Hey! So I know that I haven’t written a post in a few weeks,
but I wanted to let you know that I’m alive and all is well. There are several
things I wanted to talk about, but for the purpose of this post I will only be
talking about one of those things. This is something that has given me a new
spark on something that I am very interest in and very well may be what I go
into as my career. That is, I’m very interested in eating healthy and living a
healthy lifestyle. And I am highly considering becoming a dietitian or a
nutritionist or something along those lines.
But what really inspired me was a Youtuber that I came
across named Kristina or “fullyrawkristina” as she is known on the ‘tubes. Kristina
has been eating “fully raw” for about eight years, curing her body of any type of
disease and/or sickeness she had (hypoglycemia—a type of diabetes—and other
problems that caused her to be hospitalized at least once a month) as well as
changing her eye color from a milky brown to a hazel-almost blue color.
Kristina runs the largest non-prophet co-op, Rawfully Organic, in the U.S.
Another one of the
raw foodies that I follow on Youtube is Megan Elizabeth. Megan had just gotten
accepted into the university that her mother went to when she came down with a
mysterious bedridden illness that prevented her from going to school. It wasn’t
until she read “The 80/10/10 Diet” and started eating raw that she finally felt
good again.
What is eating “fully raw” though? Eating a diet composed of
uncooked, natural fruit, vegetables, and seeds/nuts. The book “The China Study”
by T. Colin Campbell, Phd and Thomas M. Campbell II talks about how consuming
animal products is a main factor in cancer, diabetes, hormone problems (for
example, girls getting their periods in their early teens versus when they are seventeen/eighteen),
and many others. Another great read which goes into the details of going raw
vegan is the book “The 80/10/10 Diet” by Douglas M. Graham, which I am dying to
get my hands on. Two other great reads, “The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can
Help Save Your Life and Our World” by John Robbins and “The Face on Your Plate:
The Truth About Food” by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson.
All that said I
really want to go raw vegan. I was planning on starting over my winter break.
Seeing as I’m in college and have practically a month off from school, I
figured it would be the perfect time to start. One of the problems I am going
to have is that the first couple days of detoxing, I am one of those people who
get nauseous. Some people feel really great when they are detoxing, others get
sick—almost like the flu. Also, it’s so hard to stay away from food I can’t eat
when all my friends get dessert at lunch. It’s so tempting when they bring up
cake not to grab a piece or ask them to surprise me with something. I figure if
I go a month eating raw, I will get sick if I eat cake. And I won’t want to eat
it anymore. So, that’s why I really want to start over my winter break.
Of course, I know
lots of people are going to judge me and wonder if I am getting all my protein
and all that nonsense. First of all, on a raw foot diet (not to be confused
with dieting), you have to eat large
portions of fruits and vegetables in order to get 2,000 calories worth of food.
This is mainly because fruits and vegetables are low in calorie and high in
water content. So while you might “feel” full, you are just bloated due to the
water content. For example, you might eat an entire watermelon for breakfast,
5-7 bananas for lunch with two young coconuts, and an entire head of lettuce or
spinach or kale with toppings and a raw dressing for dinner. [In order to keep
with the 80/10/10.] You don’t want to eat a ton of fruit at dinner as it sits
in your stomach longer than vegetables (this is the same if you eat meat… which
takes longer to digest and therefore, you should not eat at night—even though
most people do). [A good app/website to use for keeping track of all your
calorie and nutrient intake is cronometer (cronometer.com).]
Now I know this
seems like an expensive lifestyle. But I can assure you that if you know where
to get your produce, it’s not. A good place to start is to buy from a local
co-op like Rawfully Organic in Houston. It costs a million times cheaper than
in the grocery store. Also, you want to buy in bulk. A lot of times stores will
give you discounts if you are buying in bulk. But that’s just my two cents!
I’ll catch you guys
later with some more interesting posts!
Savannah
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