Raw Again, 16 months later

It was so wild to come here, trying to start a new blog, only to find that I'd already done it once before, AND ironically at the beginning of my first raw journey. CRAZY but very exciting for me. I think of how far I've come in the last year healthwise and am blown away. I've been on and off raw for 16 months and have never returned to the weight I began at last March. I think I had one cold last year and only felt health problems when I was on a serious bad food binge (this is usually when I jumped back into eating raw). I feel like the best version of myself when I'm raw. I feel clarity and an intensity for life. I feel more open to love and more equipped to deal with the occasional dissappointments in life.

On August 1 I am beginning a 100-day raw challenge on Raw-Fu. I'm going to chart my progress, vent my successes and frustrations, and try to have yet another place where I can keep myself strong and focused throughout this experience. This will be a huge step for me. Between now and Nov. 9 I have numerous performances including a month long bus tour; it will be a real challenge to stay raw without the safety of my home kitchen. . . Tour Schmour! I'm up to the task! There is no such thing as failure anyway. I'm choosing to be healthy. If I do have to make an unraw decision, I'll make the healthiest one possible. I AM SO GOING TO DO THIS :-) No I AM doing this. I'm already approaching the end of month one and I have 0 desire to eat anything but fresh right now :-)

OK enough babbling. I'm going to bed and will write more interesting stuff tomorrow.