HealthyRoxy
Raw Newbie
I need some advice, help, tips, incite, etc. I have slowly been trying to go raw for the past month. I went completely raw for about 1 week, but stopped due to bowel issues (not pretty when you are work). Anyways, that was about 3 weeks ago. Then last Sunday after eating pretty much 95% raw foods, I eat a baked green pepper with rice and some sauce. That next morning I was so sick. Like my body was rejecting the food. It felt like I had the stomach flu. Then on Monday and Tuesday I eat all raw, and decided to experiment. On tuesday I eat some sauteed veggies (corn, green pepper, broccoli, etc.) This morning I was sick again with stomach flu like symptoms. Can anyone tell me what’s going on? Is my body rejecting cooked food? Has anyone else experienced this? I have a theory that maybe my body is having to produce my acid to digest these cooked foods, therefore it is making me sick since my digestive system isn’t used to that anyone more.
Please help! Thanks!
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Yeah that happened to me too. The whole bloated not good feeling. I don’t know why it happens. It’s weird. I ate oatmeal before and right after I felt nausious. It’s strange. I guess our bodies are so clean that it reverts because to how it was when we were little. Our livers are working so well that it won’t let the toxins stay in our bodies so it just puts in back into the blood stream so it can get out of our system.
Wow. I’m really glad I am not the only one who has experienced this. It is just so weird after eating cooked food for years and years, that when I stop for a short period and try to have one simple cooked meal I easily become violently ill. It is conditioning me to HATE cooked food. Anyways, thanks for all of the support. I will definitely be sticking with the raw foods and begin experimenting with the recipes on this website. I am excited and open minded to all of the new ways of non-cooking! This is just the beginning of my journey!
Same thing happened to me for the past month! I would eat raw till 4, then at night time when I had a cooked meal with the family, my stomach hurt and I felt nauseous. Weird how that works. I decided to learn about it and saw some stuff about food combining (i.e. acids go with subacids, and raw comes before cooked.) Now I know a little bit more, but there is definitely something else I could learn.
Well I'm glad that it's not only me. I have been mostly raw for about 15 years. It helped me with my CFS. But whenever I eat something cooked - guess what ? I get sick !! Like now - yesterday I had some bean/veggie soup. Very unusual for me, but I just fancied something cooked. But next morning - guess what? Yes you're right - I woke up feeling sick. Was it worth it ? LOL !
HealthyRoxy, your body is detoxing so when you put the food that your body can't handle back into your diet too soon then you will have symptoms like this.
Do you use oil while cooking? You could be allergic to it. I found a similar discussion:
http://www.30bananasaday.com/profiles/blogs/sick-feeling-after-cooked-food
You may be allergic to certain foods, so it would be better to have a food intolerance test to find what foods are good for you. I used to have a lot of health problems because I didn't eat well. But now I subscribed to a meal kit delivery. I read comparisons of the best companies in this field. Now I am eatting right, and my health problems are gone.
Same thing!
i am a long-time raw vegan and this has happened to me so many times! Sometimes, I seem to tolerate cooked food fine, and I go about enjoying it for a while, but then I just get sicker and sicker, and I have to go back to being raw, my safe place!
I'm also suffering from severe stomach discomfort, low mood when trying to eat cooked foods. I've been RAW for slightly over one year (to reverse autoimmune disease) and I'm trying to add a small amount of cooked foods but get so, so sick!!!! Would really like to learn how to be able to eat occasional/ small quantities of cooked foods. Any insight is greatly appreciated
Often the problem we encounter is not the food, but the food mixing that causes digestive problems. I would give careful thought to the food combining that you are doing. In particular, I would try to simplify the meal as much as possible. The book "Healing with Whole Foods" provides detailed guidelines, but the short of it, is that you ideally only have one main food, like a starch, carb, protein, etc. (just one of these), and then combine this with greens.
- Emmanuel
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Cara Brotman, famous raw chef spoke similarly. She said a friend once made cooked pasta I believe and she felt awful afterward (tired etc.) When I do well eating raw for long stretches and I treat myself to cooked food, I'm tired, my abdomen hurts. Sometimes I feel a little sick and just really off. Sometimes I have no symptoms. Markus Rothkranz said raw vegan is as good as it gets; that it can take a long time to heal from bad food choices. He said he experimented once to see how long he could treat himself to the old foods he ate after he healed. Then, he said his symptoms started coming back. He is not a purist. He will treat himself to something cooked (vegan) on occasion. It's also my understanding that this is such a polluted world... So, having the optimum diet is essential and when you deviate from it, your body notices. I can't think of her name, but there is a vegan (raw I think) who beat Lupus. She cured it with her diet and she said that if she reverted back to her old ways , it would most likely come back. It is what it is. We've found THE diet to heal. We just have to cultivate the discipline to treat ourselves just now and then (& not go overboard). Not that you go overboard, but I have at times. That's why I joined this forum, to support one another in the raw vegan lifestyle.