..i STILL haven't tried doing the apple sauce or buckwheat porridge as my stupidmarket didn't have any organic dates or buckwheat, so i'm going to the health food store to-mo to get some, and olives and other raw goodies to makes lots of yum raw wintery snacks.
yesterday i had (in no particular order):
Green Juice
Big salad with Avocado
6 Clementines
6 Gala Apples
4 Bananas (with bit of carob)
3 Sharon fruits
3 yuuuummmy no-nut fruit muffins (soaked mulberries, hemp-butter, lucuma, vanilla, mesquite)
with the changing season my body's screaming out for more fat, so i've kind of modified my diet a bit and feeling great so far!
There is so much wonderful advice and info on this thread now! :)
I'm still struggling with my SAD cravings but have noticed a pull more towards being completely vegan again this past week so maybe that is the path I am on. When I first went vegan it was after months of eating less and less meat and learning more and more about what I was eating and also about my own body. I just gradually went off meat and it seemed such a natural progression. As I think I said earlier in the thread, I reverted to vegetarian after five months due to feeling very weak. All down to lack of nutritional education I think.
Anyway, I think at the moment, as far as raw foods goes, I need to pick something I love instead of trying to force all kinds of raw into myself, because I end up feeling like it's a chore. All part of my personal transition I guess... but I adore green smoothies and even tend to prefer more greens in them, so I figure I should focus on upping my intake of those for now and the rest will start to follow right??
Just an afterthought regarding not eating meat. I get people teasing me, sometimes in a 'friendly' way and sometimes not so much. They seem to think I miss meat when in reality, the thought of eating meat makes me feel sick! I'm not a preachy veggie but if provoked I'll tell them about their meal. Funny how many change the subject then! ;)
That's funny, hummus was one of my staples before going raw. I only liked the boxed, powdered kind that you add oil and water too. Some days I would eat an entire package with wheat crackers and celery sticks!
Yes, those carrot crackers are lovely! I made them a couple months ago thanks to Sv3's suggestion a while back. They would be great for this time of year too!
no not yet, i've been craving toxic foods .... bad! sugar, coffee black teas and lots of bread!
not that i think bread is bad, i reather like it at times but lately it's been ALL i want in the form or pastreys, bagels, cookies, muffins and such.
I go through periods when I only want to eat certain things. I really love salads, but I went about a month without eating them, because I just didn't feel like it. This week I've just started eating more greens again. I can go a whole day eating only melon and I've been eating grapes for lunch everyday for about 2 months. I'm also craving more nuts and seeds, whereas I never used to eat them before.
I think that you should eat what your body is telling you to eat. I find that if I crave a certain type of food (eg. nuts) and I eat other stuff, then I try to satisfy that craving by eating more and more until it's gone, and end up eating the nuts anyway. Meanwhile it would have been such simpler to have just eaten the nuts in the first place.
lilmisssunshine23, if I were you, I would start by not restricting yourself but aiming to eat mainly raw/vegan (if that's what you want). Tell yourself that if you REALLY want a ____, then you can have it.
I did this when I started raw and although I stopped buying/cooking meat, I would occasionally eat it if I went out or to a friend's house. I admit I was scared to go vegetarian because I had a strange fear about never being able to eat a cheese burger or my parents sunday roast again. I started calling myself a 'flexitarian', so the option was still there, but pretty quickly realised I didn't really want to eat that cheese burger and when I did eat meat, I felt really bad about it. It wasn't long after that I felt like I wanted to go vegan but again, I was scared to do it because I had fear about having to reject certain food and being 'the awkward one'. I decided to gradually work towards it and allow myself/friends/family time to adjust.
I always knew I had a goal, but it wasn't an overnight thing. The moment you feel deprived, you'll be unhappy and it will only hinder your progress. You'll gradually start loving fresh, whole food and not finding junk so appealing.
I'm not 100% raw and not sure I ever will be but being vegan really helps and I'm the happiest I've ever been. The cooked food I eat is mainly veggies/beans/lentils/brown rice etc.
Good luck to you!
