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14 years ago
ela
I love the chilled-out fly too!
It always amazes me when I go back to the UK and Israel to visit family and find in-shell hemp seeds as the best value food in the natural food stores! It helps me get over the shock of everything being so expensive...
The shells are pretty tough, but those sprouts are great in salads.
But I remember when I was traveling in Thailand I met an English rawfo
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
ela
My personal experience has been that raw cacao, especially powder (as opposed to nibs or whole beans), has a much more stimulating effect on my body than regular 'cooked' cocoa does, and I've seen this mentioned by others too. Whether this is caused by caffeine/theobromine/something else is an interesting question, as I don't know what changes caffeine undergoes when heated...
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
ela
I was very happy for some years eating very few nuts and seeds indeed and no sprouts at all either, but back then I also accepted that different people have different needs, and I saw others who thrived on those things. So, flipperjan, if your body does fine without those, it needn't be a problem, just like David suggested. My experience is that there is no one macronutrient ratio that is optimal
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
ela
Hey!
Thank you guys so much for the warm (rawm) welcome back! It gives me all kinds of warm fuzzies.
After I made that post, we could barely get home in the intense blizzard, and yesterday we could barely leave the house! Now, it's let up a bit and it's good to come back on here and make good.
Thanks for posting, you guys - I remember you all too and it really warms my heart to read your
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 14 years ago
ela
Dear All,
I used to be a regular poster here from 2003-7 (originally posted as luskinia, and then used my own name, Ela, when the old board crashed and had to regroup). Some of you may remember me: it's heartening to look in once again and see some familiar names and faces.
When I first came on board, I was still very much in the grip of anorexia, and found some ease doing an 80-10-10 type
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
ela
brome - thank you _so_ much for posting that!
The Book of the Secrets is something that I've been slowly working through but didn't feel like I could bring it with me here to Hawaii (it's rainy season, we're pretty much outside all the time and I minimized the books). So I'm delighted that I can continue that exploration.
Morning yoga for me too but I used to love the evenings as well and m
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
ela
Debbie,
This is a wonderful thing you're doing for yourself. It's great that you're so open to exploring this.
I find that I generally eat 2-3 times per day, and most people I know that eat this way do similarly. I do snack occasionally but honestly my digestion is better if I eat meals rather than snacks. Otherwise, one fruit is chasing another and it's as if my stomach doesn't quite know
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
ela
Cherimoya is Noi-na (or maybe that's an Atemoya - close, anyway).
I was just hearing from a friend who lives in Koh Samui that they had a second durian season this winter, and a really good one. It seems to depend somewhat on the rain pattern how much the trees fruit in the main (June--August) season and whether they also get a second season. But the durian on Samui is awesome - lots of locall
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
ela
Hey, there was a thread about exactly this real recently - I'm sure if you do a search it'll come straight up.
Plantains are delicious! But you do have to wait until the skin is pretty much completely black and the fruit is soft. It is then like a much richer version of banana. I hope you'll get to enjoy one soon, or several! They can just be a little hard to ripen - sometimes you have to jus
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
ela
dancerinthenight,
Maybe we can talk sometime? I feel some similar frustration about the mainstream eating disorder treatment paradigm, especially that it's set up to make sure that people _don't_ recover and emphasizes urging people to expect to remain afflicted for life.
Celiac was one of my issues too and I really feel that physiological problems contribute to why someone ends up with an
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
ela
Suvine, that's so cute - stereo lol!
ILoveJen, you're in for a treat! It's a wonderful thing, a direct line to your body's personal signals, undiluted and unstimulated - makes for the best of tastes and best of digestion.
Yes, you can eat mono meals of greens - my favorite is celery. But of course it'll be a very low-calorie meal, so you might want to have it shortly before (or after) somet
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
ela
enchantress,
I'm so sorry you too had to go through the hospital force-feeding! That's one of the most stupid and short-sighted things I've ever experienced - not one person that went through that force feeding that I saw had any lasting recovery. That was part of the reason why I didn't believe that 'calories are calories' any longer - and didn't care too much if I died if it didn't work!
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
ela
Sachelle,
I sent you a pm earlier today - hope you received it!
love
Ela
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
ela
sunshine, thanks
And quietgrrl, I completely agree (and with the 12 step thing) - anorexia, bulimia and compulsive overeating are just different faces of the same underlying dis-ease.
This past year I have had some overeating experiences of my own (that I've been posting a bit about elsewhere the past couple days) that are partly to do with an overall return to equilibrium after years of
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
ela
enchantress, you put it so well:
It's so difficult to draw the line between caring for your physical health and getting obsessive about it, and so very easy to cross it...
