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When I joined Curves a month ago, a 2 month weight loss contest was half over...I joined anyways....& today was the weigh-in day...& SO FAR, I'm WINNING! (the prize is a free month at Curves, which would REALLY bless me right now, especially!)



There are a few others still to weigh in...but even if I don't win, I'm totally ok with that, it got me motivated to challenge & push…

I've been to Curves 9 times now since August 8th & much as it's changing my body, it also seems to be re-wiring my brain & my thinking about exercise!

~ It's making me WANT to stay raw & also want to stay ACTIVE...not just when working out, but I can feel myself gaining strength, flexibility, muscle, energy & wanting to do all I can to…

I'm baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack....to 100% Raw foods! There's just nothing else like it! I've been LONGING to get going on it again, & have let things, stress, busyness distract me....

AND I joined CURVES & had my 1st workout today! It was AWESOME & I am ready, once more, to dive into my health's RAWstoration on EVERY level!



They have an amazing machine for at the end for stretching (I think it has 16 different stretches you can do on it) & it helped SOOOO much,…

It's a LONG story, & I'm on my way to bed, but wanted to let you know that I have been totally healed! My kidney is fine! Everything else I learned about my health from the lab work I just had done is fine, or lowering daily...

,,,I spent most of yesterday in the ER, & they ran a bunch of tests, I was in massive pain, but when they tested my kidneys again (they had just tested them a few days before & they had failed!) they were perfect!



I am STAYING raw, & have…

Hello~

 I'm in trouble...my diabetes has been out of control for awhile & I've been feeling worse & worse for months, trying to get back to raw, but no energy, strength,  & have been feeling like I've been slowly dying...

  I've just had lab work done....my blood sugars were very high, as expected, but so was my cholesterol & blood pressure & my inflammation levels (which were 30 times higher than usual!) which means I could have a heart attack at any…

For those who might remember me, & for those new here, it's Anastazia here once more, & it's time to 'fess up...I've been a backslidden raw foodist...well, ok, semi-backslidden...I could never totally give it up, but have finally fully accepted that I'm always gonna be a pretty black & white person, so see once more that, for me, it's 100% raw that works best & that I can stick to...so I'm BACK from backsliding, ready to move forward & am committed to…

As 2011 began, I aimed to be 100% raw for the entire year...*sigh* That has not happened. Stress seems determined to swallow me alive, & when it gets really intense {especially when I can't get enough sleep, as has been happening for far too long!} eventually my…

I've been struggling with staying 100% raw, as I set out to do this year, & couldn't seem to figure out why, or stop going back & forth...until I FINALLY clued into the fact that every time I get close to a certain number on the scale, I end up backsliding, sabotaging myself, & slowing down, stopping, or even reversing the weight loss already accomplished. Knowing that the bible says that the heart can…

When I first became a Christian, there was a song I learned by a singer named Twila paris that's called "The Warrior is a Child"...as I'm recovering from falling for the 3rd time in 2 weeks on the ice, & dealing with yet one more FM flare-up, & trying to press on & stay raw even though I'm so frustrated that I can't exercise right now without pain, the lyrics of this old…

Since I fell twice on the ice last week, I started struggling with raw...slowing down progress, increasing pain, & I am so ready to be completely DONE with that! THEN I fell on the ice AGAIN yesterday, & am now having ANOTHER FM flare-up from it, when I wasn't over the last one, but decided I'm going to deal with it with juicing, whether I think I can afford it or not!…

When I went 100% raw (again) at the start of the year, 3 weeks in, I began going thru some deeper detox than I have in a LONG while...& then fell, twice, on ice, & couldn't chop veggies for my daily smoothies & salads, so saw it as an EXCUSE to go high raw for awhile...& the thing is, it definitely slowed down the detox, making it easier to handle...BUT it ALSO slowed down the progress on…

Beginning with facing our condition,  knowing our destination, formulating a plan, & taking one step at a time, day after day, there are MANY ways to arrive where we're headed:

STARTING & STOPPING: Our eyes become opened to the truth, & we begin to understand that we really ARE what we eat, as well as…

When I look in the mirror, & only look at myself through my own limited perspective, I see that yes, I've changed, I've let go of nearly 80 lbs so far, but notice much more how far I still have yet to go...I see my limits, my flaws, my weaknesses, my scars...I see the…

It's bee a REALLY rough past few days...been high raw, but not 100%, & it slowed my weightloss down to next to nothing, which really got me down...I was determined to be the Biggest Loser in the vault, & to reach the goals I set, & especially to stay 100% raw! & I was feeling like a big fat failure tonight, & like reaching my goals will never happen..I…

Last night, coming home from work, I slipped on icy snow on the 3rd step at my sisters, & though I landed on my bag of produce I was carrying (talk about tossed salad!) I also landed on my wrist, & hurt it, & on my other hand, bent back 2 fingers...& I ache all over...& am having a hard time sleeping...& am suddenly struggling with wanting comfort food...first time in 20 days I've been tempted at all to not stay 100% raw....so…

What an incredible day I've had! Woke this morning to a response on my Facebook page where I wrote about both my blenders dying, & wanting a vitamix, with a link to the Vitamix site...a fb friend wrote before I woke that she hasn't been using hers, so I can have it!!!

Now I'm not sure of she meant a vitamix or a regular blender, but it…

The times I've tried to be/stay raw without doing daily green smoothies have been a continual struggle. The amount of nutrients flooding my body at the start of my day when I consume green smoothies quickly begins to remove all cravings, struggles, & temptations on a cellular level...

...we CRAVE because our cells…

It's been an adventurous week...& yesterday was sooooo NOT fun...I'm so glad to not be sick anymore, so I can finally begin working out again, but got stuck outside yesterday in -25 (-35 with the wind chill factor...& it was VERY windy!) for about 15 minutes & got frostbitten all over my face...owwwwww...…

SURRENDER...

I came to a place of seeing that if I want my health to return, I MUST COMMIT to doing this!

Being high raw was keepin' me alive, I could have even died by now without it the last few years (as well as my times of 100% raw here & there) BUT my health issues continued…