Thankful for my mistake

[StudentforLife]

I know I can be honest on this forum because everyone here has been so supportive.

Last night a made a mistake-well I guess it can't be called a mistake because it was intentional.

I am almost three weeks into my raw food challenge and doing well. The past few days the cooked food cravings started coming on stronger than usual. Last night I cracked. I was too tired to prepare a meal for myself and before raw my husband and I used to eat out all of the time. When my husband suggested that we go out to eat I knew that all I could have was a salad, but I already had a salad for lunch and the green smoothie for breakfast, so that frustrated me even more.

I finally gave in to my cravings. I ran out to our favorite sandwich shop and brought some dinner for us. I got my favorite sandwich of all time-Pollo Pesto: sliced chicken with pesto, tomato, sprouts, mayo and cheese on a french roll. Before raw I was so in love with the taste of this sandwich I could have eaten it every day.

So I sat down, opened the deli paper, brought the sandwich to my lips, sighed and said "here we go," and took a bite....

Now, there were a lot of thoughts going through my mind at this point: Would this lead me to snowball and go back to my uncontrollable eating ways? Would I get sick? Would I be guilt ridden for giving into my cravings?

I started to eat the sandwich and suddenly stopped mid-chew.....strange.....this tastes different.....and not in a good way. I took another bite to make sure I wasn't imagining this. I wasn't. This sandwich that I had worshiped,(yes I use the word worship because that was how I used to feel about food), now tasted awful.

After dinner I told my husband the experience I had and he found it very interesting. I told him how I had heard that on a raw diet your taste buds change, but I had no idea it was this dramatic.

All of a sudden I got really emotional with tears in my eyes because I realized that even though in some ways it looked like I failed, I had actually won. With eating this cooked food and practically gagging on it, I had a major epiphony: My raw food diet has changed me forever, and the change is a marvalous one. I want to be raw forever.

[Denise Nicole]

Isn't it strange/funny how that happens! In all seriousness, it may have been a very good thing (it was for me). Now you don't feel like you are "missing out" or "depriving yourself" (it's funny our emotional link to food). Now you can go in search of your new (raw) favorite.....the one you'll "worship". lol :)

[sport]

You did very well and are very lucky.
What you must do now is find a new favourite food for whan you want a treat. Maybe chocolate icecream.