The reason I ask is because the greens I have access to are very limited and I can't get large quantities of anything so green smoothies - especially daily ones - are out of the question. I feel like my body could benefit from more greens and I live in the african savannah - there is so much unsprayed, "organic" grass out there it's not even funny! I was curious whether or not I could use some to make green smoothies without killing myself or making myself seriously ill... hMmMm... I'll let you know if I try it! :D
I love Kim-Chi but my roommates don't like to smell garlic seeping off me. :( haha I'm making some today. MMMM! I think fermented cabbage feels the best of all the fermented foods I eat. I suppose do to the large amounts of lacto bacilli. YUM!
He may not be getting enough vitamins and minerals, and so his body feels the need to eat more. I used to eat ALL day before going raw. Bee pollen, Sole (mineral rich salt water in small doses-you can make yourself google if unfamiliar), superfoods, and greens, will help him get his minerals and such built up. Adding more bananas, raw fats to salads, sprouting wheat or buckwheat for granola, eating dates, and other dried fruits,nuts, seeds, etc. helps you feel fuller as well as get in calories. And eating 80% raw still gives the benefits of raw , if he wants or feels he needs a cooked meal. :)
i am a raw dyke. i dont know much about general lgbt groups but pretty much every lesbian i know is at least vegetarian, so its not that much of a strench, unlike when i am mixing in the mainsteam world of employment and every1 just thinks raw is so out there.
Congrats on your success! I would watch a couple of videos about chicken farming and this might help deminish your chicken cravings. (I've heard Meet your Meat is one to watch)
If you are after something cooked and filling, but still healthy, try baked sweet potatoes or butternut squash. Tasty and satisfying but not too taxing on your system.
Keep up the good work.
I havent met any lgbt in my raw adventures as a matter of fact most of the raw foodists I meet tend to be older. I havent really met many only when Im visiting a health food store or Raw restaurant....Mersey, I checked out the giveittomeraw but youre right its been dead for a while...
I agree, it comes with time too. But The moment I'd feel upset, I'd eat something with Magnesium, as it is lost during stress, and has a calming effect. Greens do the best, and my go-to was Spirulina, or...Cacao ;) Excercise, no matter how much you don't want it, does wonders.
I don't have any info on connecting solely with lgbt raw foodies if you were asking that. But the few raw people I have met offline, were lesbians. And from what I see on alot of raw sites there is a fair amount of the lgbt community. :)
Maybe it's just a phase you're going through. I tend to have periods where I want diffrent things. At the moment, I'm not really into salads when I used to love them. I'm craving more fruit at the moment and also nuts/seeds/grains. I've decided to go with this and see what happens. It's winter at the moment so I'm sure this is why my tastes are changing. Once the weather gets warmer, I'm sure I'll be loving my salads/greens again.
I, personally, have noticed what feels like my liver cleansing itself after I have coffee on a rare occasion. My body is able to handle the effects better now, and my sensitive tastes enjoy it better as well.
"Everything in moderation, including moderation." :)
JB, I know what you mean - I love hummus and have to watch I don't scoff the whole pack! (I'm actually just eating some now!!) I tend to eat a small tub over a few days so guess it would be about 50-100g per serving. I sometimes make my own so it's raw but I don't beat myself up for buying it non raw.
So far today:
Smoothie - Banana, mixed berries, spirulina, date syrup (First time I've had spirulina and I'm really not keen on the taste!)
Carrot & hummus
Lunch will be my usual concoction of chopped apple, mixed seeds, buckwheaties, raisins & soya yoghurt
Pre-Zamba snack will be a banana & a couple of dates
Dinner will be sweet potato & veggies
sharing raw, vegan recipes and advice
And today so far:
4 Clementines
5 Bananas
6 Gala Apples
Green juice (spinach, lettuce, celery, cucumber, ginger)
Large Avocado and a few flax crackers
For dinner i will have a mixed salad with sauerkraut, then some sharons, and yum-muffins!
:o)
Superfood that's great bout your skin!