People who've been on this board for a long time might remember the 'me' of four years or so ago, when I first started posting here (as 'luskinia'). I was dying of anorexia, 75lbs, pretty much everyone except my parents h
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
ela
dancerinthenight,
Thank _you_ for being open to what everyone here has to share.
I'm going to talk more about this in another thread soon but wanted to mention that there is a whole style of rawfoodism that is not vegan at all and that I'm about to be in the midst of people who eat like that for an extended period of time. It's going to be a challenge for me and I'm going to seek support he
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
ela
I'm loving how the mono meals seem to give me the most direct line to my body's satiation signal. My mind is a monkey, though ('does two varieties of date count as mono?' 'What about if I blend the bananas instead of eating them straight?') - Agree with you totally that one variety, in its natural state, is the 'direct line'.
I'm finding that it's also a wonderful opportunity to practice being
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
ela
It tends to naturalize alongside lakes/creeks, in/near the water but we grow it in pots at the community garden and I've planted and grown it in a wet spot in the garden. It's pretty delicate, which is part of the reason why it is expensive. It's much cheaper in Europe than in the US, because it's more familiar (and therefore more in demand) over there.
In the US, try Asian markets. I've gotte
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
ela
Pyratekk,
I think you will love dates. There are so many different varieties, ranging from soft and squishy to firm and almost crunchy. All are sweet - some are more caramelly and some a 'darker', more minerally kind of sweet.
I'm the same way: I can't deal with bell peppers or onions/garlic - they totally mess with my stomach. Periodically I try them again and it's the same story. Two thin
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
ela
Gosia, it's actually a little more interesting than that
Yes, in Thailand, on Koh Samui, July 2005. The folks that I was staying with had agreed to send some durian seeds to a guy in Costa Rica. The idea was to send him 30 seeds representing 15 of the finest wild 'durian ban' varieties that grow on Samui (it seems like because it's an island it hosts some particularly fine ones).
Because t
Forum: Meeting Place 17 years ago
ela
I agree, dancerinthenight - if fruit is repugnant to you and other things are appealing, go for those. It's very instructive for me to read of your experience because for me fruit has always been the most appealing food and I sometimes am naive and find it hard to believe that anyone cannot love fruit. If I'm ever to be able to help others with this kind of thing, it's good to be able to learn fr
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
ela
Hey Pyratekk,
If you're not getting satisfied, have you considered changing things up just a tad? Sometimes presentation can go a long way - if instead of just eating the fruits straight and whole, you cut them up together and decorate them with parsley sprigs or something, you might find them more appetizing? Also, experiment with different varieties of the same fruit type - you're eating ora
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
ela
That's weird - why can't I get that picture to display?
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
ela
Haha - this is a funny thread. Lovely to see you too, Gosia - I adore the smell of durian, so would happily be an old (or young) fart! And after saying I was 'gung ho', I didn't post the picture of harvesting fruit and smelling of it that I intended to - here it is hopefully...
Cukes - if it's only been a week and a half, I'd say hang in there sweetheart! I like that you see it as funny as
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
ela
That's funny! I've known two rawfooder friends who had a lot of banana/kale green smoothies and both of them got a very specific breath smell. I didn't think it smelled like dirt but I didn't think it was exquisite either. I'm not a great fan of kale/banana. But I haven't noticed it from any other green smoothie combo!
I've been told I smell of fruit sometimes - but that's probably because it'
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
ela
Let's see - does this work?
If it does, I'll put my durian piccies up
Forum: Meeting Place 17 years ago
ela
Btw, I would use whole sesame seeds rather than tahini: although tahini seems easier and quicker, it is usually made with hulled sesame seeds and all the calcium in sesame is in the hull! The omega 3-6 ratio is also much better in whole sesame seeds than it is in hulled sesame seeds or in hulled sesame tahini.
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
ela
29. Re: Plaintains
On the bananas/freckling, my experience concurs with Bryan: here in the US, or in Europe, you need to have the bananas freckled in order for them to be ripe (because they're picked so green to begin with). But if you're getting bananas in a tropical place, or near a tropical place, they can be quite ripe whilst still yellow.
As for plantains, they really need to be black (in the same context t
Forum: Living and Raw Foods Discussion (Vegan) 17 years ago
ela
Devric,
Congratulations on your clarity and the improved diet!
I agree with pakd4fun about the 'memory' cravings that will subside with time but I think there is another piece to it too. When I was still severely restricting my calories (in the long slow anorexia recovery) I went through a six month - or so - period where my hunger had come back but I was still fixed on the idea that I coul
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