Is going raw a surefire way to outcast yourself?
Hell yeah! But in the best possible way, in my humble opinion. I do not know, but suspect that most folk that stumble onto a raw food path are used to swimming upstream in some fashion anyway.
Vegetarianism is not mainstream. Nor is veganism, let alone raw veganism. Some people don't change, and why should they? They do their thing, we each do our own. What changes, at least for me, is one's own resilience and strength.
I went from slyly drinking my morning green smoothie at my desk to plonking that sucker down on the table in my Friday morning meeting. It sat there like Shrek, in a sea of takeaway coffee cups.
There is only one person at work that (now) is still a leedle too obsessed by what I eat. He is a man who I understand used to be very large, and now exercises a lot. He comments on my salads, my green smoothies, my green tea. Anything.
And I have only ever seen him eat sugar. Chupa chups, cake, donuts, etc. etc. That is his way. He may be slim from intensive daily running, but I would not swap my arteries or organs for his.
I am not at the point where I feel comfortable eating out raw, but that time will come. I prefer to whip up my own meals, or at least select what is going in them, and in turn, my body. It is not exclusively raw, but I am thankful to have the free will to choose either way.
I am at a point of eating consciously, and that, to me, is a powerful thing.
Good luck in the staff room! You'll only be 'weird' until something or someone 'weirder' comes along.
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