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Victoria: But whenever - when we went on the raw food diet and two weeks later, we already didn't think about eating cooked food because we suddenly felt so great. We didn't want to go back. Then my children they also throw a fit. Sergei told me, "Mommy, you should go to the school and look at the pyramid on the wall. I'm a growing organism. I need to use protein. Talk to my teacher. She will explain to you that. We really need to have grains and dairy and meat." And so, they really didn't want to do it and so I had to do lots of talking and lots of explanation and exploring to get in. And I have to use some tricks. Kevin: What are some of the tricks? Victoria: Yes. One trick that is my favorite that worked truly well, I started to put around house especially in the bathroom, I started to put cartoons and I got everybody used to I have new cartoons every single day. And then I started to replace some of the cartoons with some quotes from raw food books. For example, each can of Mountain Dew has 11 teaspoons of sugar. And sugar is the empty calorie and it could do this and this damage. Just a small quote so that eight-year-old kid could manage to read and understand. And then my kids read them because they had the habit reading those. And they would come back to me and they would say, like I remember when I put, 80% of morning cereals is sugar and they already knew how bad is sugar and then my daughter just run to me said, "Mom did you know that 80% of morning cereals was sugar and how did you put me on them. How did you feed me those? I don't want ever have them in my mouth." And that was something that really works because they got information. And I know that children are smart and they do not want to hurt. They do not want to get sick. And, I tried to never push anything on them. I never said that, "You have to do this. You cannot eat that." I tried to give them an option. It was not very easy. Sometimes, my heart was bleeding when I send them to the birthday and I was afraid that they will eat something there and they will become hurt. But as soon as they saw the difference in how they feel, at the age of eight and nine they were able to make their own decisions and they saw obviously that it's a big change. It's like night and day. For example, Valya was never able to run because she would cough. Kevin: Okay. Victoria: She couldn't breathe. And suddenly she ran a quarter mile at school at the second grade and she was not the last, and she came home and said, "Mom I could run!" She was so thrilled that she could run and she was just like normal. And now, she was able to go to the swimming pool and before she couldn't and she was even able to play wind instruments, which she couldn't do before. So she benefited. And Sergei, he did not have to poke his fingers and measure his blood sugar and that was a big advantage to him because his blood sugar was now in normal frame. So easily. I think he actually had type 2 diabetes, not type 1. But how many more kids are misdiagnosed and placed on insulin unnecessarily? And insulin is such a threat. It causes such damage to health and whoever is placed on insulin almost never could go back, you know, off it. Kevin: Yes. Victoria: And my husband never had to do another surgery and he became so strong. He started to become a runner, and I lost 120 pounds. Kevin: Amazing, isn't it? Victoria: Yes. Kevin: You talked about the kids going to school and going to parties and going to birthday parties, how did you prepare them? You know, what did you give them for school? Do you pack their lunches? When they went to parties, you know, what did you say to them? Victoria: I didn't know how to do everything and I was learning with them and I was learning from them. When they came from school and they told me and I sensed from them that they felt inferior to other kids who had bright packages. I said, "We'll do a great job packaging now." We went to the store, we bought some nice cute zip lock bags like tiny ones and with colorful stripes on them and I started to package bright colored packages. For example, I will peel the mandarin and I put mandarin pieces mixed with the almonds, walnuts, and raisins. And then I would slice kiwi in certain way then I will slice the star fruit and it looks spectacular. And then I would put the seeds of pomegranate in between and then I would just go and buy some cute water bottles because we were not drinking anything but water. And the water could come in all kind of triangular, whatever, square bottles with different pictures and moving mountains inside. And so I made sure that their packages looked spectacular and unusual and nobody else has them. I am pretty sure Sergei became very popular and cool. He started to be called fruit boy. People from the whole school would come to see the mango that he pulls out of his backpack or pomegranate and there were kids who never saw those things in their life and they didn't taste it. In a couple of weeks he said, "Mom you have to send me with two mangoes and two pomegranates because my friends eat it for me." He says, "I should have one for friends and one for myself." So instead of being suppressed and inferior, they turned to be cool, special, and it was really good for them because they have learned how to be different because they didn't have a choice. They have learned how to be different, they wanted to be different. And when the time came for the peer pressure when they were 11, 12, 13, 14, when their friends started to offer them drugs and alcohol and smoking, tobacco, they didn't have any problems saying no. Because they were not afraid to be different and they told me many times how much they appreciate it, the chance to be different. And not only this, in other ways like in any kind of political questions or any kind of social questions, they always have their own opinion. And very often they have different opinion from me and sometimes it was difficult and challenging but I respect it. Now I see that I cannot manipulate them, I cannot control my children but they are self-reliable and I understand that nobody will be able to manipulate or control them in their life. Not their bosses, or spouses, or anybody in the world. They have their own opinion, their own will, and they are much more mature at their age that I was at their age, for example. To read the rest of this interview please visit www.RawSummitArchives.com. This is just an excerpt of over 14 hours of cutting edge living food, raw food or health information revealed during the Raw Food World Summit.
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