good on you lulu! your skin looks amazing in the second...and your eyes are clearer too. AND you have definitely slimmed down!

Lotsa love to you!
Be proud!
Beau

havent been around for a few days...

am researching pre-conception stuff....want to consciously conceive this next soul who is coming

I have been doing really well. Eating mainly fruit and salads, green smoothies and vegie juices with a few raw desserts chucked in. I have been gripped by the cravings...I think I jumped in too quickly but I don't care about that, I'm not going back.

I do still have tofu in my salads sometimes, and tonight I had some dolmades, I am just going to keep it a once in a while thing. And I know that eventually I will be 100%.

Am struggling with foods my family eat. I feel to just be the example. My dh will go buy a packet of biscuits etc..and he has coke occasionally. He smokes too. Damn it. Its hard being in love with someone who hasnt a clue about health.

Anyway...life goes on....
I feel good....light....energised.....free 
Love to you all peoples! 
Beau 

hey Georgia, I will be watching your journal with much interest and need for inspiration. I am in the pre-conception stage and am wondering how I will do raw while pregnant/bf'ing etc.

Wish you much love and luck....

For me it is

Watching my children grow,
Seeing humans helping and loving each other
Witnessing the birth of a new life
Kindness
Compassion
Love
Peace

I'll think of more later

 

Thanks for this gorgeous post! Just what I needed!
Beau

Hi everyone...

I am feeling crap at the moment. My sis is depressed, my man and I have not been getting along, my pre-teen is hormonal, my 2 year old is being full-on and the other two fight every night and sooo ARGH I ate some yuck stuff today.

I had two vego sausages and a vego sausage roll. And YUK. They make me feel YUK. I feel heavy, even dirty! I feel like I have dirtied myself on the inside! I ate a big plate of salad too, the salad that I made, and everyone esle ate it too and then is was all gone and I was still hungry. So I felt crap and hungry and ate what was available.

Ugh....need to work on these feelings of mine. Need to work out how not to get so overwhelmed with other peoples feelings.

Another day, another lesson learned. Had to sit there listening to women in my family bitching about themselves and their weight, meanwhile they eat crap 90% of the time.

Lots of love to you all....hope your journey is teaching you gently, PEACE!
Beau 

hey beautiful's!

love to all.....beautiful haircut alright pixielady , and yes that is wishing me luck to conceive! I am one clucky Mumma right now LOL!

and Theresa I want to say thankyou for being such a caring soul...it is a beautiful thing to see.

I had some cooked falafel in my salad today. But I don't feel bad about it. I know that ones I get my recipe repotoire organised I'll be better for it. Just feel like I dont have enough knowledge or experience yet. I am getting there and I know it is simple, but I just need to step off this old ride I've been on for so long, and I'm doin' it!!

So today was....

coconut flax cakes (care of Ani Phyo!), watermelon, apple, big salad, banana/seed/tahini/honey/sultana 'cereal'. And for dinner a salad out of my garden! YUM. That is the most ZINGING meal ever!

I came to the conclusion that I dont think I want a dehydrator. If I really want something warmed or dried, I wanna do it with the sun. Last night I had a raw miso/ dulse/ mushroom/ broccoli/ zucchini/ ginger soup with warm water added. Was yum.

I have lost 3 kilos and thats all too. I was wondering what was going on..but anyway doesnt really matter. I'm on the journey and I'm staying on it. I just wanna be FREEEEEEEE 

Lotsa love to all...
Beau

Hey girls....how is everyone?

I'm pretty damn good. Feeling a bit flat out at the moment just cause I have my flow, and it is quite full-on. I am thinking this is my body trying to adjust to raw.

I found something in an old book called 'The Natural Birth Control Method', and it is about 'Reducing Mentrual Flow with Raw Foods'. A man called Viktoras Kulvinskas did some studies about this, and said ' ovulation is a physiological process influenced by zodiacal and dietary factors; it is not a monthly biological necessity for women'.  Say what?? I am so confused. But I am intrigued as to why some raw women don't get them anymore after a while. He also goes on to say that raw women can stop their bleeding but still get pregnant easily. And that total reabsorbtion of the uterine lining can take place! So, the menstral flow can be seen as hemorrhaging, which is unnecessary and unhealthy! What tha Hell! I don't know what to think!

I'll post all that on the thread about it too....just wanted to add that...

