Raw Foodist

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.

Thanks for reading.
Carla