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Hope everyone has had a lovely week :)

I wrote this song today and thought I'd share. I don't have a piano/keyboard at the moment, or any proper singers on hand sadly, so just me singing! ;) I've put the lyrics below.

(My webcam is not very good so you have to turn the volume right up to hear, sorry! And it also goes out of sync, but nevermind!! :D )

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I know you can be overweight Being a vegetarian because of all the cheese eggs Milk You basically can eat anything out their that is crap besides meat, So You Can be eating your fries, your white Bread your sugary cereals But their is a difference between that and raw vegan and just eating fruits and veggies, those food are practically Your only source of vitamins and minerals amino acids just everything, So can someone really be stuck at being overweight being RAW VEGAN, because i don't…

I just had a big watermelon lunch and it is affecting me like drugs, I’m experiencing such a rush o f energy right now!  I just spent 10 minutes doing bicycle crunches, arm circles, and front jabs.  Go fruit yourself!

I know what I described is not a lot of exercise, but I'm healing both a broken wrist and a broken foot right now so it takes a lot more energy to do a small amount of activity.  I still feel amazing!

This has been such a journey and a wake up! Since I started on the Raw back in November I've went through many stages of acceptance and denial of what this lifestyle is capable of.  My brain has been clear, and it's been cloudy. My thoughts have stayed pure and the dream remains.

I use excuses to continue the numb down with cooked food.  Staying vegan has not been an issue but staying away from the cooked food has been a roller coaster.  (excuses) My personal life with my split…

am: 2 banana smoothies (@15 bananas total), frozen blueberries (@ 3 cups total)

pm: another banana smoothie (@ 6 bananas) and 8 small white peaches (yuuuummm!!!)

later pm (around 5:45): spinach salad with few slices pineapple, 1 orange, 1/4 avocado and tiny bit of cashew dressing

water: uhhh maybe 1-2 liters? not sure..water is kinda hard to track, but i'm always peeing a lot and it's clear so i think that means i'm getting enough

sleep: 8 hours i…

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I love my job! Today I got to lay out on the grass with a 4 year old little boy who is too sick to go home and lives in a nursing home he needs a ventilator most of the day to breath and is fed through a tube. He has probably felt grass a handful of times in his life and felt the sun and breeze on his skin a few times too.  Even though he cannot talk and lacks the muscle to smile I knew how happy he was!  I am so grateful for my own health and hope everyone with a healthy child never takes…

I was beyond pleased to see that I have another pair of dress pants that I can give away because they are now too big.  The scale still wobbles back and forth, distorting my perception or my accomplishments, but I know better than to listen to it.  I may only weigh 8 pounds less than I did 23 days ago, but it's obvious that some of the fat as turned to muscle.  I have been taking photos every few days, and though I'm not willing to post them here, at least not yet, I am happy to say that the…

More of a personal blog!

I just wanted to document the changes that have happened since eating more raw foods. I used to always get cramps several days before coming on, but now I only get them 30 mins before my first bleed! I do still feel crappy when I have just started, but not near as much as I did when I was eating meat. I also have WAY more energy today than I normally do. Last month, as I was on holiday in Spain whilst I was on, I pretty much ate beans or cooked veggies with…

just joined freelee's Raw Til 4 group and I am so excited to be getting support and feedback on what i'm doing. the accountability will certainly help cause seriously, peeps be offering me cheese covered salads, MCDONALD'S!!!!! (like really guys? really? i'd rather eat cardboard), icecream, pizza, pasta...even granola bars. anyhow, so thankful for the HCRV community. my lifestyle has changed so much just over the past few months! I've become so much more aware of my body--i had no idea that…

Contentment is knowing that if tomorrow never comes it will be ok, because you have said today what you needed to say, you have loved completely and forever, you have laughed and been happy for the now, and you have made the world a better one.

Live for contentment <3

With love, Esperanza…

    Looking back at my last blog post, i was struggling so badly.  A few months after that i went to the Woodstock Fruit Festival 2012.  I met the most amazing people and made life-long friends.  I had some of the best experiences and listened to the best lectures.  My fruity friend Dot and I were keen on going to Dr Graham's "Fasting" Lecture.  We had both been struggling, and for me personally i couldnt stand the chronic pain i had been dealing with for the past 5/6 years.  As soon as the…