Raw Redemption

Nope.

Many people who embrace the raw lifestyle are not vegans or even vegetarians. I am not a vegan or a vegetarian. This might make some in the movement upset but I truly feel that we need some animal protein and some grains. Which ones is the question – for me.

It’s okay if you want to be a vegetarian but for me, I just want to be healthy, and I want to ingest the healthiest food on the planet. We are eating about 80 percent raw, and I don’t eat raw meat or eggs, but we do eat FDA certified humane meats and animal products with out hormones, or antibiotics – on occasion.

I would say that most of our food is classified as vegetarian but and most days go by without me eating any animal products. My husband loves milk, as does one of my daughters, my Step daughter and I are both lactose intolerant so we are less likely to eat these products.

For us, meat, like nuts, are foods to be enjoyed as a condiment not as the main course. Only the best, prepared in the best ways possible, and only in amounts that we need for good health.

For you, it can be what is good for your family, but this is what is good for ours.

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My husband, David, is really awesome. The other day he looked at me and said “I want to go raw too” because he had been eating my food and he managed to do some amazing things mentally and then when I got sick we kind of went off the raw food, or he did, I was still eating it, but not as much so there weren’t as many extras….

Anyway he decided that he had to do it to because he loves the mental clarity he experienced. When I got to thinking about it I realized I had also experienced a true feeling of “knowing” things as well as an ability to actually remember what I read.

This was mostly during the time we were eating a lot of green juices and green smoothies. So now we’ve decided to try to have either one green smoothie or green juice per day, if not for weight and health for Mental Clarity.

We were going to start on Monday but we started already, none of the other food seems as exciting when you realize the benefits of eating well, far outweighs the pleasure of eating something that is not good for you.

I know this journey I am on is going to be that much more exciting now that my husband is truly on board with me. When we went shopping for groceries this week we did not buy anything with hormones, or antibiotics, or high fructose corn syrup and that was great. To see him reading labels was great too!

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It is strange how things happen. I wrote the previous post about stopping the guilt and just doing my best. I had received David’s Wolfe’s CD due to a book I ordered. I randomly clicked on one today to listen and what is it about?

Stopping the guilt and neurosis about what I eat. I wish I could share it but it says not to share, and I have no memory of how I got it. It says David Wolfe CD#2 on it.

But what he is saying speaks to me.

I started on this “diet” and became so energetic and happy. Then I got bogged down with the minutia and aspects that I should not concern myself with. Instead, I need to eat, whole, natural foods, move my body, and just let go. I need to add things to my diet that I want to try, even if some of the experts say it’s not good. If it makes my body feel good, and is working for the goals that I have, then I should keep doing it.

I should accept the gifts I’ve been given and let go of this sickness and selfishness that allows me to feel this guilt over something I eat. I mean, there are people way worse off than me. I need to get outside of myself and just let go.

I can do this. I can let go, and just ……….

be.

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I’m done with school for the summer and the stress of all that. I really need to stop making excuses for myself based on stress. I have to forgive me for not being perfect, I am great at forgiving others for being less than perfect, shouldn’t I do the same for me?

Often being a perfectionist is just an excuse to do nothing, and I think the same can be said about diet and exercise. Thinking thoughts like “crap I ate that spicy sausage so I may as well eat that cake too…” is really self defeating. I’m going to get over it and start over fresh and stop being myself up. This journey to health is a journey, after all, it really is not a specific destination, but I know I won’t get there if I don’t stick to it.

The 92 days of smoothies didn’t go well because I picked an awful time to need to make things. I should have stuck to eating whole raw foods during busy times so I have no preparation. People may not realize how much work it is to prepare raw foods even if you’re not cooking them!

So, as the old saying goes, KISS: “Keep it simple stupid.” I’m going to just eat raw foods in their natural states. They are becoming more and more abundant now that we have beautiful wonder weather.

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I have been so busy that I have not been able to blog here. But take heart I am almost done with this semester!

Even with all the work I am doing and the honest truth is, I do not eat right, I have lost two more lbs. I cannot remember how to up date my little thingy to the left right now but I am at 198.

Not quite where I hoped to be right now but I can live with it. I am going in the right direction and I am trying to eat better. My problem is that time gets away from me and I will go all day without eating, due to school and work, then at night I get hungry….. big mistake.

I’m going to try to use the summer to get on a better schedule before school starts back in the fall.

At any rate I have one year down of Grad-school and so far I got two A’s but I do not yet know about my final class because I am not done with all the assignments in that one. For better or worse I have to be done by the 3rd of May.

Thanks for sticking by me !

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