How/Where do you spend your time?

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Permalink Reply by Nicole Brenny on November 14, 2008 at 11:30pm

Nowadays I spend my time divided between my homework, classes, work, my boyfriend, my family and my friends. On a typical day I will wake up around 8:00 AM. Prepare a breakfast that I eat way too fast, check my e-mail and go to class. I am in and out of classes with a break for lunch, usually until 2 PM. Then I am doing homework until midnight or later. This is interspersed with preparing a raw meal (which usually aren't too elaborate these days), hanging out with my boyfriend, doing some grocery shopping at a local co-op, stretching, dancing or yoga, and sometimes talking on the phone to my mom, sisters or my wonderful raw friend. Some nights I have guitar classes, other nights I work at 4 pm until 2 am, some nights I just want nothing more than to chill out at the Ecopolitan or with some friends or both! Lately I have been craving just hanging out with my boyfriend and watching movies. It is incredible how busy I sometimes am. I really want to spend more of my time meditating and writing music again! I also want to read more books outside of school.

I definetely spend less time drinking or being hung over. I also spend less time wasting money on things I don't need. I could spend less time watching youtube videos or communicating through online methods...but I can't be completely a part from the world.

My weekends are much different now as well since I am usually home at night or am doing something really simple like just heading out to a movie or soberly watching my boyfriends band play! It is still a good time, he must not be that bad of a musician........

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Permalink Reply by Zoe on November 15, 2008 at 10:34pm

Do you go to MCAD? :)

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Permalink Reply by Alicia A. on November 15, 2008 at 7:48am

I spend my time with the same people I've always spent my time with.

It is probably helpful that they're already very used to me having weird eating habits from the constant cycles of trying to figure out how the heck to control my IBS, or whether it was celiac disease, or a lactose intolerance, or a grain allergy, or...(you get the picture). I bring raw snacks--fruit, very rarely a RAW REVOLUTION bar or some such (too many nuts for me). I also pre-eat so I am not starving. We hang as normal. Life is fine. I even got my fiance to agree to go with me to a raw cafe when we go on our honeymoon to Sedona next year.

I am concerned about my family--specifically when I go visit them later this month. My mother is an anxious woman and is quick to see eating disorders and worse where only a desire for health exists. I am not yet sure how I will handle it.

I have found though that I spend more time doing yoga, meditation, and positive reflective contemplation since I went raw--those are things I've always intended to do more of. Now I am. It's very helpful in terms of my mental health.

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Permalink Reply by peanut on November 15, 2008 at 8:11am

What time? I'm taking 4 classes, building a new department at my (full-time) job, and just moved into a new apartment with my bf. I get up at 6, study or catch up on email until 7, go running, shower, bike to work, work all day, bike home, study/conference calls, sleep by 10. Every other weekend I'm at school from 7-7.

Eating raw allows me to keep up this schedule. Especially at my age -- I'm 39 -- I need to optimize my diet in order to have the energy and focus to get through my days. Eating raw doesn't take more time; it gives more time. Raw nutrition, exercise, and time to focus on gratitude is what makes sustained effort and achievement possible. I really believe that!

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Permalink Reply by Jennifer on November 15, 2008 at 9:27am

Hey Dru!
Over the years my husband and I have found that most of our social outings have changed drastically. First of all, having three tiny children is one thing, but being raw vegan and raising them this way presents an interesting social funk. It bothered us at first, the comments - "well what do your kids eat then?" or "OMG! What is in the bottle!?" (My super-greens and hemp milk formula). In any case, we found that for the first year or two there was a purging of friends and old social habits, IE: going out for wine and tapas etc. People stopped calling us over, including family. Then after a while we figured that we didn't have to stop going out to dinner or visiting friends, or even enjoying the holidays! We developed our own traditions and foods that go with them. We starting eating BEFORE going out with friends and simply enjoy an occasional glass of wine with them or when at family outings we bring our own meals. This usually generates LOTS of chat and people wanting to try OUR food! (Especially when my two year old opens a giant bag of crispy kale and walks around offering it to the other kids who are munching on potato chips and chocolate.)

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Permalink Reply by Andrea on November 16, 2008 at 11:09am

Wow, it is amazing to see a raw family...I love this, thanks for sharing your life!

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Permalink Reply by Rande on November 15, 2008 at 9:43am

I dont know that i do anything terribly different, i was always vegetarian so everyone knew my eating habits were "different" anyways. I think one of the things thats really changed is i dont spend hours at a time "punishing myself" with my workouts (cause thats how it was for me, i'd eat too much than run 8-10 miles or do really intense aerobics to make up for it), now i can to some yoga and feel really great. i also dont "waste" time with magazines and books that are trying to "fix" me. i used to read them religiously but now i just dont have a need for them :)

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Permalink Reply by Jayna' / RawFitMama on November 15, 2008 at 10:17pm

As a single mommie to a kiddo with Autism... TIME is precious. I use every second wisely. She keeps me in the moment so it's not hard to do.

A few years ago before going raw I slept like 12 hours a day some weeks and then not at all others....but I never did anything with my time.

Now I wake up really early (about 6am) and I meditate infront of my altar. When done I prep the materials for my green juice. As I'm juicing she wakes up...takes herself to the potty and comes down for snuggles and juice (nothing green , just carrot/apple fresh off the press).

Then we do yoga together for about 5-10 minutes (all her Autism can handle right now) and it's ready for school three mornings a week for her, if not we are at therapy or the gym. I travel with green smoothies and/or juices in my hemp bag/purse. It's a great raw conversation starter!

At nite I whip of a big salad to go on the side of whatever gourmet dish I've made (If I've made one that day or week) if not... a simple salad with a nori wrap will do.

As far as going out... I do keep an avocado in my purse. Sometimes a cute little container with a dessert in it will do to. The major thing is that I don't see this raw lifestyle as sacrificing anything. It's my choice and I live it and love it. When you let others affect how you operate...you've gotten out of the driver seat of your own life. So when the opportunity arises to order at the dinner table and I get a massive salad and ask the waiter what raw veggies the restaurant carries...I do this with confidence and ease. Confidence in my choice that I eat the best food on the planet and am a superbeing that isn't affected by others' opinions of me.

So I dine along with everyone else...talk a bit about raw (if asked) and go about my merry way.

Most nites though... it's just me and my girl...our gratitude board and a simple meal of raw food for me, and raw + cooked local vegan veggies for her... raw life is good ;-)

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Permalink Reply by Andrea on November 16, 2008 at 11:07am

Jayna, I really love your voice and confidence, it's so inspiring! How old is your daughter?

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Permalink Reply by Jayna' / RawFitMama on November 17, 2008 at 11:00am

Hey Andrea!! She's four and 1/2....she thinks she's 21. She's always telling people she's 69 years old!! They think it's hilarious ;-)

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Permalink Reply by Marc on November 16, 2008 at 3:06am

Work, Kids, School (online), and that's pretty much it other than this place. Raw will hopefully give me more energy to do more, and get quality back into all the hours of my day. I really hate working for someone else but I have kids so I cannot just quit without a really darn good exit strategy. That's what school is all about. Now I need to make sure I start eating better so I can be around for my kids and teach them by example how to get off the processed food poisons that we are all addicted to. It's the intelligent, responsible, and moral thing to do for my whole family. A lot of my free time these days (and that doesn't amount to much) is researching raw food and smoothies etc.

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Permalink Reply by Andrea on November 16, 2008 at 11:05am

That's incredible, Marc! What an amazing gift to give yourself and your children. If you could envision your ideal living, work and family situation, what would that look like? How would your day begin, progress and end?

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