Consuming The Toxic Tasty / was New to Raw Food

June 18, 2005

Yes, we do backslide when we know we shouldn't. I went on digest on this list

and should not have...as I also began to backslide and " digest " toxic tasty

foods. Thought I'd never do that because I was so happy with the new raw me. For

close to three months I snuck in bad foods to my diet and liquor drinks now and

then...I had become migraine free and was wonderfully thin. I started to put on

weight again and my started to break out...got migraines and colitis again.

Spent two days very very sick while purging with an effective Jensen cleanse.

Also my Step Dad came to stay for two weeks and that was a real wake up call as

he is on deaths door and still eats junk. Although I didn't all out eat junk, my

body still said...GO BACK TO EATING ALL RAW VEGAN! I think I'll do like my

mother does. 95% Vegan...one boiled egg a week with a salad and feta cheese

three times a week. Plus my goat milk kefir. It all started out by eating

roasted nuts on the salad bar and I began pigging out on them.

Then things escalated. I realized I am not beyond temptation. My husband is

partly to fault for his eating habits and there I am with him. His sick Dad was

enough of a wake up call that he quit smoking. A good start. Perhaps it would be

easier if I lived around some cool raw resturants...but am here in the south

where BBQ, chili and fajitas reign.

Diana of Dewberry Hill

Annette <cloudriver wrote:

I'm so happy for you and your mother, Diana.

I wish your statement was true for everyone. Sadly, I've known people

with emphysema who continued to smoke, diabetics who continue to eat

poorly, and untold numbers of people who just don't believe that

nutrition has anything to do with disease. Just trying to get people

with nasty sinus infections to lay off dairy can be close to impossible.

As ashamed as I am to say it, even knowing what I know, I have on more

than one occasion stuffed something into my mouth that I knew was

horrid for me. I've often wondered, if faced with some medical

problem, whether I'd have the gumption to follow my beliefs and stay

totally raw for more than two months (my current " best " ). Hopefully,

we'll never have to see.

Annette

(Washington State)

rawfood , Diana of Dewberry Hill

<cozad76078> wrote:

> I have colitis when I don't stick to my raw diet, and my mother had

diverticulitis. The raw diet has cured that. I didn't think my mother

would ever do the raw diet, but I guess when you get some bad problem

(that medicine cannot help) you will do whatever it takes. We are raw

diet advocates.

>

> Diana

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June 19, 2005

Diana good to see you back on the board. I will never forget all those beautiful

recipes you talked about. I have done occasional back sliding too, but keep

going forward as I feel so much better and have a life. I am in the process of

becoming certified as a life coach and I will be working in the area of raw food

lifestyle, among other things. Life is good. Happy raw day all, Lane

-

Diana of Dewberry Hill

rawfood

Sunday, June 19, 2005 12:46 AM

[Raw Food] Consuming The Toxic Tasty / was New to Raw Food