Saying goodbye?

[BGVDiva]

My DH and I have been raw on and off for a little over a year now. We've never been 100% raw for any great length of time but we have been able to stay high raw (75-85%) for extended periods of time. We've been slowly adding to our arsenal of equipment and are feeling ready to take the 100% plunge. My question is this...

Did you go through a "saying goodbye" to your favorite SAD foods phase before you took the leap?

For the last two weeks (with holiday food abounding), we've been taking the opportunity to take that "last taste" of certain favorite foods before we begin our 100% journey.

We haven't set a firm date yet, but we're thinking about starting tomorrow evening or Friday so we can take advantage of the weekend to prepare foods for the upcoming week. I don't really want to start next weekend because it will feel like we're doing it as a New Years Resolution and that's not the case. This is something we've been wanting to do for a long while and only recently had the funds to purchase a couple of pieces of equipment that we feel will really help us stay strong in our journey. We want to succeed this time!

Just wondering if others took the time to bid some of their favorite SAD foods a "bon voyage".

[Conscious Midwife]

Ummm Yeh! Been there, still there almost 2000 post later.

Talking to foods is part of the insanity that goes with the SAD food addiction.

Now when you start talking to your RAW foods then that's just BLISS;) and a special metaphysical approach to vesting your food and water with pure thoughts and affirmations.

Saying goodbye to SAD Macroon cookies again tonight.

Said good bye to vegetarian lasagna and peach cobbler last night:eek:

[jacsam]

Don't say good bye to macaroons. Raw food/Real world has an incredible recipe for mararoons....we made them for Christmas and everyone loves them, cooked and raw. It's on page 257....I make the blondie version, I use agave instead of maple syrup and sometimes I do use almond extract instead of the vanilla. When you get to the part that tells you to make your almonds into a fine flour, this is how I get it really fine, just like flour: first chop it up in your food processor, as fine as it will make it. Then I use my flax seed grinder (coffee grinder) and put it through that and it becomes very fine. I have found that 1 cup of almonds makes 1 1/2 cups almond flour. I also dehydrate them longer than called for and they do become more set up or stiff as they cool. These are better than the real macaroons. Actually I never was a huge fan of mararoons until I tried this recipe. You'll love it!!!

[Zuri]

Ummm Yeh! Been there, still there almost 2000 post later.

Talking to foods is part of the insanity that goes with the SAD food addiction.

Now when you start talking to your RAW foods then that's just BLISS;) and a special metaphysical approach to vesting your food and water with pure thoughts and affirmations.

Saying goodbye to SAD Macroon cookies again tonight.

Said good bye to vegetarian lasagna and peach cobbler last night:eek:


LOL, I hear you! Me too! Those potatos have GOT ta go!

[IamLoved]

Hello,

I went through a series of "last suppers" saying good bye to my favorite foods too, but the "last supper" was never the "last supper" if you know what I mean. So that did not work for me. It got to the point of being an excuse to binge on bad foods. What you need to do is just decide what is more important to you. Eating foods you "love" that will damage your body, or just eating raw and forget the whole goodbye thing. One thing that has worked for me is not being in the mental mode of "I am never going to eat that food again for the rest of my life." That is just too overwhelming for me to say. Rather I say "I choose not to eat those foods TODAY." And then tomorrow I can say the same thing.

Good luck.

[Elle_Murphy]

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[GoingtoRAW]

Yeah, NO that whole saying goodbye thing just does not work.:rolleyes: I found myself saying goodbye to things I hadn't even been interested in eating in a long time just because I felt like I would miss them if I didn't have them just that one last time. Then you keep saying goodbye, the pounds pile on, and all of the horrible symptoms that you experienced before going raw begin to come back (very quickly I might add), and you are in the same SAD boat you were in to begin with - and you have to start all over. It is just not worth it!;)

[BGVDiva]

I love that there are a variety of answers to this question. It's what I was hoping for...confirmation that we're not the only ones AND confirmation that being raw is a series of minute by minute decisions to do what's good for your body.

I never, for a second, felt that what we were doing was necessarily a "good" thing, in fact, just like GoingtoRAW predicted, we've gained several pounds this holiday season saying goodbye to SAD things. But we also knew that this time we weren't going to go 80-85%, but fully commit to 100%. We felt that to be successful we needed to release that old lifestyle fully in our head & heart before we could move on. Saying "goodbye" was part of that release process.

In fact, last night (even though we haven't "officially" begun our 100% journey), we made a fabulous vegetable juice blend for dinner and a mango/banana/date sorbet for dessert and I'm sitting here at work with an apple and banana on my desk for breakfast. We know raw works. We've experienced the benefits even at 80-85% so we are excited and anxious to start our 100% journey. We're filled with hope for a better, healthier life.

Knowing that lunch and dinner may be our last opportunities before going 100%, we may indulge in something not necessarily SAD, but cooked vegan. Not sure, we'll see. But we definitely begin the journey this weekend!