i could stare at different crazy foods in food stores all day long

[Froggy]

i can't believe i made it thru the day. i had a head of steam at about 7pm where i was ready to eat and drink at some little gathering because i didn't want to go out with my last uncontrollable drinking day. well, i get there and it's actually next door to where i thought i was going, it was extremely crowded and there was no food being served until after the little play. well, i sat thru it and later i was face-to-fact with these gooey, soft mango rice things, i thought i would die on the spot, but i walked away as it was getting late on getting my bus. i could stare at different crazy foods in food stores all day long and just go nuts on lusting after cooked food.

i learned at my food/health expo sunday that raw food preparations are ground and dehydrated, just not over 100 degrees so that the nutrients and enzymes are not destroyed. forget that, that will never work for me, i have to just pick up my plant food and eat it, no processing, no heating at all. i love those buck bags at the produce stores, i think that's how i was meant to eat. well, i made it back here to mention it on here, you know i wouldn't be here if i hadn't stayed raw. tomorrow's another big test, same for sunday, but i know once i wake up in the morning, i'm happy if i stayed raw and sad if i didn't, regardless of my excuses for eating cooked. whew.

[StarFire]

http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s43/FireStar_830/high5.jpg ... Excellent you should be sooo proud of yourself!!!

RAWK ON FROGGY!! Well done!


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[c'estlaviebelle]

Great job! its hard to resist! I thought I'd be all raw pure foods (no dehydration and such). I've since learned I have to make raw sweet treats to survive. You may need to try it- macadamia cookies and raw chocolate are my fixes for cravings since I usually crave sweets.

You may want to try always carrying around a larabar or two in your purse that way when you are confronted with temptation you have something to nosh on instead. :) It really helps me to do that.

[Froggy]

thanks starfire, great name, i was thinking of changing mine to buckbagman since i love those dollar bags of still edible fruit the produce places always have. really, i could probably live on 3 dollars a day easily and comfortably if i ate only produce store dollar bags. it would be a good thing.

it's hard for me to use that word proud because of the bad connotations and "pride goeth before a fall" expression but i woke up this morning and used the word proud in my head so if i go with the first definition i can be proud of myself, although i swear for one of the few times it was dumb luck, i had every intention of eating and drinking last night, events just conspired that it wasn't all that desirable in the end. it could have very easily gone the other way, but now that i'm reset mentally, meaning i have enough time raw that i'm back to my normal mind, it's at it's best rest state again, i should be able to get thru today and tomorrow and get on a good, long raw plant food run again. just the temptations alone that i've been thru recently with food might be enough to get me thru the next couple of days and into next week, although weekends have been notoriously horrible for me for the past five of them.

proud - feeling pleasure or satisfaction over something regarded as highly honorable or creditable to oneself (often fol. by of, an infinitive, or a clause).

rawk rawk rawk:p :mad: :eek: :cool:

[belleadonna]

Isn't it amazing how much we think about eating??!! I am finding that the rawer I get the less I am dwelling on food.

When I say that I am bored with my food, I have to keep reminding myself that I am not eating to entertain myself but to nourish my body. I love fruit so this is not so hard for me as others and I would sooner have some dates for dessert than anything chocolate. :)

[Froggy]

how long have you been raw c'estlaviebelle and how long have you been dehydrating and such? what percentage raw have you been able to maintain and do you shoot for 100%? i have no problem with the basic definition of raw, the less than a certain temperature so that the enzymes aren't destroyed, i just know it won't work for me, at least for now. i've been trying to live my simple plant food life for too long to allow myself any ill effects on my psyche which those items you mentioned would bring me immediately. maybe if i stayed strict raw plant food for six months or so, was completely detoxed and used to it, and then decided to implement some of the raw creations, i may be able to handle it, if i felt the desire at the time, which i don't expect to. but i probably wouldn't want to blow six months raw, so if something dehydrated made me nuts i'd probably be able to withstand the mental strain. right now, without much time, there's no way.

but thanks for the suggestion, it's good for me to think about these things. by the way, i don't carry a purse. i should learn how to do more on computers, like put my picture in and things, like starfire and others know so well.:confused: :D :)

[Froggy]

it's so true that a simple raw diet leads me to not concern myself with food anymore, if i stay with it long enough to get used to it. i've done it in the past so i know, but the mental and physical detox take time, at this point in my efforts i don't expect it to be a real long time before food is no longer an issue, like a few months. i just have to accept the fact that i don't eat everything that's edible like the rest of the human race, regardless of what i think are good tastes. people will argue that raw foodists and vegetarians think too much about food, the fact is, is that we're capable of changing our diet from the sad one and so we try to accomplish the process over a certain period of time, whereas many would not even ponder this because they have no chance of doing it.

