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Sharon Rashbaum: Becoming a WHAT?!?

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– by Sharon Rashbaum

prescriptions or produce?Well it’s the night before I start my detox and I am still wondering how I got here.  Let me tell you a little about the journey that has brought me to this detox.

Several years ago I was diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA).  I was miserable, couldn’t walk, couldn’t sit, couldn’t sleep and was on a TON of medication.  The medication had wonderful side effects like constipation, irritability, weight gain, insomnia…the meds made me more miserable than the RA.  So I decided enough was enough.

I was going to do something about it, something the doctors never would have told me. I changed my diet.  Sounds easy right?  Not exactly.

I researched and read articles, websites, you name it. I read it and all of them told I should become a RAW VEGAN.

A WHAT???

I wondered, How am I going to do that? I am pretty sure the first time I even heard the term, I was sitting eating ice cream!  I did more research and read more books and realized it was a marathon I needed to be on, not a sprint.

So first I gave up meat –  not really a big deal. I had been a vegetarian on and off my entire adult life.  Then came giving up dairy. That took quite awhile and some serious rethinking of my food intake as I was a cheese and ice cream addict.

It took a while but with support from good friends and family I kicked all animal products. I was doing really well as a vegan; my RA seemed not to be a factor and I was able to stop taking medication!  WHOO HOO!  Life was good! I was really enjoying being vegan.

I could live this way forever and not even miss anything.  But I kept hearing that voice inside my head whispering to me “Hey you, you’re doing great but wasn’t the point of this to go RAW???”  So I took another step forward and started drinking my green smoothies.  I was surprised at how much I really enjoyed them.  I was having green smoothies every day for breakfast… Then something happened… It was WINTER.

Living outside of Philadelphia, it was one of the coldest and snowiest winters in history and I just couldn’t get myself  drink a nice cold green smoothie.  So I stopped for awhile, but I was still vegan so I didn’t slide too far back.

Then, heheh… another amazing thing happened… SPRING!  The sun was shining, the temperatures were warm, and I was ready.  That’s when I noticed The Green Smoothie Queen’s Free 3-Day Green Smoothie Mini Course offered by the wonderful Raw Divas.  So I did it, thoroughly enjoyed it, and I followed it up with a 10 day green smoothie challenge.  It went wonderful!  I was back on track!

green smoothie detoxI felt great after all of the green smoothies flowing through my body.  So when I saw the 21 day green smoothie detox, I jumped at the chance to get started. Unfortunately,  somewhere between signing up and right now  I think I  might have bit off more than I can chew (or blend).

I am a little concerned with the fast. I know I can go 24 hours without food… done it many times before – but in my life being done with dinner by 6 pm just doesn’t happen. Also, I am really into exercising , and I can’t do that on an empty stomach or without something after a workout (like a green smoothie)  I’m just not sure what I am going to do.  We haven’t even gotten to what to do with my husband while I am drinking smoothies.  AHHH!  I am so overwhelmed but I’ll get it!  Really I will.

Well here goes nothing!   Check back and I’ll keep you posted!