Deborah
Joined October 3, 2008<p>My name is Deborah. I am a typical average American woman living in a suburb of New York City. I am a wife, mother, sister, daughter, granddaughter, friend and employee. I am also an accidental raw foodist.</p> <p>I have never been particularly overweight but I have never been accused of being thin either. I have known that I was heavy since an early age but I am tall and can carry it well…at least in clothes. For as long as I can remember, I have never been completely comfortable in my own skin. I tried my first diet when I was in my early twenties after my oldest daughter was born and for the first time in my life, I felt truly great. But that didn’t last very long. The truth is, I like food and I like to eat. I have never understood people that can just eat a little of something. It’s just not how I am wired.</p> <p>So for the past 20 years I have been the quintissential yo-yo dieter but for some reason, no diet has ever worked twice for me. There is something about the novelty of a new diet that helps me stick to it. Weight Watchers, Atkins, South Beach, Master Cleanse just to list a few. I’ve read the books and seen nutritionists and followed through, felt absolutely great and swore that I’d stay that way permanently only to gradually slip back to old habits. As the pounds returned, so did feeling frustrated, aggravated with myself and just plain unattractive. I could be in denial that it was happening but clothing doesn’t lie. There have been many a morning that I had to change my clothes five times before finding something that I felt comfortable wearing.</p> <p>I hit one of these dark patches in August of 2007. I was in a bookstore with my girls when my older daughter picked up a book called “21 Pounds in 21 Daysâ€Â. I read the back cover and figured, why not. That decision started me on the journey that would ultimately lead me to a lifestyle of living foods. I never meant to alter my lifestyle so dramitcally, I just wanted to lose a size or two but once you learn why people eat this way, it is so compelling and feels so wonderful that it is hard to think of going back to the old ways.</p>
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