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**DEEP BREATHE** Okay, here i go again…  honesty blogging…

I have re-developed many symptoms that had been eliminated with my high-raw-vegan diet, such as:

• arthritis
• PMS symptoms
• headaches
• weight gain (20 lbs!)
• lack of motivation
• brain fog
• Aging in appearance! (Seriously!  Prior to this Holiday season people would often ask my daughter and I if we were sisters!  Now– nope.)

Evidently not.   My experiment has failed miserably on all frontiers it seems.   I suppose I could try to find justification in the fact that some of our best family memories are from sitting around the dinner table, or that holiday baking is one of my favorite family traditions even from childhood.

The truth is, that once I ventured off of my high energy foods, once I cooked them, they sucked me in like a black hole.  Slowly over the past months I have moved from nourishing myself to gnoshing.

And I am paying the price…

Does my family appreciate this?  No!  They still want to eat what they want… when they want it.  They are adults (or nearly) with very strong opinions of their own.  They also don’t appreciate my general demise– they want me to be my healthy, happy, crazy self.  Would I  love for them to want to eat healthy?  Of course!

What I’ve discovered though, through this experiment is:

• They have to want to.
  

I must use the oxygen mask theory:

Take care of myself so that I’ll be around to take care of those around me.

• The buck stops here.

I’m feeling like it’s gonna be a bit of work to get my lifestyle pulled back together– I can hardly believe how far off course I’ve drifted in this short time, but I want it all back!   All the:

• energy,
  
• clarity and
  
• vibrant health
  

It’s never too late to improve my diet and health.

• I am hereby setting my intentions to get back to rawfoods, exercise and inspiration.
  
• I will be taking photos of myself weekly– I know how quickly rawfood makes a difference in my appearance and energy levels.
  
• I will weigh once a week.
  

This is a personal journey, but I invite you to come along for the ride and see what happens or run alongside and cheer me on.  Even better yet, join me on this path toward excellent health!

Many Blessings,

Joanna Rawvelous

*rawfood diet:  Fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds.  Ideally organic and locally grown.  Not cooked.

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