..i STILL haven't tried doing the apple sauce or buckwheat porridge as my stupidmarket didn't have any organic dates or buckwheat, so i'm going to the health food store to-mo to get some, and olives and other raw goodies to makes lots of yum raw wintery snacks.
yesterday i had (in no particular order):
Green Juice
Big salad with Avocado
6 Clementines
6 Gala Apples
4 Bananas (with bit of carob)
3 Sharon fruits
3 yuuuummmy no-nut fruit muffins (soaked mulberries, hemp-butter, lucuma, vanilla, mesquite)
with the changing season my body's screaming out for more fat, so i've kind of modified my diet a bit and feeling great so far!
sweet fruit takes care of sugar cravings. i find i get sweet cravings if i don't eat enough fruit.
Check out this link about edible grasses:
http://www.pfaf.org/leaflets/ediblawn.php
There is so much wonderful advice and info on this thread now! :)
I'm still struggling with my SAD cravings but have noticed a pull more towards being completely vegan again this past week so maybe that is the path I am on. When I first went vegan it was after months of eating less and less meat and learning more and more about what I was eating and also about my own body. I just gradually went off meat and it seemed such a natural progression. As I think I said earlier in the thread, I reverted to vegetarian after five months due to feeling very weak. All down to lack of nutritional education I think.
Anyway, I think at the moment, as far as raw foods goes, I need to pick something I love instead of trying to force all kinds of raw into myself, because I end up feeling like it's a chore. All part of my personal transition I guess... but I adore green smoothies and even tend to prefer more greens in them, so I figure I should focus on upping my intake of those for now and the rest will start to follow right??
Just an afterthought regarding not eating meat. I get people teasing me, sometimes in a 'friendly' way and sometimes not so much. They seem to think I miss meat when in reality, the thought of eating meat makes me feel sick! I'm not a preachy veggie but if provoked I'll tell them about their meal. Funny how many change the subject then! ;)
What about just juicing the grass? Start out with just a tiny bit and see how you do?
Here is a link to Tonya Kay's No-Willpower approach to going raw. I think it's probably the best and easiest way to transition.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3ryGHor_fo
Enjoy,
Swayze
www.fitonraw.com
That's funny, hummus was one of my staples before going raw. I only liked the boxed, powdered kind that you add oil and water too. Some days I would eat an entire package with wheat crackers and celery sticks!
Swayze
www.fitonraw.com
Yes, those carrot crackers are lovely! I made them a couple months ago thanks to Sv3's suggestion a while back. They would be great for this time of year too!
no not yet, i've been craving toxic foods .... bad! sugar, coffee black teas and lots of bread!
not that i think bread is bad, i reather like it at times but lately it's been ALL i want in the form or pastreys, bagels, cookies, muffins and such.
i'll give it a try! though im not sure it is calcium, i've been getting alot fo that.
Carrot crackers - I love them! (http://goneraw.com/node/6388)
They are more bread like than crackers - but thats fine with me.
I go through periods when I only want to eat certain things. I really love salads, but I went about a month without eating them, because I just didn't feel like it. This week I've just started eating more greens again. I can go a whole day eating only melon and I've been eating grapes for lunch everyday for about 2 months. I'm also craving more nuts and seeds, whereas I never used to eat them before.
I think that you should eat what your body is telling you to eat. I find that if I crave a certain type of food (eg. nuts) and I eat other stuff, then I try to satisfy that craving by eating more and more until it's gone, and end up eating the nuts anyway. Meanwhile it would have been such simpler to have just eaten the nuts in the first place.
lilmisssunshine23, if I were you, I would start by not restricting yourself but aiming to eat mainly raw/vegan (if that's what you want). Tell yourself that if you REALLY want a ____, then you can have it.
I did this when I started raw and although I stopped buying/cooking meat, I would occasionally eat it if I went out or to a friend's house. I admit I was scared to go vegetarian because I had a strange fear about never being able to eat a cheese burger or my parents sunday roast again. I started calling myself a 'flexitarian', so the option was still there, but pretty quickly realised I didn't really want to eat that cheese burger and when I did eat meat, I felt really bad about it. It wasn't long after that I felt like I wanted to go vegan but again, I was scared to do it because I had fear about having to reject certain food and being 'the awkward one'. I decided to gradually work towards it and allow myself/friends/family time to adjust.
I always knew I had a goal, but it wasn't an overnight thing. The moment you feel deprived, you'll be unhappy and it will only hinder your progress. You'll gradually start loving fresh, whole food and not finding junk so appealing.
