feeling "high" from raw/cooked?

[hellicat]

So on the weekend I experienced my first raw food "high" after eating several oranges for breakfast. Very exciting! I'm not even 100% yet because I still have 1-2 caffeine-free chai lattes (soymilk) per week.

100% is my goal, though.

Today, I had a chai latte and felt a similar sort of "high" feeling. But, because of the sugar and soy, is this a bad "high"? I actually don't feel bad - although the only other thing I've eaten today is an apple.

Just curious about anyone's opinions - is there a good vs "bad" type of energy? I understand caffeine as being "fake" sources of energy, but what about things like cacao and maca? Or table sugar?

Thanks

[rawrawks]

I get blissed out from green juice,avocados, fresh salad, sometimes fruit.

Other high from sugar and coffee and lattes are a false high I would say. Not the same by any means.

One is living energy bliss.

Other is elevated cortisol, blood sugar flucuation etc.

I LOVE live food bliss~~~~!!!!!!

[laura-jane]

As rawrawks wrote, I too get a blissed out feeling when I am about to eat something really raw and delicious. It could be anything... a really fabulous salad, an avocado, a grapefruit, whatever is appealing to me at that moment. I think food bliss is an appropriate term!

I think it's funny that I never would have thought that I'd ever get blissed out on fruits and veggies. But if it can happen to me it can happen to anyone! That's what being 100% has done for me.

To answer your question, hellicat, I would agree with rawrawks as well. I wouldn't feel good about a SAD induced high myself. I really advocate eating 100% because it eliminates these weird fluctuations and confusion between raw and SAD foods.

[cara4art]

nothing compares to the high bliss one gets off of raw! For me, amazing fruits, a killer batch of my own dehydrator granola, my raw ice-cream bites, green smoothies, do it! There's probably others but that's a start!