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It is frustrating, I feel frustrated. I am in middle of summer, which should make it easy to stick to salads and healthy food. But apparently, [and weightly] all the consumed food stays in my body and on my scale.

I would like to get started, I want to become a vegan, raw vegan, but everything involves so much reading and so many things are going on in my life right now.... And it seems that I am not getting the right lecture in my hands.

I want to start!!! My mind tells, my body tells me. I have ordered a book! still has not arrived. I have Mimi Kirk's bible, which was one the reasons why I wanted to become a raw vegan. ... and now I am sitting here... Still not sure what to put on my grocery list, still confused about the diet... Missing equipment and there is not really a reason why I should buy a dehydrator if, as im consciously planning, to move to another continent, in which all my nice kitchen equipment will not be working and I am, by the way, not the richtest person at the moment, another reason to be convinced that there is really no real reason to buy other than food...

Sitting here... thinking of what to put on the grocery list to get started...

What is there to eat and what not? Is it really that difficult? or is it just me who don't have the real time to commit in this moment of my life? I know I can do it. I know it!!!

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Comment by Jean on August 19, 2012 at 8:10pm: Don't get overwhelmed. Start by changing one thing, if that works best for you. Have a smoothie for breakfast. Or have your liter of water with lemon when you get up. Do this for a few days and then add another thing. Maybe a smoothie for breakfast AND a salad for lunch. Just work it in slowly if you can.

Comment by Eleanor Cheyne on August 19, 2012 at 7:59pm: getting prepared is the beginning and it is exciting. Good luck, keep me posted and if you need anything give me a shout. take care

eleanor

Comment by Astrid on August 19, 2012 at 5:13pm: Dear Eleanor, I am not so sure if today needs to be considered as day 1, but today I have gone vegan a out 80%, I only had my usual breakfast with toast and jam, but I got myself prepared for tomorrow, i prepared a smoothie, my lunch and for dinner I will see...

I am feeling ready to this, acknowledging that it will take some effort into this new lifestyle, but at the same time, I am curious and keen about a new way of eating, new and more delicious than I am used.

No, I don't meditate. I used to after goind through a hard breakup, but right now I am not. I have been doing yoga (Bikram Yoga), but this summer I took a break because my school shortened the schedule that doesn't really fit into my life.

Here I am, going, going to my first smoothie tomorrow and to start all over a 100%

Comment by Eleanor Cheyne on August 19, 2012 at 8:38am: Well if you know you can do it you will. Don't let small things get bigger. Do you need a dehydrator NO. You need a few fruits and veggies to get started. If you have a regular blender you can make smoothies fine with it. Smoothies are easy and only need a few fruits. Can you tell me a little about your situation. I am a nutritional consultant and a metaphysical healer. The reason your weight is not moving is because you are stressed and with stress the hormones distributed to allow you to deal with the stress forbid the weight to come off. Don't fret this will happen when you get your thoughts straight. Don't buy new or more equipment right now. If you even don't have a blender then start eating fruit whole and salads. Just add good things into your body and mind and the other will fall off. Don't restrict yourself just add to what you are doing. Restricting is more stress and you don't need that. Do you meditate or anything like that? Take care and start small.

Comment by Tami B on August 18, 2012 at 9:49pm: If you are nervous about going 100% raw just start with a green smoothie in the morning, a ton of fruit before lunch, and a huge salad before dinner. There are a ton of recipes on RFR. If you get anxious about it, it won't be fun for you and you won't stick with it. Remember it doesn't have to be an all or nothing adventure. Everyone approaches this path differently. Go pick your favorite fruits and sit down outside in the sun with your feet in the grass and enjoy! At that moment you will be raw.

Comment by Astrid on August 18, 2012 at 9:30am: Thanks, Satu fo rall these descriptions. I learn from many of you, first of all not being to hard on oneself and to take things slow.

I am glad about everyone's breakfast suggestions.

Thank you!

Comment by Satu Olento on August 18, 2012 at 9:03am: Oh I must add that it's not preferaple to have most of your energy coming from the nuts and fats so later you can start taking them out of your diet but think about this like trasfer-diet. Most important is to get yourself out of the white flour and dairy. Just to move into more healthier slowly...More healthtier you eat the better you feel and it motivates you to continue. Change your bread to rye crackers and pasta to quinoa-pasta from healthfood shops. Start eating things which makes you feel better! Notice how your body speeds up when it gets sugar-rush and how your brain acts for it. And how low you feel after. And how heavy you feel after some fatty, greezy food. Your own body is giving the best advices and will motivate you to go forward! :D

Comment by Satu Olento on August 18, 2012 at 8:31am: Hello!

