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About a month. You will still occassionally think something smells good, but cooked food starts seeming unapealing~ even abstract. At about a month these feeling start developing and the longer you are raw the more intense the feelings get.
It took me about 1-2 months, too. Cooked food/baked bread smells wonderful but doesn’t necessarily make me crave for it. I think perhaps the smell is a trigger to childhood memories of mommy cooking in the kitchen hence the “warm feeling”.
I agree, I think many of the problems come from the emotions tied to the food. Holidays, family etc. I have attempted to make new memories with raw recipes to help with that. Have to admit however, because there is no cooking, many of the olfactory cravings are not met, at least for me. I agree with the bread analogy, I wouldn’t eat it, but I really love the smell.
It took a couple of days to know i wanted this and a couple of weeks to form something of a pattern.
But in saying that, i think everyone goes through phases where they crave cooked more than usual. I’m in it for the times where i’m so sure of this it’s amazing. The other times are tough, but they pass.
I think maybe my turning point was doing a juice feast. If you can get through one of them, everything else is simple. It certainly gives you alot of stuff to think about.
SUE - cravings do not have to be physical, they can be emotional as well. Cravings however, was probably not the best choice of words.