[sunshine13]

Thanks so much to you both for replying! As far as going vegan goes, I came across the book by Ingrid Newkirk of PETA, "Save the Animals" (I think that's what it's called), and I couldn't put it down. It's very simply written, but it changed my life overnight. It was as if a fog were lifted - my way of thinking about animals completely changed and there was no turning back. By eating the way I had been, I realized I wasn't just hurting myself but was also hurting animals, the environment, etc. So with raw it's different because when I eat cooked food, I'm really just hurting myself. Maybe if I were hurting animals by doing it, I'd quit that overnight, too. Of course, I could look at eating raw differently and consider that by eating cooked food, I am actually hurting others besides myself by doing it, because I'm not realizing my full potential and don't have as much to give to others or to try to do some good in the world. I know I don't have nearly the energy I would like to have to homeschool my kids, for example. I know that once I've been raw for a while I'll have a lot more energy and will be able to invest more of myself in my kids. Of course, just knowing that I'm hurting myself by eating cooked food should be enough of an incentive for me to quit doing it, but I haven't gotten to that point yet. I'll have to think about this new way of looking at raw for a while. Thanks for giving me the idea to go on.


I've been trying to decide on what would be the best way to go about changing to 100% raw and that's why I was considering Arnold Ehret's method. He wrote a great book called "The Mucusless Diet Healing System" and his theory is basically that all illnesses that mankind suffer with are caused by incorrect eating and that once correct eating is started, the body can heal itself of just about anything. Anyway, he recommends a transition to the ideal diet of fruits and green leaf vegetables by eating a mucuslean diet that will loosen and eliminate waste encumbrances that have been building up over a lifetime of wrong eating. It makes a lot of sense to me, but it does keep the window of eating some cooked foods open for a while, and it might be better for me to commit to 100%. I'd like to hear from others on how they went raw - did you decide to do 100% from the start, transition to raw over a period of time, or how did you go about it?

That sounds like good advice, to drink a lot of water to help get back on the raw track after eating cooked food. I know I should be drinking a lot more water than I do and need to make a conscious effort to drink enough every day.

Blessings - S