Living It

I have been set free from my raw enviroment for 5 days now and things are going O.K. so far. Orlando was not an easy place to start this diet but I just did the best I could. My sisters were very supportive by driving me 15 minutes to the local wheatgrass place everyday. It made me appreciate how easy it was to be on campus and how everything was prepared for me. I am happy to home and to start learning how to make this work day in and day out. Ryan is being awesome and had the juicer, dehydrater and a new food processer waiting for me when I arrived. Now I just have to learn how to use it all.

The staff at Hippocrates warned me about how people were going to react to my raw diet. It is funny how everyone is really fasinated by what I am doing and everyone has lots of questions. I don't really bring it up but I find that everyone wants to talk about it which is fine by me. However, when they ask me questions, they don't really want the answers. I find that when I answer their questions and tell them what I have learned they always respond in a very defensive way. I feel like I am trying to stick up for this lifestyle choice which is really awkward because to be honest I don't really want to have to do it. I am trying to save my life. Just because I am not eating any fruit doesn't mean you shouldn't eat fruit. I am the one with the cancer. Just because I am doing this diet doesn't mean that all of your diets are terrible and only mine is the right way. My choices are not your choices. I am happy to share my experience with everyone and if you take away nothing that is fine with me. I will not be judging you for what you decide to do with you diet. I am not going to say I won't worry about you if you are eating microwaved foods everyday, because I will, because now I know better and so do you. I will continue to share the information I have learned but I just wanted to vent a little because I am not the raw food poster child. This is really hard for me. It was just three weeks ago that I was eating pasta and drinking wine. Please ask me all of the questions you can come up with and I am happy to try and answer them the best I can but please don't throw those answers back in my face and make me try to justify them to you. To be honest I don't even think I could. I am very new at this and I am just trying to get by day by day.

Hippocrates raw living is a very extreme way of life and they have a great track record for healing people like me. I just hope that none of you are ever in a position like this that you have to make extreme decisions with your life. Maybe if you find the strength to make small changes now it will impact your futures so you will never have to walk in my shoes. Love ya,

Kristine