I'd love to hear how other's keep warm on Raw - yesterday a cold snap hit and I could not get warm all day. I over-ate in the evening to compensate for the bone deep chills. There must be another way!! How do others maintain some internal body heat?
I do have a dehydrator and I warm some food when its possible, given time constraints. I also eat soup. I try to pay attention to the energetics of food, ayurvedic and chinese but my education is sketchy here - at best.
I did notice at the end of the evening that I was miserable.... and I wondered if miserable has a cold feeling to it. I wrote a little and started to unpick this misery. It was late so I didn't give myself much time. Does misery feel cold to anyone else. Like a dense fog, wet and clinging. (There ya go, just outed myself as the list weirdo...!)
I remember that this time last year I ate cooked and my excuse was the cold weather but I think, I retrospect, it was the season and the emotions and the food. All the holidays, all the contention. I wonder if by eating raw, I haven't uncovered some historical gnarly stuff that needs to be looked at and this is more the reason for my bone deep coldness...
Despite all my emotional meanderings, I would still like to know how others stay warm with the very cold weather, not just with food either.
Thanks
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Thanks Fee, I had totally missed this thread - it seems I am not the only one feeling the cold. Some great ideas!
Thanks again.
I also do many of the "physical" things here -
~currently wearing a scarf and have knitted quite a collection so I have one to match almost every concievable outfit
~drink warm water/herbal tea
~have a heater under my desk
~layers, layers, layers
BUT - since you asked for other "warming" things - I have also discovered this - I used to get really down/cold in winter until I chose to look at things this way:
winter gives me time to be selfish - which for me means
1) Exercise - a great warmer and it makes me feel so good about what I am doing for myself plus it boots the metabolism and that keeps you warmer (I hate it all other times of the year)
2) Curling up on the couch in my sleeping bag and my furry animals and reading a book
3) Curling up with my hubby and watching a movie
4) Taking a long shower just because
These have helped me to keep warm and actually enjoy the cold and winter. I don't have to worry that it's sunny and I should be mowing the lawn, or raking leaves (ok, sometimes I do have to shovel - but that's good exercise too - and man does it warm me up!). For me, the past few winters have been about doing the things I really want to do for myself - a time of reevaluation- a time to reenergize. A time to be selfish. A season for me. Sending warm thoughts everyone's way!
I used to live in the mountains of Pennsylvania and found that not even hot food would warm me up. So I found the best way to warm up and I still use it, even though now I'm in balmy AZ: JUMPING JACKS! Seriously, it takes like thirty seconds to do fifty of them and by the end...you are nice and toasty. It's also good exercise and the more you do all day long, the better tone your calves get! :) Any type of quick aerobic activity works great: running in place, jumping jacks, jumping rope, high stepping, dancing to a nice fast beat, etc. This will warm up your body more efficiently and retain more heat better than any hot food ever would...and it's not detrimental to your digestive system! :) Just give it a try next time you are a bit chilly...it can't hurt!
spices, cayenne for sure. and nuts. and make sure that you have warm clothes. try mustard powder and garlic in your salad dressings. ginger i also very good. just juice a little piece of ginger and dilute the ginger juice in warm water, maybe add raw honey if you want. this brew will keep you stoked!
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