February 25, 2008 Before we get to day 125, let me take a moment to comment on the recent footage of slaughterhouse mistreatment of downed cows and their continued presence in our beef supply. If you did not see it, words cannot suffice to describe how hard it is to watch. But ...read more
February, 12, 2008 A quick update before we get to day 96: I've been mostly raw now for over a year and a half--and I love it! I eat a mostly vegan diet, with no meat. Many of the physical problems I still struggled with on day 96 are completely gone now. I discovered Univera ...read more
Day 86 was written on: August 26, 2006 I haven’t written in a while for three reasons: 1. I have been really sick, 2. I have not felt good about writing the truth that I’d been not eating well and I didn’t want to lie about it, and 3. I had lost my passion. I am sure that the ...read more
January 3, 2008 Coming up is my entry chronicling the beginning of my third month of eating raw last year. I am now 16 months into this Raw Food Detox Journal, lifestyle. Quite honestly, I still have some days where I don’t eat as healthily as I’d like, but on the whole I remain ...read more
Nov. 30, 2007 Hello fellow organic, healthy wannabe people! (And I mean that in a good way…) On July 1st last year, I made a paradigm shifting, literal gut wrenching (I'm talking big, here) change. It included adopting an 80% raw food diet. I began a journal detailing the ...read more
November 13, 2007 What follows is day 61 of my cleansing journey with raw food. But today (hmm, I guess it’s day 531), my efforts continue. Detoxing is an on-going process, I’ve learned. The environmental toxins all around us; in the air and water, our poor food choices, our ...read more
On July 1st last year, I made a 180 in my life. After becoming more and more ill during the previous decade with various assaults to my body, I decided it was time to get serious about healing and take matters into my own hands. I knew the first thing that had to go was my diet. ...read more
July 20, 2006 Wow. Two days of stomach and back woes. Yesterday was as bad as the 18th (my last entry). But today was better -- I went to another colonic specialist and got some of those toxins (that have been freed up by this new diet) cleared out of my system. Robin. LOVE her. ...read more
Dear Fellow Organic Folk, Raw Foodies and “just-trying-to-do-my-damn-best-thank-you-very-much��� people, I’ve been on a journey of healing since June 1 of 2006. And I’m using raw food as my primary medicine. Having suffered from chronic pain due to one herniated disk and two ...read more
On July 1st last year, I made a 180 in my life. After becoming progressively ill during the previous decade, I decided it was time to get serious about healing. I knew the first thing that had to go was my diet. So I took the plunge. I went raw. What follows is day 45 of this ...read more
July 14, 2006 Went to a colon hydro-therapist today. Got a colonic (a gentle water system used by certified technicians to cleanse the colon). First time since my twenties. Found out that there was not much there to clean out! The 70/30 raw food diet I’m consuming is like eating ...read more
What follows is day 12 of the transition I made last year to eating mostly raw, fresh, organic food. I'm still doing it and feeling better and better every day. July 12, 2006 Well, I’m supposedly right on target with my diet – I’m on the “level 5” plan from “The Raw Food Detox ...read more
Here's day 10, folks. July 10, 2006 Up 'til now I’ve been focusing this journal on eating more alive, organic food and my withdrawal from the ridiculously unhealthy and made-exclusively-for-profit foods that are manufactured by corporate pushers. That’s the way I think of those ...read more
What follows is day 8 of the journey I am continuing today. July 8, 2006 12:23 pm I want to be a moral consumer, ecologically responsible, and to practice dietary ethics. To me, being a moral consumer means that I must do the work to find out how the money I give to companies ...read more
July 7, 2006 God, I take it back about the wheat being the easiest to quit. Please help. Love, Tamlyn. Amen. Wheat and milk products are in everything (“whey products” means milk). Gotta check those labels even more religiously. Okay, so I ate something with wheat in the ...read more
"Jul. 06" Last year, I began a radical, new path to better health and began writing down my experiences in the hopes that it may be of service to others someday. It was one of the hardest things I've ever done. Here’s days 3 and 5 of my experience with “going raw”: July 3, ...read more
Why eat a raw food diet? Organic, raw food is more nutritious. Living, uncooked, organic foods contain more enzymes, vitamins and fiber. We need enzymes to digest food – enzymatic action is the first, critical step in getting nutrients to the cells in our body. And we don’t get ...read more
Day One: July 1, 2006 Great changes are happening in our little family, that is, my son and I. After 10 years of being away from my vegan roots, I’ve chosen to live healthy again. Completely dissatisfied with my food choices, I’d frequently stand in front of the fridge letting ...read more
Hi. My name’s Tamlyn Jordan and I eat a vegan diet. I try not to identify myself with, “I’m a vegan,” because number one, people have mistakenly assumed I smoke pot, two, I have actually been asked, “So how’s your new religion going?” (I had to correct them; “Vegan, not pagan”), ...read more