sunday
02-10-2006, 06:38 AM
Hi there
Just taking a moment to introduce myself after spending a great couple of months reading so many posts on this site each night. What a lovely bunch of people there are here :) and so much useful information about raw. It's been wonderful reading.
I have just started the 30 day raw challenge (day 4) and must/will get onto creating a journal - just got to find a photo and work out the technicalities ( I know they have been spelled out clearly - I just have to concentrate on doing it)
A bit about me: I live in Australia, I have two delightful little boys, 2 1/2 and 5 1/2,
I have been a vego for years, and dive in and out of being vegan too. (longest vegan straight stretch at any one time was a year.) We would consider that our pre raw household has always eaten healthily compared to the average Australian person (non raw people that is) Our kids have never ever ever had the dreaded McDonalds or other of that type, we have protected their health as best we can, with what we have known till now.
I have always had a sweet tooth and a taste for health food store ' junk' which has meant that I carry extra kilos, though not as many as I would have if I did not have the vego/vegan basic diet, and I have never been considered overweight as such - based on the overweight standards of western society!
But I definitely do carry way too much weight on my bottom, thighs and stomach and as I head toward my fortieth birthday I see weight creeping on and on and I realise that is was not going to come off and stay off without an effort on my part.
I discovered a book about a year ago which I realise now was "semi -raw" which brought me close (unknowingly) to the raw concept, but it just never ever occurred to me that anyone ate all raw food. I had never heard the term. Then not long after that time a year ago I was reading some posts on a site to do with Steiner education (my oldest goes to a Steiner school) and the site author had gone "raw". I remember thinking "now that is going too far" ;) little did I know that I would be going that way myself ........
For a lot of last year i was serving mostly cooked vegan meals at home to which the kids and my partner would add their condiments (cheese, dairy etc) I would make the kids and I a mostly raw lunch unknowingly (fruit, nuts, avocado platter) which they LOVE. We always eat masses of fruit. Many of my meals have been just salad. But still its a leap to all raw and to cut out cooked comfort, junk and eek hot chips!!!
So how did we get here finally? I am not sure. A happy accident I think. Surfing the net looking for a healthier way to be...somehow i arrived at Alissa's site and WOW! I am in, i love it. I started eating a lot of raw around
Christmas (easing my way in) and now I am going 100 % raw, and taking my family with me as much as possible (my 2 1/2 year old has been around 70% raw over the last 4 days)
Anyway see you on the boards!
Just taking a moment to introduce myself after spending a great couple of months reading so many posts on this site each night. What a lovely bunch of people there are here :) and so much useful information about raw. It's been wonderful reading.
I have just started the 30 day raw challenge (day 4) and must/will get onto creating a journal - just got to find a photo and work out the technicalities ( I know they have been spelled out clearly - I just have to concentrate on doing it)
A bit about me: I live in Australia, I have two delightful little boys, 2 1/2 and 5 1/2,
I have been a vego for years, and dive in and out of being vegan too. (longest vegan straight stretch at any one time was a year.) We would consider that our pre raw household has always eaten healthily compared to the average Australian person (non raw people that is) Our kids have never ever ever had the dreaded McDonalds or other of that type, we have protected their health as best we can, with what we have known till now.
I have always had a sweet tooth and a taste for health food store ' junk' which has meant that I carry extra kilos, though not as many as I would have if I did not have the vego/vegan basic diet, and I have never been considered overweight as such - based on the overweight standards of western society!
But I definitely do carry way too much weight on my bottom, thighs and stomach and as I head toward my fortieth birthday I see weight creeping on and on and I realise that is was not going to come off and stay off without an effort on my part.
I discovered a book about a year ago which I realise now was "semi -raw" which brought me close (unknowingly) to the raw concept, but it just never ever occurred to me that anyone ate all raw food. I had never heard the term. Then not long after that time a year ago I was reading some posts on a site to do with Steiner education (my oldest goes to a Steiner school) and the site author had gone "raw". I remember thinking "now that is going too far" ;) little did I know that I would be going that way myself ........
For a lot of last year i was serving mostly cooked vegan meals at home to which the kids and my partner would add their condiments (cheese, dairy etc) I would make the kids and I a mostly raw lunch unknowingly (fruit, nuts, avocado platter) which they LOVE. We always eat masses of fruit. Many of my meals have been just salad. But still its a leap to all raw and to cut out cooked comfort, junk and eek hot chips!!!
So how did we get here finally? I am not sure. A happy accident I think. Surfing the net looking for a healthier way to be...somehow i arrived at Alissa's site and WOW! I am in, i love it. I started eating a lot of raw around
Christmas (easing my way in) and now I am going 100 % raw, and taking my family with me as much as possible (my 2 1/2 year old has been around 70% raw over the last 4 days)
Anyway see you on the boards!