feeling cold and tired while eating lot's of raw - are there some solutions?

Hello everybody,

Me and my friend are vegans since years, but we eat at least 50% of steamed food, a few times we tried to eat more raw; but the effect is feeling terribly cold and tired, is it normal or should it passe with time.

We live in France so sorry for my poor english

Thank you for your opinions and experiences

Lot's of sun for all

Karolina & Abel

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  • thank you very much

  • Example from yesterday

    8h30 1/2 cup carotte/herb juice

    9h30 mug of sesam/cocnut milk with honey, a bit of sesam/flax/carotte/orange cake

    12h fruit (orange)

    13h green salad with tomato cream (tomatoes, herbs, curry, flax meal, a bit ofsesame butter) + soy sauce and olive oil, a bit reheated zucchinis with sprouted cheek peas for Abel a bowl of cuscus (he loves that) and sort of 1tbspoon for me cocnut/chocolate cream with almond powder

    17h orange and few almonds

    19h salade with dried tomatoes and olives, buckwheat, ognions and curry pizza with turnip slices, olives and ketchup (yellow tomatoes with sunflower seeds cumin pepper olive oil and chocolate cake - almonds orange and honey a bit of coconut and cacao for drink a few cups of green tea during the day

    we eat slightly cooked cereals ( mostly rice few times per week and a bit of home made sourdough bread)

  • and there is not a lot of fruit here at the moment, I take sometimes non organic, I love fruit!!! some apricots starts now We regularly take some goji berries like 5-10 per day...

    thank you all

  • I forgot to tell that it was a rich food for me; a lot of sweet, anyway what do you think? about all that?

  • probably I need calories thats why it seems to be a lot of fat.

    I m very slim :) It's more sunny now here so it will be easier to experiment thank you a lot you all and once in france drop in to our lovely village www.etelmassage.e-monsite.com - our little space to do mervelous things :)

  • I do agree with garlic and ognions, it's very difficult to digest and it stimulates metabolism too much, it works too quickly, it's good to use it with meet but not really in vegan diet. Sivananda school of Yoga talk a lot about that.

    Fresh ginger is a very nice non offensive substitute of garlic

  • I'm 1,58m and 40kg,

    Me too I feel better when I have some more fat and cereal, too much fruit fills in my stomac and I can't put much more after. I don't think having 2000calories per day, but I'v never eaten really a lot of calories, I think.. I feel also better having some root vegetables, carrotes beetroots etc, well mixed to digest easier, if not too much gases.

    lot's of kisses for youy all

    I have a lots of fun talking with you

    It gives a feeling of wellbeing, there are some people like you :)

  • I'm practicing chinese medecine - acupuncture and since being a little girl i'm interested in dietetics. I love raw food, but according to many eastern medecins it's highly refreshing, J A I think you should absolutely have some miso, ginger and cereal, if not cooked at least warm... bananas are cold in nature,

    that's what I practice is warm sesam or even better walnut milk with cinamon cardamom and honey - sesam and walnut have a tonifying action and releave (tonifie) yang (hot and activ) energy in kidney and stomac - try this...

    Karina thank you so much, I eat green leaves, not as much as you, but I love it, before leaving in France I had a garden It was much easier, I hope that soon it will be possible to pay a house for us... ;) we work positive thinking programe :)

    lot's of sun and energy for all

  • Karolina, I live in France too (Paris) but I am originally from California. I was wondering where you do your shopping here as I find it really difficult to find a lot of the vegan ingredients that I'm used to back in the States. Especially I miss kale (chou frise), where can I find it??? And you mentioned sesame butter and almond milk, where do you buy these? Or do you make them yourself?

  • Hi again! I was also wondering if you know of any schools in France where I can study culinary arts (cooking) but of the vegetarian variety..... I would really like to study food here, but I want to hold to my vegetarianism, which seems like a pretty hard thing to do in France.

    Thanks! Bisous!

    Chelsea

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