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What are you putting in your smoothies? Just fruit? Digestion time is rather short once eating a RAW food diet. Maybe try adding some avocado, spirulina, chia, various other additions that help keep you energized for longer periods of time.
I think this is something that will change as your body gets used to eating only raw food. You'll probably have to eat a lot of food for the first six months or so just to feel satisfied, though!
I agree with windmillmind, when I first started eating raw I was ALWAYS hungry. I would eat a huge salad or a fruit meal and less than 2 hours later it felt like I hadn't eaten in days! It took about 3 months for my body to adjust. Don't give up, just eat as much as you need to. You body will gradually require less food.
Part of that "eating all the time" thing is just adjusting to a new lifestyle. Your body is cleaning house and making room for a better food source for your cells. You may feel extra hungry/ crappy for the first phase of your new diet, which you can attribute largely to detoxing . There's a great website by a raw MD/ PHD if you would like to read more. It really helped me when I first started out. Great food for thought. Here's the link:
*Peace, Love, and Living Foods*
Syama :)
AVL I experience the same as you (All though I didn't require less food in the end still huge amounts of hunger and food).
But to connect the dots.
muscle burns fuel, you need energy to heat your body.
if your body doesn't get enough calories in it. it lowers the body temperature (not really good I think but to survive it's oke) and breaks down muscle so it doesn't need that much energy? After A few month your body indeed needs less food but is it still in good condition, the same strength?
I think your body doesn't require less calories, in the long term it just adjusted to the calories that are available and that is pretty dangerous (people with an ED can live very well on a cracker a day?).
hmm while typing. It also cost energy to ex spell toxic-food, on a raw diet the food is good quality so you save a few calories but is this enough to offset the lower calorie intake?