I think I really want this now..

Dear Whoever Is Reading This,

Here I lay. *cough attack* Sick in bed. *cough attack* Day 9. 

There's nothing like pain & suffering to bring you to the depths of humility. No greater teacher.. What happened? Well....before I get into that, I want to give myself credit: 

I have come a looooooong way! I have made HUGE changes and have improved in SO many ways! Dietary changes are difficult to make when you have been accustomed to certain things, traditions & habits your entire life! So to be at the point I am now is immense! Problem is...the cleaner your body gets...the less is tolerates little "indiscretions"....So...yup! That brings me back to why I'm lying on my back...

My son graduated from High School (party/go out to eat), from Seminary (party/go out to eat), became an  Elder (party/go out to eat), got a mission call (party/go out to eat) etc. etc. etc. Friends have Birthdays and you go out to eat. Friends ask you to go out to eat. Date night. You go out to eat. Boredom. Habit. Now you're addicted. You go out to eat. Then WHAMMO!!!!! Here I lie...

I DON'T LIKE THIS! NOT ONE BIT! I NEVER WANT TO BE SICK AGAIN!

*sigh* 

How sick have I been? Here's the order of symptoms: 

Fatigue

Achy

Fever

Headache from hell

Skin pain from hell

For 5 days then...

Major cough

Day 6 so far..

9 days lying here...

Of course since day 1 I've been 100% raw and drinking tons of water & getting fresh air and sunshine (ok not enough cuz I don't want to annoy my neighbors with my coughing). 

I can tell by my tongue and BM's how we'll I'm detoxing. It never fails that after about day 5 of 100% raw the "stuff" that comes out of you is...well...unique. :) Boy do notice the difference in your gut! Clean, unclogged & empty! Can you say, "flat stomach"? Yeah it's pretty awesome and reminds me how wonderful it is to be 100% raw. There's just nothing like it. 

So...once again....I'm convinced, even more so, of how important it is to eat 100% so that you never get sick like this. How its just NOT WORTH the supposed "fun" of going out to eat or "partying" on foods that are not good for the body. 

If I can just remember this when I'm feeling great, hungry & tempted to "join the "fun"". If I can just remember how awful it is to be sick. If I can just remember how great I feel, look, think when I choose fruits & veggies over Thai, Indian or Japanese food then I think I can do this. No...I know I can. 

~ Yours Truly

I am SO grateful!!

September 29, 2011
 

I have 4 children ages 16, 13, 11, & 7.



I have been doing a typical raw food diet since Oct. 2008.


My children eat a mostly vegan diet since 1994 when I was pregnant with my first child & sick with constant UTI's. My friend told me about the book "Fit For Life" and I immediately read it in 3 days, threw out all of the crap in my kitchen and within a week I lost 10 lbs. my UTI went away and I have NEVER had one since!


My diet was a junk food vegan diet for sure! Everything was free game as long as it didn't have meat or dairy.


Then as years went by....we started including fish, chicken and occasionally a little bit of basically everything....


What happened?? Well, on July 20, 2008 my expiration date came up!


My body kept wanting to pass out...I did all I could to stay conscious...my heart would race...I had numbness in my face, arms, legs. Chest pain. I had a cold foot and a hot foot...I was dying...and the doctors couldn't figure out what was wrong. They just gave me anxiety meds and sent me home.


I later learned that I had Lychen Schelorsus, high cholesterol, and dangerously low levels of cortisol.



I read Breakthrough by Suzanne Somers and doped up on $$$$$Supplements....I went to $$$$$doctor after doctor, $$$$$$snake oil scamers after snake oil scamers, more $$$$$$, then a neurologist who had an acupuncturist in her office who put me on more $$$$$supplements...



By October I was looking for an herb my acupuncturist told me to take called Eleuthero. I went all over town to every health food store and herb shop there was and NO ONE had any??



I ended up at a place I'd never been to before and a delightful, radiant woman asked if she could help me. I told her I was looking for Eleuthero. She told me that they sold no herbs or supplements and asked me what was wrong? I told her what was going on and she said, "Well, I had Hodgkin's Lymphoma and I healed myself with food."



Seriously...at that moment it was like the Heaven's opened and a surge of electricity went through my body and told me that that was it! This was it! Food. Plain and simple. :)


She gave me Paul Nisson's book "Raw Life" and I became raw overnight!



