It's interesting all the variety of posts. Everyone has their own agenda. Some want to see you succeed and some would prefer you fail to even make it to your 30 day goal.
Steve even has these forces within himself. Each one of us has many conflicting desires inside of ourselves and you can't stay raw until you have mastered those conflicting desires and your desire for health and happiness wins out over the desires for the momentary pleasures of cooked food.
The 30 Day Trial helps with getting a handle on these conflicting desires. It's a wonderful psychological tool.
On the one hand, blogging about your trial can actually make it easier for you to succeed with going raw. But with so many people posting and commenting it can throw you off as well.
But so far as I can tell, what Steve is going through is natural for any new raw foodist. And more so for Steve because he's trying a very strict raw food diet.
I might not have been able to stay raw at first by eating as simply as he's doing now. Although these days it's easy for me to eat that way. I had to first progress to a 100% raw food diet. Then later I improved how I did the raw food diet many times. I've made numerous improvements and refinements over the years.
It takes a while to break a lifetime of addiction to cooked foods. These back and forth processes happen to most people going raw and especially in the first month. It happened to me quite a bit.
Then less so over the coming months. If you've been happily raw for a year or so, then it starts getting much easier.
This is a big lifestyle change. But a change that is well worth it in my opinion. I just wouldn't want to go back to the limited cooked food diet.
It so limits your ability to have optimal health, to be your happiest and to look young and feel energetic. Once however you get used to eating raw, you open up a whole new life and new world of opportunity for yourself. And you've just gained a higher level of self-mastery.
And later on you find that your social life doesn't have to suffer at all. I can go to any restaurant or party I chose. I can be with any friends and family. I simply eat what I chose to eat but it doesn't hold me back in any way.
Cheers, Roger
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