First of all, I am snooping around this site: http://www.rawfoodtalk.com It’s a raw vegan diet (as in what you eat, not as in diet foods) site. From the site:

I do not promote a high fat raw food diet which some claim. I promote freedom of choice. For those of you who think I promote a high fat diet, my first response to you would be… READ the book! My second response to people who think I promote a high fat raw food diet is, “no, what I promote is a no starvation diet. That means that if I eat my typical daily diet of juice, smoothies, salad and fruit but once in a while I want something else, like mock salmon pate on top of my salad or if I want a dessert after eating simply for a week or so, im going to have it. My point in doing raw food is not to analyze everything I put in my mouth and not to beat myself up if I want to eat something other then a fruit or vegetable.

My diet is probably much simpler then most peoples here so it’s funny when people say I promote high fat. I think they say that because they get so neurotic about having a handful of nuts once a week or they eat so lightly and then god forbid they have a raw dessert. It’s also bizarre to me that the people who are the strictest and have the most rules are the ones who are not 100% raw or who fall off the raw wagon constantly. My philosophy and book do not promote a high fat raw food diet. I talk about all of this in my book. I talk about transitioning and using lots of recipes at first and then moving away from that to a lighter diet. Im not sitting around making calzones all day. I eat mostly whole fruits, veggies, juice and salads.

But I know that the reason most people fall off of this diet is because they get too rigid. Yes, you may after a time of eating raw foods move gradually to a simpler diet. But if you put rules on yourself around what you can and can’t have within a raw food diet, there will be a day when you want a flax cracker, dessert, pate or a prepared raw recipe and if you don’t allow yourself to have it, you’ll be driving to the local pizza hut. Or, you’ll be white knuckling it. What kind of way is that to live? Certainly doesn’t sound like a fun, easy way to live to me. This diet is supposed to be about, in my opinion, freedom. Don’t make this more complicated then it is. Stress causes just as much if not more sickness in the body then what you eat. Relax, eat raw, and live.

After my post yesterday, and some chatting it out on Punky Moms this is the way for me to go right now. I am looking into getting a nicer juicer than the one I have (I have a cheapie 20$ one, I am looking into getting an Omega 8003 from my organic delivery co.) and juicing it up in the morning, having a nice lunch with DH in the afternoon, and a fabu salad at night. I’ll still be making chicken and stuff for everyone else, but from what I see, this is the way to go.

I picked up a book today as kind of an “intro to raw foods” book. It’s simple, easy to understand, lays it all out. I’m am really excited about this! I want to order a couple of other books, recipes and stuff.

I feel a lot better today. Why? I think it’s because I have something to focus on. I have some new tubes coming tomorrow, so I can work on tattooing, and I have my new camera (I know, I haven’t posted shit – most of the Orlando shots were taken with the new cam) to keep me busy. I just need my brain constantly occupied. I still feel huge, but I really believe this raw food deal is going to help take care of that. Slow but sure, anyway. Plus, it’s basically GFCF, so I can put Malachai on it too. I’m pretty excited about that. We’ll see if it helps him any.