exact "rawness" factor of foods. If I eat a smoothy alone, it's 100% raw; that's easy. But if I have, say, a bowl of soup half an hour later, which might be only 20% with its raw accoutrements, I can include it in the same meal and the average is thus 60%. Eating a few bigger meals means fewer numbers to average the day's take, while if I had to use both of the entries in the above example as separate, then I end up dividing the day's mini-meals by five or six, and the total is lower. I've found myself doing both, with foods an hour or so apart, and this gets wonky.
This has been exasperating, as I feel like I have been sacrificing this month while my daily averages can't seem to get above 60% or so. Granted, I haven't been "sacrificing" as much as in my gung-ho first month; if I want Chocolate Decadence before I can bear the chore of hours of filing, I'm going to do it (and I did!). The only way out of this would be to create a strict menu-guideline, with everything I ate standardized in its proportions and calculated to a set degree of rawness, that is NOT going to happen. This ain't Weight Watchers!!
So I'll muddle through with my guesstimates, and, like my budget, try not to get too wrapped up in the figures. I'm trying to capture the spirit of raw dieting, and so far it is much more elusive than expected when I have to be honest and write about it. But I can say that after half a tub of Decadence yesterday, I had a perk and later a crash; today I indulged by having a date-carob-coconut water shake, which tasted almost as good and so far has had just as good a perk. The test will come later, if I have a crash or not. Tune in tomorrow to see!