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 MOTH
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My RAW journey. I've been all RAW for months now, and am loving it more every day as my body cleanses with pure organic raw food. Since I've gone raw, I've had more energy then I know what to do with, increased self-confidence and vitality, improved mental clarity, no illness, and experience a higher ratio of love, joy and peace.
I first heard about RAW food when I was ten, watching Juliano a raw food chef and guru in California on Entertainment Tonight at my parents house. He just looked so healthy, so vibrant, so alive, so energetic, that at ten years old, I was drawn to him, and wanted to be just like him.
I believe this was the beginning of my RAW journey, although it wasn't until I started taking mushrooms that I realized the truth behind raw foods. I would just trip out and take the time to explore the way different foods made my body feel, and raw foods always made me feel the best, and happiest.
Little did I know at the time that this was how Juliano, the guru I saw from age ten, first discovered raw food as well. He took mushrooms and realized the truth about RAW, just as I did.
From then on, I struggled with cooked food, to the point where I hated it when it was in me, but I wasn't yet ready to accept that I needed to go RAW. It wasn't until I began juice and water fasting for several months and then tried refeeding myself that I began to realize on my own, free of drug influence, that RAW food feels the best to my mind, body and spirit.
So afterwards, I made the decision to go 100% RAW and I haven't looked back. RAW just feels too good to me. My vital energy and my health is too important to me. I don't feel depleted or deprived eating this way. It isn't a struggle and I don't often crave cooked foods. Eating RAW feels the most absolutely natural for my being.
RAW food is more then just a diet. It's a lifestyle that can change the way you perceive and experience reality. I am RAW because I seek purity in my body, mind and soul, and the longer I stay raw, the more light I can feel shining throughout, the more in tune I feel with the universe, the faster I experience synchronicities and the more focus I acquire to achieve my dreams.
I eat RAW because of LOVE for the Being!
That's my story so far.
Resources:
http://goneraw.com/forums
http://www.rawfoodtalk.com/index.php
http://www.purelyraw.com/index.htm
I intend to keep this thread around for once.
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MOTH
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Food today:
Meal 1: Orange, pear
Meal 2: Guacamole w/ broccoli and carrots
Meal 3: Walnuts with a few dates, and a banana.
Snack: 2 kiwi
Meal 4: Marinated kale salad with chopped parsley, apples and cucumber. The marinade was lemon juice, cold pressed olive oil, sea salt and cayenne. The kale was deliciously soft and wilted, and yummy with spice.
Today I didn't feel like restricting myself with raw. I just got off my fruitarian kick and I was missing all of my old "comfort" raw foods, so I indulged without a second thought, despite some iffy food-combining choices. I don't usually eat nuts, for example, because they're hard to digest, especially combined with fruit, but I didn't care about it today. I treated myself instead of worrying about it.
I definitely LOVE kale salad - and there is a sign on my kitchen wall that says, "I want green blood," and quite frankly, Paetreyl has green blood, so...it's just motivation to eat as many greens as I possibly can, to see if my blood changes color.  Tomorrow I will really load up on the greens. I may do an all-green experiment for a week pretty soon, and see how that makes me feel.
Overall, I just feel happy not restricting my raw diet too much. Sometimes I do feel like experimenting with some restrictions, but today I just didn't care. I was just happy to eat RAW.
I'm also making some raw crackers tonight - usually dehydrated food makes me a little sick, but people have reported good things from these light crackers, so I figured I'd give them a try.
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MOTH
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Here's the recipe for the RAW crackers I just threw into the dehydrator:
2 1/2 c. walnuts soaked 1 hr. or more
2 1/2 c. cubed zucchini
1/2 c. ground golden flax seed
1/4 c. sesame seed
2 teaspoon sea salt
Grind flax, walnut and zucchini separately in food processor until they are in tiny pieces and add to bowl.
Stir in sesame seeds and salt. Add enough water to make spreadable dough and mix well.
Spread on parchment in dehydrator and dry at 105 degrees until crisp.
They're drying now.
I hope I like this cracker recipe. I usually don't enjoy raw breads and crackers, but this seems simple enough, and it might be nice to have some raw crackers on hand.
Plus it's a safe way for me to consume walnuts, if they're already mulched.
