Guest guest Posted April 28, 2006 Report Share Posted April 28, 2006 In a message dated 4/27/2006 9:31:52 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, mgamez1 writes: I have just gotten an idea that might work with people who are *trying* I really liked your post! Good, honest, encouraging sharing:) For me.................I was doing such an awesome rawsome transition. Then my Dad had a stroke and my eating in general (much less raw) became horrendous. Here's my testimony for the difference........I feel horrible!......joints hurt that weren't hurting while I was raw and I absolutely do not have the same amount of energy that I had. Now I want to do a master cleanse, but even if I put that off for now...I am doing raw again. There's nothing like FEELING the difference to convince one! Thanks again for your post Bright Blessings, Stacey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 28, 2006 Report Share Posted April 28, 2006 Call me dim or whatever! I've been reading (over the years since this list started!) about people who are *trying to go raw* I have just gotten an idea that might work with people who are *trying* Since we all know what *trying* really means.... Why not *try* to do breakfast raw. When that doesn't work (I didn't say " if " because we are only *trying*) *try* a raw lunch. When that doesn't work *try* a raw dinner. Who knows? One of these might work *anyway*. That is what I did, only I did not *try*. I just *did* it. The first meal I did raw was dinner. (back then I did much as I still do now -- I processed salad ingredients into oblivion, put olive oil, garlic, and apple cider vinegar on the bowlful, and ate it. (I food process because I am too lazy to chew. You could just eat a salad!) When dinner was successful and was what I wanted, I started carrying leftovers for lunch. Then I started making things for lunch, specifically. One of my first successful lunches was a " zen salad " similar to the recipe in Gabriel Cousens book " Rainbow Food " ... I took a hollowed out green pepper. In a seperate baggie, I carried very finely shredded cabbage, green pepper, carrot, and onion. In another baggie, I had about 1/2 T sea salt. At lunch time, I put everything except the green pepper in a bowl, sprinkled the sea salt over it, and began to massage the salt in with my hand (yes, people looked at me weird - it was the 70s). After a minute or two, I had a juicy salad mix. I put everythng in the green pepper nad began to eat. (today, I would skip the designer element of the gren pepper ad just finely slice it, too, and eat the whole things as a " zen " salad. (my Japanese room-mate says this is called " pickle " in Japan. Breakfast took me a while to integrate. I did not eat breakfast, so I had to think what would be a good breakfast. I do a green drink for breakfast now. That is how I did it. It eliminated *trying*. Each phase was a *do* If I couldn't *do* on Monday, I waited for Tuesday, to see if it would work then. There was no recrimination involved. I took one day at a time. As I progressed, if breakfast did not work, I would do it on lunch time. If that did not work, I would do it at night for dinner. Something would work. Some meal in the day *would* happen. It would be nice if it was the same meal every day, but I would always start with breakfast and see if that would work, because that gave me three chances. At first, one raw meal a day was a good day. Then I finally did get to the same raw meal a day. From there it was easy. Still, there was no recrimination I am very skeptical/cynical.. I know that some of the most famous raw food " authorities " eat " not raw " once in a while. One of the most famous authorities, who has now passed on, upset people by being seen eating " not raw " at least once (and how many other times did he do it?) If the " big names " cheat, why should I expect that people I know don't cheat? As I see it, the whole thing is about doing raw food as much as you can, more and more every day, until you reach the level that *you* think is right for you. If you want to do 60% raw, good. Just do it. If you want to do 80% raw, good. Just do it. If the time comes when you are ready to 100% raw, you won't have to try... you will just do. Margaret Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 28, 2006 Report Share Posted April 28, 2006 You know, Margaret, what you are saying is so true! As for the raw food authorities cheating, I don't think their transgressions have any effect on my body unless I take it as license for me to cheat, too. I don't care what anyone else eats (except I do feel sorry for them) if they don't try to make me eat that way, too. Tommie http://www.rawburchard.blogspot.com rawfood , " Margaret Gamez " <mgamez1 wrote: > > Call me dim or whatever! > I've been reading (over the years since this list started!) > about people who are *trying to go raw* > > I have just gotten an idea that might work with people > who are *trying* > > Since we all know what *trying* really means.... > > Why not *try* to do breakfast raw. > When that doesn't work (I didn't say " if " because we are only *trying*) > *try* a raw lunch. > When that doesn't work *try* a raw dinner. > Who knows? One of these might work *anyway*. > > That is what I did, only I did not *try*. I just *did* it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 1, 2006 Report Share Posted May 1, 2006 