A place to start - thoughts for Abagail & Alex (Was: Newbie)

[Guest guest]

Abagail & Alex,

 

I have been reading your conversations about where to start and how to ease

into a raw food lifestyle and wanted to share a few thoughts.

 

You could focus on adding fruits and veggies to your present diet. For

instance you could start every morning with only fruits for breakfast. Choose

fruits that you love and enjoy. I make every morning a fruit only breakfast but

I vary it between smoothies and just eating the whole fruit. I tend to have

smoothies on week days because I can make and take it with me to drink in the

car....

 

Then, after a week or when you feel comfortable expand the fruit to your

lunch. Consider eating fruit only meals again, or raw veggies like a salad

would be fine. Give yourself time to adjust to this and then move on to the

evening meal.

 

Once you are ready to tackle the evening meal you could have a salad and then

steamed veggies. I don't know what your present diets are like, but would also

suggest drinking plenty of water.

 

Hope this gives you a few ideas!

 

Leah

 

 

 

1b. Re: Newbie!

Posted by: " Abagail Sparks " abby abberzoo

Mon Oct 29, 2007 8:02 am ((PDT))

 

Hi Alex,

 

 

 

Thanks for the kind welcome!

 

I have a couple Raw info/recipe books coming in the mail soon that I am

planning on reading before I start anything! I don't eat much raw

unless I

finish a banana or apple my kids don't eat. So this will be a huge

change

for me!!! I like most every fruit out there, but the veggies will be a

bit

hard. Hopefully my tastes will change with my diet change. I just came

off

the Atkins diet that my husband and I have been on for a few months. I

lost

about 15lbs or so, but I got really bored with it and stopped losing

weight.

I have at least 30 more pounds that I would like to lose to get back to

my

pre-marriage weight!!! I am going to be very careful in my transition

as I

do not want to make myself sick (as a mom, I can't take a sick day), I

just

want to be healthy and happy for once.

 

 

 

-Abagail

 

 

 

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rawfood [rawfood ] On

Behalf Of

Alex Knight

Saturday, October 27, 2007 10:31 AM

rawfood

Re: [Raw Food] Newbie!

 

 

 

Welcome Abagail!

 

I'm new to raw too, and fairly new here. There's been a lot of discord

lately. I hope you are good with your delete key. There's also good

info

here and I've saved a few recipes that look good.

 

I'm finding the transition a bit difficult. I'm not going to do it just

all

of a sudden, one day. I've decided that I'm going to plan and make one

recipe a week, for a start, then increase it. That's in addition to the

raw

things I already eat, like smoothies and nuts and fruit, and I always

have a

container of vegetables in the refrigerator to pick from if I get

hungry.

I'm lucky, I've always loved vegetables. My big problem is my taste for

sweets, so I think I will start with the dessert recipes. They look

really

good and I hope they will wean me away from the really junky food.

 

Alex

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

Thank you, Leah, for your suggestions. Gradual is good, I agree. I've changed

what I order when I eat out so that I get fresh greens (salads). One place that

has " steamed vegetables " often serves them just about raw; it's hard to believe

they cooked them more than a few seconds, so I order them. I hate making

salads, and probably won't do it regularly until I can get some greens grown on

my own. I finally got the Vitamix out today and made some soup. It wasn't that

good, but I think I can improve on it next time. Next step is to take the

dehydrator out. I do have fruit smoothies every day. I bought some kinds of

fruits I'm not used to and am working my way up to trying new things in my

smoothies. I do have and love lots of vegetables, so I'm mostly focusing on how

to prepare them and make them fun. One thing I've been doing is eating things I

already ate, but including some raw in them. For instance, tonight I had

regular, old spaghetti for dinner, but had oil

and raw veggies mixed in with it instead of the sauce I used to have. It's a

start, anyway.

 

I find that even though not everything I eat is raw, almost everything I eat

now is organic and most of it is fresh. It's made a big difference in how I

feel, and it's part of the transition for me. Much of the stuff I used to eat

that was fun doesn't taste good anymore, and doesn't feel good after I've eaten

it.

 

Alex