wow, once I typed in the title/heading it occurred to me that my new hero is really ME, but I've also stumbled upon a wonderful source of inspiration in the form of a woman named Angela Stokes. She's something of a legend in the raw and living foods circles, mainly for her transformation from being obese (around 300 pounds) to a shining example of the healing power of eating and living in the most natural way imaginable. She lost about 160 pounds all told but her inner emotional and spiritual journey was every bit as profound.
She has a really fabulous website at www.rawreform.com that has so many amazing features and bits of information, including her own story with loads of photos. She's written several books, all of which I will purchase soon, and offers consultations. I'm definitely going to treat myself to that very soon, because I am shifting into a raw living lifestyle myself.
For me, the first steps have been to back away from red meat, pork and chicken, with only occassional fish and eggs, foresaking wheat for only some sprouted grain bread, ditching all dairy but a little goat's cheese on salads and when I'm not eating raw, I'm eating cooked veggies. I'm also keeping the idea of proper food combining in mind, so mornings are all fruit, afternoon is salad city, in between is fruit when I need a snack and evenings are cooked veggies and salad.
Someday, I will find myself 100% raw but it's something I know I need to ease into and look at as a lifestyle shift, not a quick fix. I can tell you that from just shifting back into this as a focus over the past weekend, I already feel so different, it's amazing. Just last week I was guzzling coffee drinks, eating lots of wheat and even refined sugar products, along with dairy, and flesh protein. I'm taking the shift in slow, easy strides, but just ditching coffee, refined wheat, table sugar and flesh protein feels pretty damn good.
For the first time in a while, I woke up this morning without sneezing and wheezing. My energy level stays consistently high all morning, and I just generally feel lighter and better.
So while I was posting this to exclaim to the world how moved I am by this woman's story, her courage and her desire to offer encouragement and support to anyone and everyone who is ready to live life to its fullest, I'm realizing that in point of fact....I am my own hero. ;)
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