What Set Off Your Raw Journey?
This topic may have been brought up in the past somewhere but I am worthless when it comes to searching forums :]
Just wondering what it was that began your raw food journey... Were you a SAD or unhealthy eater before? Did you learn about raw food lifestyles and suddenly no longer desired to eat another bite of dead food again? Or did you slowly transition and introduce more living foods into your diet over a period of time? And lastly, what were your reasons pushing you to change your lifestyle so drastically different from- most likely- everyone you knew?
Just curious... :]
Just wondering what it was that began your raw food journey... Were you a SAD or unhealthy eater before? Did you learn about raw food lifestyles and suddenly no longer desired to eat another bite of dead food again? Or did you slowly transition and introduce more living foods into your diet over a period of time? And lastly, what were your reasons pushing you to change your lifestyle so drastically different from- most likely- everyone you knew?
Just curious... :]
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Permalink Reply by telefunken on -
20 years ago, adding blue green algae to my diet started it for me. One thing led to another and still on the path. Hi-raw now. Vegetarian for 20 years. Always learning and experimenting with my health / diet, etc.
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Permalink Reply by Rawphi Bird on -
Chicks?
That was my complaint when I first went raw. Where am I gonna find other raw women? I had to move to california for that reason, I got tired of dates in miami turning sour after I mentioned my diet.
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Permalink Reply by Rawphi Bird on
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no, these dates were not the vegan kind, nor were they kind to vegans for that matter
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Permalink Reply by purplemangoflower on -
I hear you there...I would only want to date someone at least vegetarian, preferably vegan. Someday when I have kids I want to raise them vegan and incorporate a lot of raw into their diets. I guess the right one will be worth the wait!
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Permalink Reply by jodykwik on -
i made a huge change a long time ago that eventually led to everything from just learning how to live, to studying massage and herbs and having that become a career, to becoming vegetarian, to pursuing the spiritual path i'm on, and to eventually becoming raw because it just makes more sense to me than anything in terms of diet and my body is loving the journey...8^))...
and the funny thing is that it's always been a bigger journey than my own isolated personality...by that i mean it's been scary and i need to tune into the strength and power of others on the path in order to get the courage to do it. not in an energy sucking kind of way...just in a presense kind of way.
i feel like this is how i have to live in order not to die a miserable and premature death. not to be overly dramatic or anything....lol...but i feel the stakes are high.
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Permalink Reply by telefunken on
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i like the way you put that paul
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Permalink Reply by Rawphi Bird on
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My life was in a dark place before I went raw, I had been overwight since high school, and was dealing with different drug addictions (legal and not so legal) till I was 20. I needed to change. I had lots of vegetarian friends, but I always thought it to be a joke, and never took it seriously, I remember telling my old roomate, "you'll start eating meat, before I ever become a vegetarian."
Then I meet a couple who are now my best friends, they were vegan and raising their familly high raw. The way they explained the diet to me made sense, especially the concept of living foods and consuming foods full of living water, i remember sitting in their backyard with the sweet and spicy green juice they made me as I had this epiphany. Me wanting to detox all the drugs out of my body, I decided to start right away, pretty much went cold turkey, though I was still consuming, foods that weren't truly raw even though I thought they were, I felt a tremendous difference, out of nowhere I got the inspiration to get up every morning and go running for miles, I would literally spring out of bed, full of energy and life every morning, I had perfect grades in college, everything changed drastically. My energy levels dropped a couple months later then a hard detox set in, but nothing that has kept me continuing my raw foods journey
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Permalink Reply by Caffypops on -
I was on the hunt for a cure to candida and came across choccy guru Shazzie's raw website which threw me, gloriously and headfirstly into the wonderful world that is RAW!!! It's been a tumultuous journey over the past two years as maintaining 100% raw is, for me, very difficult at this stage in my life. However my learnings have, and continue to leave me ever more aware, conscious, present, and loving - particularly of myself! Regardless of '%', raw will ALWAYS be a part of my life and for that I am eternally grateful. :-)
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Permalink Reply by Frecia Barrozo on -
Slowly transitioning...with so much ease and joy! big hugs toyou..hope you're having a fabulous day!!!
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