Hello beautiful people! My name is Terri. I’m 33, and I’m really excited to be one of Yuri’s new contributors to his blog. I suppose I should start by telling you a little about myself.

I was raised on a SAD (Standard American Diet). I spent the majority of my 20s with very low energy. I started having migraines around age 26. I suffered from hay fever, which I had developed when I was 17. I was congested and tired all the time. I never felt like doing anything and just wanted to sit on the couch all the time. That’s all I had energy for. No doctor ever gave me a reason for this. According to the doctors, I was in good health.

In January 2008, I finally got sick of things. My mom had suggested several times that part of my congestion problem came from a sensitivity to dairy, so I thought I’d try a cooked vegan diet. At that point I had heard of the raw food diet but thought it was a little extreme. The vegan diet definitely decreased my congestion and improved my energy, but I quickly got bored with it. A lot of the recipes revolve around tofu, and I don’t do tofu.

While I was experimenting with the vegan diet, though, I continued to read and learn more about nutrition and how eating the right foods can affect your health and energy levels. In February of 2009 I decided I was ready to try the raw food diet and purchased Yuri’s Eating for Energy book. The information in Eating for Energy really seemed to make sense to me, and I started putting it into practice.

Now, I eat raw all day until dinner time. For dinner I usually eat whatever the rest of the family is eating but sometimes not. So I am mostly raw but not 100%.

I live in a household of SAD eaters but am trying to change that. My husband is really quite opposed to drastic changes to his diet, so the same unhealthy foods are still in the house. That is slowly changing, though. About a year ago when a raw food recipe book I had purchased off of amazon.com arrived in the mail, my husband said, “I’m not eating any of that crap!” Now, he’s talking about doing a cleanse this summer!

I have to say that my energy is definitely much higher these days. I can really feel it when I get lazy with my diet, especially my ability to exercise is noticeably affected. My allergies (hay fever, dairy, and gluten) are practically non-existent. In fact, I keep hearing that this is one of the worst allergy seasons in recent history here, but I wouldn’t know it if I hadn’t heard it on the news because I’ve had so little trouble with my allergies this spring! Also, when I do eat conventional dairy and wheat products, I don’t have hardly any reaction to them anymore.

So I would give that a big YES! Eating for Energy definitely does live up to its claims!

See you next time!

Terri

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