Hello from Ireland

[gosiarz77]

Hi everybody,

Just wanted to say hello to everybody here. I am Polish, based in Ireland, on a raw food diet for about 6 years now. It saved my life , and I am getting better and better all the time.
Can't image living without my rawies anymore!!

Anyway, talk to you soon.

Gosia

[gosiarz77]

Wow?
Are you in Poland now, if so how is the Polish raw food scene?

Pozdrawiam!!!!!
g

[JumpinJax]

Hi there,

Welcome - this is my first day here too! Can you tell us about how raw food diet helped you with your health? I have turned to raw foods to heal certain things in my life, and I'd just like to hear other people's stories. This diet is not about weight loss for me; I hope it will turn my health around.

Thanks,
JumpinJax

[sunnanna]

Hi Jumpin Jax and peanut and all readers ;)
I am one of Gosia`s best friend - and can confirm that she looks really different now than 6 years ago......a way better!!!!! she looks so healthy and her energy sources are sometimes unbeliveable. so she keeps me motivating to eat raw every time we meet. I have just started today my journal - will do the 3o days challenge..so keep yours fingers crossed ;) :rolleyes:

Anna from Warsaw
sunnanna on her first day :) :D

[gosiarz77]

Hi there,

Welcome - this is my first day here too! Can you tell us about how raw food diet helped you with your health? I have turned to raw foods to heal certain things in my life, and I'd just like to hear other people's stories. This diet is not about weight loss for me; I hope it will turn my health around.

Thanks,
JumpinJax

Hi Jumpin Jax


I started the raw food diet becuase it was the only thing that worked. I tried everything, but lets start from the beginning.

I was a very healthy child, growing up in communist Poland-where there was literally NO PROCESSED FOODS, as there was no such things in the shops, . There were of course sweets, cakes and chocolates, but most of the other things were always made by mum from scratch, and there was plenty of fresh, almost organic veggies and fruit (the pesticiedes were not as common as in the West)-especially in the season. Anyway, when I turned 16, I noticed that my face started swelling in the morning after waking up, especially when I has an infection. It was not that bad, but I turned vegetarian about 3, 4 moths afterwards. I stopped eating any processed foods, but still had some dairy. Gradually, something very strange started happenning to my health-swelling became more and more intense, and I basically felt bad after eating. I did not know what it was, but I definitely discovered that eating, even the healthy foods that I was having all the time, made me sick!!!!!!!!! I even went to hospital, they did all the tests, but nothing came out, and everybody thought that I had anorexic tendencies!!!
This was not true, and I felt frustrated , as nobody believed me. The only thing left for me-was to eat less. There were times that I really lost lots of weight-because that was the only way not to make me feel swollen and paralysed. That is the good word-I felt like some strange toxins were circulating in my body after eating, and I just felt a bit paralysed, could not do things, and sat there all day -at 18 yrs old!!!! Then I discovered that sport made me feel better-probably because it was burning off the toxins quicker, so I started exercising a lot, and that was the only way I could eat more and feel quite OK. Unfortunately it lasted only a year-my strange condition deteriorated, and suddenly I started having bleeding exema on my fingers and being bloated so much, that my face was completely distorted.
Then I said to myself-there must be somtehing I can do about that, this is not normal. I started researching on the internet and I found.... MACROBIOTICS-went to the first workshop in Warsaw. So I became macrobiotic, went to several workshops in Holland as well, and for about two years I was trying to get out of my terrbile condition. It helped a bit at the beginning, and I definitely felt better without the dairy, but....., somehow after two years I felt worse in some other ways. I was in Germany at that time, when I decided to fast. I thought that is the only way that could help me. So after 17 days of almost water fasting (that was hard!!!!) I wanted to come back to my cooked rice, veggies, ......and I JUST COULD NOT!!!!!!!!My instinct drove me to the fresh veg and fruit area in the supermarket-and I basically attacked honeydew melon, I did not know why at that time, so, having a very academic nature, I rushed to the internet and ...discovered the raw food nutrition. I started immdiately, AND...........after a week MY EXEMA WAS GONE !!!!!!!!!!-and I had it before for 3 years!!!, my face started getting back into shape, and I felt so fantastic, as I had not for the previous 6 years, I just felt like when I was a healthy child!!!!
That is basically my story, the first two years were a bit hard, as the emotional cravings for cooked food came now and agian, but every time I tried cooked (it happened about once in 3 months for a day or two) I felt terrible, so I KNEW there was not way back for me. Here I am now, 5, 5 years, feeling fantastic, having so much energy that I decided to do a 4th degree-this time in Nutritional Medicine, SO THAT I CAN HELP PEOPLE in the future.

Have RAW FUN, and dont hesitate asking me when you are stuck!!!
Lots of love
Gosia