good guns stumpyelephant, just keep treating each day as the next day u treat ur body with the best it can get. It'll thank u in some way for doin that...

hey SE,well done on over a month RAW,that's RAWsome indeed...hey you know you can make RAW chocolate,that could replace your chocolate eating dream quite nicely *grin*

make sure you eat plenty,this will leave no room for cooked ideas to pop into your head,raw is so nutrient dense it will drench your cells in nourishing nutrients there will be no room for sludge..

how's the essay writing going?

great to read your update..

HEy BABE,SE....don't worry,all your efforts aren't undone with one little pasta slip,lol...you're doing great guns,and you know it's only cos you haven't been eating enough to satiate your hunger...

keep it going...you don't need to wonder where the guilt is...it's all in the past now,today is another day...

oh my god. what a week.

RAW is fine, had lots of fruit today.

-Wheatgrass, Pineapple, Mint, Orange juice.
-Watermelon, pineapple, strawberries, banana juice.
- Some leftover blueberry, apple, banana juice.

Had quite a few apples and such...wish we had some avocados, I shall go check!

Going to make a banana, blueberry smoothie soon as I have two bananas in my posession, HAA!!!!

My sleeping WILL be back on track as of tonight...why? In three days I've had five hours sleep. Couldn't sleep on Sunday night so I stayed up until 7am Monday, working on my essay and then slept until midday. Woke up and felt like death, decided to write my entire essay that night and subsequently haven't been to bed yet. It's now Tuesday night.

YIKES! Essay is done, two week essay writing break is coming up...sun, gumtrees and wheathgrass time!!
Somehow went to a lecture today and took nothing in, I have no idea how I stayed awake...my eyes were rolling around.

Things are reforming for the better:)

Wishing everyone best wishes and kisses and lovely lovely warm happy days! 

We have yummy cherry tomatoes.........mmmmmmm, want to eat them all!!!

Cherry tomatoes are yummy!!  but I got them mixed up..they were Roma! Thought it was too early for cherry tomatoes too!

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Ok so update. Well it's been a shocking ten days. I fell off the wagon very badly because things are very scattered lately. Don't get me wrong, I've been eating raw EXCEPT I also started eating quite a bit of bread (and a couple of times some dry organic corn flakes). Anyway, the breads the only cooked food I've been having but UGH...the good thing is, once you've been raw for a month you basically can't fall off long term because let me tell you, the stomach problems and the loss of a general sense of wellbeing have been altered by a more purified eating regime. Therefore, you learn that you are punishing yourself when you eat something cooked because your tummy cannot handle it any longer. So, lucky for me, the bread eating is on the way out again. I had some wheatgrass and greens and felt so much better last night. Even eating RAW during the day and then combining it with eating bread at night (and with peanut butter or vegemite spread on the bread..eek...no vegan butter or anything) just undoes everything. I've been eating fruit salads lately...YUM YUM. It's hideous fruit combining but it tastes so good with the few bananas in the household right now. Still loving the avocado, but I got into the habit of adding salt to it...as I was craving salt or something of the sort. Will have to cut that out but boy does it add to it. Hmm that's about it. A bit down with things but not yet out. I'm not too fussed because obviously there are setbacks and trying too hard to be perfect makes it impossible...point is to keep going until you can sustain yourself long term.

You always make me feel reassured Neet, and looking at your lovely glowing skin that is radiating RAW goodness, in your user picture, reminds me why I am excited about RAW.

I did have quite alot of celery yesterday, what a coinicidence. I know you have to be careful about the salt used, I have been using natural sea salt or something of the sort (never table salt) but I did read on a raw website that you have to use a specific kind as you have kindly pointed out

Hope you are well and all is good. Thanks for the concern.

SE,you are priceless,yep HOLY CRAP the e-book rocks....he hehh ehhh,glad it has jump started your raw battery my friend,LOL *grin*

It's interesting.. most of the anti salt research is done on processed table salt, not any of the natural salts on the market. Piers was reading the book called Nutrition and Physical Degeneration last night. In there the author said of all long lived cultures he studies in the 30's and 40's (I think that's the time period) all used some form of natural salt. In the wild animals use salt too and will travel very long distances to get to it.

I think the issue is more overuse of salt, and the processing and huge use of salt in our culture.

We still use salt, but always a high quality one.

Cheers,
Sheryl