5 Weeks Raw and I'm Not Dead Yet!

It's 5 weeks and 1 day since I started eating raw food and I would like to report my results:

Observations

1. I have much less indigestion. I had once considered flatulence a part of life. Now it isn't.
   
2. I had once just ignored all of my body's indicators. Now, I've become much more attuned to indicators like breathe, energy level, flatulence, burping, cramps, runny noses, cough, bowel movements, etc.
   
3. My body has become more sensitive to bad food. Somebody who smokes is much less sensitive to cigarettee smoke than somebody who doesn't. This is because smokers develop a lining in their lungs, which protects them from the smoke they're inhaling, but also makes their lungs hard and less efficient. In the same way, I notice that it is more difficult to eat bad foods because my body has gotten rid of the mucuous lining that was protecting my intestines from bad foods.
   
4. My body has been detoxing. Following the smoking analogy: When somebody stops smoking they don't immediately feel better. They cough up everything that was in their lungs. I won't get into details, but my whole body has been "coughing" up toxins.
   
5. With a fully stocked kitchen and basic knowledge of raw food, consistently eating raw food is not that difficult, especially for a college student that doesn't really know how to cook. Also, I think going all the way raw is easier than going part way. When I go into the kitchen, I don't have any tempation to eat bad food simply because there isn't any.
   
6. My palate has expanded and I have a new appreciation for the taste of food!
7. I have less bad breathe and body odor.

Challenges

1. Eating raw is difficult in social situations for me right now. Practically, the only thing I can order on the menu is a fruit plate, salad, or bottled water. Also, I'm still trying to figure out what to do when I'm invited to people's house for dinner. Should I just bring my own raw dishes and share them with everybody?
   
2. People generally are against and afraid of raw, organic food. At first I was telling everybody that I went raw. Now, I simply don't talk about it because people have such strong beliefs about it even though they have little or no kowledge of it. I agree that people can be unhealthy eating raw food in the wrong way, but so can people eating a Standard American Diet. From what I've learned so far, eating raw in the right way is the most effective way to fuel the body.
   
3. Since I've been having considerably more fruit, I've been noticing spikes in my blood sugar. This leads to me feeling dizzy and moody sometimes. So, I need to work on building more vegetables into my diet.
   
4. At first, the fruits and vegetables weren't filling me up at all so I was constantly eating. Now, I'm noticing that my body needs less.
   
5. My main question is, "When is enough, enough?" When I started playing tennis in second grade I couldn't care less what string and racquet I used, whether the balls were dead or live, or whether I was wearing tennis shoes. As I began to compete in tournaments I started to change my diet, buy tennis clothes, accessories and racquets/string that fit my style of playing. These changes helped me compete at a higher level. At the same time, after awhile I got paranoid when I didn't have the racquet at the exact right tension or my grip felt a little slippery. In other words, I think I had went too far.

   Now, that I want to take my life to the next level in every respect, I think having a properly fueled body is crucial. I'm just having trouble figuring out when it isn't really worth my time to make small improvements in my diet.

Conclusion
I think that I'm making good progress on my diet and more importantly my health. One of the main things I'm looking for in the diet is increased and constant energy through out the day. I would say that my overall energy has definitely gone up, but also goes down more than I would like because of too much fruit. After I'm done a cleanse, which I just started, I will look more for the increased vitality.