Working My Way Up

I've decided to go with my original plan and take the rest of the year to ease into a raw lifestyle. I need to research it more and LEARN MORE RECIPE'S! The hardest thing I found about the week I was raw was what to eat. I'm so used to eating fake meat and processed vegetarian food that it was sort of a shock to all the sudden take in 100% natural food. I craved mattar paneer and that's what I ended up eating. I know that when going raw you get cravings for stuff you haven't had in a while and I was craving a Tofurkey roast, which I only eat a few times a year.


Here's a video I made about my experience.

I'm interested in juice fasting! I bought the L'Equip Mini Pulp Ejector Juicer yesterday from Georgetown Market. I can't wait to use it! I plan to start a juice fast on January 1st 2008 as an intro to my raw lifestyle. I plan to juice fast for as long as I can, then live off 100% raw food.

I'm not the kind of person who can do it cold tofu. Just like with going vegetarian, I have to east into it, prepare my body, prepare myself mentally and emotionally, then I'll see what I can do. I plan on being 100 raw, but if that doesn't work out then I'll strive to eat high raw.

I've been reading about the benefits of a raw diet and I'm thrilled that I've chosen this path at a young age! I'll be 23 when I go raw on 1-1-8.

As for the people in my life, they are okay with it more than I thought. it's common sense that eating fruit and vegetables are good for you. My mom said that old, "That's not healthy" thing, my dad doesn't really care, he eats a lot of my food, he cut down tremendously on his meat consumption and is interested in a liver cleanse! My fiance' is vegetarian and she eats a lot of raw food herself, she pretty cool with my decision. As for others, they make little jokes, but that's normal. Coworkers don't really care. That's another benefit of easing into it is allowing time for the people in my life that this effects, especially my fiance', time to accept that this is the path I want. The longer I stick with this the more they will accept that this is a possibility of my future.

I usually post on forums, I'll try to start posting more in this blog.