SunChild
07-21-2009, 06:05 PM
I posted this in my new blog: So this is my story. Yesterday I came accross an old DVD of mine, which was Alissa Cohens- Living on Live Food. So I watched it and all of a sudden a new energy and a new passion ignited for increasing my raw food intake to as close to as a 100% as I can get it! I felt the excitement again, and of course, I lent it out to a friend, what good is Alissa's awesome DVD hiding in my drawer?
My raw food history goes back to about 4 or 5 years ago! And it all started with Alissa, I was doing great for months and months and was blogging at my friends website together with her. So I had support too. I kept eating raw simply as Alissa suggested- I made delicious recipes to which I still have many photos! I ate simple, light and I was at my ideal weight within weeks. I then evolved to eating a superfood diet as I was following another guru and because of certain financial restraints I felt the pressure of not being able to afford everything on the superfood diet, so I did what I could and all of a sudden the diet started becoming complex, not fun, hard to manage, hard to source ingredients, and pressuring. Alissa's way of eating raw became somewhat in the background and I totally forgot to have fun with this! I then had some life changing scenarios, one being I became pregnant in 2007 and since then I formed new habbits which were lazy and let other people dictate what I should be eating. All the while the little voice inside my head was being ignored.
During and after pregnancy I still maintained a lot of raw food however, I ate a lot of cooked food too. I put on a lot of weight and then lost weight in 2008 due to other stresses in life and food was the last thing on my mind. 2008 was a soul growth period so I wont beat myself up for not doing the best I could. My daughter is now almost 2 and she is eating a lot, and I'd love to be a perfect example for her. This year, though, 2009, is perfect now for changing things that are no longer working for me diet wise. For half of this year, since things have settled down in life I have been over eating out boredom, or perhaps subtly eating my emotions of last year. I have already cleared up other areas of my life, and now I feel ready. And I don't believe it was an accident I found Alissa's DVD again. For what it's worth, I am being told by the Universe to keep it simple for now, get back to my ideal weight, feed my daughter simple raw foods, and I don't have to be buying supplements or exotic foods to really be healthy. I just want to enjoy this and have fun, and that is exactly what I am going to do.
Thanks Alissa!
I am back here thanks to this realization and I'm sure many of you would agree with what I have written about, if you are not ready for certain things they can become a burden rather than a celebration. I want a celebration every time I eat!
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It's good to be back.
This is my blog http://www.rawfoodtalk.com/blog.php?u=3285
My raw food history goes back to about 4 or 5 years ago! And it all started with Alissa, I was doing great for months and months and was blogging at my friends website together with her. So I had support too. I kept eating raw simply as Alissa suggested- I made delicious recipes to which I still have many photos! I ate simple, light and I was at my ideal weight within weeks. I then evolved to eating a superfood diet as I was following another guru and because of certain financial restraints I felt the pressure of not being able to afford everything on the superfood diet, so I did what I could and all of a sudden the diet started becoming complex, not fun, hard to manage, hard to source ingredients, and pressuring. Alissa's way of eating raw became somewhat in the background and I totally forgot to have fun with this! I then had some life changing scenarios, one being I became pregnant in 2007 and since then I formed new habbits which were lazy and let other people dictate what I should be eating. All the while the little voice inside my head was being ignored.
During and after pregnancy I still maintained a lot of raw food however, I ate a lot of cooked food too. I put on a lot of weight and then lost weight in 2008 due to other stresses in life and food was the last thing on my mind. 2008 was a soul growth period so I wont beat myself up for not doing the best I could. My daughter is now almost 2 and she is eating a lot, and I'd love to be a perfect example for her. This year, though, 2009, is perfect now for changing things that are no longer working for me diet wise. For half of this year, since things have settled down in life I have been over eating out boredom, or perhaps subtly eating my emotions of last year. I have already cleared up other areas of my life, and now I feel ready. And I don't believe it was an accident I found Alissa's DVD again. For what it's worth, I am being told by the Universe to keep it simple for now, get back to my ideal weight, feed my daughter simple raw foods, and I don't have to be buying supplements or exotic foods to really be healthy. I just want to enjoy this and have fun, and that is exactly what I am going to do.
Thanks Alissa!
I am back here thanks to this realization and I'm sure many of you would agree with what I have written about, if you are not ready for certain things they can become a burden rather than a celebration. I want a celebration every time I eat!
~
It's good to be back.
This is my blog http://www.rawfoodtalk.com/blog.php?u=3285