Day one ....yes you read that right.

[Sarah Walker]

oh my goodness ...what a weekend...It was fantastically awesome , but food wise....not good and I am feeling it today let me tell you. I am kicking myself as well , because I felt soooooo good all last week and now last night when I got home...it was alll back to where I was.  I have discovered that I cannot let myself go even a little ...it was almost like m mind was saying , you did great all week, you deserve this...you dont need to worry about your food choices becuase you feel so good. But what it didnt remind me of is how I feel AFTER I do this to my body. I felt so good last week , that we went on a spontaneous trip! it was awesome, we lft friday night and got home yesterday. stayed in hotels, went swimming in awesome lakes, spring feed rock beds , saw amazing sites. It was so awesome. with that I ate all kinds of food....and though I made it through friday night and saturday morning....my saturday lunch while on the road....I wasnt preared ...I didnt have options. So I let it slip. By yesterday I was back ot not thinking...untill I woke up and could hardly move for lack of energy , pains in my stomach, headache and all over gross feeling. I didnt check in here either because I didnt take my computer, and I didnt have a whole lot of time to sit and check anyway. I felt so weak around all that cooked food , even though I know how it feels on raw food. Anyway , I had a big long talk with my husband as I lay curled in a ball in bed last night, and it looks as if he is supporting me. He has realized , I think, that this is not just a food choice. this is a food must for me right now.  Something is up in my stomach and I need the energy in raw foods , and the nutrients to heal the damage done.

I must admit to coming here , with my head hanging....I feel like I not only failed myself , but I failed people here who are watching and supporting me. I owe you guys so much , you know not what this means to me.

But.....I start again....

One benefit about what happened this weekend is that I know for sure , if I had any doubts, that raw food is working for me and it really showed me how I feel directly after eating cooked food compared to how I feel directly after raw food. Its like night and day ! I do stand amazed. This is the real deal folks.

My plan today....vega for breakfast.....rest of the day snacks from the garden....

Last night for dinner I made Vitality soup, which turned out amazing...and felt so good going down.  So I will have some more of that for diinner.

I am sorry guys....and please stick with me. I wil get this.

 

[RawSteps]

It's a journey.  We all have do great, stumble, trip on rocks in our path and succeed again.  Over and over.  You're still moving forward, so there's no need to hang your head!  This is a learning process.  Just like a school class, it's not about "perfection", it's about learning and advancing. 

You're doing great -- stay on the journey!!  :D

[Lucy Provost]

Thanks for being so willing to share your food journey so openly with us. I've leaned so much from my mistakes, my periods of not taking care of myself. I agree with you that just having the experience of knowing what it feel like to be on high raw diet is so wonderful because it can help me to get back on track. My path towards mostly raw has been full of twists, turns, side routes, dead ends, but luckily I now get back to the highroad much more quickly than I used to :)

[Barbara]

A new day, a fresh new start and lessons learned.  Not all is lost, keeping going forward and as they say.. don't look back, you are not going that way :)

[Supermom]

This is a journey, and you did great!  I have learned not to beat myself up when I get caught up in unhealthy food choices.  Since we notice how we feel after we eat, it takes time, trial, and error, to remember how foods will feel before we choose them. It is good to love ourselves into raw foods by observing our choices and making adjustments. 

My husband and kids have started reminding me before we order at a restaurant, "Last time we ate here, you said you wish you would have chosen raw."  This is helping me remember that I can have what I want, but what I want is raw.

[Corinne Batt-Rawden]

Thanks for your honesty and openness. 

And 'Yay!' for day one. no matter what happens in life, there is always a new day one to start over and get back on track. :)