New to list and had a question-

May 29, 2004

Hello everyone! I'm new to this list and also new to the concept of

raw eating. I figured I would try to incorporate some raw foods

starting TODAY but I had some very bad results:

(FYI: I usually don't eat breakfast - the few times I do I usually

have lucky charms or some other sugar laden cereal. For lunch I

usually have fast food! Some days I don't eat until I get home in the

evening and that usually turns into an all out binge. I know - my

eating habits are disgusting. I'm trying to get educated so I can get

healthy....but I digress...)

Today I decided to have a banana for breakfast.

About 1 hour later or so while at work I had a bunch of snow peas as a

mid morning snack.

For lunch I had an avocado and a mango.

Right after lunch I started to feel real hungry - crazy hungry - like

so hungry I started to feel sick (nausa and head ache.) Mind you there

are times I don't eat until night time so I was shocked that I was

feeling so terrible considering I had eaten alot of stuff. Aside from

the nasusea and head ache I started to get very irritated and

emotional, almost like hyper sensitive as well as very tired.

I left work early (at about 3 and had crappy food when I got home and

sure enough the nasea and head ache and hyper sensitive emotions

passed about 2 hours after eating my junk food.

Any suggestions on why this happened or how I could eat raw and make

it work?

Regards-

Anamaria

P.S. Sorry for the long post!

May 29, 2004

Hi Anamaria,

I have some ideas as to why you got the reactions you did, but

rather than speculate about them, I would prefer to give you a bit

of my perspective about eating.

First of all, forget about breakfast in general. About the only time

I'm hungry in the morning is if I skipped my dinner the day before.

We are in a cleansing phase until around 11 am or noon, so we

usually aren't really hungry until then.

Second, don't snack. When we constantly feed our bodies, they don't

have time to digest anything, nor to rest in between meals. When we

snack, we create traffic jams in our digestive organs.

Third, eat filling meals, with plenty of food, not just a little

something here and there. Eat three (or two or four, however many

your body wants) meals per day, but make them real meals. Your first

meal should be a fruit meal--eat plenty of fruit so that you have

your fill. If you don't eat enough of the good food, if you leave

yourself hungry, then you will end up bingeing on the junk food.

So eat your first meal of fruit only, you can eat whole fruits, or

fruit medleys with all the fruit chopped up, you can eat one type of

fruit or combinations, you can blend fruits up into a smoothie, lots

of options. Try to stick to fresh fruits, rather than dried fruits.

If you eat dried fruits, soak them overnight in water, covered, in

the refrigerator to re-hydrate them.

For the rest of your meals of the day, make one meal a nice big

salad, filling and delicious. Put into it what appeals to you, it

doesn't have to include a zillion different foods, though it can if

that's what your body desires. If you include nuts or seeds or

avocado in the salad, it's even more filling, so your body is not

hungry and looking to binge. This meal can be at dinner time or mid-

afternoon.

For your third meal, you can have another fruit meal, or else

another salad, or else some kind of raw vegan treat, perhaps a

recipe you'd like to try out, whatever your body is hankering for.

Eat what you love, whatever your body desires at a given time, which

can change at any moment. But eat what you love, and nothing else!

The realm of raw fruits, veggies/leafies, nuts and seeds, is a

cornucopia, a giant smorgasbord. Let your body choose what it

desires at any given time.

Fill up on the good foods, and soon you will want nothing else!

Zsuzsa

rawfood , " Anamaria " <ana_banana_girl>

wrote:

> Hello everyone! I'm new to this list and also new to the concept of

> raw eating. I figured I would try to incorporate some raw foods

> starting TODAY but I had some very bad results:

> (FYI: I usually don't eat breakfast - the few times I do I usually

> have lucky charms or some other sugar laden cereal. For lunch I

> usually have fast food! Some days I don't eat until I get home in

the

> evening and that usually turns into an all out binge. I know - my

> eating habits are disgusting. I'm trying to get educated so I can

get

> healthy....but I digress...)

> Today I decided to have a banana for breakfast.

> About 1 hour later or so while at work I had a bunch of snow peas

as a

> mid morning snack.

> For lunch I had an avocado and a mango.

> Right after lunch I started to feel real hungry - crazy hungry -

like

> so hungry I started to feel sick (nausa and head ache.) Mind you

there

> are times I don't eat until night time so I was shocked that I was

> feeling so terrible considering I had eaten alot of stuff. Aside

from

> the nasusea and head ache I started to get very irritated and

> emotional, almost like hyper sensitive as well as very tired.

> I left work early (at about 3 and had crappy food when I got home

and

> sure enough the nasea and head ache and hyper sensitive emotions

> passed about 2 hours after eating my junk food.

> Any suggestions on why this happened or how I could eat raw and

make

> it work?

>

> Regards-

> Anamaria

> P.S. Sorry for the long post!

May 29, 2004

In a message dated 5/28/2004 11:36:41 PM Pacific Standard Time,

southladogs writes:

Eat what you love, whatever your body desires at a given time, which

can change at any moment. But eat what you love, and nothing else!

thought this was worth a repeat, ...... beautifully said Zsuzsa !!

Mandy

May 29, 2004

In a message dated 5/29/2004 12:49:53 PM Eastern Standard Time,

ana_banana_girl writes:

Belive it or not I woke up with a swollen lymph gland under my arm. In

2000 I came down with a cold that resulted in vertigo which lasted 6

months straight and has continued on and off after that 6 month

period. I have also had problems with my lymph nodes and feeling

really tired and with a fever at various times - my doctor says it is

" fever of unknown origin: as I have had numerous blood tests, etc.

with no resulkts that point in any direction. She had ordered many

more tests about 6 months ago and I just didn't go to the hospital to

have them. I was too tired!

Hi Anamaria~

I have problems with this too. The medical community will classify you as

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome as these are all classic symptoms. What is happening

is that your organs are detoxing without the body being capable of eliminating

them. The colon needs to be cleansed first and healed and working properly so

that when you cleanse the other organs (liver, etc) that the toxins have an

easy exit route. I am working on this and getting better. You will want to

focus on insoluble fiber and get a good amount in the diet (veggies, ground

flax, etc). When the colon is clogged the lymph cannot empty into the small

intestines. Take it slowly. I feel you are overwhelming your body too quickly.

It is a good idea to transition into raw foods over a period of time. This

will bring on the best healing unless you are in desperate need to cleanse

now~such as a cancer life and death situation.

I hope that helps!

Sandy

May 29, 2004

Zsuzsa-

Thank you for the response.