A lot of people are saying that they have struggled to maintain a mostly raw diet. I can say that I, too, have run into this problem, but I have an idea why most people cannot stay mostly raw.
I believe that most people cannot stay on a mostly raw diet because they have not truly dealt with what is going on within. The root of the problem usually is not the food. Rather, it is what is going on inside of our bodies. For this reason I find that staying mostly raw on a consistent basis can be hard. We definitely use cooked food as a crutch.
I’ve faced this problem many times, continually falling off track. Finally, I realized why! For me, food has always been something I could count on in my life. I couldn’t always count on people to be there for me, but I could count on food to be there. So, naturally, I always gravitated toward food whenever I was feeling emotionally down. This not-so-great act went on for more than 20 years. Don’t you think that after two decades-plus of stuffing emotion-laden food into me that it might not be so super easy to just switch gears on my diet just because I am eating healthier? This takes work.
I think that as we work toward our ideal eating lifestyle, we have to start doing some inner work. I’ll be honest, I did a lot of that on my own. Still, it takes 10 times longer to do this alone. I wish I would have gotten some help along the way. Looking back on my journey, I can tell you that cooked food really doesn’t do anything for me emotionally. I can say this now, but it first required doing the inner work.
I believe that once you have done this work, you will find that you can be a lot more stable on a mostly raw diet.
