Been quite some time since I posted, and several computers ago...this is rawbite, yogijade, and well, just Jade...
I was 100% raw for over 3 years, almost 4, then feeling quite secure and confident, I started eating certain cooked items, usually at a family function, just to fit in a little better...arrrgh, it has been a struggle for the last 8 months with cooked food since, especially through the winter up here in British Columbia...
this is what I experienced since eating cooked food: lower energy, eating more, a general lack of self control eating things that do not agree with me, and more body smells...
I know without a doubt that raw food is the best way to eat, for me...
especially bio regional as possible...
I am on my first 100% raw day, and highly motivated to take one day at a time, raw as we go...
one of the things that opened me up to the eating of cooked food, the major reason even over social ones, is sustainability.
When I look at the way things are in the world, wanting to do my best not to be part of the lifestyle of polluting violent disregarding the rest of the world types, I started thinking more seriously about sustainability.
In other words, if the grid goes down, and the trucks stop coming up here from California and Mexico, would I still be eating year round and what would that look like...
Well, I have a very healthy organic garden, been eating out of it almost completely since May, the big exception being sunflower seeds, which I feel okay about since they grow in the north and I do have a small experimental crop of those in...there are lots of foods here in the warm season...but winter,,,is it really sustainable to eat only raw in the snow climate? what is the point of eating raw all winter if the food comes from the south and is therefore 'unsustainable"...
the issue I have is thus: I don't want to be all raw just because it is the best for me, I also want it to be the best for the planet...
can you really do this in the north...?
I did eat raw through 2 cold winters with no problems, but only because of the southern food...
what is really sustainable for this climate?
a new level of consciousness, and the challenges that go with it...
perhaps it is a simple as going south for the winter,,, perhaps there is another way...more food experiments...