About Us
Our favorite raw chocolate cocktail
We are fraternal twin sisters who started this blog shortly after going into our second year of living the raw food lifestyle and in addition to running our own company just at the age of 25. People always asked us questions like, how is it to live and work with your twin sister? How can you be an athlete and eat raw foods? So we wanted to share our stories, beliefs, tips, general information, hot topics, and life as twins.
Us with our older sisters...Jen, Lori, Carrie, & Michelle
Another reason we started this blog was because we are very passionate about the tie between food and exercise. With the increase of kids and adults facing obesity and diabetes and countless other health issues, we hope through our blog we can help inspire people to appreciate their bodies and eat foods that nourish their bodies. We are not doctors, we are just sharing our journey through our own research and personal experiences. We really want to help people feel and look better….we hope we can inspire everyone to make some changes, whether big or small, in their lifestyle. We hope Pure 2 Raw will provide you with some insight and answers about the raw foods lifestyle.
Michelle and Lori
We have always been the kids who ate differently than most kids. We remember bringing egg whites and steamed broccoli to lunch in middle school…and we would get the stares of what are we eating? We have to thank our two older sisters for this due to their change in diet and fitness because it opened our eyes at a very young age of how important food can affect your body. And we wanted to be like our older sisters! Since then we have been very passionate about healthy eating and fitness, and we have always been looked at as different not only because we are twins but also due to our lifestyle choices.
Michelle loves her salads!!
We were athletes all during our school years, which helped us to be more aware of healthy foods and trying new things. Through many years of trail and error we slowly realized there needs to be a balance of food and exercise. We do not believe in diets, just the basics…giving your body what it needs in its natural form. We believe your body tells you what it needs and what it does not like through how you feel both mentally and physically.
Even though we were eating healthy, we still suffered from stomach and digestive issues, hormone imbalances, skin problems, gas and constipation. Our bodies were giving us the signs, we just were not aware of the link to how we feel and the foods we ate. Eventually we decided enough is enough, and we began our journey of food elimination to find what our bodies do not like. This led us to eat a gluten free vegan raw foods diet.
Lori...always in the kitchen
We were vegetarians for many years just having occasionally fish and goat cheese(our one downfall) and we just recently have entered the raw foods world. We are in our second year of eating living, organic fresh fruit and vegetables, nuts and seeds and superfoods. So by us already eating a limited diet transitioning into the raw food lifestyle was not hard. It actually all made sense once we learned more about the benefits of eating raw and eliminating things like gluten, corn, dairy, etc. Why wouldn’t we eat foods that made us feel great versus feeling bloated, tired, and having a foggy head? We are not 100% raw, we still believe in enjoying life but do feel best when we eat raw foods. Our goal is to achieve a lifestyle that is full of nutrient packed foods from a plant based diet.
We have our own gluten free vegan bakery called Twin Cakes. Please check out our blog and website for information about our bakery. Our newest product line is our Pure 2 Raw. It is our raw foods product line. We wanted to share our raw treats with others, which is why we started Pure 2 Raw. We hope you will enjoy our treats so you too can start feeling the benefits of eating RAW.
Having our own bakery has been a dream of ours and starting this new journey of raw lifestyle is very exciting for us. We hope you enjoy our journey as we look forward to the future! We hope our blog inspires you to take the Raw foods journey with us, or just start incorporating or making better choices in your food selections. Please share your thoughts, comments, and ideas.
Till next time
The Twins
Michelle and Lori
