New Day
July 13, 2009 by successfulstrides
Filed under Carla's Raw Food Journal
Well I got up this morning and made my green smoothie. spinach, broccoli, apple, banana, 3 strawberries, and a bit of mango.
OK new here
July 13, 2009 by successfulstrides
Filed under Carla's Raw Food Journal
Well I am going raw. I am excited about it.
I have been working on it for a few weeks and it is really much more difficult than I thought it would be. It is amazing how much I am comforted by food. I have been doing a lot of research and I know that raw is the answer to my life. I really believe that the whole lifestyle will make a huge difference for me. I am currently 334lbs, 5′4″. This is unacceptable. I have always been trying one diet or another. I have always been overweight. I cannot remember a time that my weight was “normal”. The first week that I started doing raw I felt a huge surge of energy. Same with the second week. The third week I got a cold
and everything began falling apart for the last week I have been eating the same old foods and feeling terrible. I mean really terrible. So I went shopping with my very limited budget. I hope I got enough food to last me for the week and then I got food for the rest of my family. I feel bad because I am constantly telling them to stay away from the healthier food because I do not have enough money to feed all of us healthier. Well some weeks are better than others. Is this horribly wrong. I feel like once I understand how to prepare food and buy the better, healthier food then it will be easier to budget in those foods for the whole family. All I do know for sure is that if I don’t figure out something I am on my way to an early grave. Over the last couple of years I have began to feel awful, sluggish, aches and pains, depressed (which I have battled my whole life) and old. I hate the way I feel most days. That is why I decided to go raw. I am not sure about how I am going to transition. I am not really all that concerned with vegan or vegetarian, however I could not even imagine eating raw meat. So because of that I guess I wont be eating meat. My son is a vegetarian so he is quite happy with this.
So I hope my journey will interest you and you come in and comment, I would love the feedback. I look forward to the journey I have ahead of me and know that this is the way for a better quality life for me.
