Theres it nothing wrong with eating for beauty. Beauty is awesome... Theres a great raw foo dbook out there called Eating For Beauty you might like.
You would not believe what happened! I was really hungry and felt like something warm so I grabbed two packets of low-sodium miso soup and put them in a cup with boiling water. I am literally feeling my body bloat up-I had to take my ring off .There was literally fat pouring over the band... I am sad that I consumed that but happy in the sense that this is a huge learning experience and an unplanned experiement and has verified my thoughts on how I need to eat. Feeling the difference in my body in 10 minutes from something that just a week ago I considered a healthy snack... I'll have to check the book out. I need something to read and fiction hasn't caught my interest lately.
You can eat a warm soup, just heat it so that your fingers can stand the temperature comfortably, which means not boiling it!
I think I have always been the type of person who needs to eat every few hours, it is only when there are so many busying aspects of life that we as people divide our eating into 3 time frames. Children need to eat every 2-3 hours and I think adults are the same, they just don't recognize it... I had a lot of mental health problems and everything about the way I ate affected it, including how often I ate, when I eat often and eat healthy I notice the difference, even if I don't eat healthy, if I'm eating often it is much better for me mentally than waiting for no reason at all. During yoga we ate 3 meals and 2 snacks in between and if we were hungrier we'd eat some nuts or something in our spare time. I think another thing about hunger is hunger disquised as dehydration... drinking a lot of water will satisfy you a lot of the times when you think you're hungry. There's also the emotional hunger, that we relate to a physical hunger, that is pretty tough to get over.
The pain and overcoming addiction has been so worth it! I just tested my urine and my ph is 7...last week it was 5. I was in the kitchen and my mom told me my eyes looked almost green and told me to look in the mirror...sure enough I almost have the hazel eyes I had as a kid back. All of my blemishes are gone. No more redness anywhere on my face. My bra is loose (which I am not excited about) as are my pants. I am drinking the same amount of water as before but am peeing every hour and am peeing a lot. This is gross but I am normally constipated and I went twice yesterday and twice today and there was no smell...it was so odd (I hate foul smells even my own and this is part of the reason I was always so backed-up, I just hated going). Right now I am not hungry at all and all I've had is two bananas, a mango, sprouted bread and juiced greens. My ear and jaw are sore but I know that's because the rest of the tourment I put my body through is coming out. My spelling's better. I can think in a more comprehensive manner; not just looking at the furture or present, but seeing them as one and correlated together. And for the first time since I was a kid I don't feel like a cigarette, a bowl, a drink or a pill. I do feel a little weak but I think that's because I couldn't sleep last night.
grrrr I wish I was an emotional eater. I am either fat and happy or thin and miserable. Hopefully this will change since I am changing. I would like to be happy and thin at the same time so that I can enjoy it when I am thin!
i tried it for some time. it requires alot more money than i can make, or it requires enough land to really grow your own stuff, which for me would require alot of money. it sux, that i have had to resort to being an opourtunivoire. i much more enjoyed living a more idealistic lifestyle.
I was amazed at how much I spent on groceries...I've never spent that much in my life. I need to be better and go to a fruit stand instead of wholefoods. I live in san diego and we have tons of local fruit year-round...there's really no excuse for me to be so lazy.
You live in San Francisco even if you can't make it to a fruit stand there are lots of other health stores there. Try getting your food directly from the source, you don't have to be the gardener but you can know the gardener/farmer, whatever. There are ways to get around the money aspect. Buy in season, get what's on sale, etc. When I was in San Diego the only health food store I didn't go to was Whole Foods.
wholefoods is the cheapest one in my part of the county ): Besides trader joes, which only has a few things organic and ready to eat. The thing is that I hate cutting things or making my own fruit salad or even juicing...I like to get everything cut up and pre-packaged. I am not deliberatley lazy. I am just afraid of knives and other sharp objects. I cut part of my finger really bad cutting an avacado when I was sleep walking a few years ago. I had to get stiches and I still don't have feeling in my fingertip that they sewed back on. The scar is barely visable now...I am lucky. I shake when I cut avacados, it's horrible. god I sound like such a mess hah. There is a huge and cheap fruit stand on an orchard in town though. It's right near where I like to go running too and I know they need the buisness. I could tell the other day when I went to pick-up mangoes..god they have the best ones. I like that I am craving more fruit now instead of processed food. I do miss my coffee with milk though. It's bad for my nerves anyway so better to get rid of it. I am finding this whole new lifestyle socially debilitating, even though I do not crave the alcohol or the food. I just have avoided eating out with friends because I don't know what to order...and I haven't told them yet.
You live near the www.rawfood.com headquarters health food store too!!! So you really have no excuse now! haha =)
Was vegan for about 6 months, went Raw about a little over a month ago!!!! I consumed cooked food after 2 weeks of being raw, my stomach went in KNOTS! never again! Its expensive, but.....soooo worth it. I'm eating less one month being raw, at 1st i was eating constantly. Now its a lot of shakes, juices, In fact , mostly shakes and juices. Let there be brocolli! -derek
