My Wonderfully Raw Journey

I just try not to think about food too much. When I am hungry I eat and as long as its raw I don't care what it is I am eating or when it is I am eating.

The benefits of eating simply are many fold but not least of all ... I don't have to decide 48 hours in advance that I am going to eat a certain meal that must spend days in the dehydrator!

I do sprout things but not to excess. If I don't have sprouted stuff some days then it isn't a big deal.

I ate gourmet raw on Saturday but really missed my big green salad so I ate leftover gourmet raw on Sunday and loaded up on greens.

The reason I am 100% raw is not in order to reach perfection but in order that I can eat anything I want within that definition. Then I don't have to think about what I am eating. If it's raw and I like it then I can eat it :) and I can eat it at 2 in the morning or 11am or 10:15pm because my parameters are not so strict as a lot of people think.

The one thing I don't let monkey-mind let me eat is cooked, non-vegan foods. He can have anything else he wants.

You'll find that equilibrium Dani, just try not to look for it so hard that you fail to spot it!

It is right that raw food is really very helpful to keep away all the diseases, but can anyone tell the diet that what quantity should be consumed?
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Dani I can totally relate to this! It does get overwhelming sometimes, I know it sounds weird but I don't think I've ever thought about what I eat this much before. But I'm hoping it's all to do with transitioning and getting your footing. Even though I've been raw for a while now I still feel like I'm learning, especially as I'm still experimenting with all the different foods etc.

I was also really wary about fats (nuts and oils mainly) because I went raw right after being on a somewhat restricted diet as I was trying to lose weight, and I was just used to not having very many fats anymore, but I realized that was stupid because the kind of fats that make you put on weight are the ones found in cooked and processed foods (not to say that we should all go crazy with avos and down a cup of olive oil every day haha), but healthy raw fats are so vital in a raw food diet, here's a good quote from Alissa's website that I love:

Raw fats such as avocados, olives, coconuts, nuts and seeds are imperative in a healthy diet. These fats contain antioxidants. They contain oils that help the joints, nerves and bones.
These raw plant fats do not cause the body to gain excess weight because they still contain the enzyme lipase; this is the enzyme that is needed to digest fat. Cooking fats destroy lipase; along with other important enzymes and minerals. The fat digesting enzyme, lipase, breaks up the raw plant foods as they are eaten and help to digest the oils in these foods. Because this food is getting assimilated and digested properly, it is not clogging up the blood and arteries, causing all kinds of chronic and degenerative diseases. It is not getting stored as excess weight in the body. You will not get fat by eating avocados, sprouted nuts and seeds and other plant fats. When starting this diet, many people eat 2-3 avocados a day and lose weight. Even people without a lot of weight to lose, will find that the few extra pounds they have will just melt off because they are eating fats in their whole natural form with all of their enzymes intact.

But anyways, point is try not to freak out/obsess too much. Just eat what you feel like, when you feel like it, and try to have a good balance of everything. Remember that even on your worst days raw, you're still eating live and nutritiously dense foods that most people barely get enough of every day. I also think once the 30 day challenge is over it'll be easier for you to adjust and find your balance.

Thanks ladies for your comments and supports! Nad thanks so much for the quote!! I was even reading one of Ani's books where she stated why nuts and seeds are so important. I think it's just too much he said she said going on and too many extremist trying to pull you one way or the other. I love raw foods cause i love the versatility i love being able to make dishes since i loved being able to cook and bake when i wasn't raw and now there's a whole new window of opportunity and i'm limiting myself from something i find fun out of fear. I'm just going to keep trucking along eating whatever i feel like eating within reason of course. I shouldn't have to think this hard about what i eat since i never had to before.

I think you can moderate your own blog too Dani so that spam should be deletable by you. Not quite sure how it works though.

On a more relevant note, I think raw food does attract extremists ... just as veganism does. Some people just like to be extreme! I like to feel good and raw makes me feel like it's worth getting up in the morning but maybe sad food is more comforting. I hope to reach a stage where I don't need comforting and thus I don't need cooked, non-vegan foods.

maybe if I had been brought up raw and cooked food was found to be healthier I'd feel the opposite!

I agree with these posting but there should be a proper consumption of raw food else it leads to bad effect on body.
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