I'm not 100% raw and not sure I ever will be but being vegan really helps and I'm the happiest I've ever been. The cooked food I eat is mainly veggies/beans/lentils/brown rice etc.
Good luck to you!
The reason I ask is because the greens I have access to are very limited and I can't get large quantities of anything so green smoothies - especially daily ones - are out of the question. I feel like my body could benefit from more greens and I live in the african savannah - there is so much unsprayed, "organic" grass out there it's not even funny! I was curious whether or not I could use some to make green smoothies without killing myself or making myself seriously ill... hMmMm... I'll let you know if I try it! :D
I love Kim-Chi but my roommates don't like to smell garlic seeping off me. :( haha I'm making some today. MMMM! I think fermented cabbage feels the best of all the fermented foods I eat. I suppose do to the large amounts of lacto bacilli. YUM!
He may not be getting enough vitamins and minerals, and so his body feels the need to eat more. I used to eat ALL day before going raw. Bee pollen, Sole (mineral rich salt water in small doses-you can make yourself google if unfamiliar), superfoods, and greens, will help him get his minerals and such built up. Adding more bananas, raw fats to salads, sprouting wheat or buckwheat for granola, eating dates, and other dried fruits,nuts, seeds, etc. helps you feel fuller as well as get in calories. And eating 80% raw still gives the benefits of raw , if he wants or feels he needs a cooked meal. :)
i am a raw dyke. i dont know much about general lgbt groups but pretty much every lesbian i know is at least vegetarian, so its not that much of a strench, unlike when i am mixing in the mainsteam world of employment and every1 just thinks raw is so out there.
Congrats on your success! I would watch a couple of videos about chicken farming and this might help deminish your chicken cravings. (I've heard Meet your Meat is one to watch)
If you are after something cooked and filling, but still healthy, try baked sweet potatoes or butternut squash. Tasty and satisfying but not too taxing on your system.
Keep up the good work.
I havent met any lgbt in my raw adventures as a matter of fact most of the raw foodists I meet tend to be older. I havent really met many only when Im visiting a health food store or Raw restaurant....Mersey, I checked out the giveittomeraw but youre right its been dead for a while...
I agree, it comes with time too. But The moment I'd feel upset, I'd eat something with Magnesium, as it is lost during stress, and has a calming effect. Greens do the best, and my go-to was Spirulina, or...Cacao ;) Excercise, no matter how much you don't want it, does wonders.
I don't have any info on connecting solely with lgbt raw foodies if you were asking that. But the few raw people I have met offline, were lesbians. And from what I see on alot of raw sites there is a fair amount of the lgbt community. :)
Oh hey, I just thought about GiveitToMeRAw.com they might have a group. Let me look... They do, But it hasn't been active since Nov. Maybe you can get it active again. :) Good luck!
http://www.giveittomeraw.com/group/glbtrawfoodies?page=4#comments
Maybe it's just a phase you're going through. I tend to have periods where I want diffrent things. At the moment, I'm not really into salads when I used to love them. I'm craving more fruit at the moment and also nuts/seeds/grains. I've decided to go with this and see what happens. It's winter at the moment so I'm sure this is why my tastes are changing. Once the weather gets warmer, I'm sure I'll be loving my salads/greens again.
I, personally, have noticed what feels like my liver cleansing itself after I have coffee on a rare occasion. My body is able to handle the effects better now, and my sensitive tastes enjoy it better as well.
"Everything in moderation, including moderation." :)
JB, I know what you mean - I love hummus and have to watch I don't scoff the whole pack! (I'm actually just eating some now!!) I tend to eat a small tub over a few days so guess it would be about 50-100g per serving. I sometimes make my own so it's raw but I don't beat myself up for buying it non raw.
So far today:
Smoothie - Banana, mixed berries, spirulina, date syrup (First time I've had spirulina and I'm really not keen on the taste!)
Carrot & hummus
Lunch will be my usual concoction of chopped apple, mixed seeds, buckwheaties, raisins & soya yoghurt
Pre-Zamba snack will be a banana & a couple of dates
Dinner will be sweet potato & veggies