Guest guest Posted September 16, 2003 Report Share Posted September 16, 2003 > Those eminent people aside, I offer my humble contribution by saying > that clearing out your previous diet with a good fast before you start > will help to get you off on the right foot. I am really having a hard time with going all raw. I also know that a fast would do me good. But my dilemma is that I am nursing 2 children who are both getting up on average three times a night. There is alot of stress in our home right now which I think is causing their restless nights. I am functioning on virtually no sleep, taking care of two nurslings, homeschooling one teen, dealing with two other older children as they make their transition into adulthood, battling an almost 4 year-old who knows mommy and daddy have two sets of rules, and picking up after a husband who pretty much only sleeps and bathes here. I will admit, I am addicted to cooked food. It does for me what a drink does to an alcoholic. I come up with all these excuses of why I need to eat it. Yet I know that now more than ever my body needs raw only. So my questions are, how do I actually do this? Should I continue with tapering down, knowing I have the potential to gradually consume more cooked food that way? Should I go cold turkey knowing that I am going to have a couple of rough days? Should I fast first? (Which I believe not only prepares the body but the mind as well.) What will that do to my milk supply? And what do I do about a dad who continues to feed junk to his children just because it shows who is in charge? I am not just talking about cooked food that is supposedly good for you but candy, pop, etc. ~Wendy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 16, 2003 Report Share Posted September 16, 2003 Wendy, Your story sounds like a page out of real life. The thought of going on a fast with all that clatter around seems a bit tall to me. In your position, I would eat a lot of greenery. And also juice a lot of it. That way whenever hunger comes on you have something other than cooked food to hand. Even pure water will do to stave off a craving. When that hunger or craving hits the water or juice will dilute the problem. I think that after a couple of weeks things will start to get a lot easier. As someone who has been addicted to almost everything except classic hard and soft drugs and has conquered the lot, I found that it is no use crying when a bit of temptation comes along. Just take a small dose and start again fresh the next day. Just try to control the present as much as possible. Each time you give up it gets easier. Ghandi in his " Experiments with Truth " says that he could never resist the challenge of giving something else up. The heavy greenery should help to keep you calm and serene to deal with all the frictions of a dynamic family. Peter ky_wendylynn [ky_wendylynn] 16 September 2003 14:58 rawfood [Raw Food] struggling & questions > Those eminent people aside, I offer my humble contribution by saying > that clearing out your previous diet with a good fast before you start > will help to get you off on the right foot. I am really having a hard time with going all raw. I also know that a fast would do me good. But my dilemma is that I am nursing 2 children who are both getting up on average three times a night. There is alot of stress in our home right now which I think is causing their restless nights. I am functioning on virtually no sleep, taking care of two nurslings, homeschooling one teen, dealing with two other older children as they make their transition into adulthood, battling an almost 4 year-old who knows mommy and daddy have two sets of rules, and picking up after a husband who pretty much only sleeps and bathes here. I will admit, I am addicted to cooked food. It does for me what a drink does to an alcoholic. I come up with all these excuses of why I need to eat it. Yet I know that now more than ever my body needs raw only. So my questions are, how do I actually do this? Should I continue with tapering down, knowing I have the potential to gradually consume more cooked food that way? Should I go cold turkey knowing that I am going to have a couple of rough days? Should I fast first? (Which I believe not only prepares the body but the mind as well.) What will that do to my milk supply? And what do I do about a dad who continues to feed junk to his children just because it shows who is in charge? I am not just talking about cooked food that is supposedly good for you but candy, pop, etc. ~Wendy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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