- Day 6 AM by Roooth
18 y
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Blog: 30 Days RAW
After reading and reading, I finally decided to do 30 days Raw. Yesterday, day 5, was the first day that I started really feeling a difference. I just felt alert, more energetic, more motivatied, less bogged down. The feeling got better through the day and last night I only slept 6 hours and woke up knowing I was done and feeling fine! WOW - that's 2 extra hours a day and the time right before going to sleep or right after waking up are useful hours, not foggy!!!!! This will be sooooooo helpful since I am working overtime and have school part time. The more I am on this diet, the more I like it. The most important thing about it that is making it easier then I thought is the lack of cravings. Sure, I can look at food and smell food and think that it looks/smells good, but I don't CRAVE it to where it plagues my mind until I eat it then my mind becomes occupied with WHAT ELSE to eat. Even though in some ways the diet seems so much more restricting, I feel free. It's easier not to worry about food. It's hard to describe but it's nice, and easy when you're making all the food yourself and have resources.
This is my first summer actively pursuing health and it strikes me as funny/extremely odd/sad/against nature that for those who are truly being healthy, it makes them stand out in all food/social situations. Lifestyle will be the harder battle here, not food cravings. My husband is deployed and this was my project, to master health which is something that is harder to do with him since we share bad eating habits. When he comes back, we'll go on vacation and he'll want us to eat out at lots of great restaurants, as we've always done. I may break then but make a deal that I will if he'll eat 1 week RAW with me (or maybe 2). I don't know how it will work out yet and after 30 days if the energy continues, I don't know that I'll want to go back even for a week. Well, I'll decide those things as I get closer. Now the goal is to learn how to prepare meals that will satisfy the omnivore so I can help him be healthy as well. He'll try the new foods so I know I can make us more healthy this way, even if he doesn't follow this path but as I said, we'll see about all that later.
In the meantime, the concept of health, longevity, etc., means so much to me. I've always thought that I would be a "hot old chick" when I was older. I was on my way to losing that dream and I always envisioned myself healthy of course, so it has been a struggle that maintaining some energy has been so difficult. And even so I had more energy then most people. I can't imagine how they must feel inside, knowing how I lost my youthful bounding energy! It makes me sad to look around and know the vitality lost in people but excited that I may help people regain it and regain it myself. Another thing, I found what I wanted to do in life and won't be finished my part time schooling to get there until my mid-late thirties. I guess I was thinking that is sooooooo long and late considering the life timeline. But if I'm working and healthy and vibrant at age 80, suddenly it doesn't feel as if I've wasted half my life doing the wrong thing and that I'll still have plenty of time to contribute to mankind. This gives me such a sense of peace that now I'm determined that I will find a way to be healthy and from everything I've read, this is a miraculous way. So now, on with my 30 day journey - choosing 30 days was a mental step for me, a crutch. I never intended to give up meat of ice cream of favorite foods forever so in this way I could "bite off a piece I could chew" and let it transform me as it will. More and more I'm starting to see what it would be like to make the change permanent.
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- Isn't it terrific? by Germanflower
18 y
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Today is my 15th day RAW. I'm experiencing alot of the same things you are in terms of needing less sleep and feeling better and better. One thing--don't be discouraged if you go through a few days of feeling really bloated, etc. This happened to me but it went away and one thing is to read up on food combining if you haven't already.
Good luck and feel free to correspond with me about this new lifestyle!
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- Re: Isn't it terrific? by Roooth
18 y
1,248
WOW - thanks 'flower! Yeah, I had some of that stuff 'cause I'm eating more complicated foods and whatever suits my fancy to try and help the transition...so thanks for the tip on food combining. I know the basics (haven't been following them) but that's only from one source so that will be my next mission, to learn about food combining.
Are you blogging here as well? I'd love to hear details. *much love*
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