I had a great weekend! I went to a sculpting workshop. I have done one before, and I made a girl who turned into me at 12. Was amazing! I didnt get her back for 3 months but she was so lovely. This time I made a pregnant goddess. Shes divine. She looks African. Looks like Mother Earth actually. Think I might call her that. My teacher said that she loves watching me cause I am a perfectionist (who me?) and she said that I have loads of potential! I was sooo chuffed! 

The only thing I have eaten cooked for the last three days was some falafel in my salad.  Today I had pawpaw, watermelon, banana/honey/seeds/oats/tahini cereal thingy, bokchoy salad, carrot/apple/celery/beetroot/ginger/lime juice, rasberry shortbread curtesy of 'Storm' and my new food processor! YAY and YUM. My kids loved it!

I understand the craving for fats, and I think it is ok if you don't do it every day. Like right now, while I am having this heavy bleed, I felt that I needed fats, so I made that shortbread with 3 different kinds of nuts.

We just all need to not be so hard and strict with ourselves, I'm not anyway...cause I know that if I do I will end up sabotaging myself!

Love to all of you women....
I am pre-conception...wish me luck!
Peace,
Beau xoxoxo

aww BB...can you send me some??? Can you distribute it around Australia at all the health food stores???

Seriously?! I would buy some off you. I can't find cacao butter near me, and also find it is kinda expensive. bUt if I could buy some of that slice off you I wouldn't need to find all the ingred! 

Lest we forget all the women and children and men from other countries who have died and are still dying as a result of stupid meaningless wars.

Don't get me started 

BB, yep I hear you. I am slowly doing this. We have cut out cereal for breakfast, and are having fruit instead, or smoothies with superfoods in them, the biggest hurdle right now is bread. If they dont feel full they aill have toast or a sandwich.

I do need to be patient but I want all of this to happen yesterday! 

Thanks lovely people.....and Gosia thankyou for your website. I had a look and read a bit about your journey with your kids. Inspiring and informative. Thankyou

Beau xo

Hi Lovely Women. Mind if I join you all here? I think it has been around a month and a half since I first started the raw lifestyle. The only thing that I eat that is not raw is felafel balls (in a salad), marinated tofu (in a salad), soy sauce and seaweed. I think thats it. I don't know where to buy Nama Shoyu and raw seaweed is a little expensive for me but I might just have to buy some and try it out.

I would like to take the next step and just leave that stuff out of my eating.

I am feeling really great, have lost 3 kilos, my skin is clear and a friend told me that my eyes were sparkling! So that is all good. My main issue with my new lifestyle, well....there are a few actually. Family, friends, my family eating different to me, (I find that a struggle. Its hard to feed my family things that I am learning are not good for them:()

But other than that its all good! You all are very inspiring, and I love the support network here, its what every woman needs no matter what! 

I spend that much a week for a family of 6 argh

But they aren't raw.....yet!

I am almost buying two lots of groceries.....one for me, and a separate lot for them. I am slowly integrating it though. The girls have fruit and/or smoothies for breakfast now, instead of cereal. They will try anything I make, and for the most part they love it all!

I am not sure what to do for dinner meals for them though. I have a big salad for my dinner, so...yeah, not sure what to do for them. My partner likes to have a big warm meal after work, so this is all going to take some adjustment.

Slowly slowly. I would love a dehydrator. I can't afford one though. Has anyone found one second hand? That might be the go for me.

 

Hi Dani, I havent 'met' you yet. I totally agree with what you said. I know that now I 'know' about this, how it makes me feel, how truly pure and right it is, I don't think I could ever go back!

I feel the same way about eating meat! And smoking, and drinking and many other things...living the consumerist life.

And if people do go back, I think it would feel like they are hurting themselves, not loving themselves, and once they got back into life, they would go back to raw, cause raw IS life!

Hurrah!
 

Congratulations to you Angie, and welcome to our earth beautiful Islie.

Love and Light to you Both!

Beau xoxo

Yes Eve, I believe that it is true. We need to just live our lives. Stand by what we believe in....Thankyou

I am up and down a lot Jenni, its true...but I guess that is quite normal at this stage! Thanks for your reply. I am so grateful to you for running this place. It's my only solace when I am feeling alone in this raw life that I have chosen to live.

Jungle, what you said about living natures way and trusting that you will be provided with everything you truly desire and need, THAT made a light go on in my heart, and I re-read it a few times, and I have been trying to put it into practice everyday. Thankyou so much for that!