a little over a year ago, i was preparing to study for my CAPE unit 2 exams and encountered a tumblr post that listed "brain blocking foods". i remember meat and dairy being listed. i decided to try something.
i ate only fruits for three days.
i don't remember how i felt exactly, but i know i had fun doing it 'cause i've always been big on fruits. i ate a serving every two hours and drank water every hour. i don't remember being hungry and it didn't feel like a chore. to be honest, though, i don't know if my mind was exactly "cleared", but i guess it would take more than three days to really accomplish something noticeable.
anyway, the third day of the fruit flush was when i decided that i was going to give up meat. i has never, EVER considered it before in my life. i loved chicken. i loved turkey bacon in the morning. i loved ham at christmas time. but i didn't think about it as a sacrifice, i saw it as a new life perspective which was always something interesting.
i started off by only eating meat on weekends (my family gave me a hard time and basically thought i wasn't serious about the whole thing). then one day, i just did not want meat anymore.
i still ate fish, though, just because it's convenient sometimes (i also LOVE salmon).
i know i'll never go back to meat. i remember the night of my graduation, i was forced to eat some crispy wings from KFC and man, it messed me up. it was the most awful feeling. i could feel the grease eating away at my insides. never again.
the point of that anecdote was to lead to the next leap i am about to take. i want to consume mostly raw food for the rest of my life. maybe 80% of the time.
i'm starting it off with a weekly one day smoothie fast (today!)
excited to see the results that will come both physically and spiritually and i will definitely be updating regularly. i am waiting for my sister to hurry up and order my phone so that i can create an instagram account and take pretty pictures like the ones i've been gawking over these past few weeks!
