So I Shouldn't Crave Cooked Foods if I Eat Enough???

I went one week not craving any foods being LFRV. I did great. Ate loads of carbs. I was eating on average 2500 to 3000 Calories a day. Every day I was not working out. On average 3-5 days a week. I have a busy job so I'm constantly moving.

But today I wasn't satisfied. It's as if my body was missing something. But I already had close to 3000 calories intake for the day. Should I really be craving more calories?? Maybe it was fat. I hadn't had any fat for the week.

Well I gave in. I had low sodium tuna with almost a TBS of light mayo with celery seed and dill. I ate this with 2 plain rice cakes. I thought well maybe my brain needs what's in the fish. Maybe it's the b12. BUT I still wasn't satisfied. So I did what I really wish I didn't. I had another rice cake with a spoonful of peanut butter (not the natural stuff, the kind with oil, salt, and sugar...eek).

So maybe what I really needed to do was have some avocado. It's so hard to think straight sometimes. Too late now.

Well so many people say when you're craving the wrong foods it's because you are not eating enough calories from fruit. But I'm sure I did. I had 3000 calories from fruit. My exercise wasn't even that great. I played volleyball and burned calories at work.

What's going on? Why did I want the cooked food? Why was I craving tuna, mayo, peanut butter? I was even craving baked beans...I just didn't have them.

And will I blow up like a balloon?? I haven't had salt this whole week.

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Comment by ednshell on October 16, 2012 at 11:23pm: FDA approved!

http://www.organicconsumers.org/organic/fish043004.cfm

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_al...

Fish are water filters, constantly filtering the water, would you even think about licking your water filter after 6 months, 2 years etc. and they are all contaminated with high levels of PCBs, mercury etc. etc. way over what the FDA says is the safe limit for health.

This video may help deter you from ever letting that into your temple again:

http://www.30bananasaday.com/video/fish-for-illness

Comment by ednshell on October 16, 2012 at 10:35pm: Yep, you've got it right, eat more if you're hungry. Fruit alone will give you plenty of fat, around 5% usually. An avocado or nuts for extra fat is a fine choice too.

The number 1 reason peeps don't stay on a low fat raw vegan lifestyle....

A. How do i know im not eating enough calories from fruit?

1. Cooked food starts to look and smell good.

2. Cooked food looks more then the toxic, second rate slop it really is.

3. Your energy, power, strength start to go downhill.

4. Your attitude starts to suck. You just want to rip apart people and scream at them with frustration.

5. You start to question this whole raw gig.

6. You get cravings during the day and evening.

7. You start to rely on discipline to keep you raw.

8. You start to make raw pasta dishes, raw cakes etc.

9. You start to question if we really need to exercise.

10. Your so thin and weak that your athletic friends start to get concerned.

11. You start to question veganism.

12. You start blending maccadamias with dulse and spread it on 1inch thick flax crackers you made at 3am in the morning.

13. You wake up at night and steal your housemates fruit. If your housemate is called banana guns and he told you not to eat the papaya, and you did, you aint eating enough fruit cals.

14. You start to want to take fancy herbs and experiement with other diets.

15. Your actually eating cooked food and reading this.

16. Youve got some Fred Bisci Enzymes in your pocket and your ready to try the 'all raw but 20% cooked rule'

17. You want to believe that Brian Clement is right when he says corn chips are better than fruit.

18. You just paid aajonus vonderplanitz 400$ for a one hour consult and he told you to put an egg on a window edge for 50 days until its putrid and then to eat it. and you did it. you saw your dog eat some animal poo and you tried it too. ( true story i just heard).

19. You just cant sleep!! you are approaching insomniac.

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Comment by Camille G on October 16, 2012 at 3:29pm: I think for a lot of people, including myself, we have emotional and mental attachments to types of food. We all have spent out whole lives eating food with temperatures, smells, taste, and textures very different from that of raw fruits and veggies. I would guess that while your body doesn't want or need other types of food, you mind is still very much attached to non HCRV foods. That is what is the case with me. I've let go of most food cravings, but there are certain foods I have a strong emotional attachment to and smelling or seeing the food affects me much more than the non-HCRV that I was never attached to before I started my HCRV journey.