Has anyone been on the totally raw food diet?!
Has anyone been on the totally raw food diet?
Just veggies and fruits and seeds?
Answers:
I am newly "raw". I was 100% for a couple weeks and felt really great, but something was missing. I added some sprouted grains and eat cooked beans a few times a week and that seems to be working perfectly for me (letting the beans germinate and grains sprout makes them more digestable and can even raise the nutritional value). My husband has been having tougher time with it - he's about 75% raw. In the past year I have gone from eating like CRAP to completely turning my nutritional life around. I think I needed to go to the opposite extreme so that I could settle somewhere comfortable. Once I get settled in a new, healthy routine I see myself eating loads of fresh fruits and veggies and the occasional stews, soups, breads and other healthy foods. Eating raw has helped me to see how much junk I was eating and I thought I was a pretty healthy eater! No more processed sugar ("organic" sugar and "turbinado" sugar is still processed sugar!). No more margarine with every other meal, even if it's Earth balance. No more cooking everything to mush. I have a good arselnal of raw recipes that I can use. I have reached a point where a baked potato loaded with salsa or some corn tortillas are a big treat. That's pretty rad and I know I couldn't have gotten to this point if I hadn't made the plunge to go raw. Give it a try for a week and see what a difference it can make.