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• Hi suzyq! That’s a great question. I was very nervous, secretive at first, ready for the backlash, as we vegetarians are used to, but the response was so much more positive than I imagined. It’s different from coming out as a vegetarian, which is th…

  in how did you "come out"? Comment by amysue
• A lot. Couldn’t give you an exact figure, but a lot more than I used to, BUT, I go a little crazy with high quality superfoods and herbs so I go a bit beyond basic raw food. I also hardly ever go out to eat, it’s just not appealing anymore so there’…

  in How much $ do you spend? Comment by amysue
• Hey Rabbit! Just a heads up – I had a lot of digestive upset the first month and I incorrectly thought this what how it was going to be raw, but really it was my system learning how to digest again. I also thought I was going to see miraculous resul…

  in Raw for a month Comment by amysue
• angie – I just love the idea of my daughter sitting for a half hour and doing nothing but staring at flowers!

  in how's your garden? Comment by amysue
• If you’re worried about the bees here’s a way to help: http://www.greatsunflower.org/ They send you free seeds and twice a month you watch for bees, can’t hurt. The crocuses are up here and daffodils are following.

  in how's your garden? Comment by amysue
• I’m starting to get the itch to get out there, but here in Massachusetts it’s too early. Being a low-maintenance (lazy) person I go for things that can take care of themselves and that my daughter can pick and eat. So veggies are a no. We grow lots …

  in how's your garden? Comment by amysue
• Hey coconut dream – I’m also fair, freckled, used to be a redhead, no tans here. Last summer I tried going with just coconut oil for short periods in the sun and I still burned. I had only been raw for a month or two so maybe this summer will be dif…

  in Sunscreen Comment by amysue
• Thank you Carmentina, this is great – my printer’s smoking! ardesmond2 – my daughter loved the tapioca pudding recipe on this site so hopefully yours will too! It didn’t take much to fill her up.

  in 10 Chia seed recipes Comment by amysue
• ardesmond2 – sorry, missed your question – it’s a Bass brush and it’s just soft enough, but feels very therapeutic, even on my neck which can’t handle the body brush.

  in beauty products Comment by amysue
• carrie6292 – I have combination skin too and I do use it to cleanse my face like ardesmond2, but it works better if I dry brush with a soft facial brush first to get rid of the dead skin (feels good too). If you put the coconut oil on top of dead sk…

  in beauty products Comment by amysue
• honeywater – I used to work in the beauty industry for high-end cosmetic companies, then switched to natural brands: I was convinced I needed skin cleanser, exfoliant, eye cream, separate body moisturizer, shaving cream, etc. etc. I’ve managed to wh…

  in beauty products Comment by amysue
• I would suggest buying more lemons and limes than she ever imagined she might need, I’ve only now learned to buy enough to get me through the week.

  in Kitchen Staples Comment by amysue
• Pundee – I take MSM powder, but with everything else I take, I couldn’t say if it makes a difference, but it seems to be really valuable healthwise – there’s a youtube video of David Wolfe speaking about calcium (the bad kind) and he talks about MSM…

  in Eating for Beauty Comment by amysue
• I put a tablespoon in my smoothies every day. Also use it on my skin for moisturizing and shaving, removing makeup, my coconut oil book says you can absorb it that way too. My daughter now has her own little jar so she can look shiny!

  in coconut oil. how do you take it? Comment by amysue
• Hey angie! I did Dr. Cousen’s Phase 1, which is basically what you’re doing now for a month and I was pretty miserable until I discovered stevia with vanilla extract, it’s a liquid with a dropper and it saved me. I’ve read about your concerns with s…

  in Veggies Only - Help! Comment by amysue
• Thai Salad with Peanut Sauce, I could eat it every day.

  in What's your favorite recipe on this site? Comment by amysue
• What a loving family you have. I’m so glad for all of you that he’s home.

  in Shellshocked Comment by amysue
• jenergy – Here’s some good news – my uncle who is in his 70’s was diagnosed with lung cancer last year (he was a smoker). He had already survived an aggressive skin cancer and was in remission. But after surgery he’s recovering well and the prognosi…

  in Shellshocked Comment by amysue
• locustgirl – in my case I bloated like crazy in the beginning no matter what I ate – I attribute it to candida cleansing because it all came back when I did a serious candida cleanse. The food was irrelevant, every evening especially my stomach was …

  in new and bloating like crazy Comment by amysue
• smoothielove, I heard it too and it gave me chills. Here we are choosing to take the natural route and we have no choice but to take everyone else’s drugs! My husband studies pollutants in whales (everything eventually runs into the sea) and they’ve…

  in hormones in the drinking water Comment by amysue
• Hey Luna blu, I’m so with you, it’s extremely overwhelming. I live with a meat eater too and I just don’t get it, but I’ve found that getting angry with him only makes him defensive. I like your ideas and everyone’s feedback, I just signed the petit…

  in What else can we do.... Comment by amysue
• This is more of a practical suggestion, but ever since I made the tapioca pudding on this site I am obsessed with chia seeds. They’re inexpensive, very high in fiber, they retain water and help your body retain water which is filling, very high in o…

  in HELP with transitioning!!! Comment by amysue
• Hey rawcakes – I had two flu-like episodes in the first months after going raw and I also went raw cold-turkey. I had headaches, fever, aches – was bedridden for a couple of days each time, and it wasn’t flu season so it think it was detox. To be qu…

  in Immune system shocked? Comment by amysue
• I did have a friend whose hair fell out on a fat-free diet, but between hempseed/oil and all of the other suggestions you should be all set. Maybe you can give him the link for this site and he can check out all of the gorgeous hair and skin of the …

  in essential fatty acids Comment by amysue
• Pizza in Rome, croissants and bread in Paris (not that these were regular items in my diet, but once is enough!), Mom’s mac n cheese and her apple pie which I have to eat raw or not. Ok, and a bagel with lox and everything on it.

  in greatest cooked food weakness? Comment by amysue
• heartshapedsky – chia seeds! In the recipe section there’s a recipe for tapioca pudding I just discovered made with chia seeds and there’s a very convenient link to nutritional information about chia seeds. It will blow your mind and sounds perfect …

  in endurance athlete Comment by amysue
• Hey! I’m passing along a website to your friend of a guy I went to school with, who is also a raw athlete http://www.runningraw.com/faq.htm He’s had amazing success being raw and his site explains what he eats. He seems to be very big on Larabars w…

  in endurance athlete Comment by amysue
• I live in Massachusetts and don’t know any rawfoodists personally. I know there’s a potluck advertised at the health food store so I’m not alone!

  in How many raw fooders do you know? Comment by amysue
• I’ve had two really bad episodes since I went raw in July – SPLITTING headaches and fevers. JKMN - I just read something by David Wolfe recently where he said digesting cooked food is much different from digesting raw food and you’re now working th…

  in how was it for you... Comment by amysue
• For Thanksgiving last year I made an Ani Phyo recipe where you grind it up in the food processor with raw walnuts and mix that up with chopped cilantro and dried fruit and some cumin. Once it’s ground up, as pianissima suggests, you could add anythi…

  in Butternut Squash Comment by amysue