Ugh!

[vexvelour]

I am having such a hard time staying on track living with someone who isn't raw. My boyfriend is totally open to me doing whatever, and even craves his green smoothie every day, but he still eats a mostly (healthy) SAD diet. I don't classify myself as an extremist in the raw diet, but I keep finding myself tripping up. Yesterday he wanted (and did) order a pizza - my favorite! I had some, and felt the awful effects of it all the next day. I guess I'm just looking for some words of wisdom from others that have (and do) overcome this every day.

The first couple of months I really didn't have any problems staying on track because of the awesome changes I saw every day- weight loss like crazy, more energy, etc., but now that I've plateaued I use the excuse that it's 'a treat' and I really need to stop justifying it to myself.

[blizzardfrisbee]

I understand too-- my husband is supportive but not raw either. He eats stuff that looks and smells good to me at times. It is hard. Have I slipped--yes! Have I gotten back up--yes! How do I keep going? Well, I just remember how much better I feel with being raw. I remember that my arthritis in my knees has disappeared. It would be easier if there was no cooked food in the house though.

[vexvelour]

It would be easier if there was no cooked food in the house though.

I hear you. A lot of the time cooked food doesn't smell appetizing to me but when it's staring you in the face it's hard to turn it down sometimes!

[Conscious Midwife]

I've been trying to ge RAW right for 4 years but never has what my hubby or children eaten been my excuse for not succeeding. Not judging but just saying ...

If he picked up a crack pipe would you also induldge?

Meal time is a very socially connecting and familial experience for most of us. Trying having the same sit down talk and hang time at the table with each other without food and then cosume your respective meals in quiet meditation as if the refueling of your body is a sacred and holy experience.


<<<if this sounds whacko blame it on 3days RAW mix with BLISS and Detox>>>

otherwise just take a {{{hug}}} from me and know that you can do it

JUST DO YOU!!!

[DawnD]

Thank goodness that I don't have to have cooked here in the house. My kitchen is almost totally raw. I think I would have a very hard time being around cooked all the time. At Thanksgiving the food smelled so good and I did have some cooked but...as I have learned over the past year if I eat a lot of cooked I will feel just plain heavy and sick to my stomach. I try to remember what it feels like to have a cooked meal, that heavy bloated sick feeling, and that helps me to either avoid completely or to eat less. I had success with this technique yesterday in a restaurant. I scanned the menu online before and saw that they served avocado with other entres so I asked for the salad without chicken and with added avocado. I felt great after. Yea...now for that Christmas Party at the Italian restaurant next week...I will get my game plan together.

[blizzardfrisbee]

Keep remembering--- I feel good eating raw, I feel good eating raw and not good eating cooked. As I said, it is hard when someone in your house is not raw. I am doing good with this though.

[WanderRA]

I am having such a hard time staying on track living with someone who isn't raw. My boyfriend is totally open to me doing whatever, and even craves his green smoothie every day, but he still eats a mostly (healthy) SAD diet. I don't classify myself as an extremist in the raw diet, but I keep finding myself tripping up. Yesterday he wanted (and did) order a pizza - my favorite! I had some, and felt the awful effects of it all the next day. I guess I'm just looking for some words of wisdom from others that have (and do) overcome this every day.

The first couple of months I really didn't have any problems staying on track because of the awesome changes I saw every day- weight loss like crazy, more energy, etc., but now that I've plateaued I use the excuse that it's 'a treat' and I really need to stop justifying it to myself.

you are looking for an answer that isn't "have stronger focus/willpower"...

unfortunatly there isnt one.