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| Me after my transitioning to 100% raw foods |
What got me to raw foods and why?
It's the traditional story of a young girl who has a very low self esteem and some over weight, or at least that's how I felt, and for me at that time it felt that the only way out of this insecurity was to lose weight. Cause if I had the perfect body I would be happy, right? And then I could start living my life. I was fooled by all the media around me: young women's pictures in the magazines with their perfect (photoshopped) bodies, all the TV-shows which were filled with these enormously skinny girls and woman which made me feel fat, big and unworthy. I decided I wanted lose weight.
First I tried the Atkins diet. I think it was about four years ago, and I did lose a couple of kilos but I got frightened and quit the diet thinking I still want to eat ice cream and sweets and junk. And I continued my harsh lifestyle of drinking, smoking and eating junk food. Until I saw a interview of this finnish doctor who is very famous for his diet, which is really alike with the Atkins but included some fruits and berries. I bought all his books and started to eliminate foods from my diet; wheat, corn, sugar, rice, potato, almost all carbohydrates and not much fruits either. I didn't lose any weight and I was frustrated, even though I did feel much better and felt as if a cloud had been moved from my head. I kept this lifestyle for several months and moved in to organic foods during this time. I still ate a lot of meat, fat and dairy, but also lots of veggies, and lots of supplements (vitamin d, c, e, b, calcium, magnesium, omega 3, and so on). But the weight didn't go anywhere. I must have weighed about 65 kg back then. I wasn't doing any exercise.
It was the fall of 2009 when I run into this finnish raw food site and got really interested in it. The boy who was writing a blog had a history of MS but with this lifestyle had gone better and even better then before the MS, and I was really curious to know more. It was all about these superfoods and powders and supplements and goji berries, maca, cacao, algae... I was really inspired by all this, then I found David Wolfe. I got all his books and started incorporating his methods into my life, lots of green smoothies, berries, raw chocolate, sprouts and salads. I felt a little better, but still enormous cravings cause I wasn't eating enough cause David said: better leave the stomach 3/4 full! And I did what the Guru said ;) the weight didn't go anywhere. I started to do yoga and some exercises at home at this time. I switched my skinny idols to these fit, muscular lean ripped woman. I still had meat and dairy, cause I craved for food! I started to write my own blog to get my head straight and clear, but I was quite stressed at that time
This went on for almost a year, I did a juice fast a couple of times and loved the way I looked and felt after them, but always gained the weight back. I also tried all sorts of candida clear treatments and even a liver cleanse which was so harsh it made me wanna puke. The whole thing about staying away from sugar made me crazy and I felt as if the food was controlling my whole life, always had a craving for sweet. And salt. And almost everything.
It was finally in 2011 fall when I learned how to listen to my body I figured I wasn't eating enough and not enough minerals and vitamins. I started to follow this diet in the Bodyrock-site, which included a lot of protein, low fat and a little bit of carbs. I started having some results, my body was changing and muscles was more easy to see. But the whole protein powder and meat eating didn't feel right to me, even though the meat was from organic farming or from the wild. My meat intake decreased a lot, but I was a mess trying to figure out what to eat and not and felt like I was in a dead end with all it.
Then I found my savior. I'm not even sure how I came across Freelee and Harley in the Youtube but somehow I did and got really interested about their stuff, all seemed so clear and obvious to me straight from the beginning. I started incorporating their way of life, increasing my fruit intake a lot and skipped meat, dairy and eggs all at once. It took only a couple of days to make me feel so much better and truly alive. Maybe a week later I had my first 30day challenge in Facebook and it changed my way of thinking, my life and everything. My body was changing very quickly, muscles was toning very quickly and I had more energy to do my work outs and a lot more. During this time I quit my job in a beauty salon cause it didn't feel right for me anymore. In fact, it hadn't been feeling right for a very long time but I didn't have the courage to quit until then. I started working from home, reducing my working hours dramatically so that I could concentrate on getting use to this new lifestyle and figuring out what to do with my life.
So basically I eat fruits and veggies, a lot. My caloric intake is between 2500-3000, which is a whole lotta fruits! I love the fact I can eat as much as I want, until my stomach is really full. And I don't have to worry about anything else except that I have enough fruits in the house and that I make sure to eat them ripe. I don't have any cravings when I keep myself carbed and busy. That frees a lot of time and energy considering the fact that I've spent the last three years figuring out what to eat, how to eat, and when to eat it. It was almost becoming a way of life for me, everything else was on hold. Now I've started to live my life again, doing what I've always wanted to do and planning the future with an open and adventurous mind :)
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