Soaking nuts and seeds activate the enzymes before they hit your stomach so that they are easier to digest, even if they are dehydrated afterwards.
I figure I should get my crackers done before I have to start putting mushrooms in there. I dehydrate mushrooms at 95 degrees.
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MOTH
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My crackers are okay! They taste like saltines, and they're not quite done dehydrating yet. I'm trying to get them pretty crunchy. I had the stiffer ones with some guacamole tonight and they were so yummy. Went VERY well with the guac...
Today:
Meal 1: 2 bananas
Meal 2: 1 kiwi, 1 banana, a few raw pecans
Meal 3: Marinated kale salad w/chopped apple and shredded carrot. Plus a few raw pecans for dessert.
Meal 4: Guacamole with raw crackers
I need to balance out my meals more. I eat the heavy stuff later at night, when I feel I would like to disperse the food more throughout the day.
OH well! Everyday is new. I was pretty active today so I can justify my nut intake, hahaha...
but actually...and I'm being honest here...I don't really feel like I'm meant to eat nuts. They come in a very hard shell, protected by mother nature from my teeth, and they are quite frankly...addicting with no point of satisfaction. I haven't been eating a TON of nuts, but I just notice they don't make me feel that great.
OOOOhhhhhh welllll...I won't buy anymore after my bag of walnuts is gone. The pecans came from my friend Samuel and are so freaking yummy because they were handpicked from a home grower and are still half in shell.
It's such a slippery slope when I'm not eating just fruit.
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MOTH
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I'm annoyed. The nuts make me feel like I need to juice, and I have no way to make green blood.  I have a random check my mom gave me and I think I'm gonna use it to get a cheap blender, which I will use in conjunction with the ancient juicer I have at my disposal so that I can make a goblet full of juice.
I need to juice...
I remember now that this is why I became fruitarian...because fruits are so juicy...
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MOTH
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Ohhhhhhh what have I done?
Whatever I ate last night...made me very very SICK.
I believe it was a combination of nuts, nutty dehydrated crackers (puke) and garlicky guacamole (puuuuuke)
I am sooo not well. My head is pounding, my stomach is bloated and cramped and full of nausea. I feel dizzy and heavy, like I CANNOT MOVE. And I keep burping up...well, you don't wanna know.
Luckily, it's daylight, and thus my bedtime, so maybe I can sleep this off.
Look- nuts and dehydrated foods are awesome for transitioning into raw.
But when you don't eat them for months and months and then decide all of a sudden that "it's okay" that you do so, because you just "want to do what you feel like..."
Well, just because everything I ate was all raw DOES NOT mean it was good for me. I am in serious discomfort and agony right now.
I am getting rid of every single nut and seed I have. I'm tossing the crackers. I don't know what I was thinking. I KNEW that they did this to me. Maybe I can take some of them back to Whole Foods. I hope so...
I KNEW that dehydrated foods did this to me too...but NOOOO I just HAD to try out some crackers. Yukkkk
Just because something tastes good and is raw does NOT mean that it is good for my body.
I am sooo sick. Once I can bear to put anything else in my stomach, I'm going to drink lots of water, juice some apples in the ancient juicer since it does those pretty well, get some unpasturzed orange juice at the Farmer's Market and lay off solids for a day. This tummy-ache is really bad news.
Why oh why...
Fucking nuts...there's a REASON why they're locked away in a shell!! I'm just as cynical of seeds.
Owwww
Not a good raw day for me, due to some poor dietary choices I made.
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 JacquesCousteau
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Why don't you just stick to fruit instead of spending your money on a blender? It seemed to work well for you... and they're mostly juice, like you said.
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purplegreens
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Oh no! Sorry you're sick. That is never any fun.
But thank you for documenting your RAW diet for all us to see. I really enjoy reading how you make/prepare your food and how it influences you. My mood the last few years has been really wacko. I know a lot of it has to do with diet. I really need a change and you are a great motivator.
Oh, and thanks for those David Wolfe videos. I keep watching them over and over.
"Mushrooms are in fact not from here. They're from somewhere else. They came here. They rode in on the cosmic wind."
Love it, love it!
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I intend to keep this thread around for once.
