Flora Papadolpoulou, for those that don’t know, is the author of Mediterranean Goes Raw, she is also a good raw food friend of mine living in Athens. Her book is amazing and includes all sorts of recipes. I spent a weekend with her in Athens last week for a potluck in the park. We didn’t stop talking all weekend exchanging tips and experiences, plus she fed me some lovely food. I came back really motivated and my dehydrator has been working overtime ever since. About 40 of us got together in a shady park in Athens, with some amazing food and wonderful company, there was lots of talk about future potlucks too, fingers crossed.
My belly is finally expanding. But I still feel I just look bloated. I can’t find my tape measure for the life of me, it is very frustrating. I’ll just have to grab some string and measure that with a ruler, desperate times and all that. The scales haven’t changed for a while, I’m still 66kg (3kg more then before). And there are days when I don’t seem to need as much sleep as before, I am managing to stay awake till about 1.30am and getting up around 9.30am. The heat is killing me though, it is about 35-40 degrees over here at the moment and it is zapping my energy, all I want to do is stay at home and sit in front of the fan, unless there is a trip to the beach involved.
My emotions are all over the shop. Happy or sad films make me well up with tears, I watched Pretty Woman yesterday for the millionth time and cried at the end because it was such a happy ending, I can’t believe what is happening to me, I am not normally so emotional. My husband is actually being quite sympathetic for a change, I told him off for being so demanding and not understanding what I am going through and ever since he has been extra nice it’s kind of weird, am I in the twilight zone? Who knows maybe he is finally waking up to the idea of ‘yes I am pregnant and yes changes in my emotions and energy levels can be expected’.
I have been reading a lot of other raw pregnancy blogs lately and one of the blogs I came across called Pulling Daisies gave details of an interview given by the author of the blog.
http://www.pullingdaisies.blogspot.com/
The post it called Interview for Bueller's and it was published on Tuesday, June 17, 2008
One of the questions asked was:
"I notice you eat some cooked foods? Why do you do that and where do you draw the line?"
I thought the blogger gave a great answer and one that was very close to my own heart, she also put it into better words then I ever could:
“For a time I was overzealous and tried to be 100% raw. I found that for me, in order to stay motivated to stay away from tempting foods, I had to fully immerse myself in raw foods as a religion, including disdain towards cooked food, self-righteousness for having the right way, and contempt for anybody who challenged me. So while my physical health was great, my mental health was rapidly on the decline. I think I was having delusions of grandeur. Most importantly, as I drew closer to the Universe God of nature, I drew further from Christ and His teachings. It was hard for me to have love in my heart with such feelings of self-righteousness.”
