thrive_survive
11-29-2006, 12:55 AM
Hello everyone. I am new to Raw Food Talk. I thought I would introduce myself. I am 32 years old. I started raw food at the beginning of November and I am in love. I have only been 100% raw for two weeks, with the exception of Thanksgiving, so I guess technically, I have been 100% raw since the day after Thanksgiving.
I never want to go back to eating cooked food. The very though turns my stomach. I have been keeping a journal of my progress.It didn't start out as a raw food journal. In it I talk about the things I am doing to get well, to go from merely surviving, to thriving. Raw food turned out to be a huge part of that. You can find it on live journal here.
http://thrive-survive.livejournal.com/profile.
In order to read it, you have to be added as a friend. Just sign up for a free account and comment on my first post. I will add you. It was a public journal, but as I have an online business, and my main source of customers is my other lj where I post examples of my work, I had to make my thrive_survive lj a friends only journal. I kept forgetting to switch over and made the mistake of commenting under the wrong user name. My journal has some personal things, so I didn't want potential clients reading it without my knowledge.
I have been ordering every book I can find about raw food. It amazes me that there are so many, yet I never knew people ate nothing but raw and living food. It seems so logical. Why isn't everyone doing it? Well, I know why. The same reason I wasn't. I didn't know about it, and I was constantly being bombarded with lies and advertisements. I didn't have time to find the truth. I had a low income, and produce was expensive (thank goodness for the little produce stand I couldn't live without!)
Over the years I have done a lot of research on health, diets, nutrition, and so forth, but until now, I never found anything I really believed in. How could something so fundamental have alluded me for so long? I feel as if I finally have the KEY and I never want to loose it.
I live in southern California near San Bernardino. Do I have any raw neighbors? I would love to get to know you.
My picture is old. I promise to take recent ones soon. I haven't had my photo taken in years. I look pretty much the same though. I have taken some pictures of myself in my undies to monitor my weight loss progress, but I don't want to post those. Maybe I will take some new ones, wearing more clothes and post them here.
I never want to go back to eating cooked food. The very though turns my stomach. I have been keeping a journal of my progress.It didn't start out as a raw food journal. In it I talk about the things I am doing to get well, to go from merely surviving, to thriving. Raw food turned out to be a huge part of that. You can find it on live journal here.
http://thrive-survive.livejournal.com/profile.
In order to read it, you have to be added as a friend. Just sign up for a free account and comment on my first post. I will add you. It was a public journal, but as I have an online business, and my main source of customers is my other lj where I post examples of my work, I had to make my thrive_survive lj a friends only journal. I kept forgetting to switch over and made the mistake of commenting under the wrong user name. My journal has some personal things, so I didn't want potential clients reading it without my knowledge.
I have been ordering every book I can find about raw food. It amazes me that there are so many, yet I never knew people ate nothing but raw and living food. It seems so logical. Why isn't everyone doing it? Well, I know why. The same reason I wasn't. I didn't know about it, and I was constantly being bombarded with lies and advertisements. I didn't have time to find the truth. I had a low income, and produce was expensive (thank goodness for the little produce stand I couldn't live without!)
Over the years I have done a lot of research on health, diets, nutrition, and so forth, but until now, I never found anything I really believed in. How could something so fundamental have alluded me for so long? I feel as if I finally have the KEY and I never want to loose it.
I live in southern California near San Bernardino. Do I have any raw neighbors? I would love to get to know you.
My picture is old. I promise to take recent ones soon. I haven't had my photo taken in years. I look pretty much the same though. I have taken some pictures of myself in my undies to monitor my weight loss progress, but I don't want to post those. Maybe I will take some new ones, wearing more clothes and post them here.