Day 57 of Raw - Is it Ground Hog Day?

Day 57 of Raw. Is it ground hog day?

No it's not ground hog day. We just had to roll back our raw day count number and repeat 57 again. Yesterday was not a raw day for us.

Memorial day weekend we typically host a birthday bash at our home to celebrate 3 or 4 family birthdays all at once. It was quite a dilemma to decide whether we wanted to do a Raw food get together or keep the menu a typical one like we had before in the past. Chris and I probably agonized more over this question than any I can remember in a long time. We wanted to eat raw. We wanted to introduce our family to raw. In the end we decided to keep the menu the same as in the past. Rather than surprise everyone with a raw food menu, which they may or may not appreciate, we thought it would probably be better to slowy introduce raw foods to the family a little at a time. Might have more luck that way.

Well, when the day arrived, Chris and I experienced a lot of different emotions. It's really amazing how much emotion is tied to food! I was having jitters about eating my first cooked food meal in almost 2 months - afraid of how it might shock my system, and wondering how my body would feel. Chris was admitting he was looking forward to the cheeseburger later that afternoon, but was also feeling trepidicious. It got to the point where I almost had decided I would just abstain from the cooked food and find myself some raw things to eat. But I didn't want to make anyone feel weird so I went ahead and convinced myself to just "stop it and enjoy myself and just eat the food. To just look upon the whole experience as an experiment of sorts to see what would happen and how I would feel."

Okay. Well, the time came, we ate the food, it tasted... okay ... but like Chris kept telling me in amazement, "it just wasn't as good as I was anticipating! I kept waiting to taste that taste I'd been looking forward to ... but it was just... eeehhh... okay.."

After I ate, I felt like I had WAY overdone it. The funny thing about eating raw is that even if you've never been able to stop eating (cooked foods) when your body feels full, on the raw food diet, you do. You stop eating when you are full. It's just a natural turn of events that happens on its own without your being consciously aware of it. Well, when I ate the cooked food, that natural ability was gone. I kept eating and eating. Almost as though my body were trying to fill a void or something. I guess it probably was trying to fill a void - a nutrition void! LOL!

Anyway, after the meal I felt so full that my stomach hurt. I had to go to the couch and lay down. Chris and I both noticed that as soon as we ate we experienced a huge slump in energy very soon after eating. We became very tired. I was feeling really bad until my sister in law suggested I eat a bit of fresh mint to soothe my stomach. Thank goodness for her! Very quickly after eating the mint I was feeling much better!

So now I see EXACTLY why this day turned out the way it did. It was a big lesson for us. It showed us how much better we feel when we eat raw. It renewed our commitment to the raw eating lifestyle. It showed us how much we look forward to eating raw foods and how much better raw foods and faw food dishes taste to us now. Thank you, Universe!