Just Started and Already a Milestone (IMHO)!

[possumannie]

Sunday was my first day 90% raw. I eat raw all day until dinner, and then I have grilled fish or grilled lean chicken breast with raw veggies on the side. Eventually I might go to being completely raw, but for now this is a big deal for me! So it's been almost three days, and one of my biggest changes was not having ANY refined sugar during that time.

Today, I had to go into the store for toilet paper, and as I was waiting to checkout I happened to spy my favorite (make that EX-favorite) candy bar. In a moment of weakness, I bought it. And about twenty minutes ago, I ate it.

Oh. my. lord. First of all, I never realized that chocolate has a nasty aftertaste. Unfortunately, I was brought up to waste nothing, so I finished it. I could actually FEEL the thing move through my system, because it made me nauseous everywhere it went. And then I passed it in about three minutes.

I never realized that in just three days my body could become so used to the better foods and so efficient at digesting the bad stuff!

[trinity082482]

I am like that too! I can feel it go through my body now.. I too unfortunately have had my off days and I feel gross when I don't eat raw. I tell my family.. it feels like my arteries are being clogged lol.. :rolleyes:

[possumannie]

I'm bothered that this was moved. I still feel that realizing the effects of refined sugar on the system was personal growth for me. I guess I have to lose a bazillion pounds or overcome a disease to be able to post there. lol

[eachpeachpearplum]

I'm bothered that this was moved. I still feel that realizing the effects of refined sugar on the system was personal growth for me. I guess I have to lose a bazillion pounds or overcome a disease to be able to post there. lol

Hey Smile!:)

I think you may have misssed the point :o . I actually look at the fact your post was moved in a positive light. I have a strong feeling that the two areas of this site most people look at on a regular basis are Raw and Living Food Discussion & Raw Recipies and Raw Food Preparation.

What you had to say was important and personal for you but it was very much raw food related and posting your great thread here gives it more visability for the masses!

So please dont fee bad. I know I would not have seen it - and therefore been impressed - had it not been moved. :rolleyes:

So congratulations on your personal revelation. . . there are lots more to come; enjoy the ride!

Cheers,

EPPP

[StarFire]

it was a very important moment in yor awakening ... the mods know where things logically should be posted (for whatever reason) so - nbd... just know that you are doing really great - keep up the good work and I do hope that you realize if your body could become so aware in such a short period of time... just imagine how amazing you would feel if you did go 100% raw?

rawk on -- ;)

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[Aleesha Sattva]

it blows me away how cooked food has no flavour. i know i've heard alissa and others say that... but it's TRUE!

amazzzing.

[possumannie]

Thank you everyone for making me feel better about the move!

So I just called my mom to tell her how sick eating the candy made me and she laughed and said, "that reminds me of when you were a kid!" My mom would put the four food groups on my plate and beg and plead me to try everything. But up until the time I was about ten or eleven, I would only eat the fruits and vegetables and sometimes chicken if it was grilled and I hated chocolate. Mom even said I used to tell her it "tasted funny" even before I mentioned the aftertaste! I'd completely forgotten how, when I started eating chocolate, I had to force it down because I wanted to eat snacks after school with my friends and be "normal." Ha! I've never been normal; I was a lima bean, cabbage, brussell sprout-loving kid and I guess I'm just going back to where I was naturally meant to be!

[Aleesha Sattva]

i totally forgot about this until now... but i used to eat one little tiny piece of a choc bar and then put the rest away or give it away to someone. i couldn't stand to eat an entire bar.

how times changed :(

but now... i'm baaaaaaaaaaack! glad you are as well!!!!!

[EZ rider]

When I "slip up" I try to face my demons head on as soon as I feel strong enough to do battle. For example your candy bar slip up is exactly the kind of challenge that I have found I can defeat in short order. Here's what I do (still using your candy bar example): I go back to the store and I buy another of the same candy bar. I take it home and open it up and make a decision if I want that in my life or not. I base my decision on whats good for me and whats not. If I truly want this out of my life I take it into the bathroom and throw it into the toilet. Then I say good riddance and flush it gone. Like you, I don't like wasting stuff and money but its more important to me to win over my demons so they lose their hold on me. The price of the flushed candy bar is cheap for getting it off your back IMO. If you do this and you are victorious in your battle and win by gaining control and flushing it then the next time your challenged you won't have any problem smiling and saying "no thanks". Try it and see if it works for you as well as it works for me. HTH

[aliciamatheson]

EZ rider says it so well. And I've had similar experiences where I think some SAD food is going to be so fabulous and it's such a non-event after-the-fact. But I think you have to have those experiences on your journey.

And I had a similiar conversation recently with my own mother who recalled that I would spit up milk as a baby, hated anything dairy as a kid and guess what....found out I was very sensitive to dairy all these years.

Yikes - you learn something everyday, huh?

[Riiiya]

uh so true- cooked/processed is SUCH a disappointment if you do slip... i did today- feel horrible AND didn't enjoy it. But i feel like these times help me stick with my living lifestyle- sometimes i'm just curious what junk tastes like.... and then if i try some i can't stop eating since i'm eating empty calories- there's nothing good in that food! uuhhh... anyway, i can relate to you guys!!

[possumannie]

I feel like I truly broke through a wall today!

Today in one of my classes the professor got mad and started yelling at us and I just felt so sensitive over it and started to cry and had to leave; I've never been that sensitive! I feel like all of my emotions are so close to the surface!

I stopped on the way home at a vegan/raw restaurant (one of the huge perks of living in a college town is that we have so many resources!) and got an amazing salad that had pumpkin seeds and tomato and carrots and dandelion greens (which I actually LIKED!) and this amazing dressing made from tahini (sp?) which I'd never tried before. Let me tell you, it is now one of my favorite things in the world!

Sitting at home, I was eating my salad with a few grapes on the side and drinking some sweet potato/carrot juice and all of the sudden there was this bright light, like looking into the lights of a car at night. I looked around and realized...it was the sun coming in my apartment window! I mean, it comes in everyday but all of the sudden it was so bright, and so was everything else in the room! It's like I was walking around with sunglasses on and somebody just yanked them off. Is this strange?! I feel like I'm crazy! LOL

[Queen Bean]

You are so right possumannie. When I eat raw the world is rainbow-coloured and luminescent. When I eat cooked, the world is sepia-coloured in comparison.

[possumannie]

I'm glad I'm not the only one! For a second I was worried that I was sick or something like the guy on Phenomenon. lol