| When we had our first child, Ka was 25 and I was 22 years old.
We really wanted to
have that child, but we weren`t prepared at all. We neither had money
or an education nor where interested in health.
In fact we
were totally into partying, smoking and drinking . We ate a normal
german diet, which included milk, bread and meat. I was always ill and
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When we discovered that I was pregnant, we BOTH quit smoking and drinking immediately.
I started to be more aware what I was eating, but I was still really confused about what , how and when to eat.
So I ate whenever I wanted and whatever I liked. I developed a chocolate adiction and so did Ka. When Benny was born his weight was 4,6 kg....! Which is pretty much. But he was healthy.
We still ate
meat, but developed the feeling, that Bennys pure body was not meant to
have it, and so he did not get it. We were pretty careful with milk as
well, because I never liked it, and we had the feeling he could be
allergic to it.
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We started to
eat mostly organic food, because our feeling was that it just tasted
better and we wanted to nurish Benny as good as possible.
2 years later I was pregnant again, but this time I had to lay down almost 3 month before the foresaid date of birth. Jaro was born home with a midwife and 4 weeks early. He weight 4 kilo as well.
After all the time lying around, I wanted to feel fit again and started to join the gym, when Jaro was about a 10 month old. I never did sports before. I was just amazed, what kind of feeling about your body you get, when you move. I just thought: "why did nobody tell me that before? That is fun!"
When Jaro was 14 month old he had always a sticky nose and developed a chough that made him through up sometimes. The doctor said: "your son has ASTHMA."
We were shocked! Our small, pure son with asthma? I just thought "I don`t want this to be, I want to have two healthy children and not to worry all the time".
That is ,when I started to open for a new input, and thank god, I found it in my mothers bookshelf.
"If you want to be healthy, forget about cooking!", was the title of the book, I found there.
I was hooked...it suddendly all made sense to me, all my dramatic eating habits during my childhood.
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I never liked
milk, cheese, eggs, messed up food , cakes, cream and meat. I could
have happily lived on apples and salad. Unfortunately my enviroment
forced me to have something else and that is how I developed my
addiction.
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After some disscusions with my lovely husband, we were ready to start.
We actually jump started. We stopped cooking immediately,and swoped breakfast, which normally was bread and jam or muesli, with just having fruits.
In the evenings we would have salad with some toasted bread toped with lettuce, tomato and avocado.
We wanted to keep some normal things, because of Benny. You must keep in mind, that he was 3 by the time we started and had eaten a standard diet till than.
We felt great! And Jaro, our ill child was chough free after just 3 days.
Our journey went on. After a lovely (about 80%) Rawfood summer in our gypsy wagon we left Germany to travel the world.
It made the Rawfood Journey a lot easier to leave the "cooked food background", but we still ate maybe 80-90% Rawfood. We had a lot of fruits at this time.
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In Thailand we discovered that I was pregnant
again. My first Rawfood pregnancy so far. I developed cravings for dark
green leafy vegtables and cherries. I had never felt so good during one
of my pregnancies before. I was just more energetic and especially
really stable on a emotinal base.
We loved it in Thailand!
There were the best, ripe fruits available
everywhere and we enjoyed all of them! We spend most of our time at
beaches on small islands. After a month we went on to Australia, where
we stayed some months at the east coast. We met many families and had a
lovely time at Byron Bay and Nimbin. We also went to New-Zealand for a
couple of monts, but we went back to Germany to give birth to Ronja.
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| Ronja was born at home, and never ill,
in her almost 3 years of life. It was a beautiful natural birth like Jaros and the whole family was involved. When Ronja was some months old, we
deceided to move again. We did let go of all our things we had, and
moved into our loved truck called "Emma" !
We constructed the whole inside of this bus
with real wood and enjoyed a lovely european summer in our mobile
house! We spend over a year living in the truck travelling Europe and going with the flow. It was so easy going with the flow, because we
were mobile. There is much more flow when being flexible and movable in
all directions!
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But we used the law of attraction to move
again. We imaged ourself to have a warm winter down south. We wanted to
go to the canarian Islands. And so things were rolling for us.
Exactly
at christamas day we sold Emma and some days later we were, where we
wanted to be:
At la Palma!
This was our home for more tha a year and she was called EMMA. An old lady but loved and trusted until we let her go
(2007- 2008) We loved it so much !!
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We spend some months there at a friends place, where Ka did some building and enjoyed a warm winter, and an early spring! The summer 2008 was a camping summer in germany, living in a tent and sleeping outside in beautiful nature for months.
But then we deceided to go to England. The main reason for us was, that we wanted to do homeschooling with our children, and this is not allowed in germany, because of some strange laws there. So we left Germany again, and this time it felt like we left it forever! So here we are right now! Living in a beautiful alternative little city in the sout-west of England and again enjoing lif to the max!
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have plans again- We would not be who we are if we would have not!
Next winter we will be somewhere in the tropics,
again. We just need and want the sun, sea and good, ripe tropical
fruits!! And here we are! We are in Asia right now, having the best winter ever! We will stay till spring 2010!
So our story has not ended here in England,.....no way
It has just started!!
We feel so blessed, that we can live the life we want, and share all our knowledge and experience with you out there !
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