At first I found it quite hard to break my eating 100% raw habit but then I was forced into a situation where it was very difficult for me to eat only raw. Now I find that it’s hard to get back into it.  At my best, I was eating 2 pieces of fruit, a salad and some nuts every day and running 2 miles.  I felt amazing.  Then I started slowly eating more and more cooked foods and most days I can’t find the energy to get into the gym.  When I do, I run a mile, speed walk at an incline for 10 minutes and then do some time on the elliptical.  Every day my brain beats me up for not being as good as I was and the only thing I can do is get back into the swing of things.  This morning I ate an apple and I imagine I’ll have a salad for dinner.  The only way you can change what you’re doing is to actually do it.  You have to make up your mind, choose to be better and then do it.

This meal was when I was getting back into raw a couple weeks ago.  After I went to the gym, I prepared a salad and a smoothie.  The smoothie consists of 3 small ripe bananas, a handful of raw walnuts, little bit of water and some ice.  The salad is a typical Rustin dish: spinach, carrots, grape tomatoes, avocado and green pepper.

Kids, the moral of this story is, if you’re unhappy with yourself or with something that you aren’t or are doing, then all you need to do is change it. Don’t give yourself the option to quit or to stop doing it. Just do it.