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From:	Heather (86.162.243.32)
Subject:	Finding this impossible to stick to....
Date:	April 17, 2012 at 12:36 pm PST

Please help!!!

I DESPERATELY want to stay on this diet... but it seems however hard I try I
always slip back into my old ways... this has been going on for about a year.
The longest I have been raw has been 21 days.

It goes a little something like this...

I attempt to go raw... I last about 3 or 4 days... I normally end up breaking it
when i go to bed early (say about 8/9pm) and wake up around 11pm with
uncontrollable hunger (bear in mind I have felt full and satisfied at every meal,
e.g. on sunday I must have eaten about 4000 cal worth of medjool dates - I am
female, fairly active and weigh around 70kg - I really should only be eating
about 3000 max) and end up eating some less than optimal foods (its normally
just packet rice)... I then convince myself that it was just a blip and I can get
past this convinced that I can start the next day a fresh one.. so i take my
smoothies to work and all is going well.. as soon as I get home I'm back on the
rice... and end up feeling very bad... this goes on for a few days until I have quit
making my smoothies and just eat cooked vegan all day long. I eat a fair
amount of cooked vegan for the next 3/4 days with very little raw... I end up
feeling so sick of the cooked that the cooked itself convinces me to get back on
the raw again... and the cycle starts again...

I am not someone who can do something in halves. If you tell me to try being
high raw all the time - I've tried that! It doesn't work for me! It has to be 100%
or nothing for me!

Its happened so many times now I have completely lost faith in myself and feel
bitterly depressed and feel like I will never ever be able to stay on this path...

I also find it hard with work - as I have a fairly stressful job that also is an
additional hurdle in the way and when i get home from work all I want to do is
eat cooked... but surely there must be another solution to giving up my job???
(Not many jobs around at the moment - wouldn't be easy to find another)

Has anyone else experiences the cycle of falling off and getting back on? How
do I move onto the next stage where I am consistent with my eating? This is
making me very very depressed.

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