Margaret, I'm glad you emphasized the *trying* issue by simplifying the effort of going raw for others who may be struggling. This is how I incorporated raw meals into my beginning days as well! After reading all about the Master Cleanse, I modified how I would go about it because my fondness of eating would overwhelm my ability to do it 'by the book' - I only do the Master cleanse in the early mornings and an hour before bedtime, so I could eat during the day. I figured it would be better than not doing it at all. So when I wake up I brush my teeth then fill a glass measuring bowl to the 1 quart line with purified water and sqeeze the juice of an organic lemon into it. I drink it all within 10 minutes. In addition to the cleansing benefits, doing this keeps me from thirsting during the day so I don't drink a lot of water with meals, which would dilute my digestive enzymes. An hour later I eat a raw breakfast - going by the food combining rules: either 2 organic bananas and some organic grapes (with seeds), or 2 organic red delicious apples (their skins have the most antioxidants compared to other apples) and some grapes, or 1 banana, 1 apple and some grapes...etc. (Since fruit digests in about half an hour, and so I won't go and eat non-raw food right away, I take Tommie's advice and fill up on the apples/bananas/grapes, so I can stretch myself to one hour or more before eating anything else.) About 2 hours later I eat anything else, making the meal at least 80% raw. I've never really been a dinner person, because a long time ago I realized it was a lot easier to wake up and go, feeling great in the morning if I didn't eat dinner (it gave my body a chance to detox instead of digesting a heavy SAD dinner). So for dinner I eat a combination of the most antioxidant rich berries to aid my body in detoxing while I sleep - blueberries, cherries, pomagranate. An hour or so after eating a berry nice dinner I do the Master Cleanse again, so I could go to sleep an hour later. -Tiffany Margaret Gamez <mgamez1 wrote: Call me dim or whatever! I've been reading (over the years since this list started!) about people who are *trying to go raw*. I have just gotten an idea that might work with people who are *trying*. Since we all know what *trying* really means....Why not *try* to do breakfast raw. When that doesn't work (I didn't say " if " because we are only *trying*) *try* a raw lunch. When that doesn't work *try* a raw dinner. Who knows? One of these might work *anyway*. That is what I did, only I did not *try*. I just *did* it. The first meal I did raw was dinner. (back then I did much as I still do now -- I processed salad ingredients into oblivion, put olive oil, garlic, and apple cider vinegar on the bowlful, and ate it. (I food process because I am too lazy to chew. You could just eat a salad!) When dinner was successful and was what I wanted, I started carrying leftovers for lunch. Then I started making things for lunch, specifically. One of my first successful lunches was a " zen salad " similar to the recipe in Gabriel Cousens book " Rainbow Food " ... I took a hollowed out green pepper. In a seperate baggie, I carried very finely shredded cabbage, green pepper, carrot, and onion. In another baggie, I had about 1/2 T sea salt. At lunch time, I put everything except the green pepper in a bowl, sprinkled the sea salt over it, and began to massage the salt in with my hand (yes, people looked at me weird - it was the 70s). After a minute or two, I had a juicy salad mix. I put everythng in the green pepper nad began to eat. (today, I would skip the designer element of the gren pepper ad just finely slice it, too, and eat the whole things as a " zen " salad. (my Japanese room-mate says this is called " pickle " in Japan. Breakfast took me a while to integrate. I did not eat breakfast, so I had to think what would be a good breakfast. I do a green drink for breakfast now. That is how I did it. It eliminated *trying*. Each phase was a *do*. If I couldn't *do* on Monday, I waited for Tuesday, to see if it would work then. There was no recrimination involved. I took one day at a time. As I progressed, if breakfast did not work, I would do it on lunch time. If that did not work, I would do it at night for dinner. Something would work. Some meal in the day *would* happen. It would be nice if it was the same meal every day, but I would always start with breakfast and see if that would work, because that gave me three chances. At first, one raw meal a day was a good day. Then I finally did get to the same raw meal a day. From there it was easy. I am very skeptical/cynical..I know that some of the most famous raw food " authorities " eat " not raw " once in a while. One of the most famous authorities, who has now passed on, upset people by being seen eating " not raw " at least once (and how many other times did he do it?) If the " big names " cheat, why should I expect that people I know don't cheat? As I see it, the whole thing is about doing raw food as much as you can, more and more every day, until you reach the level that *you* think is right for you. If you want to do 60% raw, good. Just do it. If you want to do 80% raw, good. Just do it. If the time comes when you are ready to 100% raw, you won't have to try... you will just do. Margaret Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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