SunshineMN
07-15-2010, 01:04 AM
Hi!
I've been reading this forum for the past month or so and I've been thinking about the "Who are you?" question a lot. There are so many ways I could answer, yet none of them are very positive unfortunately, which is why I am here. My health is scary so I started searching and raw food is what presented itself as a solution after reading at least 30 different websites and lurking around in forums.
So here I am at the beginning. After every thing I've read, I'm convinced the food industry is very bad. I can't tolerate the idea of eating meat, eggs, milk products any more. Next month my SO and I are going to start sprouting. The month after that we'll be adding wheatgrass. We have to do this in stages for money reasons, feeding two of us on $200 a month is tough, especially when we need things like a decent juicer, a dehydrator, a good blender.
I've had some mental issues in my life. And I've been overweight my whole life because of those issues. Most of it started from being sexually harassed almost daily by my stepdad, thankfully never actually molested. When I graduated from high school I weighed over 300 lbs. Right now I'm closer to 450. I did Atkins 5 years ago and that worked briefly but way too much meat for me. I was a vegetarian for most of my teen years and into my 20's.
I've had a fair amount of pharmaceuticals over the past 25 years. I was on Welbutrin for two years. I stopped taking it last October because I started having problems coming up with simple words in sentences when I was in conversation, not to mention major anger issues with every one around me. I had septicemia 11 years ago and it almost killed me. Massive doses of experimental antibiotics, which I ended up being allergic to most of, saved my life. They did exploratory surgery then. And the same incision years later for a ruptured appendix, along with a round of Cipro which I am now allergic to. Not to mention heart failure 3 years ago and sleep apnea so badly I'm supposed to use a ventilator at night and I use an oxygen concentrator (or tanks) 24/7.
This is me at almost 43. If I don't do some thing soon, I doubt I see 50. (My mom was only 52 when she passed from heart failure.) I'm a little scared of what detoxing is going to be like since I'm such a toxic waste dump right now. But everything I have read about raw is screaming at me to do it. It makes logical sense to me.
Thank the stars we have the internet where we can be exposed to so much more than "our backyard" and we can learn new ways to do things! :D
(Sorry for the long post, but I needed to get all that out I guess.)
I've been reading this forum for the past month or so and I've been thinking about the "Who are you?" question a lot. There are so many ways I could answer, yet none of them are very positive unfortunately, which is why I am here. My health is scary so I started searching and raw food is what presented itself as a solution after reading at least 30 different websites and lurking around in forums.
So here I am at the beginning. After every thing I've read, I'm convinced the food industry is very bad. I can't tolerate the idea of eating meat, eggs, milk products any more. Next month my SO and I are going to start sprouting. The month after that we'll be adding wheatgrass. We have to do this in stages for money reasons, feeding two of us on $200 a month is tough, especially when we need things like a decent juicer, a dehydrator, a good blender.
I've had some mental issues in my life. And I've been overweight my whole life because of those issues. Most of it started from being sexually harassed almost daily by my stepdad, thankfully never actually molested. When I graduated from high school I weighed over 300 lbs. Right now I'm closer to 450. I did Atkins 5 years ago and that worked briefly but way too much meat for me. I was a vegetarian for most of my teen years and into my 20's.
I've had a fair amount of pharmaceuticals over the past 25 years. I was on Welbutrin for two years. I stopped taking it last October because I started having problems coming up with simple words in sentences when I was in conversation, not to mention major anger issues with every one around me. I had septicemia 11 years ago and it almost killed me. Massive doses of experimental antibiotics, which I ended up being allergic to most of, saved my life. They did exploratory surgery then. And the same incision years later for a ruptured appendix, along with a round of Cipro which I am now allergic to. Not to mention heart failure 3 years ago and sleep apnea so badly I'm supposed to use a ventilator at night and I use an oxygen concentrator (or tanks) 24/7.
This is me at almost 43. If I don't do some thing soon, I doubt I see 50. (My mom was only 52 when she passed from heart failure.) I'm a little scared of what detoxing is going to be like since I'm such a toxic waste dump right now. But everything I have read about raw is screaming at me to do it. It makes logical sense to me.
Thank the stars we have the internet where we can be exposed to so much more than "our backyard" and we can learn new ways to do things! :D
(Sorry for the long post, but I needed to get all that out I guess.)