I've been craving mangoes all the time these days. Well, I worked a half shift yesterday and all I could think about was mangoes. When I got off work around 2 I was starving. I made the big mistake I keep making over and over again: I went too long without eating. Four hours is a long time when you are trying to start off raw. So, instead of going home and eating my delicious mangoes, I went to a local vegan/raw vegan restaurant, but I didn't even order off the raw portion of the menu! I ordered a jackfruit bbq sandwich. Well, a few hours later I was sick. VERY sick. I've had food poisoning twice before and I knew what this was. I was up all night and had to end up taking phenergan just to sleep, which was greatly upsetting since I cut all meds out of my life almost a year ago! Moral of the story: I should have eaten my mangoes! This wouldn't have happened if I had just had the mangoes!
So, I woke up this morning and ate a mango. I like to put nutritional yeast on my mangoes, which gets me odd looks from my roommates. I packed my backpack up with my last mango, oranges, apples, sunflower seeds and almonds and headed off to work! I snacked on the seeds for the beginning part of my shift and then hunger set in once again. I couldn't even concentrate, so on my first break I ran to the breakroom and devoured some oranges, apples, and nuts. This is all such a learning process and I am not sure my food combining is the best, but I'm getting there.
The fruits and nuts only held me over for so long and I ended up breaking down and having some vegan curry with tofu for lunch. I haven't been hungry since and it has been hours. It is very interesting to see how differently my body responds to cooked vs raw. I feel lighter and just... right... when I eat raw meals, and I feel heavy and slightly off with cooked.
So, I failed at having a fully raw day. I honestly haven't had a fully raw day since February when I went fully raw for about 2 weeks straight and then broke down after The Color Run and had half a bagel. But, like I said, I am not going to get too upset over this! It is a transition and not a race! I think for now I am only allowing myself one cooked meal a day, preferably lunch.
Love,
Ria
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Comment by Ria Anna Laxmi on July 30, 2012 at 1:07pm Thank you both for the advice. I certainly need to eat more! That will be my biggest struggle.
Comment by Jon Fergus on July 29, 2012 at 6:57pm Hi Ria. Main thing here is that you need to try eating more. If you can get into the habit of starting the day with a big smoothy - something in the range of 700-1000 cals - then you'll set the whole day up right. Without that start, you'll always face the cravings problem in the way you describe. There's a good 'base' smoothy recipe at the bottom of My Page, along with tips for those just starting out (there's info there on food combining too).
Let me tell ya, the importance of a good start to the day never changes; even after years, without that good start, the day will be a struggle. With a good start, the day is always smooth sailing :)
Comment by David Costa on July 29, 2012 at 2:25pm Try more fruits you haven't tried before, find something you actually like better than cooked foods, get a bicycle and a backpack or trailer or bicycle saddlebags (whatever their called) and go explore some fruitstands/stores
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