Making Friends with Your Food

I’m not sure if I’ve mentioned it before on this blog, but my husband and I are aspiring raw foodists. Last year, we went over 3 whole months on an almost 100% raw vegan diet, not counting a transitioning period. It was pretty much the best we’ve ever felt in our lives. Among other things, some of the benefits we felt were: Amazing energy, clarity of thought, extra weight dropping off with no extra effort and clear glowing skin.

Unfortunately, due to several severe stressful things that happened in our lives, we slowly fell off the path. We still buy and eat WAY more produce than we ever used to as cooked food vegetarians/vegans, but many of the benefits we felt before definitely went away.

Recently, we have been wishing again to feel as good as we did last year when we tried out this diet. We have both regained some of the weight we lost last year and have realized that food – particularly junk food and processed food – is an emotional addiction (at least for us). And that is something we would like to work through slowly.

Also, just in the last year, while trying to sort out the myriad of raw vegan approaches from different “gurus”, I have been drawn more and more to the health philosophy of Dr. Doug Graham of Foodnsport. (He also hosts a board on Vegsource.com). He teaches the 80-10-10 raw vegan diet. 80-10-10, or 811, is the recommended ratio of carbs-protein-fat. This diet has helped not only many professional athletes improve their performance, but also many sick people regain health they thought they would never have again.

So last week, we ordered a set of DVDs that was produced by Dr. D and his wife. It’s called, “Making Friends with your Food.” It is a 12 hour series on health, nutritional science, diet and fitness. It should get here any day now, and my husband and I are committed to watching these dvds, learning some principles and then trying out the 80-10-10 diet for a period of time. It wasn’t a cheap investment, but we hope that in the long term it will be a good investment in our health.

All that to say, I’m guessing I’m going to be a-blogging about the things I learn from Dr. Graham and these DVDs in the next few weeks/months, so watch out! And if anyone wants to know more about the 80-10-10 diet, please read the FAQs on the Foodnsport site and/or go to Dr. Graham’s board on Vegsource. Happy healthy days, everybody!

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