Re: hi, anyone else fasting, want to be buddies?

hi, again,
someone wrote asking me about my going raw.
here is what i wrote back:

hey...
great to hear from you

i actually have gone raw as of 8 days ago and am committed to it now as a life choice... i have 8 days , almost in day 9 raw now.

i need to fast in order to heal generally (depression, liver issues, anxiety) and going raw is (has always been) the first step... next comes kicking calorie-dense/high-calorie/fat/sugar "raw binge foods"/raw 'junk' food out of my diet permanently... i am a severe chronic entrenched "comfort eater" in spite of severe serious consequences to this habit... cleaning up my diet has become the utmost key to my well-being. i am not yet at the point of giving up the raw junk food (raw coconut sorbets /other raw vegan desserts/nut butters/honey) but i am happy with just being raw for now. i am lowering my calories significantly -- as of tomorrow! -- to 500 calories a day and this will help my body enormously , but it is verrrrry hard to keep low cals if one is still eating the more triggering foods so i just hope my commitment to low calories holds , and just pushes me to, if i feel the "need" for an extended/time-lengthy eating experience, (which i of course will, daily, sadly) stick to low-calorie-density foods, which are the most "sober" foods, i think... ... i really appreciate being asked about it all, because it makes me realize more strongly how i need to act on it -- care for myself.... ... it is all very addiction-abstinence-based and serious for me... the low calorie thing is one step away from fasting. If i cannot quite fast yet, doing ultra low calories is an option since it is similar to a fast. works for me until i arrive at fasting.

so, my going raw is basically a remedial approach to my general food addiction. right now i am just working with myself where i am at... making at home these raw coconut/raw honey/raw cacao [optional] sorbets in an ice cream maker ... i hate to say it but i basically live on this particular raw vegan coconut "ice cream" ...not good but better than actual ice cream, by far, i know for certain, from my experience w/ my own body. one important key: i bought all these food-processing machines to make raw substitutes for everything i feel so addicted to. i soaked/sprouted soybeans and put them thru a nut butter maker for instance and made a thing like a nut butter but lighter, better, less calorie-dense, raw... soon imma make raw sauerkraut w/my juicer, so easy to do and very low calorie too and filling/satisfying. the machines are gratifying to me somehow and making this stuff seems to work as a substitute for the cooked/packaged/chemically-processed binge food experience. It is all about committing to viable substitutes for what i might crave. Tweet