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MOTH
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Thanks guys.  I'm still crampy and 'blah' but I'm actually thankful for this experience because it was a valuable lesson that I needed to have in regards to my own dietary choices. RAW is an amazing lifestyle, and nuts and seeds and dehydrated foods work VERY well for some rawbies. When I first transitioned, I ate a lot of them too, so I definitely don't want to seem discouraging of these foods. David Wolfe and Juliano both enjoy their nuts, which is what I think encouraged me to get back into them. But I guess being predominantly all fruit for awhile has made me more sensitive to what's in my belly. Fruit is so innocent...
Jacques; you're right: fruit worked very well for me, and the juicer Sam gave me can satisfy any juicy urges I have right now. I guess I don't have a need for a blender at the moment. There is actually a raw diet called 80-10-10, where you eat 80 percent fruit, 10 percent greens, and 10 percent fats. It seems like that's kinda where I'm heading, and it's cool there's already a label out there for it.
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Comprehensive in scope yet simple in implementation, the 80/10/10 approach makes good sense. Every element of the program is based in hard science, and every meal is delicious and appealing. Fresh, juicy fruit takes center stage in this symphony of simple taste sensations, and tender greens and nonsweet fruits like tomatoes are their sole accompaniments. Grains, legumes, supplements, superfoods, dehydrates, juices, stimulating condiments, and refined oils play no part in the 80/10/10 program, and the healthful fats in nuts, seeds, avocados, and coconuts are invited for rare guest appearances only.
This is another raw diet choice that Alissa Cohen, on her website Rawfoodtalk, does not advocate, so posts of it are deleted. Alissa likes to push the idea of: "As long as it's raw!" throughout her book and web community. For people new to eating raw food, this mindset is helpful, but apparently some people cannot tolerate the dehydrator and nut-heavy recipes that abound.
I guess I do better on a simplier RAW diet, and 80-10-10 sounds like it will work for me, since that's kinda what I'm falling towards anyway.
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But thank you for documenting your RAW diet for all us to see. I really enjoy reading how you make/prepare your food and how it influences you. My mood the last few years has been really wacko. I know a lot of it has to do with diet. I really need a change and you are a great motivator.
Thank you, that is very touching! I can tell you that ever since I switched to raw, my depressive episodes have been shorter and farther between, and the turn-over rate has intensified. I'm certainly not immune to bad moods, but I don't tend to get so swamped inside of them any more, and I can tell that my sense of internal peace is only growing the longer I stay raw and eat the food that helps me feel good. The energy you get from RAW is also out of this world! Speaking of... 
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Oh, and thanks for those David Wolfe videos. I keep watching them over and over.
"Mushrooms are in fact not from here. They're from somewhere else. They came here. They rode in on the cosmic wind."
Love it, love it!
Yes, hehe, David Wolfe is a maniac!  It's really fascinating how many raw foodists are also magic mushroom uers. Juliano was the same way and I know I've heard of others. Terence Mckenna said the same thing about mushroom spores; that they came from somewhere else. How fucking fascinating!
It really helps me feel good about my choice to be RAW when I know I'm in such great company. The other day at COSM I saw a picture of Woody Harrelson and Alex Grey. Now, I don't know for sure if Alex is a raw foodie (wouldn't surprise me) but I DO know that Woody is, AND he is an avid user of psychedelic mushrooms.
My first experience with raw food and shrooming was on my first shroom trip ever. I was coming down (or so I thought) and I needed something to chew on, something tasty. I got a big carrot, monstrous in size, and just started GNAWING on the surface of the morphing colors, for hours. I was so tripped out by this carrot; it was sweet and woody, and dry and juicy at the same time. The second time I shroomed, I explored an apple; felt like Eve in the Garden of Eden, chewed the entire thing down to the core without realizing it throughout my trip. And after that, I made sure to have fruit available on every trip I had.
I definitely recommend "fruit therapy" while tripping, particularly on mushrooms! It's a good way to truly enjoy and explore raw food.
My tummy is still icky, but it's been almost twelve hours since my last solid food, so in a few minutes I'm gonna juice some apples, carrots, celery and kale leaves in the Ancient One, and sip delightfully in my ceramic goblet.
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MOTH
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GOD HELP ME: I LOVE KALE!!!
Kale salad is soooo yummy. Sometimes I do get hit with a SAD craving here and there, but as long as I have a savory kale salad to look forward to, I don't stress and feel FINE!
