Healing...

I woke up this morning feeling pretty awful. Sore throat, runny nose, coughing, "sick breath," and feeling really dizzy & weak. So I decided to just eat fruit today (it's what I wanted anyway!). I ate lots of vitamin-C containing fruits and stuck to 3 meals with one small snack (an apple) and by the end of the day, at a time when I usually feel worse when I'm sick, I feel almost normal! Yay. I think I'll wake up feeling fine tomorrow.

I was talking to my mom last night and she was questioning me about my low-fat, high-fruit diet. She thinks I'm depriving myself of anything that could be good- first I stopped eating beef, then all meat, then dairy, eggs, and all animal products, then all cooked foods, then most raw fat. I can understand why she would see this as extreme. But I was saying I don't feel deprived at all- If i want something, I eat it. I just want mainly fruit b/c I feel so great eating like this. I also said that the benefits in all areas of my life are enormous. I create virtually NO garbage now. It's all fruit & vegetable peels, cores, seeds & rinds that will naturally decompose. No packaging and plastic and styrafoam containers sitting in landfills rotting for the next 100 years. I said that was reason enough to eat like this! She was surprised and said she never thought of that before. That shut her up! We have the power to make responsible, environmentally-conscious decisions about what to fuel our bodies with. I don't think most people are even aware of this fact. As a vegan, I thought I was doing a good job of using my dollar to condemn the meat industry & factory farming, and support organic and local farming. Now I see it wasn't enough. You can always go one step further. Instead of feeling hopeless and overwhelmed, take ONE MORE STEP. Live out your vision of the world. It is possible. The way the world works can be changed. But not unless we stop feeling helpless and intimidated and actually stand up, stand out and put our ideas into action.

I have no idea where all of that came from...Lol. I never do. All that fruit makes me want to protect the Earth though. I feel privileged to be eating its greatest treasures and perfect creations. I can't take it for granted anymore, even if I try! When I bite into that gorgeous mango, or that perfectly just-a-little-overripe banana or that vine-ripened juicy tomato, I just feel bliss. Suffice it to say that cooked foods, no matter how intricate the recipe or how fancy the ingredients, just didn't come close to how I feel when I eat now. And raw fats don't feel like this, either.

Food Today:
-3.5 small tangerines (other half of the last one was too mushy & acidy) & 2 bananas
-pink lady apple; smoothie w/ 2 bananas, strawberries, frozen mango & blueberries, fresh-squeezed OJ
-gala apple
-a PERFECT mango (if heaven had a flavor, it would be mango! just like sunshine's flavor would be OJ!); 2 small bananas; a pink lady apple

I am totally satisfied and happy and floaty. Definitely on a fruit high. I'm so happy I was able to fight off this cold, too! I get to see the boy tomorrow :) I would have been mad if I had to cancel b/c I was sick (and he would have told me I was sick b/c I wasn't eating enough or b/c of my raw diet!).