Guilty?

[jesdenm]

Do you ever feel guilty for not keeping 100% RAW? I made it a full and just over 24 hours, but then slipped. First off, I feel gross. Heavy belly, tired, just ewwww. Second though, I feel bad. I feel bad for giving in to temptation, I feel bad for not keeping a good thing happening continuously. I know that the rest of tonight and tomorrow is another chance at starting over. Maybe it's the fact that I feel so ewww that is making me feel so guilty.

I sound like a pest - have you all gone through this? Was it? Is it? hard for you too?

Thanks for reading.

After some thinking, maybe if I gave myself more of a challenge or goal to work forward to, say the 30 day challenge, then maybe it will work out better. I haven't only because I think I would feel worse if I fail that, than if I had no actual goals at all.

[sweetgoddess]

I have gone through that a lot, so dont feel alone. It is quite common. The shift that makes it stop being a struggle occured for me when I stopped viewing it with that perspective. When I stopped judging and assigning a verdict of guilty or not, good and bad, my raw journey changed so much more than I can explain.

That for me though, was a process of many times feeling exactly what you are feeling now. Realizing a little more each time, that how I was feeling about it and viewing it, wasn't serving me, and there must be a different way.

Does this make sense?
Keep working through it and remember what Alissa says.
It's about persistence, not perfection!

My warmest wishes~
Carmel

[jesdenm]

It makes sense. I will be a different person when I can follow that thinking and see myself in a different light.

[Sharon in Colorado]

There's a lot of guilt involved when you slip up the first time. After you've done it numerous times, you don't feel as guilty, more annoyed sometimes, but then you move on.

If this is your first time, be prepared for many more. It's not a bad thing, just a learning curve.

[emmaann]

ITS a process. Don't worry about being 100% when you are just learning and starting out. Its too much pressure and like you said you feel guilty and mad at yourself. Eating all raw is a wonderful feeling and then when you eat SAD it makes you feel like well, "crap". ick!!! For every time you slip is another day closer to learning to become 100% raw.

Hang in there, its a wonderful process.

smiles,

ac

[Ariannah]

As someone who slipped up on occasion between June (I was 100% but had a few run-ins with old faves) and August 23rd, I can't say guilt is really what I felt. After all, I am only accountable to me. However, the effects of the cooked food spoke for themselves. And it was not a pleasant feeling.

Am I willing to trade the wonderful feeling I have on raw for a few bites of something cooked? My opinion is that, if guilt is what we are feeling when we eat something cooked, we need to examine why we are raw in the first place.

When I ate cooked I felt like a truck ran over me, I felt like lying down and going to sleep, but I didn't feel guilty. These physical effects were the results of a purely conscious choice I made, and I could either choose to dive back into it, or learn from it and move on.

~Ariannah

[DavidZaneMason]

Nobody training for the race of a lifetime.....say a Tri-Athlon..........is angry because they have a day where they are tired.....or do not train.......or eat something not on their diet.....what matters is the goal.....and the re-evaluation....and the process that NEVER stops....and is kind.....until you get to where you want to be....or better yet....ACCEPT where you are in a loving fashion.

-The only thing that ensures true failure - is the failure to try.

-What do you think?

-With Love,

-David Mason

[RawTruth]

Am I willing to trade the wonderful feeling I have on raw for a few bites of something cooked? My opinion is that, if guilt is what we are feeling when we eat something cooked, we need to examine why we are raw in the first place.

When I ate cooked I felt like a truck ran over me, I felt like lying down and going to sleep, but I didn't feel guilty. These physical effects were the results of a purely conscious choice I made, and I could either choose to dive back into it, or learn from it and move on.This is excellent, Arianah. I couldn't agree more.

[jesdenm]

Thanks everyone - to me guilt is a normal response to things gone wrong or not the way I had planned. It is something in me that obviously I need to work on.

I started looking into RAW because I needed to change myself, something was wrong. I was eating and not feeling satisfied. I started initiating more RAW into my diet because of how people say they feel, how much better, more vibrant, they feel. I have enjoyed eating more RAW than SAD because I like feeling satisfied, I like feeling complete, and I like not having the heavy tired feeling associated with SAD.

I realize that everything is a process and I am not a failure and have no reason to feel guilty. The rest of the day can be made better and tomorrow can be better and I can obviously work on RIGHT NOW.

[SparklePlenty]

as in when am I gonna stop this struggle?? The physical and emotional results of eating SAD again and again speak for themselves....yuck! The run over by a truck analogy is apt for me too.
I do accept that going raw is a process and each time, I get closer to dropping the resistance and the struggle. And....I do get impatient and want to be THERE. But I just keep pushing the RESTART button and moving on down the raw road.
I know in my heart that I am exactly where I need to be right now, sifting thru all the emotional and physical layers of decades of a SAD lifestyle. And that healing is occurring all the time even when I backslide.

But I DO so love magic! LOL And I will never give up my belief in miracles or in myself and my dreams. And maybe tomorrow is the day my ego will give up trying to drag me back to past patterns and I'll be free! So I'll keep putting one foot in front of the other and getting up when I stumble and fall. I am a very strong woman!! So there! :))))

Jan
xxxooo