RawRoch
09-25-2007, 10:30 AM
Hi All,
I am a new covert (still in transition) to raw foods. I've known about it for quite a while and believed in it and understood it but always felt an anxiety about it because I grew up in a soul food household. It wasn't until I read the book Eat to Live by Dr. Joel Fuhrman that I began to revisit a vegan diet. And the funny thing is that, personally, I'm not a person who needs meat (though it does taste good) but because I grew up in a household where meat was a staple, I adopted that mentality. When I started living the Eat to Live way, oh my goodness!, I has sooo much energy. I was dropping weigh like mad, an average of 3 pounds per week. I was loving it! I talked about it to all my family and friends trying to get them to adopt that way of life, especially my older brother and his family b/c his daughters have a lot of allergies. BUT THEN...old ways began to creep back. I was kind of like Raw Princess, was making it too complicated. And trying to deal with the transition, it all became overwhelming so I reverted back. I was so frustrated with myself because I felt like I found the right way to eat and live healthy and well and I was rejecting it. So I started again and took baby steps the next time. I starting keeping fruit and vegetables in the house and forced my will to take a stand whenever we got together for family dinners. Don't get me wrong...it's been tough...I'm dealing with giving up 30 years of fried chicken, turkey, dressing and mac & cheese. BUT...I know that eating those foods will not help me become the healthy person that I want to be. My family has a history of diabetes and high blood pressure. My oldest brother (soon to be 45 yrs old) had a health scare in December '06 and was diagnosed with Congestive Heart Failure (same disease my dad died from), so not only and I doing this for myself but I'm doing it for my brother and entire family. My mom has Diab & High Bl Pres but thankfully, she listens to me and the doctors are amazed at the progress she's made and are reducing all of her medications. They think it's the medicine, but I know that it's the way she's beginning to eat. Now I just pray that the rest of my family will catch on. Even if they don't go totally raw I want them to give up the way that they eat now. Hopefully I can be the example.
Well, that's my story...thanks for "listening",
Tamara :)
I am a new covert (still in transition) to raw foods. I've known about it for quite a while and believed in it and understood it but always felt an anxiety about it because I grew up in a soul food household. It wasn't until I read the book Eat to Live by Dr. Joel Fuhrman that I began to revisit a vegan diet. And the funny thing is that, personally, I'm not a person who needs meat (though it does taste good) but because I grew up in a household where meat was a staple, I adopted that mentality. When I started living the Eat to Live way, oh my goodness!, I has sooo much energy. I was dropping weigh like mad, an average of 3 pounds per week. I was loving it! I talked about it to all my family and friends trying to get them to adopt that way of life, especially my older brother and his family b/c his daughters have a lot of allergies. BUT THEN...old ways began to creep back. I was kind of like Raw Princess, was making it too complicated. And trying to deal with the transition, it all became overwhelming so I reverted back. I was so frustrated with myself because I felt like I found the right way to eat and live healthy and well and I was rejecting it. So I started again and took baby steps the next time. I starting keeping fruit and vegetables in the house and forced my will to take a stand whenever we got together for family dinners. Don't get me wrong...it's been tough...I'm dealing with giving up 30 years of fried chicken, turkey, dressing and mac & cheese. BUT...I know that eating those foods will not help me become the healthy person that I want to be. My family has a history of diabetes and high blood pressure. My oldest brother (soon to be 45 yrs old) had a health scare in December '06 and was diagnosed with Congestive Heart Failure (same disease my dad died from), so not only and I doing this for myself but I'm doing it for my brother and entire family. My mom has Diab & High Bl Pres but thankfully, she listens to me and the doctors are amazed at the progress she's made and are reducing all of her medications. They think it's the medicine, but I know that it's the way she's beginning to eat. Now I just pray that the rest of my family will catch on. Even if they don't go totally raw I want them to give up the way that they eat now. Hopefully I can be the example.
Well, that's my story...thanks for "listening",
Tamara :)