I've had various opinions about food throughout my life which explains my off and on attitude toward vegetarianism and other dietary choices. Recently I watched the documentary, "The Beautiful Truth", which led me down the path of some other food documentaries which brought me to do my own research on what we consume and all of this cumulatively has me facing my most current desire: to eat only raw, naturally occurring food stuffs.
We are a country where hundreds of thousands of people die every year because their hearts just can't take it anymore. What is it that these hearts can't take? Stress obviously plays a roll to some extent but life has always been stressful and always will be. We abuse our bodies over and over again because we aren't eating the things that we, by nature, are designed to eat. Big Macs don't grow on trees and neither do Cheetos. Our bodies are complex, beautiful machines that are way capable of defending themselves IF we give them the support they need to stay strong. I don't care how good it tastes, think about this: how do you feel after you over indulge on processed food? I'm talking anything like pizza, burgers, chinese take-out, etc. You feel gross. You feel bloated and fat. You get diarrhea half the time. You want to take a nap. How do you feel after you eat a big plate of green vegetables? Fruits? Nuts? I imagine you feel none of those things that you felt after crushing the pizza. There is a reason for that.
I want this blog to be therapeutic for me, to help me get through the moments when I just want to eat a fucking large pizza, but also to serve as an educational device for anyone else who might feel compelled to change their diet and find the healthy, energetic body that is inside us all. Maybe I'll find that this diet is awful and I'll go back to mindlessly eating whatever I want whenever I want but the bigger part of me believes that this will be one of the best decisions I've ever made.
Any and all thoughts or comments are welcome along the way.
Here we go!
Yay! I want to have encouragement as I'm slowly transitioning to this lifestyle. I went hard core raw after i had my baby in July. Nine without loosing a single pound I became discouraged and threw it to the wind. I really want to follow thru but need some out ward positive signs to keep going. Sigh.
ReplyDeleteA lot of other people's experiences that I've read have said similar things. Try not to be discouraged! Other than not losing the weight that you'd hoped, how did you feel? Did you have energy? Mental clarity?
ReplyDeleteI've been raw for 5 days now and I feel generally well and I actually have lost some weight. I read that if it's weight loss you're aiming for it's important to drink lots and lots of water so that your body will be able to flush out all of the toxins it accumulates from eating genetically enhanced and processed foods. Who knows though! Good luck to you!
After consuming an entire large pepperoni, jalapeno, and pineapple pizza, I'm going to give this here idea a real attempt. Thanks for being a motivator, Sheabop.
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