I’m curious how cold your shower water is. Does it come from a holding tank on your RV, a well, or a town system? If it’s the tank, it’s ambient temperature, right? I ask because I’d like to take cold showers exclusively too, for the sake of less chlorine vapor exposure, but I’m connected to town water, and it’s painfully cold.

I will be curious to see if you are still taking cold showers in the winter time when your RV is cold inside.

The goal you had set for raw food was to eat more of it, not eat it exclusively.

So, therefore, by occasionally eating cooked food is not neccessarily a failure…

It may come back to how you set the goal and why you had failed previously switching to cold showers. Because you tried to gradually change from warm to cold, you still thought you were sacrificing something, ie warm water, but in fact you were just changing a habit. So when you just changed it was more successful.

So with the raw food goal, either you need to be happy for the raw food to form the majority of your diet or set the goal to ‘Eat only raw food’ and try that. That way you set a clear goal at the start.

Anyway, keep up the good work!

I am also trying the cold bath thing now. Usually I go back to warm water when the temperature dips(actually it doesn’t go down that much, 15c). Since we don’t use any heating for the house which is not really needed, we feel it is pretty cold and stick to warm water.

The other experiment I am doing is to avoid diary products completely – while I couldn’t sustain it for couple of weeks in my first try, I am holding on currently for more than 4 months now.

For me, what has helped me to change things has been the reason why I go after it. I realized that drinking another animal’s milk is completely unnatural – see more of my thinking at http://www.jayadeep.com/2009/01/drinking-cows-milk-very-unnatural.html

Whereas for moving to cold water is saving electricity which isn’t a strong reason at this point of time.

I have also been able to cut out all aerated drinks and substituting it with coconut water and home made fresh juices – it was the realization that there were enough natural stuff to drink than synthetic drinks.

I used to use a bowl for the water for the lather and initial shampoo. And then the shower for the rinse.

I had the same experience in wanting to go without meat. For years I had wanted to be a vegetarian but lacked the will power. I tried cutting down on my meat consumption. That didn’t work as eating meat is so convenient and yummy. I tried just stopping red meat. That didn’t work either. It wasn’t until I did a lot of background reading on the environmental/health/animal impact on meat eating that I was able to give it up completely. But I had to give it up completely in order to be successful. I have not eaten meat in 5 years. I would go back to it in a second if I allowed myself a meat filled meal. I still eat eggs and some fish, and now I think I’m ready to give up fish too.

@hickchick – It’s a health thing, a lazyness thing (cooking is simple), and an equipment thing (no need for stove, pots and pans).

I use cold water from the crane all year round. I tried to switch to cold water showers before, but it actually hurts in the winter (on your head). Especially when you let the water flow fast.

But you convinced me to try the cold shower thing again. This time, I’ll try it for an entire week and see how far it gets me. It’s summer now, so it’ll be possible. And perhaps I’ll get used to it, so it won’t be as bad anymore in the winter. Besides, we have better isolation now, so that might help too.

I don’t get the point of the raw diet though… I’m not gonna do that. 😉

Greetings,
Andy

@timo – Right after showering works for me. Cold or warm doesn’t matter.