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• Thanks Annamsate for that link. Looks like a cool one with more cool people. I was thinking about it after posting my thoughts, and I think the other crucial element that changed in my life...I felt loved, and was able to start loving myself. I foun…

  in Raw & Bipolar Comment by luxdivon
• i'd be interested to see if anyone that is bipolar could come entirely off medication by being 100% raw. Do you think 100% raw would be enough? Maybe 100% with yoga(or other exercise) at least 4 times a week? It would have to be decided how long you…

  in Raw & Bipolar Comment by luxdivon
• glad to hear you found encouragement from them, jt.. ooo. me and my beau need to do that. there are 3! raw restaurants. I actually haven't been to any of them yet. i've been too broke! hopefully soon..yea totally don't beat yourself up. it's just no…

  in Starting my THIRD week!!!! Comment by luxdivon
• Just remember, every week you eat raw you become stronger. You feel better. You know yourself better. Don't give up now. you've only begun. By stopping now, you will lose every great raw day, moment, and life of the future. Funnel your energy from o…

  in Starting my THIRD week!!!! Comment by luxdivon
• I guess i'm with everyone else in that, i'd just let yourself have what you want. Since it's not happening that often, why fret? Since seasonally eggplant, potatoes, and winter squash are ripening, we have been having some cooked potatoes with winte…

  in Help, bread&staches yet again Comment by luxdivon
• My scapegoat is easy. I just tell people I eat fruits and vegetables and leave it at that. All people for the most part at some point eat them, so they just say "oh" and i think it throws them off, so they go about their merry way. Either that, or j…

  in the rare raw foodist Comment by luxdivon
• granted i wasn't raw yet, but my coworker was raw, i went to one of her raw potlucks, and that was the beginning. Also when I was a the grocery store and looking for some parasite pills, I talked to the vitamin grocery lady, and she was very familia…

  in the rare raw foodist Comment by luxdivon
• It took about 3-4 months before I started to wake up feeling more refreshed. The days I feel the most refreshed are actually the days I eat fruit based smoothies at night/ eat light before bed. I don't do that everyday thou, so there are many a day …

  in what can i answer? Comment by luxdivon
• maybe your grandmother would live to be 120 if she ate raw. She probably has a strong constitution. Each individual has varying levels of constitution. It maybe that if she does become sick, from eating the way she does, that she will falter fast, a…

  in what can i answer? Comment by luxdivon
• megan lyne i would highly suggest buying our letting me send you a book "the cancer cure" although I had precancerous cells, I fought it better naturally than conventianal (it's entirely the reason i am who i am today). It was based upon a vegetaria…

  in cancer & kemo therapy alternatives? Comment by luxdivon
• it might have been food combining. with the orange and spinach, i've heard citrus fruits should be eaten alone. i feel like bananas are ok with greens, and i've had ok luck with berries, but i've never tried citrus with it. I did a orange, banana &a…

  in For those of you who have multiple bowel movements a day, what exactly do you eat Comment by luxdivon
• it does take awhile liger for your psychology to change. it may be that you're well on your way to permanent change, you just need to do what you can now, until that takes place. It took a long time for me. You'll make it. The anxiety about how much…

  in Help! with staying raw Comment by luxdivon
• it must be by month 3 or 4 you feel like you've accomplished "raw". I feel like i'm in the same boat. the cooked food I am eating I am choosing to eat, but I feel like i'm being drawn to cooked food as much as raw food. a combination for me had me e…

  in Help! with staying raw Comment by luxdivon
• oil pull! look it up it will help within a week. and continue to eat raw food. 4 months in, and my teeth feel and look better. Oh, and ditch the toothpaste for baking soda/salt option (my teeth felt even better after that) You might be allergic to s…

  in sore gums Comment by luxdivon
• on juicers - we have one, and it is now put away in our cupboard. We have a $50 oster blender and it actually blends juices i would say as good as the juicer.. just cut up the vegetable or fruit small enough and throw it in. I didn't realize till my…

