hey everyone.....

miss the positive influence of you all....

Journey has taken a detour....am now about 60-70% raw....winter has hit and I am hot food eating to bigger extent. I feel quite good. Not as good as I was though.

Hope you are all feeling well, and happy where you are at personally. I am about to start trying to conceive...and in a very different headspace. But it is so exciting, and I know I am going to need to be around more for the learning of how to look after myself while pregnant.

I'm not really into superfoods though....does anyone have advice as to ' do we really need superfoods'? Cant we just let our medicine be our food and our food be our medicine?

hello everyone

I'm not on the raw challenge anymore lol

been eating some cooked....some of it actually feels good right now and I'm doing what my heart tells me.

You are all totally amazing...no matter what. This is the most inpsiring website I go on, seriously!!!

Love to you all on your journey

see you round the site soon!

Beau!

wow

I am drooling looking at your pics!

thanks for the birthday wishes lovelies

well....have decided that right now I am not going to do 100% raw. Its winter and I'm feelin' it.

I have learnt a lot on this 80-90% raw journey I have been on and I know what my body likes and doesnt like. So I have made a change and am eating some cooked foods....

I feel that I have learnt so much...it was one helluva education...you people here are so inspiring....and I thankyou for all of your support.

I'm not going anywhere though....you are all lovely, and I enjoy being 'around' you all. Who knows where this phase will take me to?!!!

Lotsa love
Beau

that last post was lovely NF!

thankyou!

thanks Jungle

Was my b'day yesterday...had a beautiful day with my people...went to the beach...ate all yummy food...salads, raw desserts. It was really good....went for a swim, went for a jog and a walk. Felt really reviving. Then we went home and everyone ate crap at a fast food shop....I had a vegie burger and felt my belly bloat from the bun. Full-on! I was amazed at how intensely I felt the reaction from my body.


I have felt quite low lately. Depressed even. Or on the edge of it at least. I am not sure what is causing it. Its probably a world thing. I think the earthquakes and devastation some people are experiencing is getting to me. I have been feeling kind of anxious and nervous. Hiding in my den. It all feels so overwhelming to me at the moment. The world is weird. I just don't like to see people suffering, or doing things to themselves consciously and being so unaware. It is so frustrating. I have issues huh?

I am focussing on negativity a lot. Swimming in it. I need to get a grip and rise above this. Thats what I will work on.

Yeah I hear you Kitty and PB.....I dont want to get in the rut and go back to it all though. I know I am in charge of my journey...and I know what I want and what I need to do...its hard sometimes, but I don't want to go back to full-on cooked food every day. The worst its gonna get for me is a vegie pastie or vegie pie once a week or something. Pumpkin in salad etc...

Thanks girls....its good to know you all have been there....thast just the support I need!

thankyou lovelies....thank god for all of you who have been there. 

Definitely don't need to guilt trip myself I know....just need to remember that it is a journey and its ok. 

The understanding here is really comforting. Thank you so much!

Ah who am I kidding??? I am really disappointed in myself for finding this so hard, and for going back to dead stodgy, brick food!

The spinach pie tasted like pure oily butter and cheese, with wilted hardly tasting of anything spinach. The potatoes were tasteless with oily yuck on them. The vegie pie was stodge. Pure stodge. It was warm though and I admit that that did feel good. I had steamed veg and it tasted stodgy too. The felafel was gross. It was all yuck!

I admit that it is hard for me. I just have to stop feeling sorry for myself, and realise what is good for me goddamn it!
Everything that I have eaten has been warm comfort food. So what do I really need? Good question!

youre inspiring lulu!

I havent been around much. Been frequenting a birth/pregnancy forum regularly....not in the club ust yet, but am planning to be

Ok so I was one of those newbies who jumped in with great gusto, and then went in a downward direction in the last couple of weeks. I have eaten some potatoes, a vegie pie, some felafel, some spinach pie...and it all made me feel like crap. The comfort factor played a huge part, and the fact that I feel annoyed that some people can eat crap all day long and it doesnt 'seem' (key word here) to affect them much. But I cannot eat crap. It doesnt like me. I have eaten cooked foods once a day every couple of days, and I have really felt it. It is interesting to watch. See how they affect me.

I need to back off a bit of high raw, and eat what I feel to, and take this journey slowly. I really want to keep this lifestyle, so I am not going to overdo it at first. If I want to eat a cooked something or other every now and then I will, for the learning experience it gives me. I have eaten a whole pawpaw this morning, with a bit of lemon squeezed on....and wow does it feel good.

I have started doing bellydancing, yoga, clay work, cross stitch, painting, scrapbooking....all these things I love, and they are happening...I am doing them.

A friend has asked me to help him with his diet. He is a big man and is on the brink if not already having diabetes. That was huge. He has always mocked me. LOL...funny how the world works.

Something has happened with my weight. I've hit something. I lost 3 kilos and then it stopped. But my body has changed, I dont really know how to describe it. It feels good. But it feels like I've come to a crossroads or something? Don't know?

I took a pic of my face the other day and was really surprised at how its changed. I look different! Clearer, lighter, brighter!

Ok...enough from me...just wanted to let it all out, and see how it is over here atm.
Love to you all
Beau

'cause.....I.....only spent a small amount in the IGA for my family...most of our money was spent at the organic co-op and fruit shop

felt good....taking small steps and we are going places!!!! 

wow good job!

I'll be keeping my eyes out now...

we have three mandy trees, three kaffir lime trees, two orange trees, a lemonade tree, a cherry guava tree, and a vegie patch...so we are very blessed.

I like variety though so will keep an eye out for some other types of fruit.

I bought a punnet of strawberries today at a bit of a high price (understatement) but I just wanted to have a treat so I did.

They smell sooo goood!

I am not 100% raw right now.

Am taking it slowly....

Water
watermelon for breakfast
Fruit smoothie and fruit salad for lunch
date and coconut roll thingys
seaweed with pesto (surprisingly yummy)
AND
dolmades....

am feeling a bit weird in the stomache....been craving cheese on bread....but know it will be yuck...wish my family wouldnt eat crap....but I WILL SURVIVE! 

Hi Chris...nice to meet you, and am looking forward to getting to know you

Lotsa of love and hugs!
Beau