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[Guest guest]

Hi everyone. I am new to the site.

29/female, just trying to get into the best health I can. I became

vegan about 5 years ago, and through the last 2 years lost 50

pounds. This year I had a lot happen to me, all the things in my

past came to haunt me as well as current events. I was medicated,

and gained a lot of weight. Not to mention my eating has become

terrible. I want so badly to become vegetarian again, eating raw

foods for optimal health. As well as get rid of the weight gain and

cleanse my body of all the medications I had to take.

 

Soon my husband and I want to start a family, and I want to be in

the best shape I can be in.

 

I know I am highly addicted to sugar. Not just candy, but anything.

I have been trying to cut it, but I find it so hard. I know I should

of never started to eat it again.....but I guess no one is perfect.

I have withdrawls, and it is so hard.

 

Any advice on that?

I look forward to meeting you guys, hearing your advice, as well as

a push in the right direction to starting my raw life over!!

 

Chrystal H.

[Guest guest]

Hi Chrystal,

 

I'm new to raw too... 41 years old, 2 kids (6 years and 1 year) and

battling high blood pressure. I want to be healthy to be there for

my kids too!

 

I too am a massive sugar addict (Halloween was a killer, just read my

post on " I made myself sick " .....

 

What works for me is stuffing myself with dates. There are only so

many you can eat, and the sweetness rivals candy. The sugar urge

starts to diminish after a few days as does the desire for as many

dates.

 

If you crave chocolate, you may want to try some raw cacao beans.

The raw form of chocolate is a bit bitter and to me has a slight

after taste of olives (of all things!), but mix it with some dates or

honey and you have yourself a " chocolate fix " ... there are some raw

chocolate candy recipes around too.

 

Good luck! Let us know if the date trick works for you.

 

Annette

 

>

> I know I am highly addicted to sugar. Not just candy, but anything.

> I have been trying to cut it, but I find it so hard. I know I

should

> of never started to eat it again.....but I guess no one is perfect.

> I have withdrawls, and it is so hard.

>

> Any advice on that?

> I look forward to meeting you guys, hearing your advice, as well as

> a push in the right direction to starting my raw life over!!

>

> Chrystal H.

[Guest guest]

Welcome, Chrystal,

You are taking the first step..One day at a time..Don't be too hard on

yourself..Sometimes, it's just one moment at a time..You can do it, just put

your mind to it..You have to want to do it more than you want to eat sugar..Just

remember this too shall pass and you don't ever have to go through the pain

again if you don't want to..Next time you reach for some sugar, just think it

through and realize how bad you will feel after you do it..Keep on keepin on..

Gaynell

 

just2halls <just2halls wrote:

 

 

Hi everyone. I am new to the site.

29/female, just trying to get into the best health I can. I became

vegan about 5 years ago, and through the last 2 years lost 50

pounds. This year I had a lot happen to me, all the things in my

past came to haunt me as well as current events. I was medicated,

and gained a lot of weight. Not to mention my eating has become

terrible. I want so badly to become vegetarian again, eating raw

foods for optimal health. As well as get rid of the weight gain and

cleanse my body of all the medications I had to take.

 

Soon my husband and I want to start a family, and I want to be in

the best shape I can be in.

 

I know I am highly addicted to sugar. Not just candy, but anything.

I have been trying to cut it, but I find it so hard. I know I should

of never started to eat it again.....but I guess no one is perfect.

I have withdrawls, and it is so hard.

 

Any advice on that?

I look forward to meeting you guys, hearing your advice, as well as

a push in the right direction to starting my raw life over!!

 

Chrystal H.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Hi Chrystal,

 

If you're truely serious about your health and the family you and your husband

want so much to start then blink a few times and get ready to do a lot of

reading.

 

There is a new twist to the addage " Knowledge Is Power " rather " Power is What

You do with Knowledge " .

 

Go to this website: www.nancyappleton.com , print out the 124 items in reference

to the effects sugar has on the body, then pick up the following books in any

order that suits you and read them from cover to cover.

 

12 Steps to Raw Foods - Victoria Boutenko

The Raw Family - The Boutenko's

Natures' First Law - Arlin, Wolfe and Dini

The Raw Secrets - Frederic Patenaude

Raw Power - Stephen Arlin

 

When you get a chance email me off line.

 

Hope this helps.

