temptations, HELP

[swingbolder]

I need some help, y'all. :(

I'm spending a few days at my parents' house, and I'm really tempted to eat cook food right now. Normally I will have a meal or two with them, then eat raw the rest of the time, but this visit I really can't afford the disruption in my health that eating even a little cooked food does to me. The fall semester starts on Monday (I am in nursing school), I have a REALLY HEAVY courseload and I need to be performing at my optimum capabilities from day one. When I eat cooked food my insomnia comes back and I have no energy. Then I spend the next two weeks detoxing. I can't afford to do that right now. I am feeling good at 100% and want to stay that way.

When I am not at my parents' house, I have no problem staying 100% raw for the most part (excepting the occasional herbal tea and nama shoyu). But when I'm here my resolve just melts. I wake up every morning to the smell of bacon and scrambled eggs and it continues all day from there.

So, please everyone send me good vibes. I need strength and I'm feeling very weak right now.

It also doesn't help that my sister and her family are here and she and her husband don't like me that much. They look down on me because I'm not rich yuppies like them (they always make comments to me and about me). So that is added stress that I could easily try to numb with some bbq, if you know what I mean. Also, it's a small house, the TV is always blasting which stresses me out as well, too noisy to meditate.

I love my parents and they're getting old, so I want to see them as much as I can but right now I'm feeling it's just too much.

[Conscious Midwife]

Sending light and love your way....

Swing bolder SWING BOLDER

;) don't be a slave to the food you crave :)

[Kim120]

Hi,

I've been kinda a lurker here doing raw off and on. Well I resolved to go 100% raw however I went on a 12 day vacation with my mom, daughter and other family. My mom kept telling me to "just eat" and I gave in and did. I can tell you now that it wasn't worth it. I am having trouble getting back on raw. I started back to classes today also (bible college) and I am not feeling at my best. Like you said, it's the detox all over again.

So my advice to you is to hang in there and remember that the food will only taste good temporarily but the price you pay will be much more long lasting! You'll have that yucky gas, bloated stomach, headaches, body aches. Plus you'll kick back up the cravings.

You can do it, stay strong, go get your self some delicious fruit and indulge :)

Kim

[Rawkinlocs]

Hi,

I've been kinda a lurker here doing raw off and on. Well I resolved to go 100% raw however I went on a 12 day vacation with my mom, daughter and other family. My mom kept telling me to "just eat" and I gave in and did. I can tell you now that it wasn't worth it. I am having trouble getting back on raw. I started back to classes today also (bible college) and I am not feeling at my best. Like you said, it's the detox all over again.

So my advice to you is to hang in there and remember that the food will only taste good temporarily but the price you pay will be much more long lasting! You'll have that yucky gas, bloated stomach, headaches, body aches. Plus you'll kick back up the cravings.

You can do it, stay strong, go get your self some delicious fruit and indulge :)

Kim

AMEN to that Kim!

Hang in there Swing girl!! I thought when my inlaws came to town I could just "eat something while they're here and go back to raw when they leave" and it does NOT work out that easily!!

Try to be strong, I know it's hard but try and hang in there!

[DavidZaneMason]

-I hear you! Remember what YOU want. Don't sell it short. What kind of example do you set by choosing (what YOU think) are poor food choices?

-A wise man said that you cannot make ONE other person less stressed by being stressed yourself. You can't bring harmony to ONE other person in the world by being dis-harmonious yourself. You can't engender any happiness by being unhappy yourself. Nothing is improved by that.

-Just my opinion: The kind of good you do cannot / should not be DEPENDENT on the outside circumstances being optimal. They frequently will not be! Ha! ha!

-You always have two choices: Bring high presence and joy to your now circumstance (thank you Eckhart Tolle!) or go to where you heart tells you you can most be of joy and service.

-Keep your own stockpile of food when you visit others. Lord knows I do! LOL.

-You'll be strong!

-David Mason

[JEN]

Put a small cooler with some of your foods in your room and eat before leave your room so that the bacon and eggs arent so tempting. Eat, eat, eat so much raw that you wont want cooked. Sending you raw vibes.

[swingbolder]

THANK YOU Y'ALL. Reading your words REALLY HELPED.

I made it past the first day and was SO GLAD when I woke up this morning that I stayed raw yesterday. My body felt good, instead of bloated or sniffly or headachey or whatever. Made it past day one, I can make it through today, right?

Then while everyone else was pigging out on bacon and eggs this morning, I went for a bike ride into town and bought myself some fresh ingredients for the gazpacho soup I'm making for lunch.

Thanks again for the words of wisdom, you all are so right, the pleasure is temporary and sometimes it's hard to get back to raw and you never know what the repercussions are going to be, how bad or long detox will last. I'm on a raw groove right now and want to keep it that way -- even though they just offered me chicken. . . Did I mention that my dad is the neighborhood's barbecue king, LOL!!!!!!!!!!