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I just had prom about two weeks ago and was really nervous about the dinner thing. We ate at a friends house with about ten people (only two knew about my raw food). I really didn’t want to eat a cooked meal. So I ate something before I went and brought a salad… lots of questions came after that haha I felt awkward when everyone noticed I wasn’t eating the pasta and chicken dish but I’m glad that I didn’t and they found it interesting and then began talking about something else. I was glad I chose to bring something myself. I find that if I know a salad at a restaurant wont be enough I make sure to eat before I go and then just have a salad so I wont be sitting there with nothing. Also I often order a side of veggies and just ask them to skip the cooking.
I feel like I’ve been avoidant about hanging out with friends in the context of meals, which I don’t like, because I end up isolating myself to some degree. I don’t have a problem with being around others when they’re eating whatever, but I still feel awkward either not eating or eating something that in the SAD paradigm seems like I’m on a diet or starving myself. Especially as an actress in Los Angeles, the LAST thing I want to appear to be is on some faddish calorie-restrictive kick—especially since the point of going raw is about abundant health and happiness, not about self-hatred masquerading as anything other than a societally induced eating disorder. I’m very encouraged by everyone on this website and their strength and comfort with being raw in public, and can relate to you, Karuna, about being in the closet! What I have found is that when I’ve been bold enough to talk about raw veganism that some friends will step up and be supportive. And you can even sometimes see the wheels churning in their mind…as in, Could that be why she’s doing so well…?
Every time I tell myself today is the day I start all over and go 100% Raw my husband wants to go out to eat. The only thing I can have is salad and well, I hate salad! But, if it makes my husband and son happy then salad it is. My friend Julie got me hooked on raw but she lives 2 hours away so we don’t see each other all that often. She has been my support even though she’s not here. Forget “family” events like parties and holidays…might as well just stay home. I hate when you do something good for yourself and everyone has to pull their noses up at what you do! Or they say, doesn’t that get boring or ewwww everything is cold. So with that said, social events are very hard for me unless I’m with people of “my kind”. All I have to say is they don’t know what they are missing especially if it involves maca & cacao!!