Friends and family

[Raw Venus]

Hi everyone!
I am wondering if you have supportive friends and family (husbands, mom and dad and such) or non supportive friends and family? Do these people have a direct effect of your success or failure?
Thanks,
Raw V

[Nini]

Raw V,
My family and friends are very supportive. They aren't raw, but encourage and support me every day. They want me to be the healthy, fun person I used to be. (My son-in-law disagrees with my raw lifestyle, but that's life.)

Could I do it without their support? Not when I first started, but now I could. This whole experience has made me a stronger woman.

Good luck to you. There is a lot of love and support here. It is where I come to feel "at home."

Nini

[Revvell]

I wouldn't have it any other way. If someone is not supportive of my life and my lifestyle, I really don't need them in my life.

My husband could not be any more supportive. He takes me to restaurants I want to go to and where I can eat; he takes time out of his schedule to lay out and create my books; he takes time to print them; he's teaching me to do things on my own tech-wise; circulates his money on recording equipment so I/we can have web-based radio shows.... and SO much more!

What more could I ask for?


Do these people have a direct effect on your success or failure? Well, he has a direct effect being that I can get things done faster AND the way I want because he reads me so well. As far as success or failure? I was successful before I met him. Now, just at a higher level ~ which would have happened in any case ~ just, possibly not at the rate I'm going now.

Revvell

[portiz]

I have a very supportive family. Some friends raise an eyebrow or two, but for the most part are also supportive. My parents (especially Dad) are on the hunt for the fountain of youth, and I have since turned them on to RAW as well. Dad has always been open minded to food and he and I can talk for a couple hours over new recipes or experiments we may have tried.
There are people who have not seen me in months and maybe a year or two, but each time I get greeted with "OH MY GAAAAAWD!!! You look great!!!! What gym do you go to?"
That in itself is the greatest feeling in the world and of course the thing that keeps me going on RAW! Of course I am pretty active, have two dogs, prepare dinner and the next days' lunch, clean house, ride 4-wheelers...but I haven't set foot in a gym in over 3 years.
I guess some people are disappointed becasue they expect some kind of miracle drug that can change them overnight. Not the case, huh? It's just the 'same old' miracle food that has been under our noses the whole time.

Revvell, you're an inspiration to us all!! i love your work!!

[Sharon in Colorado]

I would say for the most part - supportive. However not everyone is going to go out of their way to make sure that there's raw food at a restaurant if there's a big group outting - even though there's compassion and concern for my way of eating.

Sometimes you just have to be on your own with certain things.

I find the biggest challenge is me - I could blame it on my family who's not all the way 100% raw (although completely supportive of my journey), or I could blame it on society's sick way of eating, but when I see others doing so well and thriving on how they want to eat (whatever that diet is) I just can't blame the challenges I face on anyone else!

[Revvell]

... but when I see others doing so well and thriving on how they want to eat (whatever that diet is) I just can't blame the challenges I face on anyone else!


Awwww, go 'head. :D

[Sharon in Colorado]

Awwww, go 'head. :D

Ya, why not!

**shouts from the rooftops**

"Stop eating bacon and eggs and taking Lipitor, world!!!"

[Raw Jewelrylady]

Ya, why not!

**shouts from the rooftops**

"Stop eating bacon and eggs and taking Lipitor, world!!!"


roflol....

Actually my Husband is really supportive & eats mostly Raw. That is a HUGE help for me.

When I first started-my Parents were very concerned-then they saw the results/positive changes in my health & I have made them many Raw meals...so now they are going to get more Raw into their diets.

I have friends who love to come over & sample my Raw foods & I have shared this lifestyle with them.

Would it affect me....NO...as I had to find a way to help me. No one is going to do that for me..& I am NO good to anyone unless I am well.

Lana

[trinity082482]

I'd like to think the only one who can make you fail is your self. But in reality, un supportive people do contribute I think and for my self some people are really good about it and others look at me like a waiter being told a customer is a vegetarian while dining at a steak house. LOL :D

[trinity082482]

Ya, why not!

**shouts from the rooftops**

"Stop eating bacon and eggs and taking Lipitor, world!!!"

Whats Lipitor? LOL Viagra? :p

[DavidZaneMason]

Sure. The whole family / friends are very supportive. Of course, once I pulled out the co-dependent aspects of my relationships with my loved ones....they knew that me just being there with them is a treat....and a support to them. So as long as I was happy - they were happy! I find that is often the case. What has been your experience?

-David Z. Mason

[Sharon in Colorado]

Whats Lipitor? LOL Viagra? :p

If Lipitor was Viagra, why would it be called Lipitor? LOL!

[trinity082482]

If Lipitor was Viagra, why would it be called Lipitor? LOL!

:confused: beats me. Im lost :D

[Frecs]

My family are very supportive. In fact, my mom is now doing the 30-day challenge! My co-workers are fascinated but supportive -- so supportive that they arranged for a special plate to be prepared for me for the company Christmas lunch.

But, if there is one thing I have learned: life is too short and too precious to let negative people mess with one's peace. Do what is best for you and if people can't be supportive...tell them to make room for people who will be!

[Apasaraw]

Some friends are getting it now (in the beginning they thought I was kooky) because they see my upswing and healthy glow...my mood is also great now. I have a friend who started raw unbeknownst to me...what a surprise we got when we saw each other again. It was funny and great! 2 co-workers asked me to take a walk with them today so they could grill me...it was great to share and they were all the way open to it! A girlfriend made me a raw pie at holiday time...researched it all herself to surprise me. A year has changed them all from thinking I was bizarre to the opposite.

Family is tolerant and quizzical...but not negative (outloud). My brother doesn't know and would think I was silly.(but he eats raw meat! ugh. even if it is 100% grassfed Idaho.ughugh.) My MIL is eating Larabars I left for her and likes them

Hubby is an angel, He likes me raw. He encourages me to go 100 percent and doesn't understand why I waffle at just under. He sees and knows the difference it has made in me...he has started eating more raw too.

If you have negativity around you concerning your dietary change...hang in there...they come around!

As for success or failure...I don't think of it in those terms...just the way I'm wired. Am I alive today? Yes means Success! :D

[Apasaraw]

Frecs...cool Mom!!!

I love your sentiment about making room for the positive!

[juliebove]

Nobody is really against what I do but my husband is an annoyance. He dislikes organic food and says it tastes weird. So if he knows something is organic he won't eat it. He also prefers to eat things like meat and highly processed foods. I'm to the point where I buy him very little of that unless I see a good sale on something or he specifically asks for it. I was wasting a lot of money on food for him for a long time. He wouldn't eat what my daughter and I were eating, yet I didn't know what he *would* eat. So I would guess and buy food after food, throwing a lot of it into the trash because it went bad. The problem is he seems to expect our house to be like a grocery store and just have whatever he might want at whim. He can't understand how it is that I need to plan our meals out in advance so I know what to buy.

The rest of the family is supportive I guess. I did receive an odd Christmas gift. Cookbook for steaks and chops. But perhaps I was given that because they know I do the cooking and they know my husband loves meat. But they also bought me the dehydrator and some other things I asked for.

My friends are very supportive, but they say they probably would never be able to eat the way I do. Sometimes they say they wish they could, but they've never tried.

I try not to let what other people think influence me. But sometimes when a person is dead set against what I'm doing and tries to stop me, then it makes me dig my heels in all the more and continue with what I'm doing. Bottom line, for me, my support group is me. If I know I can do it, that's all that matters to me.