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[Veganforlife]

Hi everyone!

Since my Raw journey started 3-4 (?) years ago, I have had lots of bumps and potholes and detours and engine problems, flat tires, oil leaks, etc., but one thing remains. I always come back to Raw. And when I dive into it 100% it is AMAZING!

I fasted for 100 days - that was very spiritual, but I like to eat. Who doesn't? And how fun to eat "burgers" and "cheeze cakes" and calzones and pizza and all the foods that SAD/CRAP eaters eat, but only waaaaay better!

I don't count ANYthing on this lifestyle - calories, carbs, sugars - NOTHING

I have fun.

I enjoy living.

I encourage you all to not make this a rough journey. Make it fun. Like Revvell says, "Play with your food." This should be the most wonderful, amazing thing that has ever happened in your life. YOU are in control. YOU are the one to decide which route you take. How cool is that. Are you gonna have down days, of course. But the good, up days far out number those that are not.

Rest when your body asks you too. You are working it harder than it's ever worked before. You are healing it; repairing it. And for some, it will be years and years worth of neglect that you are undoing. It can be done. Do not give up. Just pick yourself up, dust yourself off and start 100% Raw again.

I truly believe going 100% Raw is the way to do it. But if you cannot (will not), then do what you can, but remember this. Like Alissa says, (words to this effect), that if you continue to put SAD/CRAP foods into your body, you are asking it to work extra hard to digest and heal, and it will take longer to eliminate the weight, but it can be done.

Stick with this. Don't give up after a week saying, "Oh gosh. I've been Raw for 7 days and I don't feel this energy. I don't have the glow. I haven't dropped any weight." GIVE IT TIME.

Read and RE-READ Alissa's book. It all makes sense. When I got her book, I highlighted a LOT and often times refer back to that.

Don't obsess. Let it all come natural. Have fun...

(((hugs))) to all my Raw food peeps...

[Revvell]

... and, may I add, watch and re-watch her vids. VERY inspiring. (O.k., I can't hardly tolerate her two friends yet... do it anyway.)

We keep hearing the phrase "listen to your body".... raw is the only food program I have encountered where you can actually get in touch with it and not the lil monkey chattering in your head.

Give raw a chance... at least as much as you've given SAD/CRAP and/or even vegetarian junk food diet.

PLUS, get up and MOVE! Assist your body in healing via movement! Unlike the circulatory system which which has the heart as a pump, the endocrine system, which is the garbage truck of the body, doesn't have a pump except movement! If you're having issues cleansing, MOVE!!!

*huggles da Lucy* :)

[laura-jane]

Very well said!

I agree with everything. For me, I am an extremely rigid 100-percenter right now. I would find it too confusing otherwise. For me, it seems like a slippery slope and I am happy to stay 100%.

It is not rough at all. I LOVE what I eat. I make raw truffles and cookies. I make neatballs and veggie burgers in my dehydrator. I don't feel like I am missing out on anything at all! I don't even have cravings anymore.

The only time that is difficult is when I'm out in public at a restaurant. I live in a rural community and there are no raw restaurants around me. So...sometimes it can be hard when I look at a menu and there is just a boring iceberg salad available. Also, sometimes I feel a bit sheepish when I have to say, "No thanks" a million times to offers of SAD food. I don't like to talk about being raw too much because I find people get alienated and seem to feel guilty and defensive. But sometimes you have to explain why you're refusing food. I don't have any kind of eating disorder or anything, and I am doing this mostly for health benefits (and maybe for bragging rights)! But sometimes I feel like the odd one out.

Other than that, it's a pleasure. I don't feel like I'm missing or giving up anything.

[Aleesha Sattva]

I so agree.

You can make this journey hard or easy... it's your choice. Yup, that's right... you get to choose. Which way do you wanna go?

I choose to go with the flow. Focus on what I'm eating in THIS moment and not worry about what I will eat tomorrow. Cause honestly... all we have is right now.

So in this moment... I'm reaching for coconut water... a great light breakfast full of nutrients. mmm mmmm gooooooood!

[1love]

Thank you, Your Revvell-a-tions! are just what I needed to read at this very moment.
I cant wait to get my hands on Alissa book, It should be here next week! I am 7 days into my commitment to eat 100% raw!

[revdrcyn]

This should be the most wonderful, amazing thing that has ever happened in your life.

Yes, it is . . . I so totally LOVE this forum and the raw lifestyle - you all are awesome!

[terry brown]

100 days fasting?
For real?
I would love to hear about it!!
Terry

[Aleesha Sattva]

Lucy is the QUEEN of Green Smoothie Feasting!!!

[Veganforlife]

Ah...well so YOU say and as wonderful as that was I prefer eating. It was a challenge that I accomplished at that time.

