yum! thanks for the ideas! ill give them a whirl tomorrow The spinach and strawberry combination sounds delicious!!

Hey alana,
how r u finding the job? sounds like a cool place to work!
oh yeh mangos... I love summer fruits! mangos, watermelon, peaches, nectarines, grapes... mmmmm its gona be the best summer.
About your greens.. find a salad dressing you love. then it will be easy to eat 'em =)

Aw thanks girls!!

Jen, I've done a little research on the food combining and now notice that the bloating is gone

Havnen't updated in while but I've still been going strong. No temptations yet. Alot of people ask if it's difficult but i've found it to be the easiest thing in the world fruit and veg is amazing! and with communities like this its easy to stay on track. I've been drinking the green smoothies for a week now (still loading up on the bananas) and I'm hooked. It's great to be able to wake up every morning and jump out of bed with anticipation for one. the results are certainly showing on my face. My skin is so much better!! My mum actually told me that my face used to be so bloated, and it's gone now.

Funny thing with my mum actually.... She was so incredibly ANTI raw food when i started! Telling me it's just a silly phase and its not good for a girl who wants to have children eventually blah... blah... blah... Last week she asked to borrow my copy of "green for life" and this week shes been asking me to make her up  a green smoothie every morning!!

Definitely still feeling super flat which is worrying. Had my first real big low last night since starting this which i'll explain later I'm going to the gym + walking every morning but the workouts keep getting shorter and shorter unfortunetly. I don't know why this is. I have alot of highs and lows which i hope will go away.


Probably the biggest problem at the moment is how much I'm eating. Yesterday I just couldnt stop myself eating 4 avocados and 6 bananas (on top of many MANY other things). This much food surely can't be good for me. Espeically the avocados (which i think are now my chocolate replacement!!! at least 2 a day) I've always been such an overeater. Before it was with the worst foods you could find, and now its been transferred into raw.

I just literally cant tell myself to stop when I'm eating. I eat and eat and eat until I'm so full it's hard to move, then repeat later. It's really depressing... How do all of you remain so controlled?

I think that once I break this, there will be no stopping me I've struggled with it for too long!!

Maybe a fast is in order?

In other news though, I found an amazing little local organic shop and am now staring at a fruitbowl full of delicious fruit and veg. sooo tempting!!!

xx

Haha I hope I'm not eating double in 12 months!!

Thanks for that I've been beating myself up so much about my eating habits. It's difficult having had pretty much every eating disorder under the sun at some stage.

P.s that is such a beautiful display picure emi

Hi Alana, Many long term rawbies say that at the beginning to eat what you want, when you want when you first go raw. I was eating five or six avos at a time at one stage and still losing weight! Not to mention the nuts, seeds etc I was munching on!

One of the people on here told me that our blood cells are like eggs. The 'egg shell' of our blood cells are made from fat. When we start to detox on raw we often need to replace the bad fats that our poor bods are working so hard to flush out with some good fats. If we don't the walls of our blood cells can become to thin. This is very laymans terms and I can't remember the rest of it except that apparently this can lead to cancer among other things. At the beginning, don't worry too much about fats. As our body cleans out it can also become deficient in minerals and other things so you may feel flat. I would urge you to eat loads and just rest when you are feeling low in energy.

Some gentle exercises like the 5 tibetans only take as little as 5-8 minutes a day and are great in many ways. You can download an ebook here to have a look if you want to get started. There are other books out there with much more detail but this is a great place to start.

What Emi said is right from what I have read. Your body will be craving nutrition. Eat what you need to. You'll be fine.

You are not the only one here who has had an eating disorder. I have toyed with bulimia and had a fully fledged relationship with compulsive overeating. With raw I have gotten my weight down to where I am happy eating healthy foods. I don't feel like I have to eat everything in sight because I get nutrition from every meal. I get the enzymes I need to digest every meal as well so there's no craving anymore. Well maybe a few but from craving every day all day and pigging out in the middle of the night to wanting some pasta once a fortnight is pretty huge yes? There are anorexics, bulimics, overeaters, all sorts here. You are not alone.

Is this why your mum worries? I'm happy that she has taken an interest. I firmly believe that if adding GS to her daily food intake is the only change she makes in her diet then she will soon see a difference.

Sorry to ramble on in your journal! Can't shut me up anywhere!

xoxoxox

I'm kind of glad that your mum doesn't know. For her sake but for yours it must have been lonely at times but then eating disorders are.

So many people crave what is needed when they first come to raw, then all of a sudden they wake up one day, look at the avos, seaweed whatever and just want to hurl! Then it becomes easier to balance things out a little.

Just keep asking if you have any worries at all. You can never ask too many questions.

xoxox

Hi alanabanana.  I've been seeing you around the place but haven't said hello yet, so hello and a belated welcome from me.  Sounds like you're doing great.  I have no advice or anything much to add; just wanted to say hi.

All the best,

swami xx

evc, you'll never be lonely in avo-land!! 

glad you are feeling better pretty banana! In the end just listen to your body, it will tell you through cravings what it needs, cravings are really good, only when we chose the healthy option.

have a beautiful day

love BB
XXX