Right now, I have been 100% vegan for 19 months. I don’t eat hydrodgenated oils, refined sugar, “white” products, and I limit my caffeine. I would very much like to be raw. The idea has been in the back of my mind for about nine months, and then I remember things like pasta and bread and rice and being poor and I can’t do it. It is like my mind is divided into two sections: 1. “I can definitely do this. I really feel like I should.” 2. “How the freak am I going to do this? I love cooked things too much.”
I know that the second argument is weak, but it is there. Another major concern is that I live on a budget, and I am CHEAP. (I am cheap to a fault.) I don’t know if I could get over that enough to live completely healthfully as a raw person.
I guess what I am getting to is: How did everyone here decide to make the switch? How was the transition? Is it easier to go cold turkey or transition slowly?
I am a cold turkey kind of person, but with this I feel that I need to go slowly and trasition into 100%
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Winona-That sounds like a great idea! I recently moved to Lancaster, PA, and it has a crapload of farms all over. I always wanted to work on a farm (I have a theory about it), and I didn’t even consider that I could volunteer at one! I was considering transitioning slowly as well. I went cold turkey on vegan, sugar, and wheat before, so I want to take this a little slower and give myself more room for “error” (error as in how exactly I want to do this.)
eloisaweesa-Thanks for the advice. I have tried going raw for a couple of days at a time before, but I didn’t know what I was doing and ended up eating two salads and a huge amount of fruit everyday, which I hated. Then I found out that a lot of things other than fruits and vegetables are raw and felt like an idiot. haha
angie-thanks for sharing! That phrase, “You’ll find your own path,” really inspired me for some reason.