Conclusion: Cooked food is a DRUG

You don't realize this until you go months without and then reintroduce it into your diet. At least, I didn't!

This weekend I met up with a friend for dinner at a vegan restaurant. Normally, I would've stuck with the salad bar but I wanted to try the some of the cooked veggie dishes. Foolish girl....

Now this was partially experiment, partially succumbing to the temptation of seasoned vegetables. I've been LFRV for a little over 3 months now and a couple of times along the way I've had some boiled veggies for dinner. The times that I've had them, I have felt a noticeable difference in my digestion and energy levels-I'll feel more sluggish and digestion takes much longer- but no stomach pains or discomfort of any sort. So I figured cooked veggies at this place couldn't be too much worse.

Wrong. Seconds after swallowing the first few bites, I already felt like I had drank a glass of wine! That buzzed, dizzy feeling washed over me and soon after I began to feel my insides bubbling. I became more interested in the thought of climbing into bed than in our conversation.

These side effects were for the mostpart expected; what really struck me was how awful the food tasted! This is/was my favorite restaurant. I mean I LOVED this place. But this time, my first time back after embarking on my fruity journey, it was completely underwhelming. The swirly mashed potato thing tasted stale, the leeks were far too bitter, and the mango (part of some tofu dish they created...yes, they COOKED the mango :'( ) was a UCF ( unidentifiable cooked fruit) for the majority of the meal. It was unripe, leathery and drowned in some perfume-flavored liquid. It was awful but I forced myself to eat it. Bad idea. The only dish I can honestly say I enjoyed was the pumpkin and that wasn't even worth the physical/emotional discomfort. All in all, the meal was boring; a disappointment for sure.

To make matters worse, I still don't feel 100% yet, 3 days later. The following day, I woke up with a foul taste in my mouth, something I left behind in the past, and felt incredibly spaced out. My insides are still...

"off" as I write this.

Moral of the story: cooked food is NOT all it's made out to be. Sure it may look, sound, smell, feel nice for a few moments, but are the consequences really worth it? No! I'll stick to smelling from now on. I really wish people would give this a shot. Just for one month, just one and then they could go back to eating cooked rocks if they like. You just don't KNOW how lousy you feel on a SAD diet and how GREAT you can feel eating fruits & veggies, until you ditch the drugs. It's so sad that so many people will never know how delicious it is to be fueled by fruit.

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Comment by Alison on December 26, 2010 at 12:51pm: this sounds like my story only i was on the toilet for 3 days! thus begins the cycle ... i really wish this was written about in more raw books. the law of vital accommodation. and the addiction that we didn't know we had until we went raw. it really is crazy! i seriously had NO known food issues until i went raw...but since we can't go back in time i have just taken this journey as a means of spiritual growth. i mean i'd rather it be this than some horrible disease, disability or near death experience. coming from a 3 year transitioner i can only offer a bit of help...be kind to yourself (being hard on yourself won't make you perform better). good luck on your way.

Comment by Chris P. on December 16, 2010 at 10:43pm: I think one of the big things about eating cooked food versus raw is that when you eat raw food without condiments, you eat it when it is ripe. With cooked food, often times people use not-ready produce and then "make up" for it with seasonings etc. When you are raw for a while, your taste buds become VERY discerning!

Comment by Estefanía on December 16, 2010 at 6:00pm: Yep, the average age in Eastern Asia (as in the West until the intro of animal secretions into our diets) was around 16 or 17. It's in no way something to celebrate when a CHILD starts menstruating. People are so uninformed :(

@Joy. Wow 4 month long binge! Glad to hear you are dusting off and going for it again :) Good on you! It is DEFINITELY a learning experience; I believe it has a purpose, as long as we learn from it.

@ Michael- You're absolutely right! I think fruit may be the only food that actually tastes more incredible than it smells !

Comment by Joy on December 16, 2010 at 3:18pm: yeah girl. it sucks. i was 811 for 5 months and then cheated once and went on a 4 month long cooked binge. it was the sickest i'd ever been in my life. disgusting. i'm finally out of it again and trying to understand the purpose it held. just don't let it happen 2 times in a row!

Comment by Michael on December 16, 2010 at 10:11am: The smell of cooked food is deceiving. The flavor is cooked out of the food and into the aroma in the air. It's better to enjoy the aromas and leave it at that.

Comment by Heather B on December 16, 2010 at 8:59am: For some reason there's no reply button so @CBraunmuller:

I didn't know girls back then got their period at age 16?!? My gosh, that's really interesting. I thought the normal age to get your period was around 11-13. I've heard of girls getting it at age 8... even 7. The reason they're getting it so early is cause of all the hormones in the meat and dairy. As well as the high % of fat, we get our periods when our body has a high enough % of stored fat. Which is why SOME professional athletes don't get their period until they've stopped training.

Comment by For_The_Love_Of_Fruit on December 15, 2010 at 10:52pm: Steph I love the way you took the experience, and thank you for that second commentary! I never thought that our period is our body getting rid of the junk...

You know, yesterday in Ballet there was an 8 year old girl with her grandmother in the locker-room and her granny was calling her mom to let her know that the girl just got her period! "I could only think, my gosh, at such an early age?!?", kids are eating more and more junk earlier in life, and therefore, getting their periods earlier and earlier.

In my grandmother's time, little girls got their periods at 16, 17. That was normal. And I know that in her time there were no yogurts, no milk, no cheese, mostly no meat... all they ate were boiled potatoes and veggies. There wasn't non of all the non-sense foods of today.

So yes, when one thinks about it it does make sense that even though we eat up 3000cals a day there's no sight of period. because fruit is cleansing not poisoning.

Comment by Don Stewart on December 15, 2010 at 9:50pm: Thanks so much for sharing this Stephanie...

Comment by Estefanía on December 15, 2010 at 6:04pm: Oh no, it's not bad, it just makes you FEEL bad ;) While, I DON'T recommend this little experiment, I must say it has only strengthened my commitment to my FRESH, UNADULTERATED fruits and veggies!

This may be too much info for some, but I feel it speaks heaps about the effects of cooked, stimulant-laden foods on our body. I wasn't too sure about the whole menstruation-is-your-body-getting-rid-of-junk theory until this little experiment validated it for me. I hadn't menstruated for over 2 months (which never happens to me, it's normally very regular) and was quite pleased with this, as I know I was still ovulating. Then BAM; put some junk into a clean(er) body and watch junk come out. Yep, menstruation began the very next day. Granted, it is much lighter and blah blah blah, but this really impressed me.

Some may say ALL foods are drugs of sorts. I just happen to prefer the high I get from naturally flavored, sweet raw fruit to the sedated/disoriented low that artificially seasoned dead food gives me.