Did do damage?

[MSloan65]

Hello Everyone,

I have had a habit since childhood for comfort eating, especially sugar. I usually carry about 15 extra pounds because of it.

I LOVE and understand the benefits of a raw food diet and was inspired to try it awhile ago. I went 100% cold turkey and for the most part felt phenominal with energy and instead vitality and youthful looking skin. I was 2 1/2 months into it when I simply for whatever reason went off it (in a big way) and in a day went back to a SAD diet high in fat and sugar,etc. I new it was a bad transition but did it anyway (that's another thread :).

About 5 months later I went raw again 100% and lasted for 7 months but I really never experienced that level of vitality, strength, and glow. After 7 1/2 months I felt so nutritionally deficient I had to go off it and am back eating SAD and battling food addictions, candida, and chronic sleep problems more than ever before. I feel aged and my skin is SO dry no matter how much water I drink or water dense foods I eat.

My question is: other than I know it's bad to eat with such extreme differences but does anyone exactly what to the body in that case?

Thanks!
I love the community on this site.

[Green_Woman]

I just posted this as my facebook status, and since you mentioned a wagon, here goes:

Green Woman wonders why so many refer to a Raw Wagon and falling off it? I'm not riding on any Wagons, friends! I'm DRIVING my own Wagon and because I'm in the Drivers Seat, I can't fall off

Community is here for encouragement and information. But ultimately, MSLoan, your inspiration comes from YOU.

If you were feeling nutritionally deficient, and it was clear that your body was telling you that you were nutritionally deficient, you needed (and need) to seek out what Living/Raw options there are to meet your nutritional demands. They exist. Oh believe me, they exist in ABUNDANCE!

For example, I suffered from a B12 deficiency prior to going RAW a few years ago, and because I didn't do research, didn't read much, and simply didn't get involved with my own Body's needs -- and it took me until this year to discover that I could, in fact, supplement with a raw, living, vegan B12 vitamin.

I feel balanced, now. It was so simple. Had I just done more research (a LITTLE more!) I could have healed it long ago. :)

Find the alternatives that are HEALTHFUL. Because diving back into SAD, quite obviously, is NOT.