I am looking forward to preparing all of Alissa's recipes!

[rawrawks]

Hey you still up? I email you.....hey prepare them ALL...on video??? why not sweet Lucy Lu?

[Aleesha Sattva]

and one you deeply and spiritually enjoyed at the time as well.

[RawHealthyBeauty]

Quoted by VeganForLife

I don't count ANYthing on this lifestyle - calories, carbs, sugars - NOTHING

I have fun.

I enjoy living.

I encourage you all to not make this a rough journey. Make it fun. Like Revvell says, "Play with your food." This should be the most wonderful, amazing thing that has ever happened in your life. YOU are in control. YOU are the one to decide which route you take. How cool is that. Are you gonna have down days, of course. But the good, up days far out number those that are not.

Rest when your body asks you too. You are working it harder than it's ever worked before. You are healing it; repairing it. And for some, it will be years and years worth of neglect that you are undoing. It can be done. Do not give up. Just pick yourself up, dust yourself off and start 100% Raw again.

I so agree with you on this!

[katchmoleen]

I really do thank my Maker for leading me to this forum. I knew I wanted to eat raw, after watching the trailer for Simply Raw on the Raw for 30 Days website, but I didn't know much beyond that. My earlier experiences with the Hallelujah diet were not something I wanted to repeat. I figured I could do all raw for 30 days like in the film and see how it went. So I typed in "Raw Thirty Day Challenge" and ended up here! How cool is that???? I know that if I had landed at another forum or site, touting a strict plan with all kinds of regulations and "touch nots" I would have failed at raw. I know it. But there is so much freedom here and it is just what I needed. A coworker and I were talking about diets at work today and she said something about how if you deny yourself too much you will ultimately fail. I don't know if she was alluding to my lifestyle or not, but I just beamed and said, "I know what you mean and that is what I LOVE about my raw food plan, because I can eat anything I want, all sorts of delicious food!"

[rawrawks]

Kathamoleen, GOOD ANSWER!!!!! People think somehow we are deprived..HAHAHAHHAHA All we are deprived of is feeling sick, having disease, waking up wiped out in the morn, brain fog, doctor visits, and on n on it goes.

This is a life of freedom not restriction. wooohooooo

[Revvell]

A coworker and I were talking about diets at work today and she said something about how if you deny yourself too much you will ultimately fail.

Someone said that to me as well at a networking meeting after hearing what I do (which has NOTHING to do with diets per se) ~ as she dug into her meal of whatever "they" put out (which actually, was healthier than most networking meetings).

It's easy to tell the women who've been on restrictive weight loss diets and have felt deprived. They don't really get that eating raw is about freedom, creativity and life!!!

[mstrish]

I needed this....Thanks. I have been on/off for past 2 months and decided to get back to feeling great....can't figure out what happened to detour my life but it has and now I got back on the road to health and wellness. This post was perfect timing for me!!!

[rawrawks]

It is so funny. After I make my food on my videos and taste them on camera, I say " and people say we rawfoodies are deprived!!! "

Oooooo eeeeee this raw life!

[Veganforlife]

I'm sitting here getting ready to plan my day and wanted to share another AHA moment. Stopped at the store last evening after work because I needed to grab a couple more tomatoes to make Alissa's chili and WHAM some major temptation smacked me upside the head! What the??? I heard this voice saying oh just a bag of this or some of that won't hurt you. You've had a long week and why not reward yourself? Once again...what the?
Well, I DID reward myself and bought some extra avos to make some goodnesses. THAT was my reward and you know? it felt really really good! I think what helped that temptation was knowing how crappy I would feel if I HAD succumbed to that temptation. I also thought of my goodnesses in my dehydrater and my freezer. One other MAJOR factor for me to make the smarter choice was looking at the other shoppers and their carts and all the SA/CRAP foods they were going to be consuming. Then I looked up at them and how unhealthy they looked and how they lacked any "glow" and energy. They really reminded me of slow moving zombies! LOL!
It amazes me how the temptation demon can rear its ugly head even after all these years and I KNOW better! I also thought are those bags of SAD/CRAP so called foods how we were meant to eat? Certainly not! I thought too of the colors nature provides - the true colors. Then thought of the lack of colors man-made foods DO NOT have. I thought how void of color chips are, pretzels are, all the other "colored" (artificially induced) SAD/CRAP "foods" are.
All this conversation in my head took maybe five minutes max. I am so glad I walked away stronger and chose right.
I'm writing this because a lot of you "oldbies" know of my confessions, where I fell, brushed myself off and started all over again.
This is for the newbies who are tempted. Think smart. Make the right choice. A bag of this a little bite of that is what got me sick, unhealthy, heavy and living in the past. I don't wanna go there. That IS the past and it has passed. I've gone beyond that.
Now I listen to the logic in my head and the smart reasoning is winning over the bad...
YAY!
Will I be tempted again? Of course. Will I have this conversation again? Of course. Will I make the right choice? YOU BET!!!

