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]]> All my recovering sugar addicts out there know what I’m going through. My head hurts.  Not with a typical, throb.  I wouldn’t call it a headache.  It feels more like pressure.  It happened the last time I was 90% raw for a few days and it will pass.  Sugar is not my master.  Sugar is not to blame.  If I want to change, I have the power to change and I’m claiming that power now.

Since Monday I’ve been 90-100% raw each day and exercised 30 min each day.  I’m down 2 pounds over this period. I feel like this is the place, the moment, the feeling, the place in time where my paradigm shifts.  I’m changing.

I made nut meat delight last night with soaked walnuts, red onion, and celery all blended in a blender.  Then I seasoned it with cilantro, cummin, Lowery’s, and pepper.  I put the blend in romaine leaves and ate it lettuce wrap style.  YUMMY!

I’ve been going through cravings.  I haven’t had much of an appetite in the evenings.  All I want after work is some juice or soda and microwaved butter popcorn.  Sigh.  I’m eating really well during the day so I’m sure that’s part of the issue.  I think it’s more so rebellion.  You know how little kids act when you tell them they can’t have something.  They pout.  They resist.  I think that somewhere in my subconscious, there is a lil girl pouting because I’m not giving her any sugar.  Well, just like a good parent, I’m training my body in the way that it should go.  I’m giving myself discipline and direction.  It’s an awesome gift to give, too. 🙂

I’ll have to make a green smoothie when I get home.  Time to take time and visualize this healthy and happy body that will be birthed out of the changes I’m making in the NOW.

]]> http://www.urbanrawfood.com/shop/my-head-hurts/feed/ 4 Days 13-17: “It was all a dream…” http://www.urbanrawfood.com/shop/days-13-17-it-was-all-a-dream/ http://www.urbanrawfood.com/shop/days-13-17-it-was-all-a-dream/#respond Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:24:13 +0000 http://urbanrawfood.wordpress.com/?p=46

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]]> Sweets and comfort food were always a treat for me. Not being able to have them was a punishment. That’s how I felt on Day 13 (last Friday). I felt like I was in punishment and all I wanted to soothe my pain was some ice cream. I almost didn’t get any. I went out on a midnight run (literally) like a crackhead. Away, away…in search of cold sugary goodness. I almost had to go home empty handed. But there…near the metro…like a lighthouse in the night…A 24 hour CVS selling Edy’s. Sad

I ate about 1/3 of the container.

That lead to some Chinese food (crab rangoon and steamed shrimp) on Saturday and burger/fries on Sunday. I got a hold of myself by Monday (just ate some jelly beans and a diet coke…raw the rest of the day). Sigh. I didn’t feel the goodness and freedom I been feeling eating raw food. My mind was all over the place. All I could think of was food and how I could get some more cooked food. I was trying to reason and bargain with myself. Umm…I felt crazy. Why am I talking to myself trying to get myself to see that I’m just doing the very thing that makes me unhappy and gets me further from my goals. This is really addiction and people need to start treating it like that.

After getting myself back on track yesterday I feel much better. I was 180.5 pounds this morning so I didn’t wreck too much havoc. But I did see some of my insulin rash come back and I had inflammation most of the 4 days. I started my morning with a green smoothie and 3 pieces of the raw walnut, raw almond, and agave nectar nut “candy” that I used to make the last time I went raw. This stuff really helped with my sugar cravings and gave me a lot of fiber. I don’t know why I didn’t make it sooner. Duh!!

I took a walk yesterday to try to “walk it off”…walk the cravings away. I realize boredom had a lot to do with my eating. When I got outside in the wonderful weather I felt fantastic. I thought back to walking to the corner store as a teen for relief from my person issues in the form of sugar. I realized later that day that instead of a treat, sugar was now a punishment. That’s how it feels after I eat it. Like it’s wrong…like I’ve betrayed my true intention to be healthy and beautiful. Freedom is not feeling that way. Not eating junk food as well as developing a healthy attitude toward food and eating.

Eating junk doesn’t take the pain away. Not eating junk is not a punishment. Eating healthy is true freedom…mind, body, and soul. I want freedom from cooked food, and junk food addiction. That’s my goal.

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