Meal 1: Quart of green blood, made from kale, cucumber, celery, carrot and apples. I drank it out of my goblet and felt all fantastical! Pure nutrients dude, and it got me HIIIIGGH! SUPER-CHARGED for my long bike ride!
Meal 2: 1 Banana, 1 kiwi -- really this was more of a snack, and to rev me up for another bike ride.
Meal 3: BIGGG kale and parsley salad marinated in lemon juice, cp olive oil, sea salt, cracked black pepper and cayenne, until it was kinda wilted, then tossed with apples, cucumbers, spring onion and avocado!
YUMMMMMM That shit was sooo tasty!
On the 80-10-10 raw diet, you do not ingest any oils or spices, so clearly I'm not ready to be THERE yet. That salad I had earlier was FUCKING AWESOME after biking 12 miles, working out and yoga...I simply NEEDED IT and LOVED IT! It was huge and I was ravenous.
And I'm just starting to truly enjoy my spices again...I love making savory salads! *drool* And puh-leeze...I lived in Texas for over a decade and spicy stuff just rawks my socks.
My belly has pretty much recovered from the nut and garlic fiasco, thank goodness. NO MORE for me!
I'll probably eat fruit the rest of the night. I have a pair of pears just calling my name... 
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MOTH
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I'm on the hunt for non-nutty recipes! Here's one I tried awhile back and I really enjoyed it, so I think I might give it another whirl:
http://goneraw.com/recipes/1092-Mangocado-Salsa
I'm still not sure how I feel about garlic in my life, but as long as I don't use too much, I should be okay.
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MOTH
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The trick to finding recipes right now are discovering the ones that don't require any blending, dehydrating or nuts. It's actually more difficult then you would imagine.
The good news is that I just found out I can use blended zucchini to sub in some of the nutty sauce/dip recipes! No blender, but that's okay...it's still useful information.
I just ate some marinated broccoli. yum.
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MOTH
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I have EXCELLENT news:
I FOUND ORGANIC PINEAPPLES!
Yep. Whole Foods was closed and I needed some dog meat, so I went to Stop and Shop and what did I see there??!
Organic pineapple: the BEST THING EVER.
Whole Foods doesn't even carry organic pineapples right now. So yeah, I was totally psyched. Ever since my acid trip last week in which a pineapple presented itself for my delight and pleasure, I've been fond of them again, and growing out of kiwi's. So I bought two, and now they are on my shelf, ripening.
Meal 1: Pear, banana
Meal 2: Grapefruit, small orange, banana
Meal 3: BIG spinach salad w/shredded carrot and chopped apples
Snack: banana
Meal 4: A chopped head of broccoli, marinated to softness.
Meal 5: banana, apple, kiwi
Yeah, I've been RAVENOUS today! I feel constantly hungry, no matter how much I'm eating, and I'm craving the veggies and GREENS big time! I think it's because I've been so active: biked about fifteen miles today alone, did yoga and general body workouts at home. I don't even care how much I'm eating, because it seems like I NEED it!
I'll probably have another salad before I go to bed tonight, at around 3. I just loooove my greens right now!
OHHh!
And I got some mushrooms that I'm marinating and I can tell they are going to be DELICIOUS. Portabellas and button mushrooms, all organic, marinating in lemon juice, cold pressed olive oil, sea salt, cracked black pepper, basil and garlic!
I was craving mushrooms something FIERCE earlier, so I'm excited! I may sneak in and take a taste later tonight.
The thing is: I feel GREAT today! My energy is being maintained!
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MOTH
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I think I'm going fruitarian again for awhile. I just don't feel quite right. My body was giving me all sorts of crazy signals today...it felt wonderful when I stuck to fruit, very light and just plain happy, but then later, I started feeling "off" when I ate a salad and some broccoli. And I started to feel heavier and not has euphoric and at peace.
I'm taking that as a sign. Fruit just feels the best to me. I may eat the occasional romaine leaf if I need greens. It's natural that a monkey in a tree reaching for fruit would consume SOME greens, too.
I just feel "safest" on fruit; that's the best way I can describe it.
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MOTH
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Oh, and my mushrooms were awesome.
I just don't want anything with olive oil, cayenne, salt...anything like that.
