Let Me Make Something Perfectly Clear
Yesterday was a strange day for me. If you don’t believe me, go check out The Page That Was Supposed To Be A Post.
And I’d like to make one point extremely clear: I do NOT recommend that you simply eat cooked food because you feel like it. What I was trying to say is that if you slip up (or, as I do on occasion, DECIDE) to eat cooked food, don’t beat yourself up about it. Forgive yourself and eat raw food Now and in every future Now you encounter.
The occasional slip-up is OK, and if you need somebody to say it’s OK, I’m that person. I’ll forgive you, I’ll say it’s OK this time, just get back on the horse and start riding again. Just don’t make it a habit.
I kind of like the line that Jesus of Nazareth used: “Neither do I condemn thee; go and sin no more”. Except it isn’t really sin (OK, maybe it is if you take Genesis 1:29 literally) — except it is because it makes you feel bad.
Why feel bad about it? You did it, you can’t change it, so just renew your commitment and move forward.
The thing to keep in mind is that every relapse to cooked food is going to hurt you. You’ve worked hard to clean out your body and are on the road to optimizing it, and even one cooked meal is going to set you back. It’s going to take a while to clean out all of the gunk you put in your body from that meal. It takes about three days for the stuff to pass through your entire digestion track (that’s just a rough estimate), plus your body will have to get rid of any toxins that it stored in your body fat during the digestion process.
It’s kind of like one of my pastors used to say when talking about keeping your spirit pure and the need to stay away from influences that would drag you down (it really does apply here): If you put on a white glove and run it through a mud puddle, the mud doesn’t all “glove-y” and turn white, does it? Nope; the mud gets the nice, pristine, white glove all dirty. It contaminates it. So whether you want to keep your body or your soul / spirit clean (I encourage you to work on both), you need to stay away from the mud puddles.
It’s just that I won’t condemn you if you do mess up every once in a while.
Stay strong!
Smacznego,
Tom