Raw food, specifically. I found a woman who writes delightful books about raw food and the recipes are so irresistible...well, clearly I couldn't resist them. My dehydrator has never seen so much action. I come home from the store loaded up with bulk seeds and nuts and every bowl we own is full of various items soaking in preparation for some tasty treat. My sweetie is afraid I might turn into a blueberry I've eaten so many of these sweet treats in various forms. Today I made raw oatmeal raisin cookies. My intestines don't know what hit them.
You might wonder, is this part of a health craze? A desire to improve my diet? A yearning to practice ahimsa (non-violence) more clearly by not eating meat or animal products? Am I trying to lose weight? Stave off high cholesterol?
The answer, interestingly, is none of the above. The recipes just looked fun. They inspired my creativity and my sense of adventure. They tickled my fancy!
The end result, though, is that I am eating better at this time in my life than I ever have. And I imagine my health is the better for it. The fact that I did not purposefully set out to improve my health by eating better has me thinking back on my relationship with food.
As a kid, I didn't particularly like food. Almost the only food I really and truly enjoyed were the foods that everyone agrees are bad for you: all the stuff with sugar! Sure, I loved artichokes and watermelon but the healthy foods I loved were rare.? Then as I got older and got more serious about ballet, food became the enemy. In college as I set myself the task of learning more about nutrition and health, food became fuel. Over time, food was: a necessary evil, something to study seriously, something to avoid, a punishment, a requirement, something shameful. It was never fun.
Only much later in life did food become fun, a way of expressing myself as well as a way of investigating the world around me and experimenting with my own experience by way of eating. (When I eat this, how does it make my body feel? How does it change my mood? What happens when I change the timing? The volume? The protein:fat:carbohydrate ration? This is where the yoga comes in: observing myself and learning from the experience.) Is it any coincidence that this is also the time when my diet is the healthiest ever?
Why is it so difficult for us to believe that good health is fun, is creative, is entertaining, is inspiring? My experience, over and over again, shows me the truth of this. Fun follows health, and health follows fun. I believe they are necessary to one another, following in endless cycles, self-creating, self-perpetuating.
copyright 2011 J. Autumn Needles
Source: http://bodyloveyoga.blogspot.com/2011/06/cookie-monster-raw-food-experiments.html
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