Does cooked food make you nauseous?

[TNVicki]

Hi! I'm new here, but have been lurking and learning for a couple of weeks. I've been raw, about 90-95%, for the same couple of weeks and loving it! I feel so much better, and I'm amazed that I'm not nearly as hungry as I used to be on the SAD way of eating.

What I've noticed lately is that the smell of cooked food makes me nauseous. Not to the point of getting sick, but definitely a queasy feeling. The other day I was visiting a friend who was eating a Sonic grilled chicken wrap, something I would've once considered healthy. I had to discreetly block my nose to stay in the same room. Today I was in Publix near their deli and the smells were overwhelming.

Has this happened to anyone else? Is it something that lasts for a long time?

[PreciousLight]

Yes, I definitely feel the same. I am in sitting right now in the kitchen with my daughter while she is making cookies for a fund raiser. I have been so... nauseous. At one time I definitely would have drooled over cooked cookies but not now. I heard somewhere where the smells of food are actually particles of the food floating through the air. And we are taking the particles in our nose and mouth.

[girlsmiley]

Shortly after I went RAW my son was making ham and eggs and I thought it smelled like someone vomited ... lol ... I don't notice it so much anymore ...

[Nini]

Ugh! I can't stand the smell when my DH cooks hamburgers on the George.

[Universal]

Certain cooked foods are more nauseating than others for me personally. Any type of meat (especially pork-based products) just are overwhelming to me at times. I just sit in my room with the door closed if someone in the house is cooking something like that.
I'm not as sensitive with chicken (sometimes). But with any beef or pork, I just can't take it. Same with certain fish.
I think it's natural and more normal than anything to not crave or want something that our body isn't naturally attracted to. ;)

[Nectarine]

Walking passed Burgerkrap or McDungheap, and getting a whiff of burnt animal carcass, is sure to induce terrible nausea in me.

[Tirza]

When I was first researching and considering going raw, I wondered how appetizing the food could be since it wouldn't smell if it was raw, and smell is part of the attraction. Ha Ha. I don't know how I could have been so naive. I saw Alissa's DVD's and one of the girls mentioned that very thing, but that she was surprised to actually smell delicious odors wafting when she came in. I thought, okay, I guess you can smell onions and ripe bananas, etc. But when I got my dehydrator and started making onion bread.....WOW. It is like something is in the oven! As I progressed through varius other recipes, I wondered how I ever thought there would not be any appetising smells.



PreciousLight said "At one time I definitely would have drooled over cooked cookies but not now. I heard somewhere where the smells of food are actually particles of the food floating through the air. And we are taking the particles in our nose and mouth."

I have to say I can really smell my dehydrating cookies. I guess if a person prefers not to use the dehydrator, it would be a different picture. But I do know by now that even non-dehydrated food does emit some pleasing odors. Perhaps I'll become more sensitive as time goes on.

I have often wondered if the actual particles of food were affecting us. Why not? People with allergies sure know it. What about air pollution. No one argues with that seriously. It harms us.

I was once on a 30-day water-only fast. (Okay, okay, I know....I gained all the weight back, didn't get any healthier as far as I could tell, and lost a LOT of hair) Anyway, I really wasn't hungry during that time. But crazy as it sounds, I never cooked and baked so much in my life! I was a machine! Just the smells sustained me. I kid you not. I really did not cheat. The family sure ate fine, and I just inhaled a long blissful sniff and was happy. I am convinced from that, that we must get something out of the particles in the air that produce the smells. Maybe even calories.....? :eek:

So the bottom line is, we do smell dehydrated foods, even though they are not officially cooked. They are warmed, which releases quite a bit of smell. But I sure agree about smelling meats etc. cooking. There is something really nauseating about the THOUGHT of it, the SMELL of it, and FOR SURE the taste of it now.

[SiennaInLondon]

Nope. Fraid not. Still smells good to me. But I am not one for self denial (which I think is part of any diet/alternative lifestyle). The science is that we get a greater kick out of higher fat foods. It is a survival mechanism no matter how much you deny it. But I persevere with raw foodism because I look better. Surprise, surprise I have become quite the atheist of late too.

[SiennaInLondon]

I was once on a 30-day water-only fast. (Okay, okay, I know....I gained all the weight back, didn't get any healthier as far as I could tell, and lost a LOT of hair)

Very interesting. Could you elaborate. ALL the weight? That must have been a lot of weight no?

