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"Hi, I wanted to let you know we will have a raw fruit festival in Spain next September http://festival.811-friendly.net Maybe you'd like it. Cheers "

Jul 23, 2012

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12-Step Raw

This is a safe place for those who really, really, REALLY want to succeed in a LFRV lifestyle but the journey is just a little harder for us. We want to get there…we need to get there…and we WILL get there! Through support and encouragement and empathy, we can come here and share our struggles, scrutinize why we sometimes fall, get what we need to pick ourselves back up again, and have a cheerleading section who has our back every step of the way.No one here is giving up! We know and understand…See More

Jul 18, 2012

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Jul 12, 2012

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Our community would be delighted to know you better. Please tell us more about yourself and what brought you to 30BaD. Detailed responses will only be accepted (feel free to reapply with more detail if at first not approved as a member). We suggest you pick a name other than your own if you want to maintain anonymity.: Food is one of the few things we require to maintain life on this planet. For me, it is one of the only things that I have allowed to get in the way of my enjoyment of life on this planet.

Hi. I'm Stacey. I am guilty of using food as a coping mechanism for all things. I'm a student, and when I moved away to uni, 500 miles across the country, I didn't have the normal party-like-it's-my-birthday-all-the-time experience. More like study study study, run in the early mornings, swim practice at night. And I loved it! I was fitter than I ever had been in my entire life, and even though I hadn't made any true friends I felt like I would meet like-minded people soon enough.

Unfortunately, the people I did end up connecting with shortly into my second semester were not the nicest girls. They bullied me constantly, critisized me for my healthy choices, and refused to treat me as a peer. I finally broke down and started having junk food with them in the evenings just to appease them ( wtf?). After a month of those new habits i had gained 15 pounds. I finally realized they were bulimic, and asked them about it. They all confirmed it and said they thought I was too. Well I wasn't, and I was scared that I would become it if I continued to be their friends. A family member had bulimia and had such awful health issues afterwards. I didn't want to have my teeth rot out or my skin turn brittle. I cut them out of my life completely, but now I was all alone. I continued to eat bad foods, it was strangely comforting now that I was by myself, not pressured into it. I would binge on thousands and thousands of vending-machine calories, multiple times in a day. I would cry while I was eating them. Day by day I became more depressed, the hours blurred together and my grades started dropping rapidly. By the time the school year was over I felt like if I didn't get back home to my family soon, I would never escape the darkness I was trapped in.

I finally got home, 30 pounds heavier, sad and lonely and depressed. Being home didn't fix much, because it was me that had changed internally. 2 years and 100 crash diets later, I have realized I have to want health, not weight loss. Like I did back then, when I was working out lots, studying lots, and not partying while the rest of my peers were. I have slowly started gaining my integrity back, and after googling the health benefits of bananas(lol) I came accross 30BaD, Freelee and durianrider. I have lots of questions, but I think if I can keep my integrity, not care about what anybody else thinks and keep my motivation about my health and happiness than I can really benefit from and maintain this lifestlye !!

What is your gender? PLEASE NOTE: To enhance the community experience, profile pics of yourself are *REQUIRED* to gain membership. Membership will be declined otherwise.: female, womyn, babe

Please tell us about your dietary inclinations:: I really want to be HCRV and just need some guidance

Reading "The 80-10-10 Diet" by Dr Doug Graham is vital for succeeding on this lifestyle. Please acquire this book as soon as possible.: I will read the book

Are you Connected?: no single

My favourite books/movies/authors/pastimes are....: I love riding horses. I have had 2 all my life, and think they are beautiful creatures. I hate competitiveness, but I have always played competitive soccer. I finally quit after high school due to the exceeding amount of competitiveness! I love swimming laps and floating down the river in a big tube on a sunny day. I am proud to be Canadian.

Books : 1984, J-pod, Catch 22, The Fountainhead, Game of Thrones trilogy!

Movies: Gladiator, Shawshank Redemption, The Usual Suspects, Love Actually, The Holiday, Memento, American Beauty, The Departed, Babel, Reservoir Dogs, Raging Bull, Requiem for a Dream, Going the Distance, all of Indiana Jones, Sin City, All of the Harry Potters, Karate Kid, Million Dollar Baby, My Girl, V for Vendetta, The Princess Bride, Bridget Jones' Diary, a Beautiful Mind, Prometheus

Please list your website/blog/facebook/myspace etc: http://(Sorry I stopped with social media sites 2 years ago)

Durianrider & Freelee started this site to bring together high carb, raw vegan lifestylists' across the Globe! 30bad is a high standard and high performance team! We're here to help you make our team! Let us know what HCRV assistance do you need?: I guess I should read Dr. Graham's book first in case he answers some of the questions I have for you. But I mainly want to be part of this community because I don't have any support from my carnivorous family and friends, and I think you guys will all be pretty open minded happy loving people that I would love to get to know better!

30bad is a HCRV (high carb, raw vegan) internet community which promotes a high carb raw lifestyle free of any animal products. Our forum does not tolerate encouragement of anything contrary to HCRV. Nor do we allow endorsement of non-vegan items or practises which involve the imprisonment, exploitation, abuse or murder of sentient beings. We also require our members to post with proper netiquette. Therefore, please indicate your intention:: I will comply because I like totally agree with all this

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At 2:25am on July 23, 2012, Stephane said…: Hi, I wanted to let you know we will have a raw fruit festival in Spain next September

http://festival.811-friendly.net

Maybe you'd like it.

Cheers