I just want to be free of all that type of stuff. I felt fine on fruit...I caved because after LSD my boundaries fell and I stopped caring so much, went into nuts again, stopped that, went into greens again, and then into other veg. And my energy levels have dropped as a result. I almost feel sluggish right now, and I think it's because I've eaten so much "grounding" food the past few days, like kale and broccoli and mushrooms...all grow directly from the ground, so it makes me feel that vibe pretty strongly.
The contrast helped. Now I realize that I just really like the way fruit feels in me the best. Maybe a romaine leaf or two for balance. But keeping it simple without all that "extra" spice and salt and whatnot makes a huge difference for me.
I wanna feel fruity...
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MOTH
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Just eating raw. Lots of fruit. Lots of MUSHROOMS. (craving them like crazy) A few greens here and there.
I fucking LOOOOOVE portabella mushrooms. I've been marinating them in lemon juice, olive oil, sea salt, cracked black pepper, basil and garlic and OMG YUM. When they sit for a few hours, they get positively MEATY, full of flavor, truly a delight to digest. They satisfy something DEEEP inside of me that countless bowls of greens can never get to.
I've been enjoying them while eating lots of fruit still. Trying not to restrict myself and just have fun being raw...
...got some running and weight lifting done today so I'm psyched!
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MOTH
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I'm SO over mushrooms right now. The very thought of marinated mushrooms evokes an urge to vomit in me. WHY? Because I REALLLLLY ate too many, especially last to/night, after biking a total of 18 miles in my day. I was just so hungry...but...no...shouldn't have eaten so many.
I've been learning so many valuable lessons regarding food consumption lately. Specifically: overeating ANYTHING, even high-water content raw food full of enzymes, tends to make me feel like shit, totally lethargic and depressed. Just...no. I get totally moody and irritable when I overeat. The only thing that helps the depression after a binge is exercising, because at least then I feel like I've "taken care of it," or something.
Anyway, overeating portabella mushrooms? *puke*
Hey, I learned my lesson. That's what this RAW journey is all about. I'm slowly but surely becoming so in tune with my body that I just cannot ignore the signals when I am abusing it anymore, especially with food. Overeating food is stomach-abuse, no doubt. I've always had a problem with eating too much, not listening to my belly, not knowing when I should stop putting the food in my mouth.
I'M GETTING MUCH BETTER AT IT.
Fruit is the ONLY thing that I can eat, that I won't generally overeat, for some reason. Which is why it feels so "safe."
Anyway, in that light, I'm doing a monomeal experiment during the next week or so. I'm going to eat bananas all day. The next day: apples. The next day: oranges. You get the picture. It'll be fun.
I'm hoping this eating the fruit thing will help balance me out, in every way possible, especially my skin, which has been hating me lately. Yeah, yeah, they're all telling me it's detox at gone raw. Your skin is the largest organ of elimination and ejects all sorts of exciting stuff when you go through a cleansing crises. I'm not bitter, I promise; just rather...ANNOYED is the best term for it.
My parents are still buzzing about the pics I sent them. I had to deal with another round of, "You can't live on fruit and veggies alone!" and I laughed..."uh, yeah mom, what do you think I've been doing all these months? I'm healthier then I've ever been!" My dad is trying to convince my mom to go raw to help her severe health issues, but she doesn't think she can do it and she seems doubtful of my ability to. I have to admit I'm not much help when it comes to helping her go raw. I eat very simply these days. She wouldn't be satisfied with apples and bananas and kiwi; she'd want gourmet raw food, which I tend to avoid. Oh well, I sent her some links and what not and I keep talking to her about it because she DOES seem pretty interested at moments.
If I could convince her to get a blender and start making green smoothies, that's an awesome step right there. Green smoothies are great in the beginning.
Since I feel like I'm in a healing crises lately, I like this video, it's Angela Stokes, who lost 1/2 her body weight with raw foods. She makes these silly musical raw videos from time to time...and what can I say? I find them amusing.
http://www.rawreform.com/
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MOTH
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HOLY MANGO!
Yes, that's right...MANGO MOTHER OF GOD!
I have a new fruit fixation. I monomealed on single fruits for about a day and then I was like, "uh, yeah, give me some VARIETY!" Plus it seemed like whenever I ate bananas, I wanted to also eat apples, and whenever I ate apples, I wanted to eat banans, and oranges and MANGOS.
