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Permalink Reply by Jasmine.green on March 28, 2009 at 11:50am

Slip, and slip carefully! It can be a great experience. I did and found out that many of the things I'd been avoiding as a result of being 99-100% raw, I was actually allergic to.

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Permalink Reply by Ian on March 28, 2009 at 12:41pm

Basically I dont worry about it anymore. President Obama eats cooked food I'm sure and are you going to claim that they are feeding him toxic food?

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Ian

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Permalink Reply by Susan Virginia on March 28, 2009 at 12:05pm

Eat what you want when you want it. As you're learning, when you're depriving yourself, sending yourself messages like "that food will hurt you," "you're a bad person for eating that," you create more mental damage than the food is doing physically.

Just eat and be happy. Eat often, mostly plants, not too much.

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Permalink Reply by telefunken on March 30, 2009 at 1:41pm

excellent advice.

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Permalink Reply by Ian on March 28, 2009 at 12:45pm

Becoming neurotic over being 100% raw can create more problems than solve. In fact, I will even contend that the only surefire way to be 100% raw is if you live in the woods and eat bananas and mangos all day. Modern day living with the dehydrated food and the store bought spices are not, in the purist's sense, 100% raw, so that can be a misnomer.

The main thing to worry about, above all items, is to completely and thoroughly chew your food. This does take away most disgestive problems, raw or cooked food being involved.

Ian

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Permalink Reply by Jay on March 30, 2009 at 1:36pm

lol that was nearly my diet, now add some dried fruit, water, and organic greens n that's me. I've only paid attention to the slipping thing lately because I jumped on a scale and weigh ten pounds more than I did like 8 months ago.

-JayMoney.net

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Permalink Reply by svelte_in_la on March 28, 2009 at 6:18pm

I've been high-raw for years, but included cooked meat in my diet- sparingly and all organic. I tried going raw vegan, but then I started cheating. I would be up all night making vegan pancakes and waffles, pouring agave all over them, and chowing down at 3am! Next thing you know, I'm chewing cocao nubs while driving or buying gourmet vegan cupcakes. I've put on 10 lbs in 2 months, and am absolutely disgusted with myself to the point that I only wear long sleeves even in this hot L.A. heat. I wrote '/EPIC FAIL' on my mirror.

I blame not just straying from high-raw, but resorting to mindless eating. Ok, no more chomping on flaxseed crackers at the computer. And back to raw. And back to exercising. Back to LIFE.

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