TheRawPilgrim
01-06-2010, 02:52 PM
Hi there! My name is Amanda, and I'm pretty new to raw food but very excited about it! I HAD been following the Weston A Price Foundation style of eating for several years to address some health concerns but ended up back on the SAD due to some issues with frustration (health didn't improve to the point I wanted) and financial reasons. About a month ago, my health just crashed. I seemed to stop digesting food at all! I felt that a juice fast would help and after 24 hours of juice fasting my system started working again. I went back on WAPF thinking that was the HEALTHY way to eat but my system crashed again in less than a week. So I had to accept that it just wasn't working.
I'd heard of raw diets but always stonewalled the idea. It seemed too extreme, and after following WAPF for years I couldn't wrap my mind around the possibility of health apart from consuming animal products, but I felt a real pull to examine the topic more closely. I started experimenting and discovered I felt AMAZING on a high raw mostly vegetarian diet (I'm not vegan at this point, but have no objections to heading in that direction. I'm viewing this whole thing as a journey and trying not to overwhelm myself by trying to change everything all at once!). So I started to do more research and I'm very excited to be making these changes in my diet :D.
I know very few people online (and NOONE in person) who eats raw so I'm hoping to find some support here :). Looking forward to getting to know the group and I'm ready to learn :cool:
I'd heard of raw diets but always stonewalled the idea. It seemed too extreme, and after following WAPF for years I couldn't wrap my mind around the possibility of health apart from consuming animal products, but I felt a real pull to examine the topic more closely. I started experimenting and discovered I felt AMAZING on a high raw mostly vegetarian diet (I'm not vegan at this point, but have no objections to heading in that direction. I'm viewing this whole thing as a journey and trying not to overwhelm myself by trying to change everything all at once!). So I started to do more research and I'm very excited to be making these changes in my diet :D.
I know very few people online (and NOONE in person) who eats raw so I'm hoping to find some support here :). Looking forward to getting to know the group and I'm ready to learn :cool: