cooked food cravings

[eluj]

When I stopped eating sugar, after about 4 days I stopped thinking about sugar. For those four days I wanted sugar CONSTANTLY. I ached for it. Then after 4 days I couldn't care less about it.

So what I am getting at is: Is it the same way with cooked food? I will do great for 1-2 days and then I just start to WANT something cooked. Will this go away?

Is is a physical addiction or just a bad habit?

Julie

[RawVee]

When I stopped eating sugar, after about 4 days I stopped thinking about sugar. For those four days I wanted sugar CONSTANTLY. I ached for it. Then after 4 days I couldn't care less about it.

So what I am getting at is: Is it the same way with cooked food? I will do great for 1-2 days and then I just start to WANT something cooked. Will this go away?

Is is a physical addiction or just a bad habit?

Julie

Julie,

While every body is different, I think for all new raw foodists, there's an adjustment period for the taste buds. What I found was that when I slipped up and gave in to my craving for pasta during my initial 30-days raw, it tasted awful, like glue. You're so used to the taste of cooked food and associate it with comfort and nourishment. I would focus on how you'll feel *after* you eat it, rather than the craving. Basically any time I eat cooked food now, I feel full and tired and cranky. I'd also suggest investing in a dehydrator. You can make lots of uncooked foods taste cooked, just by warming them (soups, etc). Winter is a hard time to go raw, because we're used to eating heavier meals that are hot. Hope this helps! :)

[DavidZaneMason]

Adjusting your physical tastes and cravings WILL dissipate....as you eat healthier.....yes....certainly. What takes the real work is the underlying MOTIVATION.....why a person WANTS to eat something that THEY think is bad for them. The motivation for this varies from individual to individual. Don't you think?

-When we no longer WANT or are MOTIVATED to do things that we think are wrong for us. THAT is a real victory! Ha! ha!

-David Z. Mason

[Little Mango]

A few days ago I had my very first craving for SAD food. I just couldn't stop thinking about Pizza and pasta. I worked out that I was feeling this way because I wasn't eating enough to compensate for my old way of eating....

[Nectarine]

I've been fighting a strong craving for steaming-hot porridge with a generous drizzling of honey for the last week or so. I go down to the local supermarket in the evenings, and just stroll up and down the cereal isle, contemplating, from memory, the sweet, creamy taste of porridge and honey, and how just one delicious bowl wouldn't hurt. So far, I've won all the battles, fortified by all the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual benefits I've derived from eating only raw foods so far...but something tells me that the war is far from over! :cool:

[mershwista]

When I stopped eating sugar, after about 4 days I stopped thinking about sugar. For those four days I wanted sugar CONSTANTLY. I ached for it. Then after 4 days I couldn't care less about it.

So what I am getting at is: Is it the same way with cooked food? I will do great for 1-2 days and then I just start to WANT something cooked. Will this go away?

Is is a physical addiction or just a bad habit?

Julie


I don't think that for some people the cravings for cooked food will ever leave. Take Jinjee Talifero, for example, the mother in an entirely raw family. She writes in her blog that the cravings can still be a problem even these days, even though she's been raw for years.

[Dj 247]

I think Summer will be harder for me. I went for a run in my neighborhood and someone had thier BBQ grill fired up and it smelled soooooo good. Big inhale. On the other hand fruit and veggies can be bought for a steal. Were I live the pickings are slim on fruits and veggies right now, but the prices are crazy. I need to get a food processor so I can make something raw to take to special events. I have been eating plain fruits, veggies, salads, and nuts. I have not tried to make anything raw yet.

[mershwista]

As for the BBQ, just remember that those things you smell are carcasses that sat around for 2-5 days before the people bought them...and that they were raised in the most awful, unhumane conditions if they were factory farm raised (as most animals for consumption are). Meat is a huge carcinogen, and animal products make it more likely to develop diabetes, heart disease, and a plethora of other things.

Soooo, if you're going to be tempted on that end, just remember that.

:o

[chilove]

Hi there,

Have faith! It DOES get easier. I found that my cravings diminished a great deal in my second year of being raw.

Wishing you all the best!

Audrey
www.rawhealing.com

[Free Cannabis]

Hi Eluj

First off, well done for starting the journey along the path to well being. Letting go of sugar addiction is a tough one as for nearly every 'westener' it's the 1st addiction. Sugar addiction starts in the womb as most mothers have a tendancey to eat chocolate and cooked and procesed foods laced with sugar and chemical additives. As the child grows up it will be rewarded with sugar and punished by being denied sugar, so deep emotional connections are made to sugar as a treat. White sugar is a poison, no doubt about it and feeds mycrotoxins and cancers. Have some blood mycroscopy done if you physically want to see these little black critters swimming around in between your blood cells. The problem with a child being introduced to these drugs at such an early age is that they are causing hormonal imbalnces leading to DNA corruption and a dysfunctional mind.

And that's basicaly what I'm feeling, nearly the whole world is mad. Just look at what's going on out there. But fear not my friend, the more raw food you eat, especially wild, mineral rich greens, the healthier you will become, although you may face a few healing crisis's. So if you feel that it's all getting to much eat some cooked food if you like, but please, please, please don't think your doing anything 'bad'. Good/bad it's all symptoms of a dysfunctional mind fixed in polarity conciosness.

I've done several 30 day plus 'Green Hemp Milk' (see www.rawcannabis.com)fasts with no sweet fruits, just lemons and cucumbers, and during those fasts I've felt absoulotly fantabulous. As soon as I start eating sweet fruits again I get emotionally unbalanced and to a certain extent depressed. This is no doubt because I have a high intolarance to sugar. What I have found is that by eating non-hybradized, mineral rich fruits, the emotional imbalnces ar far, far less. I feel that the perfect food combination is Hemp and Durian.

Personally speaking, after nearly 6 years on a live food diet, I find the concept of cooking food quite weird and strange, but then again so is cutting down trees and burning fosil fuels when we could be using Hemp.

Have faith and stick with it and the rewards, I can assure you, will be great.

Love and Light

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