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Reesh

I Impress Myself :D

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Reesh
on 02-23-2011 at 07:51 PM (637 Views)
...mostly because it is the busiest, craziest, most hellish time of year at work and through it all I am enjoying being raw. Where is this discipline coming from? It is most excellent. I'm actually not sure it requires that much discipline.

When I taste something that is sweet or salty now, it's starting to taste SO sweet or SO salty. I ate a sour patch kid today and I was never struck by how chemical and powerful it tastes. I felt like I could really feel the wave of happy-feely brain chemicals rush into my body, but it felt so artificial. It was a wild experience, not the "shove 30 sour patch kids into my mouth over and over again" kind of experience. Anyway, having an experience like that really helped me to reflect on how I consistently weighed 10-20 lbs more than I ought to have for so long. And I wondered why my body hung onto that weight? Buttered popcorn, that's how! I guess I really and completely justified a lot of the food I was making because they were "whole foods", just gourmet'd up in animal fats!

I feel calm and clean now. I feel like it's becoming just what I do, not a "thing" I'm doing. I can't wait to see what recipes James has marked in the new Ani Phyo cookbook I just got! He's liked everything I've made that's raw so far, so I gave him a license to pick out what he wants me to make over the weekend

This is nice.
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  1. BlackKat's Avatar
    You're feeling a light, free, peaceful balance that is unable to be achieved without raw foods. The foods that were designed by nature to make us feel this way, so we can be aligned with all the cosmos. Like it was intended all along.

    It's amazing to think that all along we could have felt like this. Instead of "gaining" a new way of life, it's more like just coming to the realization that this has been with you all a long but it was just cloaked in an heavy, chemical, un-natural state of being.

    Its awesome to see someone with energy radiating from everywhere! This is what it's all about! You're already there.

    P.S. Ani Phyo was one of the first raw foodists I learned about. Her books were the first I ever cracked open. :-)
  2. Bananna's Avatar
    I so agree about the chemical taste of things...it's surprising.
    Ani Phyo recipes generally are awesome and easy, love her!!!

    You seem in a great place ...inspiring me :)
  3. monkapotapus's Avatar
    I love this line & lol'd.....

    "Where is this discipline coming from? It is most excellent."

    Love the "It is most excellent" line the best!!

    Yeah, the longer you're Raw the more the foods that used to be in your diet seem not food like at all......if my BF is eating gummy worms, or some kind of candy by me - the smell is so over-poweringly sweet - it almost makes me want to vomit.....

    Can't wait to hear what you will make this weekend!!! ~monk~
  4. ShelShel's Avatar
    Reesh,
    That is awesome and so inspiring for me. I find that with everything I eat these days...it doesn't taste as yummy as it should. How wonderful for you to have found a comfortable place in raw. YEAH!!!
  5. Reesh's Avatar
    Thanks everyone! I also had some chiles rellenos last night and it was like mega bloat all night afterward. My boyfriend is 100% supportive and was like, "welp, I guess we won't be having mexican anymore". He only wants to go to restaurants where I can eat comfortably.
  6. ShelShel's Avatar
    Reesh, do you ever feel like you carry around a checklist? That once you do something you begin thinking...ok...that's not for me anymore...check!?!?!? I do this constantly. If something makes my stomach unsettled, it is such a great tool to remind me of why I choose raw....not that I'm held down by it. I am free to not feel that way anymore...should I choose. Ahhhhhhhhhh...(Drinking kombucha to calm the ill choices I am currently suffering through.)


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