I’ve always been a fitness freak. In my earlier years, I played soccer and basketball and basically just ran around like a maniac continuously. I have unusally unreliable joints, so early in high school soccer and basketball both had to go, and I joined the track and cross country teams. I was home. I love running, and I probably always will. However, as I alluded before, my joints are no bueno. I have frequent injuries, some of which are quite devastating (my orthopedic surgeon knows me better than a surgeon ever wants to know a patient), so I also do other types of exercise that are less happy but easier on my joints, like kickboxing, yoga, elliptical fun, and hill walking on my arch nemesis the tread mill.
Where does raw come into this? Honestly, raw food is totally new to me. I’ve been reading everything I could find, and I am truly intrigued. What kind of stressed out health obsessed (I’m pre-med so it’s required) college student wouldn’t want the cleanest, healthiest, most energizing diet possible? So, I’m giving raw food (and veganism) a try. I’m already a vegetarian, and I already eat copious amounts of raw food without even thinking about it, so I don’t think it will be too difficult, especially if it makes me feel as well as I hope it will.
I’m not going to go 100% raw from the start. I haven’t always had the best relationship with food, so I try not to put myself in too tiny a box. Hopefully after a while raw will feel like a lifestyle rather than a diet and I will be able to go totally raw, but for now I need to not restrict myself. If I want a baked sweet potato (this is highly likely to occur on a regular basis) I will eat it.
Lastly, please pardon my lack of fantastic journalisitic skill. I am a biochemistry major after all.
