Re: Day 12

I guess I'm what you'd call a Bee-gan, because I do eat raw honey ;) I found really good, really raw honey - the kind that's opaque and beige, at the raw store near me. It's really good! I use it for a coupla things: I steep tea in water by putting it in the sun, which energizes it - I absolutely love doing this. It's my only drink besides water. And every once in a while I'll make a salad dressing with it - honey and cilantro - WOW is that good!

My skin goes through stages, it's really weird. I keep saying that I must have a lot of healing going on on the inside because it ain't happening on the outside...lol. I still have pretty dry skin, and dark-ish circles under my eyes, and things like that. I don't think you'd look at me and say that I was all aglow with health, which is really weird, I've been raw over a year. But we all get there in our own way. I do have skin that's starting to look loose, under my arms...GROSS. Like, you know...old lady chicken wing arms? Except that I'm not old (well not really lol). But I have no doubt that time and skin brushing will take care of that!

Something cool, internally that I've noticed - I couldn't eat any fat except olive oil (yeah, not even avos!) without having a gall bladder attack. Now that I've been raw for a while, and even though it's been months since I did a liver flush, I can eat fat again, nice thick fat, and be perfectly fine. Today I made zucchini humus for lunch and I added a truckload of raw tahini butter to it. Ordinarily I would be in pain in a matter of hours, but I feel great! I ate some yesterday, too, with much trepidation, but I felt great after that too. I think my gallbladder is slowly healing itself, which according to docs, can't happen. But what do they know. I think it's important to eat some fat when you feel deprived, or ravenous, or in the beginning of going raw, because it's so filling and satiating. I know I need it sometimes! Anyway, I think all of the externals will come in time. I hear stories of people's teeth getting whiter, their eyes getting brighter...things like that. None of them have happened to me yet, but I know that they will.


Possible gross-out alert!
Two weird things I noticed about being raw - your body stops producing mucus, and ear wax too. I went for months and months without ever sniffing or blowing my nose, or cleaning my ears. Then I started eating a little cooked, like brown rice and steamed veggies, and the mucus and wax came right back, and I mean RIGHT back - the next morning after my first meal of rice, I had gunk in my eyes and a wad of mucus in my throat when I woke up, and I was shocked, because I had forgotten that you even *could* have gunk in your eyes when you woke up. And still now, when I stray into eating some veggie soup or having some tortilla chips, I wake up feeling groggy and having mucus. You'll see that this will happen to you, too! If you're eating all organic, it'll happen sooner than not. It's wild. I also haven't been even the slightest bit sick, or had an ache or pain or tooth problem or anything (except my gallbladder, which has been an issue for years) since going raw.

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