 

 

 

 

Good Health to You

Elaine

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

I'm just shooting out the door but I did want to take a moment to respond to

your post. Medication and then rapid weight gain is a very common

occurrence. On top of those crappy medicated blues we all backtrack a step

or two on the way to being a permanent raw lifer so I wouldn't be too hard

on yourself.

 

Kicking the sugar habit is one of the toughest things I had to overcome so I

know where you're coming from. I do know that it's harder in the beginning

but if you can stick to living without it in your system for a week or two

you immediately start feeling better. After a while of being off of it, it's

horrible when you taste it again.

 

I can't emphasize enough how much it helps to be able to get online here at

the raw food forum and talk to people when you're feeling weak or tempted by

the cooked-food devil. :>) Having an addition support group is extremely

important in the beginning and you may have to try a local group where you

physically get up and go to a meeting. See if you can find some local raw

food groups to hang out with until you feel invincible and your super powers

are restored. :>).

 

Jesse

Connecticut

 

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> " just2halls " <just2halls

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[Guest guest]

i hear you on the sweets thing. that seems to be one of the biggest

craving struggles.

 

i used to have the biggest sweet tooth. i wanted cookies for

breakfast! truly! and often i would have them. i always had cake,

cookies, ice cream, junk in the house. the gloppier, the creamier,

more decadent-the better (i thought). then, last year, at 30 (along

with horrible yeast infections, bad acne and irritable bowel

syndrome) I started getting horrible migraines on my cycle! Well,

that was the last straw!

 

Let me tell you what worked for me:

 

I didn't start out to get rid of my sweet tooth, just the medical

problems. But, I was fed up with them, and desperate (and

desperation does help). I did a veggie juice fast for a week. The

first couple days were very hard, but i was ok after that. i really

felt some detox symptoms too, which i relished b/c i knew that meant

good things. after that fast, i really did not want anything very

sweet or salty at all, it cleaned my palate. And, that desire being

removed, helped me continue to not eat highly sweet or salty foods,

which continued to help me not eat those foods. That led shortly to

vegetarianism and quickly to veganism (which were frankly the last

things i had planned when i first started juicing) and now raw. So,

I encourage everyone to start out juicing. it cleans the body and

the palate and the mind. it will start you out on good footing. it

REALLY helps break the cravings. I have gotten my husband, my

sister and my mom all started on it too (and they are all

vegetarian/vegan now). They all say that the juice fast helps kill

the cravings. In fact, my sister, whenever she feels herself

becoming out of balance as far as her cravings go (esp for bread,

which is really just a sugar craving in disguise), she does a juice

fast.

 

Another suggestion, which i have not done completely, but am

starting on this week in fact is something i read in one of the

boutenkos' books (can't remember which one, maybe 12 steps). She

said that to get rid of her sweet tooth, she drank a quart of sesame

milk a day for two weeks (not only that, but she just made sure to

include that) and that cured her. Now, may I suggest that you might

find sesame milk bitter and gross. And, I might tend to agree with

you. However, if you add a little honey and a good amount of carob

it really takes the edge off. At first it might still be wierd, but

the more you drink it, the more it grows on you. And, after a

couple days you can start reducing the amount of honey.

 

Sorry to be so long-winded...but those are my thoughts.

 

Kristi

 

(In rawfood , " just2halls " <just2halls@s...> wrote:

>

>

> Hi everyone. I am new to the site.

> 29/female, just trying to get into the best health I can. I became

> vegan about 5 years ago, and through the last 2 years lost 50

> pounds. This year I had a lot happen to me, all the things in my

> past came to haunt me as well as current events. I was medicated,

> and gained a lot of weight. Not to mention my eating has become

> terrible. I want so badly to become vegetarian again, eating raw

> foods for optimal health. As well as get rid of the weight gain

and

> cleanse my body of all the medications I had to take.

>

> Soon my husband and I want to start a family, and I want to be in

> the best shape I can be in.

>

> I know I am highly addicted to sugar. Not just candy, but

anything.

> I have been trying to cut it, but I find it so hard. I know I

should

> of never started to eat it again.....but I guess no one is

perfect.

> I have withdrawls, and it is so hard.

>

> Any advice on that?

> I look forward to meeting you guys, hearing your advice, as well

as

> a push in the right direction to starting my raw life over!!

>

> Chrystal H.