anneraw
11-13-2007, 10:21 PM
Hi everyone. I'm Anne, in Northern California. I'm 44, raising two daughters with my husband, and I've been on a journey to bettering my health for several years now. In the last few years, I've gone from SAD to mostly vegetarian to mostly vegan and am now headed for mostly raw.
Why? It started with a big immunity dip when my daughters were preschool age. I caught everything that came along. Then over the years, I seemed to become a little intolerant to certain foods. Had weird episodes of heartburn, acid stomach, nausea. I also found myself craving sugar in the afternoons, and having trouble staying awake during the afternoons. By reducing this and that, things would improve, but not RELIABLY.
Each change with my diet brought fewer symptoms, and the addition of green smoothies to my morning routine a year ago really improved things.
Kris Carr, of Crazy Sexy Cancer fame, turned me on to the idea of going mostly raw, food combining and how it might make me feel better. I'd thought of raw as way too extreme and food combining as too draconian. Got a copy of Natalia Rose's Raw Food Detox Diet, though, and decided to give it a go: turned up the screws a little further on my diet--raw til noon, and two cooked "sides" a day. As soon as I did this, I felt an energy change.
At first, it was startling. My mind was so busy I couldn't sleep. I've had a couple days of mild detox--vague headaches the first two days, and one mentally tough day about three weeks into it, where it seemed like years of repressed feelings came bubbling up in a nasty stew of guilt and regret. I've had some slips--some intentional, some totally impulsive.
But I'm here, with a week-old juicer, enjoying myself very much. I had my first green lemonade last week (and one every day since) and my first wheatgrass shot today. Planning to stay at this level through the holidays.
I'll be soaking up everyone's insight.
--Anne
Why? It started with a big immunity dip when my daughters were preschool age. I caught everything that came along. Then over the years, I seemed to become a little intolerant to certain foods. Had weird episodes of heartburn, acid stomach, nausea. I also found myself craving sugar in the afternoons, and having trouble staying awake during the afternoons. By reducing this and that, things would improve, but not RELIABLY.
Each change with my diet brought fewer symptoms, and the addition of green smoothies to my morning routine a year ago really improved things.
Kris Carr, of Crazy Sexy Cancer fame, turned me on to the idea of going mostly raw, food combining and how it might make me feel better. I'd thought of raw as way too extreme and food combining as too draconian. Got a copy of Natalia Rose's Raw Food Detox Diet, though, and decided to give it a go: turned up the screws a little further on my diet--raw til noon, and two cooked "sides" a day. As soon as I did this, I felt an energy change.
At first, it was startling. My mind was so busy I couldn't sleep. I've had a couple days of mild detox--vague headaches the first two days, and one mentally tough day about three weeks into it, where it seemed like years of repressed feelings came bubbling up in a nasty stew of guilt and regret. I've had some slips--some intentional, some totally impulsive.
But I'm here, with a week-old juicer, enjoying myself very much. I had my first green lemonade last week (and one every day since) and my first wheatgrass shot today. Planning to stay at this level through the holidays.
I'll be soaking up everyone's insight.
--Anne