runnrgrl
03-06-2009, 07:58 AM
Hello all,
I am new here and just wanted to introduce myself. I have been very intrigued by the idea of a raw food diet for quite a while, but now am seriously considering it.
I used to be a very active person and very very conscious of the things I ate. Then I got married and had kids. What happened??:confused:
I used to run competitively in college (x-country and track) and then when I got married I stopped running altogether. Throw in a bad back injury and that made exercising easy to put on the back burner. A stressful (at the time) job made things worse. I have a bit of an anxiety disorder, I am a hypochondriac (totally self-diagnosed) and I generally worry about everything. I wish I wasn't that way, but I am. I've always been a worrier. I started eating really healthy when I was 20. I did a diet called Fit For Life if any of you have ever heard of it. I weighed 117 at the time (this was in college) and when I went home that summer I was lifeguarding. I told a friend of mind that I always felt so tired and she suggested this book. So I read it, followed it and it was great. It got me to eat as many whole foods as possible so that was good. But because of their food combination guidelines, I ended up cutting out meat and not replacing it with any other protein really, and I ended up with anemia. I went down to 107 lbs. which felt great. I didn't get the anemia until I went back to school and was training 10+ miles a day. So I was trying to be healthy but I just wasn't getting all the nutrition I needed.
Fast foward 10-ish years, 2 kids later and a mortgage and I'm at 150lbs, tired all the time and stressed. I work full time, am starting another business on the side and my husband is about to quit his well-paying job (with bonuses and a company car) to go back to school full time to be a teacher. I am fairly certain that I am an emotional eater, so anyway, that's where I am now. I am only 34 and I don't want to feel old, which is how I'm starting to feel. I want to get back into running regularly but it's been hard since having kids. I ran a half marathon last June with hardly any training so I know it's still "in my blood." I get overwhelmed very easily with things right now and i put myself at the bottom of the list.
I'm worried that an all raw diet might be too strict for me, but I'm up for trying anything at this point, and eating raw has always made sense to me. At one point I was a vegetarian and even vegan for a short time.
Any advice, pointers, anything would be helpful. I see these before and after pics on this board and that is very encouraging. I guess I just don't know where to start. I would love to do a cleanse of some sort.
On a side note, to add to my hypochondria (so you don't think I'm totally nuts)--both my mother and sister suffered ruptured brain aneurysms and had to have brain surgery within the last few years. It is genetic and I have been tested, but that is a big cause for my worry in general. And yes, I see a therapist. :)
I plan on buying Alissa's book--I just came across this site and message board yesterday.
Thanks!
I am new here and just wanted to introduce myself. I have been very intrigued by the idea of a raw food diet for quite a while, but now am seriously considering it.
I used to be a very active person and very very conscious of the things I ate. Then I got married and had kids. What happened??:confused:
I used to run competitively in college (x-country and track) and then when I got married I stopped running altogether. Throw in a bad back injury and that made exercising easy to put on the back burner. A stressful (at the time) job made things worse. I have a bit of an anxiety disorder, I am a hypochondriac (totally self-diagnosed) and I generally worry about everything. I wish I wasn't that way, but I am. I've always been a worrier. I started eating really healthy when I was 20. I did a diet called Fit For Life if any of you have ever heard of it. I weighed 117 at the time (this was in college) and when I went home that summer I was lifeguarding. I told a friend of mind that I always felt so tired and she suggested this book. So I read it, followed it and it was great. It got me to eat as many whole foods as possible so that was good. But because of their food combination guidelines, I ended up cutting out meat and not replacing it with any other protein really, and I ended up with anemia. I went down to 107 lbs. which felt great. I didn't get the anemia until I went back to school and was training 10+ miles a day. So I was trying to be healthy but I just wasn't getting all the nutrition I needed.
Fast foward 10-ish years, 2 kids later and a mortgage and I'm at 150lbs, tired all the time and stressed. I work full time, am starting another business on the side and my husband is about to quit his well-paying job (with bonuses and a company car) to go back to school full time to be a teacher. I am fairly certain that I am an emotional eater, so anyway, that's where I am now. I am only 34 and I don't want to feel old, which is how I'm starting to feel. I want to get back into running regularly but it's been hard since having kids. I ran a half marathon last June with hardly any training so I know it's still "in my blood." I get overwhelmed very easily with things right now and i put myself at the bottom of the list.
I'm worried that an all raw diet might be too strict for me, but I'm up for trying anything at this point, and eating raw has always made sense to me. At one point I was a vegetarian and even vegan for a short time.
Any advice, pointers, anything would be helpful. I see these before and after pics on this board and that is very encouraging. I guess I just don't know where to start. I would love to do a cleanse of some sort.
On a side note, to add to my hypochondria (so you don't think I'm totally nuts)--both my mother and sister suffered ruptured brain aneurysms and had to have brain surgery within the last few years. It is genetic and I have been tested, but that is a big cause for my worry in general. And yes, I see a therapist. :)
I plan on buying Alissa's book--I just came across this site and message board yesterday.
Thanks!