[Tirza]

Very interesting. Could you elaborate. ALL the weight? That must have been a lot of weight no?
Yeah, I lost about 45 lbs. I gained all that and (much) more back. I was told that would likely happen, but I took my chances. I intended to just use that fast as a "kick start" and then carry on to lose more a little more slowly. Ha. Poor body - thought it was starving to death and held on for dear life to every calorie it got fed after that.

I noticed that after about a month after the fast, I started getting a lot more hair in my brush. Then it just came out like CRAZY. The starvation of nutrients caused the hair to weaken at that point of its growth and when it started to grow again, there was this weak point where it just broke off. I mean, I would literally have to clean the brush out partway through brushing, as it would be so full, the bristles weren't showing! I had pretty long hair at the time and REALLY hated to lose so much. It had been naturally thick, but got noticeably thinner after that episode. Thankfully, it did thicken up again eventually. I did not notice any greying as a result of the shock of that fast.

I once read an article about a woman who was losing her health and was overweight by quite a lot. She decided to fast for 2 weeks. I can't remember now if it was only a water fast or if she used some juice. I think it was water only. She came off it sensibly, the way you are supposed to do. Then she felt so good and was so encouraged, she decided that besides watching her quantities more carefully, she was going to take one day a week and fast then too. So she chose Monday. That gave her the weekend to be normal especially if there were any events, etc. Then after her supper on Sunday, she stopped eating until breakfast on Tuesday morning. (You know, nothing much happens on Monday anyway. We're usually all pretty sluggish and hung-over feeling from any overeating we have done over the weekend anyway. I guess this wouldn't work if the Monday was part of a long weekend. I guess in that case you could just switch for Tuesday. But I wouldn't want to do that too often as you lose your momentum if you start messing around and the body does like a schedule.) Anyway, she said it wasn't too hard to do and the results soon made it worthwhile. Every year in the spring she would do the 2 week "spring cleanse" fast, and made it her way of life to do one day a week in between. She lost tons of weight, did not feel deprived and regained her health. If I only had enough will power, I would do it too. I think about it every once in awhile....

[SiennaInLondon]

Thanks for the elaborate reply. I don't understand though, you are against water fasts because of the effects you suffered (water fasts make me lose hair too! And I don't have that much of it. It looks thick because it is coarse, but if I lose some it looks thinner quickly. *shudder*) but you think that this lady is doing things right? Is it because she trains her body to fast by doing it weekly? Or is it because you think your duration was too much? One day a week sounds doable. I mean you could always have it on Holy Sunday if you are Christian or Holy Friday if you are Muslim or Shabbat if you are Jewish and regard it as a spiritual thing. I think that might help a lot of people with having to do it once a week.

[tinystrawberry]

When i first went raw, i liked the smells but now i feel like it's ruining my oxygen! i makes me not want to breathe it in :o

[christiahall]

My family decided to do raw with me for the first couple of days, but after that, back to regular cooked food. So, while I was adjusting I let my husband feed himself and our girls. Now that I am adjusted and quite comfortable with my diet, I make 2 or 3 meals a day for them with no problems. I noticed that cooked veggies and meat smell dead. They all smell the same and dead. Where-as before, all meat smelled different to me. I made cookies for a late christmas package. Those didn't even smell good to me anymore. (Its only been 2 weeks.)

I haven't gotten sick though. Some things like chocolate desserts or cheese I like to enjoy them by just smelling them. :)

[Tirza]

Thanks for the elaborate reply. I don't understand though, you are against water fasts because of the effects you suffered (water fasts make me lose hair too! And I don't have that much of it. It looks thick because it is coarse, but if I lose some it looks thinner quickly. *shudder*) but you think that this lady is doing things right? Is it because she trains her body to fast by doing it weekly? Or is it because you think your duration was too much? One day a week sounds doable. I mean you could always have it on Holy Sunday if you are Christian or Holy Friday if you are Muslim or Shabbat if you are Jewish and regard it as a spiritual thing. I think that might help a lot of people with having to do it once a week.
Yes, I know. Sorry for the inconsistency. I wish I could remember if she just used water. If I ever work myself up to doing the 2 weeks, I might add some cleansing juices or something. I think that a yearly cleanse would for sure work better with healing and cleansing herbal teas too.

