How did you kick, your cooked food addiction?
Hey everyone I am just wondering, what percent raw do you eat? If your 99-100% how did you get there? How did you fight the call of cheese, dough and meat and stay that way which seems to be my trouble...
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Permalink Reply by John Coleman on -
but what is your total cholesterol like?
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Permalink Reply by Hayley.Dawn on -
Who cares- Look up 'cholesterol myth' on google.
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Permalink Reply by Bunny Berry on -
I don't mean to be super sensitive, but do you really see cooked food at the same level as crack cocaine? I've seen you use the crack reference in several posts. Have you ever known anybody who was addicted to crack cocaine? Because if you have, I don't think you'd throw that around quite as freely as a comparison.
I don't have an opinion about the 811 lifestyle, since I've never read the book and haven't tried it. But cooked food vs. cocaine seems like a really out of whack comparison to me.
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Permalink Reply by Bunny Berry on
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I think you're wrong, but maybe maybe my family is just super supportive.
I think my real sensitivity is the comparison between highly addictive street drugs that ruin people's lives and cooked food in general. If the comparison was between street drugs and the processed food industry, I might be able to square up with the comparison. But crack vs. cooked food? It just seems extreme to me. And that could be a factor in the mainstream viewing raw as extreme.
Maybe it's because I haven't read enough stories about people giving head in back alleys for a roasted red pepper or stealing from their mothers for some mashed potatoes. I'm sure the stories are out there somewhere on the Internet! I just haven't bumped into them yet! ;)
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Permalink Reply by John Coleman on
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yes, funny but silly - if contraband was free instead of prohibited, the price would fall and everyone who wanted it would be able to afford it without the associated crime and all the big bucks the mafia makes from it
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Permalink Reply by John Coleman on
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not allowing people to put in their body what they want, seems to be a fundamental denial of human rights to me
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Permalink Reply by telefunken on -
that would be interesting if they were first required to sign a waiver denying them the right to use public health care resources to recover from the damage they self inflict. LOL
----tele
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Permalink Reply by Bunny Berry on
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el-bo, I completely agree about food addiction. I am a food addict. And certain foods are definitely triggers for me. It took me 40 days on raw food to even begin to know what those triggers were. I guess my point is that food addiction is food addiction, whether you're talking about the food being cooked or uncooked.
I would certainly classify food addiction in the same type of category with street drugs, and it's certainly easy to find and cheap to buy. I think it's the food addiction that needs to be dealt with, and not the addiction to cooked food, specifically.
The way I've dealt with my food addiction is to behave my way into a different relationship with food. And raw food to me was the easiest set of parameters to wrap my puny brain around. "Raw fruits, vegetables, seeds, and nuts." I could figure that out without having to count or measure or keep a food diary. And I learned to shrug it off and move on when I fell outside of those parameters.
I wrote a journal entry about food addiction early on in my 100 Day Challenge. You can read it here, if you're interested.
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Permalink Reply by John Coleman on
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I say fill the "emotional vacuum" with DURIAN!
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Permalink Reply by John Coleman on
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indeed it is so - emotional pollution sucks!
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Permalink Reply by John Coleman on
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that sounds more like being stupid or immoral, depending on what you mean by "bad"
addiction is about repeating behaviours that involve some substance or other for either pyshical or psychological reasons
the problem is that many people believe the side effects of their addictions to be beneficial, so the element of subjectivity enters the equation
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