  in Favorite juices Comment by luxdivon
• I am a very lucky girl. He's 6'5" so he found out early in life that food was important :) it's too bad about your hubby.. he's really missing out. man, if he could even just try some of them, i bet he would say they would be good "in addition to" h…

  in Need basic daily foods.... Comment by luxdivon
• the wraps he made the other day were amazing!. For this specific one He did a style where he did the "Meat" filling with pecans, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, some oil, avocado, nutritional yeast, garlic, onions, haberno pepper, lime, oregano, bas…

  in Need basic daily foods.... Comment by luxdivon
• Blakejack here's the deal with the pate(spread) and wrap. Lay out Lettuce wrap. we've found collard greens or other big leaf varieties work well. My boyfriend makes one with pecans & sunflowers that is great. spread it on. Cut up avocados, mango…

  in Need basic daily foods.... Comment by luxdivon
• i wonder how many other anorexia kids really just want to be raw vegans? it's something i didn't expect to hear.. Not that they hate food. it's almost like a rejection of what they know shouldn't be in your body anyway. Just to an extreme. and when …

  in Concern about a 16 year old's raw veganism. Help me prove them wrong. Comment by luxdivon
• Raw Food is Easy! :) you'll see. soon enough. Welcome.

  in Greeting, new, need support and making friends Comment by luxdivon
• :see thread "What you ate today" we have a whole thread going on just that! maybe repost this comment there.

  in What do you typically eat every day? Comment by luxdivon
• Welcome! first things first girl. You have to start thinking of SAD food, cooked food, processed food as "NOT FOOD" if you can retrain your mind, so when you look at pizza and say that's not food, then it might help stick to what will make you happy…

  in 27, PCOS, morbidly obsese, and miserable Comment by luxdivon
• yea you'll be floored at the taste difference between organic and non organic teas. I thought I didn't like green tea. Turns out I like green tea just fine, just organic green tea. seems like what i didn't like was all those pesticides! hehe. yea.. …

  in Are herbal teas raw? Comment by luxdivon
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  in eat to live vs. live to eat Comment by luxdivon
• i'm probably around 85% raw and here are my weaknesses! Coffee, and still Skinny Lattes across the street from where i work. sometimes it's a matter of sanity. I have gotten better thou. I sometimes now choose kombucha over coffee. chile & lime …

  in Your non raw treats? Comment by luxdivon
• That's so awesome it is making you feel better. It will definitely save you in Medical bills! Make sure to keep us updating as to how you're doing, everyone is very helpful & supportive here. You might want to look up some threads on "allergies"…

  in Anyone else here with SLE? Comment by luxdivon
• opps I meant $20 a day for both of us...still barely enough to get what we need..anywayz..it's all good. we're musicians...so getting a shitty corporate job is not my thing...i would rather starve than work for coporate america... i hope to be makin…

  in Raw food is breaking my budget..... Comment by luxdivon
• daliwndrland i don't think you understand. Mono meals are EXPENSIVE. Even a banana mono meal which would be like 5 lbs of bananas is $5. For some of us $15 a day is way over budget for a day..Me and my fiancee are stuck to about $10/day. Beans and R…

  in Raw food is breaking my budget..... Comment by luxdivon
• Sounds like you're doing great Blakejack. You're doing what you can do. That's all we can ever do. Just keep doing what you can, and eventually it'll all work out. I feel like it's kinda like karma....now that you know that eating raw makes you feel…

  in Raw food is breaking my budget..... Comment by luxdivon
• maybe it would help if you write out your groceries.... If it has alot of nuts, then it's going to be more expensive.. You can buy 5 pounds of organic carrots for $5. Some vegetables are still OK non-organic. LIke you I have a restricted diet, so th…

  in Raw food is breaking my budget..... Comment by luxdivon