I went to Florida for a week and waiting in the airport for five hours was difficult. Then the flying finally began. When I changed planes I had 20 minutes to eat and get back on the next plane. I had been eating high raw, dairy and grain free- but with meat and chicken. I just couldn't shake that last 5 to 10 percent cooked. A few days before I flew out I started eating dairy again. Just some ice cream, yogurt and cheese. Between planes, I ate a burger and decided, well, why not just eat the bun? I am rushing so I will just do it. I knew I was making an excuse to do what I wanted to do. (but didn't really on some level) I gave in.
In coach I sat close to another man. Great grandfather. Good conversation. I felt closed in though, more than other times flying. I felt dizzy from the flight. I felt itchy. I could physically feel my body taking on water. I was expanding. I was miserable. I was having a grain reaction.
In Florida I stayed high raw, but dairy and meat remained. I ate 10 mangoes in 5 days. I was in raw food heaven.
When I came back from Florida, I quit dairy. It wasn't hard at all. I was ready and having reactions. I wasn't itchy like from grains. It's truly clear that the itching and excema I grew up with was a grain allergy. I knew I needed to go dairy free. It was keeping me fat. It was effecting my mood and my memory. I could feel the change within two days. It was such a relief.
I decided to take another step. No more meat. No more animals. It was a huge difference. It made all the difference. I didn't think it would matter so much. It mattered more than dairy. I felt a huge change in my digestion.
My boyfriend and I joke. Dairy is a gateway drug to grains. Well, meat is a gateway to dairy, and the cycle begins. I was really missing this link. I feel so free now.
I was at the book store and I was looking through books. I found info on Vegan diets. I found info on the Paleo diet. Everyone loves this one currently. I found info on the Vegan Paleo diet. That's what I am going for I guess. I came to it without a book but here is a book on it.
Then I found a book on coconut flour at my house in my library. It was 10 years old. I remembered making these items before I went raw.
When I went raw everything changed. I was free, thin and happy. But after 8 months, I was out of sink with the world. I was isolated. Perhaps that means nothing now. But does it? Clearly it does. That's why I am not raw now.
Ok so, meat really effects me, dairy effects me, and grains. What else? Eggs seem ok, fruit and veg work, to many nuts doesn't, some cooked and high raw-great.
So after I went Vegan, I felt better. I also felt so gassy! That sucked, but it's passed now. It was bad. Day 4 I added coconut flour pancakes, and my bowls relaxed, and they really relaxed. I went to the bathroom a lot more and with ease. Wow? That's weird? I thought cooking wasn't good? Coconut is a big YES!
So Committed to raw? Yes, to high raw. Committed to not cooking? Yet to be determined. Coconut Flour is revolutionary. It's changing how I feel about everything. I am going to bake and cook and see how it goes. I will keep blogging my changes.
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