Welcome Martha. You know, the simplicity is the thing that I love most about raw foods. It ??s downright strange to me when people say that they can ??t eat raw because they don ??t have the time or the money. I just grab some fruit when others have to cook and clean up or drive to a restaurant. I waste sooooo much time going out to restaurants with my husband. Good thing he ??s good company!
Also, when raw, I need to eat so much less that it costs almost nothing. I get the life force and nutrients I need with little consumption so don ??t crave so much food. I had a tough last couple of years. Was 100% still eating all my fatty, but extremely high quality, oils and salad dressings. I was my normal size 8. Then we went through moving trauma, I went off live foods and I just couldn ??t stop eating. When I meditated on it and asked my body what was going on she told me that she was trying to get enough nutrition and life force and never did, so kept on wanting more. I went up to a size 12 ?? 14. About 6 months ago I started to listen to my body again. I ate a gigantic fruit meal every single day and cut out all sweeteners and all processed fat - only got fat from lots of avocados and bananas. That ??s all my body was asking for. She mostly wanted fruit. That was all I changed I still ate like a horse for awhile anything else I wanted - pasta, bread, fish, eggs etc. In the last 6 months I went from size 12 to size 2. I feel more flexible, more healthy and better about myself in general. Over the last 6 months with adding the fruit (no salads ?? just added fruit ?? whole fruit, not smoothies and not refrigerated ?? or at least allowed to warm up before eating) I have stopped wanting most of the other food I was eating besides the fruit, but don ??t deny myself anything except what ??s on the list above that my body doesn't want: sweeteners and processed fat. I don ??t exercise. I just started to want to stretch and do yoga again. When I go live long enough I start to WANT to move. When live I just start jumping around a lot and dancing spontaneously. I just can ??t help it. It happened yesterday. Once, when I was 100% live for awhile about 10 years ago in NYC, I started to have so much energy that I just started running up and down the stairs of our building. Before that I could barely move and the idea of exercise was frightful. I guess the gist of what I ??m trying to get at is that the weight and exercise thing will take care of itself if you give your body what it needs. Don ??t sweat it too much how to start. Let your body take over and give it the real stuff and it will take care of you.
greenbunny