A reader wrote this comment:

 

“Just finished reading the nine-part series in the Herald. Wow. Big changes. And, as someone who inhabited the same prison, for almost a decade, and who ever since has refused to assign labels to my eating (if pressed, I’ll say “plant-centric, planet friendly” but there’s no “no” list), I have so much to say in response.

 

[I've also gotta say that as far as I'm concerned you can double post away! I have the best intentions of reading your blog on Boston Herald, but I don't get to it often enough.]

 

I think the raw vegan diet is amazing and I am so happy to have discovered it upon my return from Brazil in 2007. I have the most sensitive digestive system on the planet, and eating “mostly raw” “mostly vegan” and “mostly gluten free” has cured me of all digestive ailments. That said, key word is “mostly.” I was never 100% raw because that would have meant for me a life without frosting (I know, there’s raw frosting, but I like the frosting at Baby Cakes), and hummus (I like my chickpeas cooked, not sprouted!), and the occasional Dogfish Head IPA.

 

Anyway, my diet’s still mostly raw, and I’m big on knowing where my food comes from (I abhor factory farming!). But, when I describe how I eat to people I say, “whatever I want, whenever I want it, in whatever quantities I want.”

 

Kudos to you!”

 

Thanks so much for your post. I love your words!

 

I love your quote too, and it’s similar to my mantra:  “I eat anything and everything that I want and as much as I want whenever I want.”
Talk about FREEDOM!

Perhaps for some, like you n me, it takes going to the “other” edge (i.e. total restriction, the prison known as an eating disorder) to fully embrace this free eating lifestyle.  And feel utter and complete gratitude for it.  And for some perhaps it’s just there all along.  They never go to the other edge.  They are blessed with this ease and total freedom always.

And for those who haven’t found this total freedom yet and still live in a prison regarding food or perhaps their negative thoughts or other such prisons, I say, there is hope!  Set an intention and start right now, doing your best with breath.  You can do this.  And I’m rootin for ya.