what am i doing wrong

May 11, 2003

okay. i have been " raw " for about two months now. it seems to help

me when i get a little off track to juice fast for a day or two and

get back on track with not overeating. once in a great while, i will

binge. not only on cooked foods, but on junky foods. yesterday at a

wedding i ate cake and chips. a lot, too. what am i doing wrong?

they tasted really good to me. i love the way i feel on raw food,

why can't i control eating horrible cooked food? someone please help

me, i feel lost.

May 12, 2003

Cooked food is an addiction. The only book I know of that deals with

cooked food as an addiction is " 12 Steps To Raw Foods " how to end

your addiction to cooked food. By Victoria Boutenko. It's a very good

book. The only other way, is to do a long water fast. Sort of like

going cold turkey. I think this is one of the reasons Victor did his

fast. It is certainly the reason I want to do a long fast. It is not

such a bad thing that you cave in and eat a bunch of crap once in a

while, I'm sure we all do it. I know I do, I've been raw since 99.

The important thing is that we always get back on the program. Don't

beat yourself up about it. Just pick yourself up, dust yourself off,

and climb back on the wagon. I've heard that in AA and NA caving in

is considered part of the program. The important thing is that you

have a support group to turn to, and that is one of the reasons we

are here.

Doug

rawfood , " underthepynk " <underthepynk@m...>

wrote:

> okay. i have been " raw " for about two months now. it seems to help

> me when i get a little off track to juice fast for a day or two and

> get back on track with not overeating. once in a great while, i

will

> binge. not only on cooked foods, but on junky foods. yesterday at a

> wedding i ate cake and chips. a lot, too. what am i doing wrong?

> they tasted really good to me. i love the way i feel on raw food,

> why can't i control eating horrible cooked food? someone please

help

> me, i feel lost.

May 12, 2003

Doug,

As said before, I have done a water fast water fast of 28 days just

prior to going raw and have never suffered any desire to relapse on

raw food eating although I have sampled the odd raw sauce which I have

cooked for other members of my family. Nor have I felt the need to do

another fast. Although occasionally when travelling I go a day or so

without eating. The long fast itself is a great experience which nobody

who loves life should go without.

I made preparations and built up to the long fast with shorter fasts and

when the long one came I had few negative side effects and huge positive

mending.

Over the last few months I have been watching Dr. Winston Smith on the

BBC

with his " Walking with Cave Men " series which goes in detail into what

man's

ancestors have been doing with life and diet for the last few million

years.

One of the more pertinent things he has been doing is surviving through

thick and thin by adapting his diet and physiology to change.

It seems our ancestors lived Africa where the climates fluctuated so

dramatically that whole species of " Ape " men were wiped out when

their source of food was smitten by climate change. The Sahara had

jungle

the current jungles became deserts etc. Thus those who adapted and

became

omnivorous survived but at a price to their health that we still do not

know.

Groups of young and old bones have been found by archaeologists together

which

hint pestilence. Lent, celebrating at Harvest and so forth in all

religions

are testament to man fasting either by choice or circumstance and his

ability

to pass through this fundamental phase of our successful passage. Those

who

could not survive it were selected out of our species. Fat people with

fat

babies who could survive became fashionable or even beautiful. Man has

set

himself dietary changes far beyond that of any other species...

Of course during my fasts on my long walks, I have reflected and

speculated

on such matters and much more. For example consider the famines going on

in

Africa even today. If most of us had been any way near there we would

not be

considered " cranks " for taking a controlled purge such as we are able

to.

Returning to the fast, the digestion closes down, the senses sharpen,

the brain

develops - that rubbish about eating animal marrow for brain development

is wild

speculation - resting periods increase and much more goes on. The

healing becomes

phenomenal. Yet science and medicine have almost nothing useful at the

lay level

to offer on these major events in our survival for which our whole

physiology is

so well adapted and is delivered by the seasons at least.

So Doug, sorry to sound so banal but take the plunge.

Peter

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12 May 2003 06:19

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