One Step Closer To The Truth

Every once in a while I come across something that just jumps out at me, slaps me between the eyes, and says, “Hey, silly, listen to this!”.

Today was one of those days.

I was reading this post on Erin Pavlina’s blog today when I came across this passage (she was talking about eating too much fat in her diet):

I tried the fat free salad dressings and they tank. I?m not one of those people who can suffer through a meal that tastes terrible all for the sake of future gain. I wish I was. But the principle of Truth requires that I admit I won?t stick to a diet of raw veggies and salads with lemon as the dressing.

You may have heard about Steve Pavlina on this blog once or twice — you know, the guy that informed me about the raw food diet. He also has a book out called “Personal Development For Smart People” (I’ll scrounge up a link later). One of the Fundamental Principles of personal development is Truth. So for starters, it’s good to see that his wife listens to him…

But beyond that, it made me realize something that caused me to revert to where I am now in my diet. I’m not really being 100% honest with myself — or I wasn’t being 100% honest with myself — when I made the attempt last year. I kept telling myself that I could do it and that I didn’t want to eat cooked. That simply wasn’t true. Even after eating raw for four months, I really wanted to eat some smoked fish when we went to the ocean in Poland for the summer. I missed eating in the dining hall at that conference and talking to others.

And that wasn’t all. There were lots of other instances that I won’t get into at this time. Suffice it to say that what you see now (OK, you can’t really *SEE* me) is closer to the Truth for me.

I’m ready for 50% raw. In fact, I do it every day. But I still like the other foods and need to move to a point where I won’t miss them. I need to be stronger and more able to resist the things I should not eat. I also need to get back into exercising so that I don’t look like a 98 pound weakling when I go to the beach this July (a picture that my wife took of me after I lost all of that weight did scare me a bit; I need more muscle).

Perhaps it was all just a bit much too soon. Perhaps it was my desire to write a really good blog. Whatever it was, it wasn’t enough, and thanks to Erin’s post, I now realize that living with the Truth is OK, even when it comes to my diet.

I really do want to go to 100% forever. It’s my goal and I’m going to get there. But it’s going to be done the right way — because I’m ready for it and it is ready for me.

So thanks for the living example of Personal Development in action, Erin.

Just don’t ask me my weight right now…

Smacznego,
Tom