Why am I LFRV?
Activity today :
Me & mango,tomato,coriander over cuccumber with orange juice dressing
35kms on the bike
5 salutes to the sun
Food:
10 banana smoothie
300gms of white mulberries (oh god amazing!!!)
8 mangoes
Spiralized salad(recipe below photo)
200gms dried organic figs
Gratitude:
for all the brilliant white mulberries i relished
because I got to give sugar to others
that i got to meet one of my clients in person today
for the steel ‘horse’ i ride…
I helped out at the Organic Shop today, it was fun, I picked white mulberries out the back of the shop inbetween busy times, amazing incredible flavor! Every customer who came in I offered them some mulberries, their eyes lit up as soon as the sweetness hit their tongues…was nice to witness.
I realize its challenging for most peeps to consider a raw lifestyle & I know there is more to succeeding on a LFRV lifestyle than just eating lots of fruit! Apart from eating large quantity of fruit there is addressing the beliefs we hold close to us that govern our every decision we make in life. I have some techniques I have found very effective in changing some of my own beliefs..
The most important thing we can do to bring about change is to RAISE OUR STANDARDS…Most peeps have pretty low standards & expectations for their existence. We only get one go at this right? lets make this a life to remember! Doesn’t your belly deserve better than that dead carcass? raw cheesecake or tofu burger? Ofcourse it does! U can choose to be the healthiest person u know…everything is just a choice in the moment.
Pic from other day berry pickin'
Do u want to be just another zombie sleep-walking through life? Or do u want to create a brilliant presence that not only inspires yourself but also others? What a gift to give….If we don’t raise our standards change will always be temporary, we may be ‘good’ for a while & eat lots of fruit because we are told its healthy for us or we want to lose weight etc but pretty soon we will resort back to our old standards because we have not gone to the root of the problem. In saying this we also need to have a good supply of nutrition to our bodyminds to support any sort of self-development, so finding a balance is vital.
When I first went raw vegan 3years ago I did so for my health, i had chronic digestive distress, acne, depression & candida overgrowth. I also liked the weightloss aspect so this was also high on my reasons for going raw & what happened as a result?…I went back to cooked food…I wanted to get super lean (a mental side effect of working in one of the biggest gyms in Aussieland!…) I simply didn’t have enough leverage to stay raw so I started to sabotage & undereat, undereating on raw = cooked food everytime.
The point im making is you need real leverage to stay on this path!! YOu need some good reasons, I made this connection after my fall back into cooked food & so I decided to RAISE MY STANDARDS & really build my resolve with some worthwhile reasons to stay raw…
* Cooked food = murder of animals, their habitats & the planet
….to be continued….ahh sorry!! will update this blog tomorrow so stay tuned for my raw reasons…
LoOOOveFrEElee
I never would have been able to maintain a LFRV lifestyle if it weren’t for the higher standards and deep belief system I developed in the few weeks leading up to going 100%. It’s now been almost 2 years and I don’t see a reason to go back. Flimsy reasons such as weight loss or greater energy would have never kept me here.
Great Post!!!
Your salad sounds amazing :~)
Thank you Sarah
Yes its so true we need to raise our standards if we really want to succeed in anything especially LFRV. Thanks so much for sharing your experience, I agree totally weightloss would never have kept me here…this is a big reason why u see so many women falling off the wagon
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hey freelea
awesome blog you got here.. and i love that you supplement your great insight with the photos
wanted to give you some constructive criticism on the layout, tho.. the new font is cool, but it’s not great using the wilder fonts like this for body text.. if you could use it for the headers and a more legible font for the body text (such as this one) that’d be a lot better for the readers, IMO
besides that, the color scheme, header, etc. look great
Thanks so much Ryan! I thought it looked a bit odd & hard to read but everytime i changed it back to original text it went all funky?? I tried today & its great, thankyou X
Your articles are for when it absolutely, positively, needs to be udnesrotod overnight.
Can you elaborate on the the emotional/mental conviction that enabled you to stay raw? I understand “raise our standards” and do agree that’s what we want to do, but it’s still a little vague to me. I feel that’s what I’m lacking… the principle in my belief system that anchors & enables me to stay raw. I often fall back into cooked/processed foods (and alcohol) because a ) it’s social b) is’ a favorite something or other, c) it’s convenient and I give in to the lust of the moment. I know what I need is a principle centered in my belief system that will carry me through all these situations. Like you said, weight loss is a flimsy reason… Maybe I’ll try just using “raise my standards” as a mantra too. Sounds very positive and pretty!