My Beautiful Year
Well, I can’t show you a picture of a ‘supersize me’ , as by society’s standards, pre-raw I was ‘slim’ (by the way, forget ‘average weight charts’ – they’re based on a nation of unhealthy people!). And I wasn’t very ill either – I just had a ‘normal’ lifestyle with ‘normal’ health niggles, and of course these would have been sure to be followed by the ‘normal’ problems, illness and disease we associate with old age, had I not switched to raw.
Here are the differences since raw:
 |
 |
2003 |
2007 |
Appearance
| Cooked | Raw |
| Weight used to vary between 8 ½ and 9 ½ stone. Whenever it crept up over 9 stone, I’d have to ‘diet’ (restrict calories) to bring it down. | Weight around 7 ½ stone (105 lbs). It stays fairly constant. I can eat all I like. My family will vouch for my very healthy appetite! |
| Waist 26-28 inches | Waist 24/25 inches |
| Wobbly thighs | Firm thighs |
| Eyes prone to looking ‘pink’/tired | Bright eyes! |
When you go raw, you glow!
Energy
| Cooked | Raw |
| Used to need coffee in the morning to 'get me going'. | I rise at 5 am (no alarm), full of energy – no coffee needed! |
| Used to need 8+ hours sleep a night. | Usually sleep 6 hours a night and often fine on less. |
| Used to ‘need’ alcohol to socialise at parties, to dance… | I can sparkle without alcohol, and can dance till dawn… |
Health
| Cooked | Raw |
| Coughs and colds once or more every year | No coughs or colds |
| Hayfever every year since 7 (regardless of weather) |
No hay-fever |
| Over-production of mucus (eg in middle ear, in throat) | Clear ears and throat. |
| Had to get up to use toilet every night | I sleep through the night! |
| Bleeding gums | Gums stopped bleeding one week after going raw, and have never bled since. |
| A little period pain every month, occasionally severe | No period pain |
| Intermittent acute pain in left side – present for 20 years and had put it down to mild IBS | No pain |
| Used to wake in the morning aching all over. | No aches and pains! |
My blood pressure is 100/60, and my resting pulse 48 (lower than my age!)
Please note no photographs of me, whether on the website or blog, have been retouched,
and, with the exception of the ‘before’ photo, have all been taken since summer 07;
my hair colour and teeth are my own and I have had no anti-ageing treatments, surgical or otherwise.
Year of birth 1958.
As well as the health benefits, there are psychological and spiritual benefits, but of course I know you know the physical, psychological and spiritual are all linked!
Raw gives me the energy and mental clarity to live my life as it should be,
to live the life I want to live!
Raw will improve your health and happiness in countless ways,
and ensure that you really LIVE, as opposed to ‘exist’.