Root causes - growing up in a dysfunctional family, the school system, MSD high in carbs (the 70's save the earth influence on my mum with its high grain message), sweets, genetic susceptibility to microbe imbalance, thinking too much rather than following intuition, suppressing emotions rather than expressing them, not enough exercise to burn off those carbs before the microbe parting began, compulsive eating, later trying to be a perfect raw foodist and then flicking over to being a junk foodist - a kind of split personality - and then the feedback from all of these creating a vicious cycle.
So I have changed my user name from rawmike to miker as it is not important to me whether I am raw or not - I just want to be healthy and happy! Right now I am eating a meal of lightly steamed colourful veges, shrimps, and coconut cream. This is healthier for me than when I was 100% raw, but pigging out on almonds and dried fruit, which was really suspect, and then flicking over to being a junk foodist. Full credit to any 100%ers - well done - but for me at this stage I am avoiding idealism and enjoying the middle ground of lightly cooked foods and raw foods. I understand that as long as I eat some RAF then I can be part of this forum, so that's easy enough.
