The Youngin's Thread

[rawstrength]

Hey there, peace. Don't worry about your slip-up. It is what we do routinely that shapes us, not what we do once in a blue moon. You're still a raw foodist :) .
Sprouting is super cheap and nutritious. You can also learn to grow your own food and it is super rewarding and fun.
I don't keep a food diary and my eating can be kind of erratic.

[bbcc33]

i've been off and for a long time i can't seem to stay raw for more than a week until i give into something usually when i go out or friends come over. The weird thing is that when i'm 100% raw for a week and then give in to a vegan burger or tortilla chips i am 100% sore all over my body the next day. It feels like i've done a full body workout the day before but all i did was eat cooked food and that never fails to happen. So now i'm really afraid to eat cooked food cause i feel absolutely terrible the next day. Has that ever happened to you?

[rawstrength]

i've been off and for a long time i can't seem to stay raw for more than a week until i give into something usually when i go out or friends come over. The weird thing is that when i'm 100% raw for a week and then give in to a vegan burger or tortilla chips i am 100% sore all over my body the next day. It feels like i've done a full body workout the day before but all i did was eat cooked food and that never fails to happen. So now i'm really afraid to eat cooked food cause i feel absolutely terrible the next day. Has that ever happened to you?

Yes, I have experienced that. Cooked food, even of the healthy, vegan variety, is just pure bad news. If you do eat cooked food (and I'm not recommending that you do) a big glass of celery cucumber juice the next morning will fix you right up.

[peace_istheword]

How did everyone get their parents to except the fact that they were raw?
My parents think I'm going to die soon.

[rawstrength]

How did everyone get their parents to except the fact that they were raw?
My parents think I'm going to die soon.

Make them delicious raw foods to eat. Show them the miraculous raw transformations such as the ones at http://www.welikeitraw.com/rawfood/b...ter/index.html . Go to a local raw food potluck with your parents and let them talk to people who are living the raw life and thriving.
Don't preach, just peacefully demonstrate the goodness of RAW.

[graham]

Make them delicious raw foods to eat. Show them the miraculous raw transformations such as the ones at http://www.welikeitraw.com/rawfood/b...ter/index.html . Go to a local raw food potluck with your parents and let them talk to people who are living the raw life and thriving.
Don't preach, just peacefully demonstrate the goodness of RAW.

my parents dont really care what i do. its not that they dont care, but i call it a sort of apathetic/unconditional love. but i can totally understand why people raised on a SAD diet would be concerned with this totally opposite upside down lifestyle (i dont see it like that at all!). my parents think it's kind of weird and when we go to relatives' houses they mention my diet like it's some rare disease. i cant help but preach it sometimes, though. i go off on tangents about raw food a lot to my friends and family. welikeitraw.com is such a good website

[rawfarmgirl]

I'm 16 and have been raw since febuary '09. I live on a farm and have been showing and raising animals in 4-h since I was little. Right now I feel a little contradictory becuse now I'm vegan/vegetarian/raw, and yet my 4-h animals are sold for meat. All the 4-h animals are raised humnanly and have much better lives than if they were on a factory farm, but at the same time if not for meat or animal products, which humans don't need, there is no good reason to breed animals like pigs and cows. However raising and working with animals is an amazing experience and is a huge part of who I am. The world needs animals, they belong on this earth just as much as humans do, that I am sure of, but beyond that I'm not sure. So, I'm not really sure how to incorporate raw foods into this part of me yet, but hopefully I'll figure it out soon. Any thoughts?