Blog of Jinjee Talifero, raw vegan author and educator and mother of 5 raw vegan children. http://www.jinjeetalifero.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Mon, 21 Feb 2011 23:10:21 -0800 Mon, 21 Feb 2011 23:10:01 -0800 FeedForAll Mac v2.1 (2.1.0.1); http://www.FeedForAll.com/ Why do I still struggle with food issues 18 years after going raw? I lost about 45 lbs. in the first few months of being a raw vegan. 18 years later I’ve put back on about 15 of those pounds, which isn’t bad, considering I’m now 43, have had 5 children, home-school and run a business. Also I’ve built some muscle, which weighs quite a bit more than fat. But what I don’t like is my often erratic relationship with food. http://jinjeetalifero.com/?p=395 E734A75D-0966-4A3B-9498-42B8D5AB7035-1435-00001212AAE5FF85-FFA Mon, 21 Feb 2011 23:10:12 -0800 As I mentioned in my last post, I was allowing myself some cooked foods on occasion but then noticed some food addictions creeping back in to my life. Well, now I’m finding a new way to come back to a healthy path with eating. When I crave something I know isn’t good for me right now, I just put it off. http://jinjeetalifero.com/?p=380 788275C5-A08B-49A4-B9D0-3EEC620BC371-1435-0000120D50DCA37F-FFA Mon, 21 Feb 2011 23:09:41 -0800 To go raw and stay 100% raw I had to learn all my little mind-tricks that I play on myself. I learned these first when I quit smoking at 24. I started smoking at 14, and it took me years of trying to quit smoking to learn all the little tricks that I would play on myself to get myself to start up again. But when I got wise to them once, I wouldn’t fall for them again. http://jinjeetalifero.com/?p=324 C7C88E04-0143-4243-86F8-88C361126EAB-617-000005A22B37AE20-FFA Sat, 29 Jan 2011 07:55:15 -0800 There are a huge number of different variations on the raw vegan diet theme! On what I call the Social Raw scene you’ve got the Raw Restaurant foods (which often include some cooked condiments), the dehydrated Raw Packaged foods, the Raw Cacao craze, the Gourmet Raw foods, and the “Superfoods” – powders and potions and dried stuffs with a long shelf life, which are not fresh foods. http://jinjeetalifero.com/?p=332 C8B40977-41C6-451A-AFBC-6F607ADDEC2B-409-00000484FA522CDE-FFA Sat, 22 Jan 2011 18:08:42 -0800 Need an idea for a New Year’s Workout Resolution? I’m calling it The 10x10x10 System To Jump-Start Momentum and Overcome Inertia! http://jinjeetalifero.com/?p=232 4C7A6F04-AFD5-4D98-BDD5-E286D6A93615-2517-0000194061F79843-FFA Sun, 02 Jan 2011 14:18:14 -0800 If indeed our thoughts create our reality, if indeed our world is shaped by our collective agreements, if indeed molecules respond to our expectations, if indeed energy can be shifted through our attention, if indeed we are co-creators of the culture on our planet as quantum physics suggests — Then would not a raw vegan world, a garden planet, be the most beautiful, idyllic, reality to co-create together? http://jinjeetalifero.com/?p=185 7B9AB111-BF67-4CDB-8743-546208AF8A4F-2517-00001935B53E0258-FFA Sat, 18 Dec 2010 14:17:36 -0800 Some notes from my first wild days of complete dedication to being a postiive person! As I wrote about in my last blog post my new goal is not to know what I want, but to be a positive person! What a relief! http://jinjeetalifero.com/?p=182 A1EEEA07-B3D1-417A-A05B-9EC09EB78872-2517-000018F918EA83BB-FFA Sat, 11 Dec 2010 14:16:50 -0800