I have lovely breakfast. I'm very sleepy at the morning so this must been done FAST and eaten even faster. It's totally wrong to be hurrying but you know...needs to get to wrok in some point...I'm slowly getting better with it and waking up 10 min earlier just to have some time to relax at the morning.

But anyway. It takes 7-8 min to finish small bowl. My breakfast is nuts and seeds mix with fruits. It's easy to change your toast to this because this tastes so GLORIOUS. Main nuts are almonds but it means something like 1 tablespoon of it and not more. I add some coconut flakes for taste. Then I have springle of all this seeds...Chia, pumpkin, sesam, hemp and flax(grated form) seed. I do change my mix of nuts and seeds when ever I want. Most important are almonds. The I add 1/2 tablespoon of some berry powder (not really necessary), Goji berries and half a cup of frozen rashberries. Then I slice in one banana, beach and apple. Add apple juice (not concentrate, no sugar etc.) And eat. Yummy yummy! :D

I do the nuts and seed mix and berries at the evening so I don't need to use much of times at the morning. And rashberries are better for your stomach if they are not frozen anymore. At the morning slicing the fruits and adding juice is fast enough and you can do this first thing when you get to the kitchen so they get soaked before you eat them. Remember that you need little bit more time to eat all this grunchy nuts at the morning but it's worth of it. I do not feel hungry before my first teabreak 2,5 hours later.

This is heavy breakfast and sometimes it's easier to just have smoothie at the morning (you can slice all fruits in night before and just use the blender at the morning) but it doesn't work for me because my first teabreak is so late and stressfull that I better have something which keeps me going until lunch. Nuts and seeds have lots of fat and protein in them so too much of them will make it hard for your stomach to digest. In weekends I have breakfast where I add even more fruits because it's so delicious!!!

One important thing which you can start RIGHT NOW without even going raw or vegan or anything is starting to dring water with LEMON juice...Just squeese piece of lemon into your water first thing in the morning and after everytime you eat. Lemon is acidic outside your body but your stomac acid changes it to be higly alkalizing and that's what makes your body love you! Please read some information about acidic and alkaline levels of your body. You will found information about it from here or youtube or simbly...google it! :D

I wish that you don't take too much stress of all of this. I'm sliding slowly to be more and more raw and it feels very natural change. First thing which I did change was my lunch. It turned to be green salad. Second was the breakfast. Then after that you have been raw already half of the day!!! WUHUU! So evening you can first change your frying vegetables to steamed ones or change your pasta/potatoes/rice to salad. Or just add the salad to your plate and make it bigger and bigger portion each day. Slowly it will start changing. Please, don't try to change everything in one go. Take it easy! :D I'm still in the process by myself but slowly slowly getting there :D Take day at the time. It's a great journey which has a snowball effect...suddenly you start changing everything in your life healthier because you have more energy to do so....

Many many hugs to you and love and light to your path! :D

Comment by Astrid on August 17, 2012 at 3:38pm: Dear Betty, I love your advices to take things slow and one step after the other.

Today I have done my organic shopping and bought some nice fruits and vegetables. I think that I will just go and try out what works out best for me. Having never done something similar, it will be all new and I can hear from everyone's stories, that it is all about personal experience and I will see myself. As you said, with the time one becomes more professional in doing more sophisticated things.

I am very much looking forward to these new way of eating and I am looking very much forward to this new diet. I am curious to learn on how different I will feel in a couple of days, in better or in worse, I will see. But I can only tell that the raw vegan diet feels like naturally coming into my mind as a new kind of spirit. Whatever that is or will be, I'll figure out :)

Comment by Betty on August 17, 2012 at 12:16pm: Astrid you have some good advice here. Try not to stress out over this, it is actually the easiest thing you can do...instead of worrying about reading books or buying dehydrators, go to your nearest farmer's market, or organic shop, and pick the fruit and veggies you love.

You could start your day with a huge green smoothie - tons of recipes to be found here - but basically bananas, and a handful of your choice of greens. I like banana with kale, blend with coconut water/ or almond milk, add some coconut milk for creaminess, a few dates to help fill you, a bit of chia seed or hemp seed, anthing goes. Then when you get hungry, eat bowls of fruit. Dinner can be your fave salad.

Once you have more time, then you can start reading books, looking around online for more recipes and ideas, but for now, just add as much fruits and veggies to your day as possible.

I want to get mimi's book too, have you seen her recipe videos on youtube?

oh, don't worry about fully 'commiting'. It sounds like you are pressuring yourself too much, do one day at a time, and if you eat something processed, don't feel guilty, just do better the next time.

I must say, once you move more raw, you will watch the weight melt away. I am still shocked at my new weight, which I never thought I'd ever see- it's what I weighed 2 decades earlier! and now it's not a problem to maintain, it just is my new 'normal' weight. Be ready for miracles to happen in your life :-D