[Revvell]

... and, that's what it's all about ~ empowering ourselves with choices. Thank you for sharing Lucy.




Will I be tempted again? Of course. Will I have this conversation again? Of course. Will I make the right choice? YOU BET!!!

[rawrawks]

Thankx Lucy Lu for sharing this with all of us. I hear you. I just went to the store. I saw a lady there, and I swear her cart was packed full of chips and fluff n stuff n stickyness. woweeee.

Lack of luster, lack of color, devoid of life.

Good for you for having come this far and also sharing this as a testimony to the testimony of raw and honoring the process it takes.

[ReneeH]

Lucy.....!!!!!! All I can say is WOW!!! So it's YOU inside my head!!!!! LOL!!!!!

I go through the same struggle....especially cuz I still have to shop for my Darling Hubby... He WILL eat Living Food sometimes, but he starts looking at me sideways after a day or so!!! I'm patient with him, though. It's funny cuz he does support me eating this way...guess that's all I can ask for right now...

Like you, I still hear those voices from time to time. But I know, like you, that it's all about the "little" choices....a bite of this or a nibble of that. It starts with that then before I know it, I've eaten the whole bag!!! The slogan "You can't eat just one" is definitely true in my case!!! So, I'm choosing to deal with myself acording to knowledge. I KNOW I feel so much better when I eat Living foods!!! But, I'm a nibbler, so I nibble on Eggplant Bacon, Alissa's Flax crackers, Raw Cookies, Veggies, or fruit....especially frozen or fresh grapes! Giving up SAD Chips is something I still struggle with from time to time, but I'm definitely evolving and I've grown so much since REALLY committing to RAW!!! I'm resolved to take it one day/one meal at a time...

U know Lucy, I'm holding your hand, you know!!!! :)

[anniez]

Great thread VFL. I so agree with you!

Annie

[T-Bird]

so - it really is like trying to give up heroin, huh?

[Veganforlife]

Having never been addicted to anything - I can't say...

[T-Bird]

Not even coffee, Lucy?

I've been off the "stuff" 10 month now....still craving that warm invigorating hit in the am!

[Veganforlife]

No. Back in the day though when I did drink it, I called it coffee syrup, liked it LOADED with heavy whipping cream and sugar! But nope, was never addicted...

I wouldn't even say I'm addicted to SAD/CRAP foods as I've been Vegetarian for close to 40 years and Vegan for now like 8.

I think it's more habit and convenience. It does take longer (sometimes) to prepare living food recipes. But habits are hard to break and maybe habits are mild forms of addictions? :confused:

[anniez]

I think it's more habit and convenience. It does take longer (sometimes) to prepare living food recipes. But habits are hard to break and maybe habits are mild forms of addictions? :confused:

I used to be a very heavy coffee drinker, but have been off it for several years and don't want it at all! SAD hubby makes it every morning and even the smell doesn't make me want it. You'll get past it!

And I agree that it sometimes takes longer to prepare living food recipes, but it can be very quick, too. Sometimes it takes longer to rinse out the blender than to prepare the recipe!

Annie

[rawrawks]

OOOOOOO I am SOOOOO buzzin on live foods today! Just got in from a two mile run that I COULD run!!!! Blessed blessed life on living foods.

[ReneeH]

AAHHH!!! What a wonderful day to enjoy a delicious Simple Salad!!!

Revvell-a-tion: Being able to taste your veggies w/o a Heavy Dressing is simply a JOY!!! I never though I'd be able to do that!!!

http://i517.photobucket.com/albums/u336/Pioneerspiritnee/EnchaladasSalad-1-1.jpg

Today I ate a Cucumber... Just a Cucumber and Boy, oh Boy...It was just to LIVE for!!! I totally Enjoyed it!!!

[Veganforlife]

Renee girl? I so love you! Okay so here I am sitting at "my boys" shop (getting my V-dub's oil changed-Friday nite...um I sure now how to partay, huh - pffft) but I am feeling as energetic as I was at 6:00 this morn! Raw is the way to live baby...I literally have stomach giggles happening!

I'm thinking when I go home and my workout. Last night did an hour of Kenpo--kicked my butt! And sweated something fierce. Obviously did not hydrate myself enough and STARTED to get a headache. Upped my water today and WHAM! Gone!

Ah the beauty of knowing one's body...

And this forum is like my home away from home. Thank goodness I have a phone I can text on!

Big hugs to all the Raw food peeps...!

<3 u all!