jesslcochran
03-26-2009, 01:59 PM
Hi everyone. My name is Jessica. I'm 31, married with two children (ages 8 and 4), and live in New York.
I first went raw when pregnant with my youngest (if I ate anything cooked then I would get very sick). Let me tell you...it was the BEST pregnancy EVER! I felt alive, happy, had lots of energy, and didn't have any of the negative hormonal symptoms. I would joke with people and say that raw food gave me "happy hormones" lol
I don't know why I went back to cooked foods. However since then I have tried numerous times to go back to raw. I couldn't do it for more than a week unfortunatly.
After reading Alissa Cohen's book (leant to me by a friend I met at a raw food potluck) I realized some of the things I was doing "wrong". For one I mostly was eating just fruits and veggies and nuts without making them into anything. Eventually I would become bored. I also was constantly cooking for my family and so the temptation was always there.
In May of last year I was 211 lbs. I'm now 189 lbs. I lost it by eating better, though not raw. It was slow because I would sometimes eat junk food and I hardly exercised.
There are so many benifits to being raw. I'm determined to make it work this time. I will go raw and stay raw. I'm writing a list of raw snacks and deserts that I can have when I'm in the mood for a snack. I've made raw granola which is soooo yummy (got the recipe on goneraw.com). My husband has agreed to try raw and I'm going to slowly introduce it to my kids. My hope is that within a few months we'll have almost no cooked foods in the house. Whether or not that would happen, though, remains to be seen.
*hugs* to all
Jess
I first went raw when pregnant with my youngest (if I ate anything cooked then I would get very sick). Let me tell you...it was the BEST pregnancy EVER! I felt alive, happy, had lots of energy, and didn't have any of the negative hormonal symptoms. I would joke with people and say that raw food gave me "happy hormones" lol
I don't know why I went back to cooked foods. However since then I have tried numerous times to go back to raw. I couldn't do it for more than a week unfortunatly.
After reading Alissa Cohen's book (leant to me by a friend I met at a raw food potluck) I realized some of the things I was doing "wrong". For one I mostly was eating just fruits and veggies and nuts without making them into anything. Eventually I would become bored. I also was constantly cooking for my family and so the temptation was always there.
In May of last year I was 211 lbs. I'm now 189 lbs. I lost it by eating better, though not raw. It was slow because I would sometimes eat junk food and I hardly exercised.
There are so many benifits to being raw. I'm determined to make it work this time. I will go raw and stay raw. I'm writing a list of raw snacks and deserts that I can have when I'm in the mood for a snack. I've made raw granola which is soooo yummy (got the recipe on goneraw.com). My husband has agreed to try raw and I'm going to slowly introduce it to my kids. My hope is that within a few months we'll have almost no cooked foods in the house. Whether or not that would happen, though, remains to be seen.
*hugs* to all
Jess