Hello from Texas!

[asil]

I've gone high raw, happily, easily, since March 11 and feel great. Other than a bizarre boil-like breakout on my forehead, I can't believe the fabulous results in such a short time. My skin looks better than it has in years, I rest better. I also feel more *even.* Until these last weeks I would have said it was normal for me to fluctuate between frenetic, crazy energy spurts and exhaustion. Now, I mostly feel gently, evenly energized, except for a slight mid-afternoon slump. Perhaps even that will go away as become raw, rawer, rawest. :)

Oh, and BTW, I have Graves disease and severe hypothyroidism, controlled with meds. I'm also 40-50 pounds overweight.

Thanks for reading!

[sweetgoddess]

Welcome to the forum asil. I am so glad you found raw, and are noticing results already. Way to go ! They can only get better.
Best wishes! :)

[carolg]

Asil,
Where in TX? Austin's Whole Foods on Lamar has a raw, living food bar. My daughter lives in Arlington with our first grandbaby a month old so I plan on being near that area at least 1-2x year. She's close to Dallas. Just got back.
carolg

[VeganVixen]

I recently heard about that -unfortunatley Im closer to houston....

[asil]

Sweetgoddess -- thx for the welcome! I've been reading your posts with great interest :)

VV and Carol -- I'm in the Austin area. I lived just blocks from that Whole Foods location for 6 years. Too bad I'm an hour away now. I did stop by just yesterday, though. Other, more progressive areas may have better stuff, but this is pretty amazing for us. I was able to get some raw "fast foods" -- raw almond butter, tahini, pickles, slaw, a few emergency bars. I had a shot of green juice while I was there. Give me a shout if you come my way :).

[heather]

hi fellow texan! welcome to rawfoodtalk!

[Punky]

Welcome Neighbor!
You've come to a great place for raw support and info.
I'm up in the Dallas area. I wish I lived in Austin though, great
place to be!
Best Wishes on your raw journey :)

[Fuzzball]

Asil,
Where in TX? Austin's Whole Foods on Lamar has a raw, living food bar. My daughter lives in Arlington with our first grandbaby a month old so I plan on being near that area at least 1-2x year. She's close to Dallas. Just got back.
carolg

Thanks for that info carolg!! I'm in the Austin area so I'll check it out when I'm out and about.

Asil, I can't wait to hear you telling us how you are problem free!!

[vegangelist]

wow, welcome! all sorts of fellow raw texans coming out of the woodwork :)

kristi

[asil]

Hey, more Texans! very nice.

Fuzzball -- I think that's the first time anyone's ever called me problem free. But I am easing into this raw thing pretty easily. But then again, I'm not trying to be 100% -- just to steadily cruise upward, toward a more and more raw diet every day. Even that has given me tremendous benefits so far.

All you guys near Austin: I understand there are 2 raw events that happen periodically. There's a guy on meetup.com who organizes a monthly lunch at Mother's cafe. I'm not sure with how much success. And then there's a couple who do a monthly thing they call "Raw Feast" in South Austin. I got an uneasy feeling that this might be mostly a sales pitch for their products but maybe I read them wrong. Anyone know anything about either of these two events?

[Fuzzball]

Wow Asil, I just asked you about happenings in another post! We must be riding the same wavelength!

Would love to get together with others in the area to trade recipes, etc.

[asil]

Whoo hoo, another Austinite! So Fightyyorke, what brought you to Austin? The raw food event (at Mother's Cafe on the 9th) I found is posted at meetup.com if you want to take a look. But again, I'm not sure if it's even active.

Don't you you guys in Austin think it's strange we don't have a bigger raw community? or maybe I'm just not finding it.

[Fuzzball]

Asil,

I went to the main Whole Foods market on 183 and 360 last night. I went to their public access announcements board and found nothing about Raw anywhere.

I was quite surprised.

I didn't find anything at Central Market either.

Hmmmmm.....

[Deradune]

I live in Austin too -- was told by someone there that the new Whole Foods at Research will be 20,000 s.q. LARGER than the new one between 5th and 6th on Lamar -- and that if the raw deli is a success at the current location it will probably be put in ALL the Whole Foods Markets (as they have room or whatever).

I loved the Avocado-Arugula Soup I had there so much that I've made it at home about 6 times in the last two weeks. ;)

[asil]

What?? I asked a checker at the north Whole Foods if there were plans to re-vamp and she had not heard of any. whoo hooo!!! Bring it on. Now that I live in the wilds of Lake Travis, I have a LOOOONNNGG drive to the south WF.

Thanks for the info, Deradune. :)