Keeping it raw

[avolove]

This is weird and cool. I am now day 3 100% raw and I feel wonderful!! :D I am returning to raw after a visit with cooked vegan foods. (I was raw for half a year before going back to cooked foods:o ) I noticed something today I think is interesting ... so many of my “ailments” disappear while raw. It really just takes a few days and I feel so good. These are things that I just accept when I'm plugging along in a cooked food world... back ache, tiredness, irritability, the blahs, bloated tummy, sore shoulder, popping knee. These all are gone or seriously lessened today. REALLY NICE!! But what's weird is that I remember this from last time, how problems that I thought I had learned to live with went away when eating raw. It's strange how the mind will selectively remember things when it wants to. I wonder why I did that, forget the power of eating raw? Cooked vegan food, while certainly not a Big Mac, isn't that great!!
:) I'd love to hear how you all stay raw when the going gets tough/challeging/tiresome or the temptation of cooked foods creeps in... :)

[lavendarJ]

Your testimony is GGGGGGGreat!!!

I think that even for those of us who have "looked back" and nibbled on cooked food thinking that we were missing out on something or that somehow we deserved or had earned it (for doing what we should have been doing in the first place - properly feeding our bodies), we have that same experience that you described -at least I can speak for myself and say that I can relate...it really is amazing how the body responds to live and healthy foods...like you said - in a manner of days. It's that feeling that reassures me, actually "feeling" and "seeing" a noticeable difference from something as simple as healthy living is really amazing. This is what helps to keep me accountable and what helps me to. Knowledge really is power. No matter what I crave, no matter if I were to nibble on some cooked item...I cannot deny what I know is best for me. You cannot return to ignorance once you have become enlightened.