My raw food journey began in September 2004. Some people may think I'm crazy for living this way but I love how good eating raw foods makes me feel. This is my daily struggle with trying to maintain this type of lifestyle and to attempt to get my boyfriend (who is in the picture with me) to eat more raw foods.

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March 23, 2006

Bottomless Pit

My stomach has been a bottomless pit for the past three days. I can't even think about all the food I ate today:
1 mango
1 apple
1 small banana
small container of mixed melons
Handful of raw almonds
Celery
Spinach, avocado, tomato, cucumber salad
Chocolate coconut LaraBar
... and the day is only half over. Now that I write it down, it doesn't seem like a huge amount, just more than usual. It just feels like I have been eating non-stop today. It has been 5 full days of eating 100% raw but my body seems to be craving something warm. I have been really cold over the past 4 weeks. My mother thinks that it is from the lack of fat on my body. It is amazing to see how my body changes from this way of eating. I played sports all through high school and also played lacrosse and rowed crew in college. I have always been very muscular and kept up that physique for two years after college. I am now 24 (turning 25 next month) and have a completely different body type than I did a year ago, even maybe only 6 months ago. I am still strong, though not nearly as strong as before, but am not nearly as bulky as I used to be. Clothes from a year ago fall right off. It's crazy because I eat whenever I am hungry now and have so much more energy than when I was playing sports.
I also wanted to mention that I have been doing different cleanses over the past 7 months. I started out with a colon cleanse, then a liver cleanse, and now I am on a candida cleanse. I would suggest doing no matter what type of food you eat.

Posted by Mara on March 23, 2006 12:14 PM | DIGG | del.icio.us | furl