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Day 23

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Pilgrim
on 06-09-2008 at 06:27 AM (311 Views)
So... 23 days on this journey. I had a cranky kind of a day yesterday and I didn't accomplish much. Tried a few new food items...not successful.

I think my success will be staying as simple as possible, finding a few things I like and can eat again and again. I would be happy with eating fruit all morning, but I get hungry so fast. So I'm going to keep working with green smoothies. Salads alone won't fill me up for long. Oh well...I'll keep experimenting as long as it takes.

My skin is very soft. I have lost (okay, released!) 17 lbs, much of that is water and bloat, I know, but it's still fantastic. This time, I'm not going to gain it all back and thensome.

This is a lifetime commitment. I know I will have some backsliding moments--my DB will be visiting soon and he is a "meat, meat, meat, eat, eat, eat" kind of person. I love him but I'm dreading the visit b/c he is so enormously fat that all he can do is sit. So I wind up cooking for him or driving him to restaurants, and that's about the extent of the visit. I will do my best to eat raw, but he is very strong-willed and monitors what I eat (to validate his own eating) and I know I won't be able to not eat some cooked food (not this early in my raw life--but maybe after I've been raw a year I will have the strength to resist).

But I will worry about that when it gets closer. Meanwhile, each day is a tiny step forward on my journey to great health.
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  1. monkapotapus's Avatar
    Congrats on "releasing" 17#'s & your soft skin! Explaining our eating preferences to family & friends can be difficult, but you know what? This is OUR journey to health & happiness...as Ghandi said "You must be the change you wish to see in the world"-I love that quote & I am trying to live by it too. I want nothing more for my family/friends to be healthy & off meds, but I realize I can not force anything on them-it is their choice-all I can do is lead by example. You are doing a wonderful job!
  2. Pilgrim's Avatar
    My hope is that I'll start looking so improved that family and friends will beg to know my secret. Then I can tell them about this, not forcing it on them of course, but giving them a new option perhaps.
  3. RawKnitster's Avatar
    So great your getting such good results from raw. RAW IS THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH! The changes we go through start on the inside and work their way out. Just imagine how fabulous you will feel in 6 months. It can be a lot easier with friends/family if we don't advertise the lifetime commitment. They are afraid of that. When they see the results 6 months from now, they will wish they could do it, and at the very least, will add more fruits and veges to their diet.
  4. islesgirl's Avatar
    Yes, I too, want to "show" my family how valuable this new-to-me knowledge of raw is and then they may want to know my secret. I want to win them over to wanting the health I intend to have "without a word". Your idea of probably keeping it simple sounds good and using lots of smoothies. It sure helps me when my head isn't too full worrying about recipes all the time.........I didn't have time today to even think of doing a recipe......
  5. islesgirl's Avatar
    17 lbs gone! That's just wonderful Pilgrim. Good girl. Don't worry.... just keep going and don't beat yourself up along the way. I read someone's blog today (it was monk's blog yesterday), and she said if we said the things we say to ourselves to our friends, we simply wouldn't have any anymore. But, we are loving ourselves now, aren't we!:)


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