What a difference a year can make!

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Permalink Reply by A.J. on July 30, 2008 at 1:54pm

Let me see if I can make this short:

It started off attending a seminal at my future chiropractic school. (For 3 days I heard: The body does the healing, modern medicine is laughable ext.) When I decided I wanted to be an advocate of health I figured I better walk the walk. I started researching and reading...most of which led me to getting off of processed foods. I cut out what I called the whites: sugar, flower, and milk and felt great. Feta cheese was my only dairy and I was eating 1-2 slices of whole grain bread every morning, the rest was salads with occasional chicken. Steak is rare to come by as a student and I couldn't just eat a hamburger w/o cheese and a bun so they fell out of my diet.

I read some Michael Pollan, swore to cut out all HFCS for life and saw how sustainable meat production is. Cut that out too. Found a local grass run farm which became my only sourse of animal food. Read Animal Vegetable Miracle, seasonal and local became my vocus. Ended up interning and working at the grass run farm (still do) only to come upon some Juicefeasting CD's. Did that for a week and felt great. Found and read my 1st raw food book by Paul Nisson, read both of Matt Monarchs, Green for Life, a handful of others. I found out later my mother had gone on and off being raw but found it too hard as the only one in the house doing it so I decided I was going to just do it and take her along with me . I decided I would go raw the day after I graduated.

But who could go raw without one(ok more than one..) last beer (it was graduation after all) and a final hamburger.....felt horrible, bad food hangover and knew everythig I read had to be true.

Went raw, discovered you guys, awesome support and information. Found Brendan Brazers book, modified some of that for training and got some confidence in what I was doing. Just recently read 80/10/10 and am trying that out. It was a little weird for some people, especially the farmers I do some work, for to understand. I fully support the practice that they do, but they had a hard time understanding why suddenly I was turning down free meat.

Basically it was a long journey sorting through different view-points on diet until I found the one that made the most sense. So glad I am here.

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Permalink Reply by Rachel on July 30, 2008 at 4:56pm

What a beautiful path! It shows great integrity on your part...I think a lot of people hear these things, get the same sorts of signals and messages but the difference is that you acted on them! And I think more and more people are finding these same truths...awakenings. It's an inspiration and I wish you continued curiosity and adventurous spirit in all your future shifts ;-)
I love it!!!!!

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Permalink Reply by RawZi on July 30, 2008 at 1:08am

July 2008? You are :) very cute.

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Permalink Reply by RawZi on July 30, 2008 at 5:02pm

Thanks for editing the date. Sorry to be a stickler.

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Permalink Reply by durianrider on July 30, 2008 at 4:03am

ya gave up the crap
and that old fat face, ya gave the slap.
nice raw work chap
you deserve a clap.

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Permalink Reply by Darrick on July 30, 2008 at 4:09am

amazing! excellent physique..congrats, now you can inspire even more people to replace animal death with nutrition...Thanks for this!
Darrick

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Permalink Reply by Richard on July 30, 2008 at 1:54pm

wow, that is really inspiring.
I've just started the British Army 16 week keep fit programme and doing the 100 day raw challenge starting on Friday...I'm going to take a photo on Friday morning and one at the end...if they look half as good as yours I'll be very happy.
All the best!

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Permalink Reply by Morn on July 30, 2008 at 4:31pm

Wow love the 6 pack! Do you workout alot?

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Permalink Reply by sunkist on July 30, 2008 at 4:53pm

wow what a difference. you look like a different person!! great job on raw!!! :)

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Permalink Reply by Jane on July 30, 2008 at 6:07pm

Wow, you look so much hotter ^-^.

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Permalink Reply by Tuesday on July 30, 2008 at 6:56pm

i am in a similar situation but sadly i don't have many "before" pictures of myself. i have lost (to date) 23 pounds since the new year (very exciting). it started with heavy detoxing and lead to raw from there. i've never felt better! i'm still not sure about the 811 diet but congrats on sticking to it! =)

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Permalink Reply by Elizabeth Merlino on July 30, 2008 at 7:35pm

all i can say is wow...cant wait to see what my outcome is...whoot..thanks for the push...
raw hugs

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