Guest guest Posted February 1, 2004 Report Share Posted February 1, 2004 Hi Mark, Thanks for writing this. I'm wondering - how do you stay on the raw food diet? Do/did you ever get bored with selections? Do you sprout and do all the dehydrating and complex-seeming recipes? When I'm doing the raw thing, I feel good, but I don't seem to have the time to do preparations like in all the books I have. I have 2 young kids and a husband who don't eat what I eat so I'm preparing foods for them. I try to make some kind of a seed pate or nut loaf to last a few days and it does, but this gets very boring. Also salads in the winter time don't always do it for me. So sorry if this sounds like a complaint but I want to hear how more experienced raw foodist keep this up so it can give me another perspective. By the way, Mark, I'm so curious to hear more of your experience with Gary Null. What was that like? Do you happen to know why he doesn't promote a 100% raw food diet? Thanks for writing! I look forward to hearing from you and am encouraged by people's stories. Very good to hear about your son's asthma! My husband has asthma and I'd love for him to eat more live foods... he's not adverse to it, but also likes having his meat and other things... Regards, Linda > > > > >Message: 2 > Fri, 30 Jan 2004 08:19:25 EST > blakenson >Greetings!!!! > >Well it looks like some energy is sparked. Once again my name is Mark, I have >been eating all raw for about a year and three months, and vegan for about >5yrs before that. Initially I started on Gary Nulls 18mo.anti aging group >w/great. At that time I had hypoglycemia, candida, premature graying and stagnant >liver. All have been eliminated and most of my hair is all black (a big jump >from almost half gray).. After going to a workshop by the Buetenko's I was >inspired to go raw (really never considered it before). I tried raw for about two >months and felt awful (not like a healing crisis). I went back to my vegan diet >which inclides a lot of green juices, about a quart a day. I felt better and >put my weght back on ( I'm naturaly slim). A year later I saw a workshop by >Doug grahm and his emphasis on fruits as the primary source of calories and >increasing the calories connected w/ me and I was ready to try raw agin. Since then >I have felt wonderful my weght is about the same as when I was cooke although >I initially lost 25 lbs when I started and twenty again when I stopped using >oils. I am 6'4 " and i stay around 180# , my body fat is about 6%, my enrgy is >great, sleep about 5hrs a nite and I'm well rested, I workout daily and run >5-10 mile 3time a week. I also do physical work during the day, installing and >refinishing wood floors and I'm raising tw kids, 15, 3 (with the help of >wonderful freinds and family). It was tough for me doing mostly raw as I found mysel >overeating. Once all raw I tend to stop eating when full although the volume >is much greater (usually around 3,000 calories). I am 45 and feel like a kid, >sometimes when I leave the house I find myself jumping up to try touching a >leaf in the tree. By the way my youngest son had asthma (on breathing treatment >7 days a week) He has been on raw for about a year and vegan for two and no >asthma or medicatins since then (his previous doctor said it must have been a >misdiagnosis???). Enough for now. >peace and blessings, >Mark > > >[This message contained attachments] > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 2, 2004 Report Share Posted February 2, 2004 Thanks for the encouragement Linda. I really don't eat sprouts, just not appealling to me. I do make some dehydrated snacks on occassion but most of the snacks or dessert we make are refrigerated or we eat them when we make em. My 15yr old son does most of the pies, bannana, coconut orange is his best w/date, brzil nuts and almonds for the crust. I really don't get bored, I enjoy eating and salads are just a small percentage of my diet. Lots of fruits (usually in season) and greens; kale, collards, chard, spinach, watercress, whatever. I like to cut up some red and yellow peppers and maybe some mushrooms and sometimes raisins and stir it w/my greens and make different sauces. Tomatoes, coconut and oranges makes a good base and them some sea salt and maybe fresh dill. We just play around and have fun with it, and laugh at past disasters. I'm fortunate in that both my kids are raw so I'm only preparing raw and their friends like it too (especially the kale). It is helpful to remember during setbacks how far we have come and appreciate that, and own our setbacks and get on with it. From years of addiction recovery in another organization, I learned the importants of not getting comfortable with the crisis and get on w/the business of living. The same applies w.raw food. I stopp putting value on the pecentage raw I am and just be where I'm at now and live a wonderful life in the meantime. peace, Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 2, 2004 Report Share Posted February 2, 2004 Very cool I'm interested in the products you took that Gary Null recommended ( I have his CD about hair, skin and nails) and where you got the products-local health food stores? One of your kids is 15, how old is the other child? I have a 15 year old daughter and a 12 year old son, both carnivores. If the kids go to school are they ok with being raw in the school environment? Thanks for the encouraging words Peace and light Pam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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