10 months 100% and then emotional/family issues had me eating cooked again in July 2009.



I have since then been STRUGGLING to stay raw. On the wagon....Off the wagon...over and over. Always CRAVING bread, pasta, rice...carbs.



I did a 60 day juice/water feast in March of 2010. Only THEN did I start to see improvements in the Lychen Schlerosus...but I developed an eating disorder towards the end of the feast. I still had to cook food for my family and I started to chew and spit food. I KNEW I had to stop the feast...sadly...



After that it was backed to eating bread, pasta, rice and trying desperately to be raw....



This last attempt to stay raw started in August 2011. I didn't want to keep track of the day because I was tired of counting days...


I don't even know how I found out about 80/10/10??? (I'm so bummed about that..) But I think I've now been doing it for 4-5 weeks.



The greatest thing has been the amount of detoxing. I never experienced that before. Detoxing with ENERGY! I am also seeing improvement in the LS!!


But...the topic of this discussion was suppossed to be my KIDS, so I will explain..


When I would make all of the HFRV gourmet meals my kids would gag..except for some of the treats I would make.


They didn't like vinegar, they didn't like the nuts, they didn't like seaweed, they didn't like any of the supplement/superfoods, they didn't like a lot of the vegetables.......



But they LOVED fruit!


Hmmmmm????? Why didn't I PAY ATTENTION to that?????????



My oldest son would pig out on bananas and other fruit and I would be all worrying that he was getting too much sugar, that he would be acidic, that he wasn't getting enough nutrients, etc. etc. etc.!!!!!!!!!!



I sat him down the other day and said, "I was wrong...eat ALL THE FRUIT YOU WANT!!!"


How could I have been so disconnected to Nature??


All of the things I complained about are now gone:


"It's too hard."

"It takes too much time and effort."

"It takes too much planning ahead."

"It's so expensive to buy all these nuts and seeds and supplements and super foods."

"Why are so many of the raw food gurus not eating 100% anymore and are now using animal products?????"

Why don't they LOOK better??"

"Why I am not thin?"

"Why can't I stay raw?"

"Why am I not cured yet?"

"Why am I craving carbs??"

I GET IT NOW!!!!


I should have observed my children better...they KNEW it all along! :)


I am SOOOOOOO grateful to have read 80/10/10!

I am SOOOOOOO grateful to Dr. Graham.

I am SOOOOOOO grateful!!

REMEMBER. REMEMBER. REMEMBER!

February 8, 2011

It's 18 day's of 100% Rawsomefabulousamazingness!!!!

I keep telling myself, "REMEMBER. REMEMBER. REMEMBER! Remember how you feel RIGHT NOW!"

I feel terrific! I wake up feeling awake. I can stay on my feet with my kids after school and be "WITH" them. Normally, I'm so tired by this time of day that I do the "bare minimums" with my family. And I hurry up so that I can sit or lay down before dinner. And then after dinner, it was the same thing. Hurry to get through with the "have to's" so I can get to bed. I mean. It sounds terrible. But, in telling the truth. I was always "dragging". And ornery too....Although, I would fight against my body all the time, thinking it was just the "natural man" I was fighting against. It seemed so hard to "choose the right" when it came to my feelings.

I am going to clarify right here, & right now, how much WHAT we eat affects HOW we feel physically AND emotionally!

I keep reminding my self, over, and over, and over to REMEMBER THIS MOMENT! And then I remember how I felt when I was cooked. There is NO COMPARISON!!

EAT RAW, FEEL AWESOME!!!

The Engine is Running!

February 1, 2011

Happy LOVE month!!

I LOVE February!! (Maybe cuz it's my birthday month..)

So, everyday since Saturday (day 8 of 100% Rawsomeness!) I wake up feeling "reved up" like my engine is running and I'm surged with energy ready to go!!!

I forgot about this. I forgot about how awesome you feel in the mornings!
It was a SATURDAY!! I woke up at 6:40 a.m.!? I continue to do so. This morning I woke up and thought it was almost time to get up and it was only 4:45 a.m.??

My motor is running at optimum cuz it's got the best fuel in it's engine EVAH!!!!

I LOVE Love month! I LOVE LOVE, and I LOVE RAW FOOD!!!