"When I say that I am bored with my food, I have to keep reminding myself that I am not eating to entertain myself but to nourish my body."

exactly, i say that to myself all the time and i couldn't say it better. dates are about as far as i will go into the "dried" or not completely fresh fruits and vegetables. like i can forgive myself for raisins but i'd rather eat grapes. you can't eat dates any other way though, than the way they are, so that's okay for me. i find them a little too sweet though, i try not to run to them. if i get enamored with a dried fruit and eat it, i can let it go and go on being raw as long as it's naturally dried with nothing but maybe a preservative added, like those dried figs, or dried cherries or blueberries. but i'd like to get away from this completely, it's silly, i should just eat the fruit in it's most healthy, naturally ripe state.

[shashibala]

Sounds like you're doing great !! I also like to eat most of my food with the water still in it. I do make dehydrated crackers out of Flax seeds. These satisfy an urge for something crunchy. I also keep some dried fruits and nuts in the house for backup. They are there in case I don't get a chance to shop for produce. They are also very easy to transport if I need to take a little something out with me. (even without a purse;) )

[Froggy]

i think it's optimal and probably easily possible to get all my fluids from the produce i eat, of course i'd have to go strict fruitarian for one thing which doesn't concern me yet. i remember in the past when i had five months a while ago, that i quietly went a long time there without drinking any water. tap water or spring water is fine for me anytime. i remember there's a deer that gets all it's water needs from the leaves or something that it eats. i imagine there are other animals that are the same.

i recognize my urge for something crunchy as anger or at least incorrect, ego, might say it, but then i'm a course in miracles reader. but a need for something crunchy sounds like feelings to process to me, not something to eat over. i love everything you're doing though shashibala, you're living the life and doing a lot better than me, so are most of the people on this forum. i have 4 days raw, whoopee, and i'm going thru food withdrawal horribly. i've failed a million times at this so i don't have a leg to stand on as far as what's right. i made it to the end of this day and i hope to make it thru the weekend. i feel very good right now, my mind has come back to me after feeling like a blithering idiot a couple of days ago.

thanks for filling me in on what you're doing shashibala, i hope i can do the same. i go after raw nuts, like tonight and last night, strictly for emotional support, after 15 years of trying this diet, i'm more than well aware of how difficult it is.:( :rolleyes: ;)

[c'estlaviebelle]

how long have you been raw c'estlaviebelle and how long have you been dehydrating and such? what percentage raw have you been able to maintain and do you shoot for 100%? i have no problem with the basic definition of raw, the less than a certain temperature so that the enzymes aren't destroyed, i just know it won't work for me, at least for now. i've been trying to live my simple plant food life for too long to allow myself any ill effects on my psyche which those items you mentioned would bring me immediately. maybe if i stayed strict raw plant food for six months or so, was completely detoxed and used to it, and then decided to implement some of the raw creations, i may be able to handle it, if i felt the desire at the time, which i don't expect to. but i probably wouldn't want to blow six months raw, so if something dehydrated made me nuts i'd probably be able to withstand the mental strain. right now, without much time, there's no way.

but thanks for the suggestion, it's good for me to think about these things. by the way, i don't carry a purse. i should learn how to do more on computers, like put my picture in and things, like starfire and others know so well.:)

Hi Froggy! I'm so sorry for making an assumption :o I'm sure a larabar would be easy to carry around in your pocket as well ;)

I think you should keep doing what works for you and let your body tell you what it needs. It sounds like you have a great grasp on that already. I've been raw since Jan. (although I had short lasting flirtations with raw for the last 2 years), and I would *already* be bored if I didn't have the raw creations I eat sometimes or the raw restaurants I am blessed to have nearby. When I crave something I need to have something at least similar otherwise I am at danger of cheating. I know this about myself. Plus, I would get really bored mono-eating and eating only salads full time. I like spices too much to give them up.