I have been reading your post for a big while. This is the first time I post on the forum. I admire you.
Reading about Juice fasting reminds me of one paragraph you have written in your 30-day raw trial day 29. It was stuck in my head.
"I had an interesting conversation with Erin about an idea for a different kind of dietary trial — eating all my favorite foods, regardless of nutritional considerations. In other words I’d eat like I was in a lucid dream and could conjure up whatever foods I wanted. For me this would be some variation of the vegan diet, since I don’t look upon non-vegan items as food anyway, not even in my dreams. I’m curious what would happen if I stopped looking to food as a source of health and aimed to simply create health from within, regardless of what I ate."
That's what I thought this entire time. Why does your health and well-being have to depend on what you eat? (And your health is already vibrant. I guess everyone agrees on that.) If you do this merely as an exercise for willpower, why don't you put this willpower into non-food activities? Why does food have to be such a big part in your life and identity?
I could imagine an orthorexic or anorexic might have the same kind of feeling -- feeling proud of their fanatical eating routine, the benefit they got from their diets, and their self-discipline (even though most of them are full of fears and negative thoughts, but you aren't.) What would draw a line between obsessive dieters and someone like you?
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