rawintexas
01-06-2010, 09:16 AM
I'm back again! Hailing from Texas - although it's very COLD here right now and expected to be in the 20s tonight - I wanted to say hi.
I tried last year to 'ease' in to raw and found myself continuing to feel crappy and also to backslide, meaning going from 70/80% raw to 30% raw as the mood hit me during any given week and I didn't feel like I was getting a real benefit other than bettering my old diet of SAD food. I also continued to struggle with giving up alcohol! I should also say that I swung back and forth between vegan and, well, not vegan. So the benefits were very limited!
Anyway, I am a former distance runner whose body has been really breaking down over the past few years - a broke an ankle, was laid up, gained a LOT of weight, stopped running due to the injury and then starting having significant knee problems. I had knee surgery (meniscus) in September of this year and by November my other knee was painful. I have a LOT of inflammation generally. My doctors chalked it up to 'wearing out the body running' and 'getting old' - I'm 44 for god sake - and I just finally got fed up with feeling like crap. Who wants to feel like it's all downhill from 44? I literally had a couple days over the holidays that I could barely stand up due to knee pain. I mean, I actually hiked into and out of the Grand Canyon (all the way down and back) just 3 years ago. And now I can barely walk? I know something is wrong and I know it's food and alcohol that's causing it. I can literally feel my body falling apart and it's been scary. I REFUSE to get another knee surgery unless I absolutely have no choice!
Anyway, I decided I could not ease into raw again, that I needed to go cold turkey. I feel like it is life or death (in a matter of time if not right away). I know there is debate about going this route, and I know I will probably have a lovely detox (which started this morning with a super sore throat) but I have to tell you that after only a week at 98% raw (a little tea, a little EVOO) my joints are MUCH better already. I'll trade detox for joint relief any day.
So I'm sitting here drinking some filtered water and pondering the wonder of how my body has been BEGGING for some real nutrition and BEGGING for me to stop poisoning it and perhaps it's not said often, but I'm welcoming the detox with open arms.
I took my before pictures a week ago LOL!
I tried last year to 'ease' in to raw and found myself continuing to feel crappy and also to backslide, meaning going from 70/80% raw to 30% raw as the mood hit me during any given week and I didn't feel like I was getting a real benefit other than bettering my old diet of SAD food. I also continued to struggle with giving up alcohol! I should also say that I swung back and forth between vegan and, well, not vegan. So the benefits were very limited!
Anyway, I am a former distance runner whose body has been really breaking down over the past few years - a broke an ankle, was laid up, gained a LOT of weight, stopped running due to the injury and then starting having significant knee problems. I had knee surgery (meniscus) in September of this year and by November my other knee was painful. I have a LOT of inflammation generally. My doctors chalked it up to 'wearing out the body running' and 'getting old' - I'm 44 for god sake - and I just finally got fed up with feeling like crap. Who wants to feel like it's all downhill from 44? I literally had a couple days over the holidays that I could barely stand up due to knee pain. I mean, I actually hiked into and out of the Grand Canyon (all the way down and back) just 3 years ago. And now I can barely walk? I know something is wrong and I know it's food and alcohol that's causing it. I can literally feel my body falling apart and it's been scary. I REFUSE to get another knee surgery unless I absolutely have no choice!
Anyway, I decided I could not ease into raw again, that I needed to go cold turkey. I feel like it is life or death (in a matter of time if not right away). I know there is debate about going this route, and I know I will probably have a lovely detox (which started this morning with a super sore throat) but I have to tell you that after only a week at 98% raw (a little tea, a little EVOO) my joints are MUCH better already. I'll trade detox for joint relief any day.
So I'm sitting here drinking some filtered water and pondering the wonder of how my body has been BEGGING for some real nutrition and BEGGING for me to stop poisoning it and perhaps it's not said often, but I'm welcoming the detox with open arms.
I took my before pictures a week ago LOL!