I've avoided them until now because I wasn't sure how to get the meat out of the skin. But thanks to youtube, I learned how, and duh, it's so easy. I originally wanted to indulge in mangos because when I was at the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, they had fresh fruit kabobs, with MANGO. So I have nostalgia attached to them now.
I ate one for dinner, in between a banana and a grapefruit and YUMMM, it was so good! Plus I ate the mango chunks with chopsticks.
I've been feeling rather weak in my body lately...just run down, no energy, and I believe I'm going through a healing crises. First my skin started breaking out, then my scalp starting flaking, and I would get unreasonably bloated here and there, which didn't do wonders for my self-esteem. I KNEW that I was entering a healing crises, and what confirmed it is the perpetually dripping nose I've had for two days and some other flu-like symptoms. I haven't been totally raw that long, and I know raw foodies that experience healing crises up to at least 3 years of a completely raw diet. I know this is to be expected; afterall, you can't eat crappy SAD food for 20+ years and expect it to be all gone in six months.
My body is working hard to eject toxins, and yeah, I can feel it.
...so weak...no matter how much raw I eat.
I know it'll pass.
My RAW lifestyle has provided for some slightly awkward moments at my new job. Like when the cheese lady was zealously trying to get me to get a cheese sample...and I was just thinking, "how do I tell a woman whose life is cheese that I don't eat cheese?"
And the awesome chef that visits the store always pushes her beautiful food onto the employees...yep, had to turn her down too.
It's just kinda awkward. I WILL NOT compromise myself though. I just eat apples when I'm at work.
I really want a green smoothie.
But until then, I will just stick to tropical fruit, and apples. Tropical fruit seems to satisfy me.
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MOTH
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FRUITY!
I'm fruitarian again. I did have a stint after I got back from NYC for about two weeks where I felt like my raw diet was completely out of control. Nuts, seeds, HUMONGOUS salads (sooo much kale!) ...it probably doesn't sound so bad when I write it out, but I felt quite out of control during this time, because I was so used to eating a few pieces of fruit and having done with it. After I broke from fruitarianism, it was like I simply couldn't get full and be satisfied, no matter how much I ate! Very wild and frustrating and a little scary. So I let myself eat whatever I wanted as long as it was raw, and then I got satisfied, and now I'm on fruit again and feeling well.
Today:
1st meal: 2 apples
2nd meal: 1 mango, 1 banana, some pineapple
3rd meal: 1 mango, 1 banana, a kiwi
snack: 2 kiwi
4th meal: 3 ears of raw corn (yum), + raspberries
And NOW, I feel totally satisfied, more at peace with myself then I've been in days, because I kept it all fruit. Raw corn is absolutely delicious. I couldn't believe it was a fruit at first, but it is! It tastes very sweet and crunchy, and FILLING.
Yum...had a fun day of biking around.
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MOTH
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I don't know if anyone has noticed, but I get REALLLLY controlling with my diet sometimes.  I try and "forbid" myself even of healthy, beautiful raw food, just to have a sense of control in my life. Like greens, for example. I LOVE GREENS! I do. I want green blood, remember? It's TRUE. I guess I still don't have an accurate sense of how much food I should be eating, so when it seems like I'm eating HUGE SALADS and broccoli bowls, I freak out, start getting paranoid and then restrict. That is my cycle when it comes to food right now. The experienced raw foodists say that eating a ton of veg is NORMAL and that I should just eat as much as I feel like eating, and not worry about it.
This makes sense. They said the stress I'm applying towards raw food is totally unhealthy, and unecessary. This MAKES SENSE! WHY do I agonize about it? Greens are soooo good for me.
And the stressing part IS unhealthy; I don't know why I didn't see it before. Stress is unhealthy, and I started eating 100% raw so that I can feel good about what I ate and NOT have anything to stress over! Just goes to show you that my active, flailing mind uses any excuse to get neurotic.
I could go for some kale...REALLY! All I have is fruit right now though, hahaha! I wanna make a raw salsa with corn ships. I can't eat nutty chips...but corn chips?? Hmm...MAYBE!
Once again: unraveling from my tensed up ball of restriction and releasing...all...that...stress!
HEALTHY HEALTHY HEALTHY
that's what matters.
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