April 2012
March 2012
My Hair….
So I am just getting to like my white hair only to find that it is starting to colour up again in patches! I quite liked the all white look as it looked like I meant to have white hair - now it is spotty. Hmmm… I cannot dye it so will have to live with it for the moment. It is currently half an inch all over and looks a bit stark. I will continue to shave it off while it is so irritating!
“You are what you eat. Your body uses whatever you feed it to continue to create you. Actually, however, it is probably nearer the mark to say that you are what you can absorb. All the supplements in the world won’t help if your body doesn’t have the capacity through poor diet or ill health, to make use of them. You just pee them out or worse. Expensive pee! Supplements are no substitute for a poor diet.”
—The Reluctant Raw Foodist
I just wanted to say how I admire the positive approach you seem to have about everything your life throws at you. I know it must not have been easy to make the transition to raw, you're very inspiring!
Thank you so much for this message. It means a lot.
Sometimes I get quite daunted by what is happening to me but I am determined to keep going. It is the sensitivity to chemicals that is problematic but I am hoping now that a very strict push with my diet might help with this. I am adding in a lot more greens and something is changing.
Most of the time I am very cheerful and both my blog and reading other people’s posts have been very useful for keeping me on track.
I was renown for being out for breakfast, coffee, lunch, tea, dinner or supper - all my business and social networking involved food! Going raw, when I didn’t actually want to lose my foodie way of life, involved a change of mindset that took a little time but I love my diet now so it isn’t a hardship :))
Sometimes I surprise myself as to how much I have changed...
- A dear and thoughtful friend: I bought fresh danish pastries for tea but as you cannot eat them I bought you some fruit.
- Me: That's great.
- Friend: They looked so lovely. Do you mind?
- Me: No, not at all.
- Friend (who is disabled): Will you put the cakes on a plate for me?
- Me: Sure.
- Friend: Are you sure it doesn't offend you if we eat them in front of you?
- Me (now cutting up a cake for my friend and chopping an apple for me): To be honest I am just thinking that they no longer look like food to me….
- Friend: ?
- Me: ?
“If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.”
—Socrates (via 190590)
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Always
“I have come to accept the feeling of not knowing where I am going. And I have trained myself to love it. Because it is only when we are suspended in mid-air with no landing in sight, that we force our wings to unravel and alas begin our flight. And as we fly, we still may not know where we are going to. But the miracle is in the unfolding of the wings. You may not know where you’re going, but you know that so long as you spread your wings, the winds will carry you.”
—C. Joybell C. (via thefreenomad)
“Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it is dark.”
—Zen proverb (via thefreenomad)
“I have decided to make a big change.”
—The Reluctant Raw Foodist
What's your favorite raw food recipe?
I don’t really have a favourite raw food recipe. I love my fruits and veggies. Just had a pear and alfalfa smoothie and it was fab :)
I'm so sorry you had a rough night. I hope you start feeling better. Can you eat some of the good detox foods like chlorella and cilantro?
I took a probiotic and wished I hadnt as I reacted very badly to it so this didnt help. It was stupid of me to try something like that.
I am awake already this morning so I have had very little sleep.
Thank you for your suggestions . I will look into them x
Finding it difficult to sleep now after 2 texts woke me up. I must remember to put my phone off at night as most people do not go to bed as early as I do.
I have a lot of joint pain after an exposure to a smelly cleaning chemical today. So I am awake on tumblr x
The Reluctant Raw Foodist: I have been asked what foods I have cut out of my diet... →
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I do not eat or drink the following:
alcohol,
sodas (I drink sparkling water),
some vegetables such as white potatoes and spinach, (sometimes I try a little spinach),
cheese (I can eat a little feta or goat’s cheese but do not usually have this much now),
milk,
meat,
fish,
fermented…
I don’t understand the fruit part?
Oh because these particular fruits are high in histamine and I have a condition that makes it difficult for me to process too much histamine.
