Submitted: 5/15/07 Modified: 5/15/07 How long have you been a rawfooder: 4.5 years Your current percent raw: 99 How long: 4.5 years Your goals -- why you're on a raw food diet: To be in true harmony with the earth and with my highest expression on the earth, even when that seems to be different from the apparent flow.
To deepen my connection with plants and to share that knowledge and the fruits of it.
To choose the foods to put into my body that best support these goals What you like about a raw food diet: Eating seasonally
Growing, harvesting, foraging, concocting and SHARING food!
Easy prep/cleanup (or none at all)
Analogously simple prep/cleanup inside the body What you haven't liked about a raw food diet: Nothing that I haven't liked has been to do with the food per se: what I have disliked has been the obsessiveness and opinionated 'my way or the highway' attitude that seems rife amongst some rawfooders, together with the perfectionism and 'all or nothing' thinking that it seems to attract.
The lack of quality produce in many places saddens me, as does the produce-phobia exhibited in many airports and other places and people in the world. What you would have done differently: Eaten more durian! Your tools for dealing with cravings and with feeling deprived: What is my body telling me when it craves something? Often, it is a very precise need with its own taste signature - durian, noni, papaya, celery, purslane, honey, bee pollen... These are physical communications from my body that I must honor.
If my tastebuds get thrown off/confused by something dry and salty, leading to cravings for more dry/salty things, discrimination comes in, the recognition that this is what is going on. Deep breathing and water help, as does simply having another raw cracker on occasion (so long as it doesn't feel like it will be detrimental).
I don't feel deprived because I am constantly surrounded by bounty. | 
