Pulling the Blanket Off

Let’s face it cooked food can be a warm comfortable blanket, especially hearty comfort food. I've mastered cooking a clean version of almost any recipe, but a time has come where I see cooked food is not doing much for my body. When I moved to the city I began to experience stress in my life, although I loved it and wouldn’t change the move for the world, I started to experience more stress in life. Slowly and surely no matter what I did I began to gain weight and eventually experience more sinus and digestive issues. Prior to this I had been a clean eater for many years, maintained a great weight,felt pretty good,and never relied on food as a safety blanket or a coping strategy. It seemed though that I had started cooking to relieve stress even if though I wouldn't always eat it,under the circumstances something needed to change. I kept trying to convince myself that I was doing the best I could and 2 years ago I began to have to incorporate vegan foods, however I still a coping with stress, and I was still cooking almost everything with just a few fresh raw veggies/fruit on the side, I was wasn’t eating many of my greens and fruit raw so it didn’t make huge changes. My sister who spend years struggling with weight, had went mostly raw vegan years ago and shed weight and was healed of ibs and more, my Mom had went mostly raw as well for better health and such who also put off some baby weight prior on a clean diet . When I would talk about my issues my Mom and my sister encouraged me to try going  raw . My sister eventually challenged me to go raw for a month or two eventually tired of little results and digestive issues I took her up on the offer and decided to take the plunge. I was stripping away my comfort, my blanket in the mist of stress that still lingered and it made me put things in priority. We have to deal with our issues, we have to trust in God for strength, we can never be so dependent on something that it controls and dominates us, that it has us addicted and bound to it. Sometimes you just have to do whats best for your body and then learn to enjoy it. God came that we might live life and live it abundantly and he has been the one who helped guided me to this place and I know he’ll never steer me wrong. Learning to deal with my stress and issues is vital instead of shoving it onto something else or cooking over a stove.