Nothing (to eat) sounds good right now

[elfinbaby]

I have been on and off of raw foods for a year. I'm back on right now:) I did a 8 day smoothie cleanse to jump start and now that I'm eating food again - nothing sounds good. When I was drinking smoothies lots of stuff sounded good but not anymore. Smoothies are smoothies - I drink them because they are easy, filling and good for me. They taste just fine but they don't make me salivate.

So what gives? I'm eating b/c I need to. If I stand up too fast I get woozy and I've been off the cleanse (which is not harsh at all drinking quarts of smoothies every day) for 3 days.

I don't feel like I'm starving but I'm just not that hungry. And when I am hungry everything is so subpar.

I think I'm having issues, lol. The first time I went raw I followed Alissa's meal plan and was blown away. EVERYTHING tasted so good! I really dove in and was raw for 3 mos. no cheats! The further I go along the less excited I am about what I eat and I even have all the fancy gizmos now!

Sounds like I'm psyching myself out, huh? Patience, patience I guess. I was so enthusiatic in the beginning and now I choose raw because it makes me feel so much better. Seriously - if I don't stay raw, I will keep at it. I can't stand the way cooked makes me feel. Totally in a drugged fog.

I just want to be excited again. I'm going to make some chocolate macaroons. They tasted really good awhile back.

Can anybody relate??
April

[StarFire]

Right there with ya.... hey - now that I think about it almost the same time as you.... lets see - it was between my third and fourth months... everything just got bland... unexciting...

in fact I wrote about it my blog-- at one point (2nd and third months) I wanted raw foods to no longer be an 'issue' in my life - I wanted it to become the norm... just who I am ... a raw foodist... no big deal.... this was my life.... I was at that time - obsessing about what i was eating how much nuts how much fruit ... how much this and that ... and it was ridiculous... I needed the raw foods to be an easy part of my life... simple - nbd... and not an obsession....

and well... it did... and it became very ... well... boring... nothing sounded good, nothing made me excited.... it's like the joy just evaporated....

So I wrote about how I wanted the excitement back... how I wanted to feel the passion again.... the vibrant excitment everyday.... I had become tooo complacent... and I wanted the fire back again.

so as I entered into my 5th month - I just determined I was going to get going again... let the fires of passion explode again....

I started experimenting with new recipes occassionally.... I made an effort to just concentrate on feeling the joy of vibrant living again.... but I am making that effort to make it happen... to feeel the joy of being raw ....;)

it's weird isn't it? I didn't like being in that 'boring' state - and so - I just determined not to stay there....

good luck... blessings.... and I'll say to you what I said to myself...


http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s43/FireStar_830/sleep03.gif .... WAKE UP!!!

DO YOU NOT REALIZE HOW BLESSED YOU ARE TO BE ON THIS JOURNEY??? ;) :D

[elfinbaby]

You are right on Starfire. I've been struggling with that thought the last couple of days. I've been forcing myself to make changes - exercising, patience, joy in work in the home, etc. You totally have to DECIDE this is how you want your life to be and do it. Sitting back on your heels only puts you in a depressed state of mind. I've heard Oprah quote Maya Angelou "When you know better, you do better." That's a good though but IME sometimes you know better and you don't do better and it just makes you feel like crap.

I'm digging my way though and I'll get there. My acting profs used to say "Fake it till you make it" meaning when you had an emotional scene and you had to dig deep and the "juice" just wasn't there, keep going. You can't call cut in the theatre and say "Um, this isn't working for me." We were taught put your body in "position" enough times and the mind will follow. For some it's the other way around. And both can certainly be true depending on circumstances.

Thanks for your post. I need some "tough love" right now, lol.

April

[shine72]

On the days where nothing "sounds" like it's what my body wants or what I care for, I scour the fridge and pantry. Then I scour my books. If I can't find a recipe I want to have that is jumping out at me at that particular moment, then I just keep it simple. Eat something for the nourishment I know I'm needing at that moment, and then move on from there and let it go. The spark comes back, you just have to WANT it to.:D

[RawCutter]

I'm eating b/c I need to.


isn't that the point? not to be addicted to food or go to food for comfort, relieve boredom, or some emotional reasons?

if you are not hungry, don't eat. you said it yourself


I don't feel like I'm starving but I'm just not that hungry.

but instead of being happy with this result, you resort to the raw version of a pint of ben and jerry's


I'm going to make some chocolate macaroons.


go outside. take a bike ride. watch a sunset. spend time with family. stop looking for happiness by feeding your face

[Random Violin Guy]

If these threads doesn't get you salivating, I don't know what will:
http://www.rawfoodtalk.com/showthread.php?t=30199

http://www.rawfoodtalk.com/showthread.php?t=23704

http://www.rawfoodtalk.com/showthread.php?t=21118

http://www.rawfoodtalk.com/showthread.php?t=16228

[StarFire]

isn't that the point? not to be addicted to food or go to food for comfort, relieve boredom, or some emotional reasons?

if you are not hungry, don't eat. you said it yourself


go outside. take a bike ride. watch a sunset. spend time with family. stop looking for happiness by feeding your face


wow... I like what you said there RawCutter... I need to take this advice to heart too...

OH and btw... THAT'S SOME HANDSOME PIC THERE in your avatar!!! CAN WE SAAYYY HAWTTTTT??!!!! http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s43/FireStar_830/chili.gif what a cutie you are!! RAWK ON!! .... okay - sorry to hijack the thread!! ;)