Autumn
07-26-2005, 12:39 AM
I've noticed a few threads in the past month or so concerning feeling sick on raw, and questing a resolve to remain raw, or questioning the original intention for going raw, or thinking of abandoning raw all together.
If you think back to when you ate SAD, or cooked vegetarian, or cooked vegan, there were probably many times when you felt sick from overindulging, poorly prepared food, bad food combining, or something that just didn't settle right in your stomach. When you did, did you decide that you were going to abandon your particular eating habit/lifestyle forever?
Perhaps as a child you ate too much cake at a birthday party and felt sick afterward. Maybe you celebrated a promotion at a new Mexican restaurant and had heartburn so badly you couldn't sleep all night. Maybe you burned your mouth on some stringy cheese pizza. Maybe you had a hamburger at a backyard barbecue, unaware that the meat had been laying out for a few hours. Did you never eat these foods again? You probably did, because you realized it was the particular circumstances that made you sick.
Maybe, in your nervous excitement, you drank a bit too much wine at your best friend's wedding, and had to spend two hours kneeling on the floor in front of the toilet, your emerald green velvet floor-length gown with the bronze bead-encrusted bodice trailing behind you on the bathroom floor while you turned your head to the heavens and said, "oh God, I *PROMISE*, never again!" and..... uh, well maybe that was just me.
Recently, I began scarfing up all the raw goodies I had prepared that were in the fridge because I thought the impending hurricane, and loss of electricity thereafter, would ruin them. So I nibbled here and there.... and there and here... and that night I didn't feel so well.
My point is, please do not let a tummy upset here and there, most likely cause by poor food combining, or a little overindulgence, or a recipe gone wrong, or forcing something that you don't really like, but feel you *must* eat because everyone else is, derail you from this wonderful journey you've started!
If you think back to when you ate SAD, or cooked vegetarian, or cooked vegan, there were probably many times when you felt sick from overindulging, poorly prepared food, bad food combining, or something that just didn't settle right in your stomach. When you did, did you decide that you were going to abandon your particular eating habit/lifestyle forever?
Perhaps as a child you ate too much cake at a birthday party and felt sick afterward. Maybe you celebrated a promotion at a new Mexican restaurant and had heartburn so badly you couldn't sleep all night. Maybe you burned your mouth on some stringy cheese pizza. Maybe you had a hamburger at a backyard barbecue, unaware that the meat had been laying out for a few hours. Did you never eat these foods again? You probably did, because you realized it was the particular circumstances that made you sick.
Maybe, in your nervous excitement, you drank a bit too much wine at your best friend's wedding, and had to spend two hours kneeling on the floor in front of the toilet, your emerald green velvet floor-length gown with the bronze bead-encrusted bodice trailing behind you on the bathroom floor while you turned your head to the heavens and said, "oh God, I *PROMISE*, never again!" and..... uh, well maybe that was just me.
Recently, I began scarfing up all the raw goodies I had prepared that were in the fridge because I thought the impending hurricane, and loss of electricity thereafter, would ruin them. So I nibbled here and there.... and there and here... and that night I didn't feel so well.
My point is, please do not let a tummy upset here and there, most likely cause by poor food combining, or a little overindulgence, or a recipe gone wrong, or forcing something that you don't really like, but feel you *must* eat because everyone else is, derail you from this wonderful journey you've started!