Re What is the most anyone has lost while fasting?

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I lost 15 pounds in one week while fasting and doing 1

or 2 Bikram yoga classes almost every day a few years

ago, going from 108 cooked/ raw pounds to 93. I have

not kept the weight that low and have stayed pretty

much around 110 for the past year or so while eating

90% cooked food. i'll start sprouting tonight and make

effort to inch my consciousness and body back into

more raw. i had a raw intuition at certain times in

the past which i will access again soon. I didn't need

raw recipe books but took pleasure in creating purely

from love, excitement, intuition and confidence based

on faith, backed by experiential understanding,

memory and lots of hope. Way back in 1996 i ate raw

meals from The raw Experience in Paia, Maui and then

went raw in 1997, consuming huge quantities of raw

foodstuffs including banana, almond butter, avocado,

mac nuts, veggie juices and dried fruits... took

massive raw foods action, inspired by the then brand

new raw food book by the three young people who dared

to say " cooked food is poison " many many many many

times (they got their point across) in the book,

''Nature's First Law: The Raw-Food Diet ''   by

Stephen Arlin, RC Dini, and David Wolfe

http://www.rawfood.com/cgi-bin/order/index.cgi?id=54541214657 & d=single & item_id=0\

001 & c=Books & sc=Raw_Foods & tc=Stephen_Arlin,_RC_Dini,_and_David_Wolfe

 

and the then bizarre yet unusually practical eye

popping book, ''Blatant Raw-Foodist Propaganda''   by

Joe Alexander

http://www.rawfood.com/cgi-bin/order/index.cgi?id=54541214657 & d=single & item_id=0\

013 & c=Books & sc=Raw_Foods & tc=Joe_Alexander

 

In those days i was like, What is this all about? it

was a revolution in food consciousness for me and then

with raw resources, money, prepared foods and raw

associates, it was easy enough to at least try out at

times and then venture off on my own once i was hooked

and stayed raw even in cooked environments.

for some reason, i can't seem to re-awaken that

awareness and have really gotten into thoinking it is

ok to eat cooked food.

i am not one to indulge in confusion and injoy

believing in my choices, which was probably the first

thing that attracted me to the raw food movement was

the confidence and raw blatent self assurred attitude

of people who were of my general generation, birthed

into the very dawning of the video game super cable

chanel hopping tv watching movie renting computer

loving techno age. (i somehow ended up with a Vic 20

-it may have been a brother's of mine who never used

it nor wanted it so I ended up using it- back around

1979, a legitamate computer with 20k memory! which i

lovingly programmed to ask questions and lead the user

in certain directions based on their answeres... the

sheer power of such a logical tool blew me away!

Little did i know where computers would go, nor did i

ever think about it and simply slided back into their

use in 1988 when i used word perfect in college to

write a paper and fell deeply in love with things like

the auto thesaurus and spell check, dictionary, etc.,

it was like legitamatizing my writings which were

plentiful back then as i was almost a philosophy major

with plenty to say especially considering all the

intoxicants i was taking back then (i am long away

from that!).

anyway, i was raw off and on since 1997 with a revival

of it around september of 2001 when i was actually

intuitively guided to go very raw, clean raw without

even whole nuts let alone jars of tahini, to eat for

extreme streamlined liveliness, one handful of food

per meal, say a few strawberries, an apple and a few

figs or something... and go, not to linger over the

food, to need less and less to forgo force feeding,

gulping things like this and sip only for it's

usefulness... to be free of the time consuming

obsession with enjoyment of food... well, i went with

it on and off that fall... sometimes fasting here and

there, sometimes eating cooked, eventually clearing

myself of certain semi conscious insecurities and

basic average american mental derangements that look

like functional paranoia and schitzophrenia to the

sensative observer (which i had become!). I do owe it

to the independence training more than the raw food in

itself, though being 98% raw in 1997 is what actally

and clearly started me on the road out of average

american doledrums and " depression. "

I guess i have embraced the independence lessons over

the raw food lifestyle and feel almost no inspiration

to go raw again other than a little inner nudge, a

tiny spark of raw remembering that awakens in me every

now and then... enough for me to order extra lettuce

and tomatos on my veggie burger... or to consider

having my green peppers uncooked on my cheeze pizza...

or to drink sugarless diet soda instead of regular...

i know i know, degraded foods all the way! somehow i

just keep thinking it is ok. I have really switched my

thinking to the mind over matter consciousness which

is possible but i intuit that it requires a phenomenal

and full commitment to spiritual development and still

one will need to be prudent in ones eating... the

american way of eating tends to be compulsive and,

dare i say, careless... i am, by habit and by human

nature to conform, one of them. i used to enjoy

rebelliousness more than i do now.

Enough! Still i am Original and that is the gift of

this millenium for me. and, i hear, for many others as

well.

-Molly, on the Island of Kauai

 

 

 

 

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