Coping with a Cooked Food Set-back

This week was really difficult for me and my raw food ways. My roommate made a lot of cooked foods including tarts, chocolate chip cookies, and ice cream. It was really hard to stay on track. I ended up faltering on a couple of them, but I refuse to let it get to me. I know that changing my lifestyle, as drastically as I currently am, will for sure have bumps in the road. Eating nothing but cooked foods for 22 1/2 years and then trying to eat nothing by raw foods is going to be more than a struggle for anyone. Like I mentioned previously, according to The Raw Foods Resource Guide, it takes about three years for someone to convert 100% to a raw foodist when eating an average American diet.

With the amount of raw foods I am eating now, compared to how I was eating, one little cookie (or 6 in my case) will not be too bad since I eat everything else raw. Eventually I know that those temptations of cooked foods will no longer be desirous to me. You cannot let yourself get down about these little set backs. They are going to happen. You must embrace them and realize that you will do better... and of course you have to put the effort out there to do better.

When I am tempted to eat certain raw foods, I can usually find something to replace it. For example. Today, I came home from church to find my roommate making some delicious ice cream. I knew she was going to be making it so I prepared myself. The day before I bought some raw ice cream by rawmelissa and placed it in the freezer until the time had come when I knew I would be tempted to eat the stuff my roommate had made. Instead, I pulled rawmelissa's carob flavored ice cream and chowed down on that til it was complete gone! I am satisfied and have no feelings of regret.