Sampson
10-14-2011, 12:37 PM
Greetings raw members, i really wanted to stop in here to say hi and thanks for all the great information and reading on this site.
I am a 35 year old guy who has recently started eating more and more raw food. I grew up on a farm as a kid and got in the habit of eating very large, very heavy meals three or four times a day (meat and potatoes kind of meals). I have always been more healthy than just about anyone i know although once i passed 30 i just didn't seem to have the energy i used to have. This has lead me to start changing my eating habits to get more nutrition from the foods i eat, and i am glad to say that i have noticed a substantial increase in my day to day energy levels.
For the last couple years i have started eating much less processed foods, much less red meat, and much much more fruits, vegetables, and recently lots of fresh raw foods. I have noticed many changes in myself since i have been changing my diet, better skin, more shiny hair, more stable mood, and of course the increased energy levels which led me to these diet changes. I'm not sure i am ready to go 100% raw yet but the more raw i eat the more i seem to crave the raw foods rather than the heavy meals i used to eat which now make me feel tired if i eat like that.
I am glad i found this site which has so much good information and has been a good boost to my confidence level of continuing to increase my raw food intake while cutting out the more processed and cooked foods i once ate. I do still find it hard to satisfy my pallete with some of the raw meals but thanks to all the great recipes listed here i have a lot of new choices and variety of meal types to try out and hopefully include the variety i crave. I guess the biggest problem i am having going pure raw is that i am a 6foot 200lb guy who works hard and has been used to eating 5 or 6000 calories per day of traditional food to provide the fuel i need to keep up my strength. I also tend to produce a ton of heat and it is a bit of a joke with my friends that i have a furnace burning inside me but now that i am eating much more raw foods i find that i get cold when i relax and it is a very new feeling for me, i am usually taking off the covers in bed while girlfriends would push me away saying i am too warm but i now find myself reaching for the blanket if i curl up on the couch for an hour, very wierd for me.
I guess that is enough about me for now but i just wanted to say thanks again for this great forum and all the great information filled posts here.
Sampson
I am a 35 year old guy who has recently started eating more and more raw food. I grew up on a farm as a kid and got in the habit of eating very large, very heavy meals three or four times a day (meat and potatoes kind of meals). I have always been more healthy than just about anyone i know although once i passed 30 i just didn't seem to have the energy i used to have. This has lead me to start changing my eating habits to get more nutrition from the foods i eat, and i am glad to say that i have noticed a substantial increase in my day to day energy levels.
For the last couple years i have started eating much less processed foods, much less red meat, and much much more fruits, vegetables, and recently lots of fresh raw foods. I have noticed many changes in myself since i have been changing my diet, better skin, more shiny hair, more stable mood, and of course the increased energy levels which led me to these diet changes. I'm not sure i am ready to go 100% raw yet but the more raw i eat the more i seem to crave the raw foods rather than the heavy meals i used to eat which now make me feel tired if i eat like that.
I am glad i found this site which has so much good information and has been a good boost to my confidence level of continuing to increase my raw food intake while cutting out the more processed and cooked foods i once ate. I do still find it hard to satisfy my pallete with some of the raw meals but thanks to all the great recipes listed here i have a lot of new choices and variety of meal types to try out and hopefully include the variety i crave. I guess the biggest problem i am having going pure raw is that i am a 6foot 200lb guy who works hard and has been used to eating 5 or 6000 calories per day of traditional food to provide the fuel i need to keep up my strength. I also tend to produce a ton of heat and it is a bit of a joke with my friends that i have a furnace burning inside me but now that i am eating much more raw foods i find that i get cold when i relax and it is a very new feeling for me, i am usually taking off the covers in bed while girlfriends would push me away saying i am too warm but i now find myself reaching for the blanket if i curl up on the couch for an hour, very wierd for me.
I guess that is enough about me for now but i just wanted to say thanks again for this great forum and all the great information filled posts here.
Sampson