rawinspired
02-01-2008, 07:30 AM
Hi my name is Christine. I've been 100% RAW besides my morning cup of coffee and a drizzle of balsamic on my green salad for 11 days. This is day 12. I am completely and totally amazed with myself. I have had weight issues my whole life(I'm 36)and have tried everything you can imagine to loose weight, and some of those things were very unhealthy. All in all I am a healthy person. I am at the gym 5-6 days a week. I am rarely ever sick. In fact I don't think I've ever had a fever. Although the first week eating RAW I had a terriable sore throat. I read that is very common when you first start. So I am physically pretty healthy. Except, and thats a big except, for my diet. I am a binge eater. An emotional or unemotional binge eater. I get started and I can't stop. I feel fortunate I only weighed 178.
Well the scale kept creeping up and up and up and I said this is it. If I don't stop now I won't stop. So my journey with RAW began.
In the AM I have a few nibbles of fruit and a big green smoothie with frozen berries, a banana, kale, or collard greens, carrots, gogi fruit, an orange, and whatever green veggie I can find. Then for dinner I eat a big green salad with avacados, tomatos, cucs, broccoli.... In between I'll snack on an apple or some berries.
This blows my mind. I used to think about food all day and night. I would wake up in the middle of the night to eat. Maybe a bowl of cereal, left over pizza, a pb&j, and i'd go back to sleep.I don't wake up anymore-YIPEE!! I hated doing that b/c I would start my day feeling full and upset with myself. I was consumed with food. What I was going to eat next, and then beating myself up for it. That was the cycle. My whole life has been like this. This is the first time in my life that I have felt free. This 12 day journey has given me so much hope, and self cofidence. I am crazy proud of my self that I have had the self-discipline and self-love to do this for me. I feel incredible. I have great energy, and I'm just a happier person. Oh- I've lost 11 pounds:D
I joined the Feb. Challenge and I am super-charged to do this. I am doing the absolute best thing for my whole self. I couldn't be more grateful.
Thanks for reading
Christine
Well the scale kept creeping up and up and up and I said this is it. If I don't stop now I won't stop. So my journey with RAW began.
In the AM I have a few nibbles of fruit and a big green smoothie with frozen berries, a banana, kale, or collard greens, carrots, gogi fruit, an orange, and whatever green veggie I can find. Then for dinner I eat a big green salad with avacados, tomatos, cucs, broccoli.... In between I'll snack on an apple or some berries.
This blows my mind. I used to think about food all day and night. I would wake up in the middle of the night to eat. Maybe a bowl of cereal, left over pizza, a pb&j, and i'd go back to sleep.I don't wake up anymore-YIPEE!! I hated doing that b/c I would start my day feeling full and upset with myself. I was consumed with food. What I was going to eat next, and then beating myself up for it. That was the cycle. My whole life has been like this. This is the first time in my life that I have felt free. This 12 day journey has given me so much hope, and self cofidence. I am crazy proud of my self that I have had the self-discipline and self-love to do this for me. I feel incredible. I have great energy, and I'm just a happier person. Oh- I've lost 11 pounds:D
I joined the Feb. Challenge and I am super-charged to do this. I am doing the absolute best thing for my whole self. I couldn't be more grateful.
Thanks for reading
Christine