swingbolder
05-18-2005, 04:24 PM
I started high raw in December and am approaching six months mostly raw -- the last two months at 100% except for stuff like miso and nutritional yeast -- so I'm taking stock of how it's going. Feeling good. Still detoxing great green gobs of phlegm out of my lungs but I guess that's to be expected after 30 years of asthma.
How my health has improved:
insomnia gone
chronic sinusitis gone
weekly headaches gone
PMS gone
asthma still here but getting better; off all but one prescription med
way more energy, working out much, much easier
brighter outlook on life
The other great thing that's happened is that starting next week I'm doing an apprenticeship of sorts at a raw restaurant near me. Two full days a week, so I will learn to make a lot of new things. The way it happened is that the chef advertised a raw food class at the local adult ed center. Only two of us signed up, so the class was canceled. I got her name and emailed her, and I asked her for a private class. She said sure, at $75 an hour. I was like eek, I can't afford that, how about if I offer my free labor in the kitchen in exchange for you showing me how to prepare this food?
She went for it, and it works out well for both of us bc now she doesn't have to pay somebody and I don't have to pay her.
I'm also doing yoga teacher training starting in August so that's great too. My yoga teacher is opening a new studio and wants to train a few of us new teachers to help staff the place, as well as teach in other places like hosptials and rehab centers. This is great bc I'm transitioning out of being a stay-at-home mom and I didn't want to go back to my old line of work (journalism). So perhaps this will turn into a new career. :p
All these good things in my life are as a result of going raw which has given me so much good health, energy and vitality. My husband, who is the ultimate junk food vegan (soy burgers and soy hot dogs every night) actually told me last night he wants to try raw, just bc he's amazed at the changes in my health, attitude, disposition. My son even mentioned to me that I'm a lot less grumpy than I used to be. So that's pretty cool.
How my health has improved:
insomnia gone
chronic sinusitis gone
weekly headaches gone
PMS gone
asthma still here but getting better; off all but one prescription med
way more energy, working out much, much easier
brighter outlook on life
The other great thing that's happened is that starting next week I'm doing an apprenticeship of sorts at a raw restaurant near me. Two full days a week, so I will learn to make a lot of new things. The way it happened is that the chef advertised a raw food class at the local adult ed center. Only two of us signed up, so the class was canceled. I got her name and emailed her, and I asked her for a private class. She said sure, at $75 an hour. I was like eek, I can't afford that, how about if I offer my free labor in the kitchen in exchange for you showing me how to prepare this food?
She went for it, and it works out well for both of us bc now she doesn't have to pay somebody and I don't have to pay her.
I'm also doing yoga teacher training starting in August so that's great too. My yoga teacher is opening a new studio and wants to train a few of us new teachers to help staff the place, as well as teach in other places like hosptials and rehab centers. This is great bc I'm transitioning out of being a stay-at-home mom and I didn't want to go back to my old line of work (journalism). So perhaps this will turn into a new career. :p
All these good things in my life are as a result of going raw which has given me so much good health, energy and vitality. My husband, who is the ultimate junk food vegan (soy burgers and soy hot dogs every night) actually told me last night he wants to try raw, just bc he's amazed at the changes in my health, attitude, disposition. My son even mentioned to me that I'm a lot less grumpy than I used to be. So that's pretty cool.