Yes, it could be that the "training" once a week got her accustomed... I do think mine went too long with just water.

As far as fasting on one's holy day; I don't know about Christians or Muslims, but Jews are not allowed to fast on their holy days, except of course, Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement). So another time will have to do, I guess.

[KatK]

My husband's always having tuna...bleah the smell really gets to me now.

[Nutz Over RAW]

I just recently rented a room out (good thing too because this way of eating is expensive), and she's becoming interested in raw, which is very cool...but, her and her boyfriend made dinner last night. Cooked kale and some kind of soup. My whole house REEKED! My senses must be changing, because it wasn't a pleasant smell. I snuck upstairs and closed my bedroom doors and opened the windows in the attached sun room. Later, when I went to bed, it was cold but a fresh pleasant smell. It did not offend my senses before and I'm only a few weeks raw.

[SiennaInLondon]

Ok but I think this is more about what you are not used to. Can you imagine what the smell of soya and sprouts must be like to someone who eats a normal diet?

[christiahall]

You are right. Its totally just about what we are used to. When you are removed from whatever it is that you have become used to, you notice all kinds of different things about it.

[Nimmanu]

I am personally currently wishing the smell of cooked pepperoni didn't appeal to me so much. *sigh*


I once read an article about a woman who was losing her health and was overweight by quite a lot. She decided to fast for 2 weeks. I can't remember now if it was only a water fast or if she used some juice. I think it was water only. She came off it sensibly, the way you are supposed to do. Then she felt so good and was so encouraged, she decided that besides watching her quantities more carefully, she was going to take one day a week and fast then too. So she chose Monday. That gave her the weekend to be normal especially if there were any events, etc. Then after her supper on Sunday, she stopped eating until breakfast on Tuesday morning. (You know, nothing much happens on Monday anyway. We're usually all pretty sluggish and hung-over feeling from any overeating we have done over the weekend anyway. I guess this wouldn't work if the Monday was part of a long weekend. I guess in that case you could just switch for Tuesday. But I wouldn't want to do that too often as you lose your momentum if you start messing around and the body does like a schedule.) Anyway, she said it wasn't too hard to do and the results soon made it worthwhile. Every year in the spring she would do the 2 week "spring cleanse" fast, and made it her way of life to do one day a week in between. She lost tons of weight, did not feel deprived and regained her health. If I only had enough will power, I would do it too. I think about it every once in awhile....

This can easily be made to work.

Body builders do what's called "carb cycling" when they want to cut a lot of fat, really fast. Here's how it works:

Day 1: You eat VERY high carbs. Your body thinks you're feeding it plenty. It is happy.

Day 2: You eat VERY high carbs. Your body thinks you're feeding it plenty. It is happy.

Day 3: You eat very LOW carbs/calories. Your body thinks, "Hmm... oh well, it was only one day. We all have off days."

Day 4: You eat VERY high carbs. Your body thinks you're feeding it plenty. It is happy.

Day 5: You eat VERY high carbs. Your body thinks you're feeding it plenty. It is happy.

Day 6: You eat very LOW carbs/calories. Your body thinks, "Hmm... oh well, it was only one day. We all have off days."



Etc.

Basically, your body's metabolic rate doesn't react much to "one day" of extremely low caloric intake. BUT that one day of very low calories DOES help you to burn fat very quickly on that one day.

This is a technique that body builders have known about for a very long time. ;)

[Rawzula]

Just looking at cooked food make me nauseous:eek:.

[Light of an Angel]

Since going raw my sense of smell has sky rocketed. I find the smell of cooked food especialy meat very offensive. At work I keep a bottle with air frashener by my desk and spray it when the smell gets too overwhealming. On the bright side smelling fruit and veggies is blissful, especially when it is a fresh and ripe mango, strawberry, cucumber, tomato, etc.

[lissomllama]

Yuck, I wouldn't know because I'd never touch the stuff ;)

Seriously though. I've been 100%, no slips for 8 months now so I haven't tested it but I'm sure if I were to eat cooked now, I would become very ill. I imagine I would get sick to my stomach and have a fever and break out and retain water and all sorts of nasty things.

I won't ever be testing this, but it's logic that if you eat healthy, natural food for a long time and switch back to horrible stuff, you'll become very ill.