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New to raw myself, I lived a vegan lifestyle for a while, and if you go at your own pace allowing yourself to adapt, you stop craving things. I haven't had a traditional pizza in a year due to the cheese and couldn't imagine myself wanting any. Don't think of it as deprivation, because that will only hurt your transition in the end.
Liss it takes some time to get over these. I found that it has taken me about a year to not have them. I used to be raw all week then, like you have pizza, choc or a curry takeaway. I think as you move along in your journey you become more able to think about how rubbish those foods make you feel before eating them and this really help to aviod them. I am now able to sit with my family whilst they tuck into chinses take out and not want to eat it.
Another thing that has really helped me is to make sure I have stuff I love to eat in the house. I always have carrot and onion bread in the cupboard as I can just grab it and make myself a sandwich quick. I have just started making granola and this is fabbie, taste amazing and is really filling. Better than any ceral.
The other thing is to not beat yourself up about it. It is really hard to do, I know. I used to say that I could have one day a week where I could eat what I wanted, pizza, chips etc. Then when that day came because
I was 'allowed' it I didn'treally want it. It's in our mind's when we are telling ourself you cannot have it,makes it all the more tempting.
Keep going and enjoy your journey.
Blissing
K x x
Wow, thanks for all the amazing replies, advice and encouragement! :)
I'm vegetarian and was vegan for around 5 months at one point but I went back to vegetarian because I felt completely weak all the time. I know this was all due to being a junk food vegan and not being educated enough about the things my body needed. I do plan to go back to vegan at some point.
I'm still struggling with the raw food path, probably because I've been looking at it as all or nothing, which is silly because I know the only way I personally can do this is transitioning gradually. Anyway, still trying to get control of my cravings! :)
Because of some of the above comments, I started watching Earthlings. I made it about 15-20 minutes into it before my boyfriend came home from work and found me bawling. We both decided at that moment to be more conscious of what we are bringing into our home. He has always been hooked on cheese and is now committed to not having it in the house and having more awareness when choosing foods.
Thanks for mentioning the film!
I must go and find a copy of Earthlings, now. I'm glad someone started this thread on motivation. It reinforces my reasons, and helps me to remember what I need to do to help keep my family on the right path :)
Grace
if I crave something, I tell myself "I love myself enough to consume only fresh, whole, ripe, raw, and (sometimes) organic fruits and vegetables. These two foods love me and I love them back. " Works every time.
There is so much wonderful advice and info on this thread now! :)
I'm still struggling with my SAD cravings but have noticed a pull more towards being completely vegan again this past week so maybe that is the path I am on. When I first went vegan it was after months of eating less and less meat and learning more and more about what I was eating and also about my own body. I just gradually went off meat and it seemed such a natural progression. As I think I said earlier in the thread, I reverted to vegetarian after five months due to feeling very weak. All down to lack of nutritional education I think.
Anyway, I think at the moment, as far as raw foods goes, I need to pick something I love instead of trying to force all kinds of raw into myself, because I end up feeling like it's a chore. All part of my personal transition I guess... but I adore green smoothies and even tend to prefer more greens in them, so I figure I should focus on upping my intake of those for now and the rest will start to follow right??
Just an afterthought regarding not eating meat. I get people teasing me, sometimes in a 'friendly' way and sometimes not so much. They seem to think I miss meat when in reality, the thought of eating meat makes me feel sick! I'm not a preachy veggie but if provoked I'll tell them about their meal. Funny how many change the subject then! ;)
liss, I TOTALLY know where you're coming from on the teasing issue. I've never been a big fan of meat, so going vegan was no big deal. But everyone in my life, from the time I can remember thinking about what I was eating, have always assumed that I'm trying to "deprive" myself. What reasons they are thinking, I haven't a clue, but it is fun to put them in their place when they see that I am not just "blindly" jumping into an "extreme" diet of sorts, and tell them just what it is they're doing to their bodies and their environment.
Grace
ianpenk--- ditto, you said it. ;)
wow...thats excessive...moderation just got thrown out of the window? then again you are a runner...so maybe you need all of that... :)
stellajewels...i just finished a green smoothie fast ...well by just finished, i started eating raw solids at the end of day 2. the buzz was gone; though i had excellent experience...by day 2 i CRASHED and my digestive system, for some reason, wasn't eliminating..freaked me out, so i started eating solid foods. i am just now getting regular again...and this is 2 days later.