MaddieTheHijabi
06-07-2012, 05:49 PM
Salam Aleykom! :D
I'm soo happy to have found such a wonderful community!:dance:
I'm Madiha (friends call me Maddie), I'm a 23 year old Egyptian/American girl living in Egypt :). I've been reading this forum for a few days now and finally joined :3.
Raw food isn't new to me, I've known about it since 2009 and my mother and I did the 30 day challenge. I went through a lot of detoxing and I didn't have the right mindset when I did it, so I quickly went back to my old food afterwards. But now...I can happily say things are different :D. I always fought inside about this, although I marveled at raw food curing cancer (similar to the alkaline diet and gerson therapy), I knew deep inside that this was the way to go for life. However, I struggled inside, even spiritually. Thoughts like "But where will I get b12?" "this isn't natural, man has eaten animals and cooked foods for centuries" or "my religion permits meat and dairy..surely God knows best?".
But recently I've finally answered all those questions and curbed my anxiety towards this lifestyle. I had an "awakening". I was just sitting on my laptop one day and it suddenly occurred to me that the food today is nothing like it used to be even 100 years ago. That our soils are so depleted of essential minerals and even our produce, which we eat so little of, has a fraction of the nutrients it used to. And that this time and age, a mostly raw food lifestyle would be NECESSARY for humans to live healthily. I also realized how much I didn't want to end up with some fatal disease when I get older. Not to mention I already have PCOS and suspect slight insulin resistance...I didn't want to follow the footsteps of my relatives and mother who all suffer from chronic diseases.
About my religion..I finally got the answers I've been wanting for so many years. Turns out my religion in essence has been pointing me to vegetarianism more than I had thought. Yay :D.
Sorry for rambling hehe..but I had to write this all down, in case I get cravings and want to turn back, as a reminder!
So I'm ready to submerge myself in the water now, and dive deep :). I wonder if there any Egyptians on this forum...hmmm :).
I'm soo happy to have found such a wonderful community!:dance:
I'm Madiha (friends call me Maddie), I'm a 23 year old Egyptian/American girl living in Egypt :). I've been reading this forum for a few days now and finally joined :3.
Raw food isn't new to me, I've known about it since 2009 and my mother and I did the 30 day challenge. I went through a lot of detoxing and I didn't have the right mindset when I did it, so I quickly went back to my old food afterwards. But now...I can happily say things are different :D. I always fought inside about this, although I marveled at raw food curing cancer (similar to the alkaline diet and gerson therapy), I knew deep inside that this was the way to go for life. However, I struggled inside, even spiritually. Thoughts like "But where will I get b12?" "this isn't natural, man has eaten animals and cooked foods for centuries" or "my religion permits meat and dairy..surely God knows best?".
But recently I've finally answered all those questions and curbed my anxiety towards this lifestyle. I had an "awakening". I was just sitting on my laptop one day and it suddenly occurred to me that the food today is nothing like it used to be even 100 years ago. That our soils are so depleted of essential minerals and even our produce, which we eat so little of, has a fraction of the nutrients it used to. And that this time and age, a mostly raw food lifestyle would be NECESSARY for humans to live healthily. I also realized how much I didn't want to end up with some fatal disease when I get older. Not to mention I already have PCOS and suspect slight insulin resistance...I didn't want to follow the footsteps of my relatives and mother who all suffer from chronic diseases.
About my religion..I finally got the answers I've been wanting for so many years. Turns out my religion in essence has been pointing me to vegetarianism more than I had thought. Yay :D.
Sorry for rambling hehe..but I had to write this all down, in case I get cravings and want to turn back, as a reminder!
So I'm ready to submerge myself in the water now, and dive deep :). I wonder if there any Egyptians on this forum...hmmm :).