My Story
My name is Michele, I am 34 and happily married to my best friend. Life is great, we have a house, we both work hard, we have two dogs, two cats the white picket fence blah blah blah. hehehehehe Anyway.
Growing up I was always very skinny, and looking back my personality was completely different then too. I was always very outgoing, social and extremely secure with myself. But over the last 6 years or so I've been struggling with my weight problem and I am now the heaviest I have ever been. This makes me very sad and not so outgoing anymore.
It's not that I want to be skinny because I care what everyone else thinks. I want to be skinny so I feel better about myself, and healthier in general. I'm so sick and tired of being sick and tired.
I became a vegetarian in March of 2002. This decision was for several reasons but one of them was to become healthier. Well, it hasn't turned out that way at all. In fact, I have put on weight since becoming a vegetarian. How does that make any sense? I suppose to compensate for not eating meat, I started eating more carbs like rice, pasta and bread to fill me up..........result = fat.
About six weeks ago I saw a show on tv about actors and actresses that follow raw diets. I had heard of it in the past and even bought a raw cookbook but only flipped through it, put it on the shelf and never considered going raw. But when I was watching this tv show it really intrigued me. So I started surfing the net and reading anything and everything I found about the raw food diet. Well, two weeks later I was on the computer at work during lunch and I came across Alissa Cohen's website. I was convinced that this is what I wanted to do. When I looked at her schedule page of seminars and dinners, I found that she was going to be in a town about an hour and a half away from me for a gourmet dinner. The odd thing is that I happened to have a convention to go to the same weekend in the same town, I figured that this must be a sign. As if it's meant to be. So I got right on the phone and booked myself because there was limited room left for the event.
So that night on my way home from work I stopped at the supermarket and picked up all sorts of fruits and veggies. I had no idea how I was going to prepare them but I thought I'd figure that out later. I just wanted to start eating raw right away, even if it meant only having salads until I figured out some recipes.
It's hasn't been as easy as I thought it would be and I'm not 100% yet but I've been learning more and more each day and trying new ideas.
I'm really having fun with it and look forward to all the benefits of becoming raw.
I've come across several other raw fooders web sites and find that it has been extremely helpful for me and will be doing the same here. This will help me to stay on track and I hope it will help others deciding to go raw as other web sites have helped me.