I am a presently a high school math teacher in a CT boarding school who is about to embark on a new life by moving to Cape Cod and opening a yoga studio and live food coaching business. I attribute this big change in my life of following my heart and living my dream life to raw food, yoga, and meditation. I took Karen Knowler's Raw Food Coach training in March 2008. I am presently green juice feasting.
Relationship Status:
Single
Favorite Raw Food or Recipe?
Anything from Tree of Life Cafe
Interests (outside of Raw Food):
Svaroopa Yoga, meditation, walking on the beach, hiking, spirituality, live food nutrition, reading, sailing, painting, art
Favorite Books or Authors:
A New World by Eckhart Tolle, Ringing Cedars Series
I used to live in Durham, CT and I used to teach math at Middletown High School!!! (from 1999 - 2004) I was a regular and It's Only Natural restaurant, and for a while they had a raw dish on the menu per my request. (I haven't been there in a while.)
WOW what a small world Dawn!!! I live in Westlake, close to Cromwell ( condo haven!)
Yep.. I been there once( their health food store twice)... food wasn't as tasty as I like( b4 I went raw).. I'm prone to spicy & I cook so much better( not to "toot my own horn" lol).. well I "prepare" now ( gotta get "cook" outta my mind!! lol)
We should do Farmers markets sometime.. I'm DYING to meet local CT raw foodists.. I joined a meet up group.. but they're in West Haven..( Catch a Healthy Habit Cafe). Wish they were closer!
I;d luv to get some local raw vegans 2gether someday & do a pot luck & exchange recipes, info, ideas.. Maybe I'll start my own group!
GREAT meeting u Dawn.. thanks for being my new friend! :-)
Big hug & best wishes..... Amanda
Dawn! So nice to hear from you here! How are you doing?
Let us know what you are doing with all your good stuff with Karen and if you have a site we would love to see it! Take care Dawn! Love
Susan and Stacey
Hi Dawn! It's so good to see your smiling face here!!!! I know you're doing well...I've been "lurking" because everything is up in the air with me as to my path, but I'm following all conversations with so much love and such a full heart, hoping for everyone's success. How wonderful that you're now here, too!
Thats awesome that you have read the book, although you comments suggest there may have been a few points you did not internalize.
"But, I found that for my body type it was too much fruit. I do better on more greens and less fruit"
The 80/10/10 Diet calls for MORE GREENS than any other program on the planet. 2-6% of calories from greens is more greens than people understand because nobody even knows what that looks like until they use a website like Nutridiary.com
I'm just assuming, but when you practiced 80/10/10 for a bit, I doubt you used Nutridiary.com or anything like that to track what you were eating. And I doubt you know how many calories you were eating from greens. Self-awareness is the cornerstone of health, if we do not know what we are doing then we cannot move forward.
I would like to encourage you to accept the reality that, ALL members of our species are identical and unique, simultaneously.
Identical
Our species shares one common design just like every other species on the planet.
• That's why we are grouped into one species by biologists.
• We share one set of biochemistries, that's why it's even possible to conduct studies. No commonalities, no studies.
It is for these reasons that we share one common diet. This is obvious once one begins to think about it, but yet it’s so profound because so few people on this planet understand it. Seriously folks, even in the small world called “raw food community” 99% of all the people in that community do not comprehend this!!!
Unique
“We are unique in that our perception is our reality, and each of our perceptions is unique, borne of a unique combination our experiences and our facility in exercising our various avenues for awareness. This is why each of our paths in life is unique.” -Elchanan
“Each of us develops his/her own, unique experience of life, unique interactions with others, unique perceptions, and so forth.” - Elchanan
We all had unique childhood experiences, unique parents, etc….but our overall physical design didn’t change because of these experiences.
If you are up for it, I would love to see you give 80/10/10 another shot and share Nutridiary.com pics on a daily basis so I can see what you are eating. Then we both will know if you actually did give the program a fair shot :)
Hello Dawn! Welcome to GI2MR, a place for people to share and grow. We’re honored to have you here and would suggest that you just jump right into the community by posting your questions on the forum page, starting a group, making friends, and starting a blog! If you have any questions on how things work, feel free to drop us a comment and we’ll do our best to answer them.
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I see him stuck, and not doing anything about it he hasn't tried. In that I mean dropping the processed crap, being positive, and trying some fruit and exercise instead of binge drinking on the weekend or sleeping when hes not working. He has VITI...
I made this back in February and yes it's all raw. It's dehydrated sprouted crackers from Rainbow, with cashew cheese, tomatoes, pesto, avocado and arugula.
I would ask him if he is interested in making a dietary change and if he shows interest then that's great! If not, be a shining example of health and hopefully one day he will come around. He has to do it when he is ready otherwise he will feel it...
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WOW what a small world Dawn!!! I live in Westlake, close to Cromwell ( condo haven!)
Yep.. I been there once( their health food store twice)... food wasn't as tasty as I like( b4 I went raw).. I'm prone to spicy & I cook so much better( not to "toot my own horn" lol).. well I "prepare" now ( gotta get "cook" outta my mind!! lol)
We should do Farmers markets sometime.. I'm DYING to meet local CT raw foodists.. I joined a meet up group.. but they're in West Haven..( Catch a Healthy Habit Cafe). Wish they were closer!
I;d luv to get some local raw vegans 2gether someday & do a pot luck & exchange recipes, info, ideas.. Maybe I'll start my own group!
GREAT meeting u Dawn.. thanks for being my new friend! :-)
Big hug & best wishes..... Amanda
Let us know what you are doing with all your good stuff with Karen and if you have a site we would love to see it! Take care Dawn! Love
Susan and Stacey
Thats awesome that you have read the book, although you comments suggest there may have been a few points you did not internalize.
"But, I found that for my body type it was too much fruit. I do better on more greens and less fruit"
The 80/10/10 Diet calls for MORE GREENS than any other program on the planet. 2-6% of calories from greens is more greens than people understand because nobody even knows what that looks like until they use a website like Nutridiary.com
I'm just assuming, but when you practiced 80/10/10 for a bit, I doubt you used Nutridiary.com or anything like that to track what you were eating. And I doubt you know how many calories you were eating from greens. Self-awareness is the cornerstone of health, if we do not know what we are doing then we cannot move forward.
I would like to encourage you to accept the reality that, ALL members of our species are identical and unique, simultaneously.
Identical
Our species shares one common design just like every other species on the planet.
• That's why we are grouped into one species by biologists.
• We share one set of biochemistries, that's why it's even possible to conduct studies. No commonalities, no studies.
It is for these reasons that we share one common diet. This is obvious once one begins to think about it, but yet it’s so profound because so few people on this planet understand it. Seriously folks, even in the small world called “raw food community” 99% of all the people in that community do not comprehend this!!!
Unique
“We are unique in that our perception is our reality, and each of our perceptions is unique, borne of a unique combination our experiences and our facility in exercising our various avenues for awareness. This is why each of our paths in life is unique.” -Elchanan
“Each of us develops his/her own, unique experience of life, unique interactions with others, unique perceptions, and so forth.” - Elchanan
We all had unique childhood experiences, unique parents, etc….but our overall physical design didn’t change because of these experiences.
If you are up for it, I would love to see you give 80/10/10 another shot and share Nutridiary.com pics on a daily basis so I can see what you are eating. Then we both will know if you actually did give the program a fair shot :)
High Fives,
Robby
Welcome to the community!
Have you read The 80/10/10 Diet yet?
High Fives,
Robby