2 months in and dont have that mental clarity??

[Hippo2Hippie]

OK, I'm nearly 2 months in, and I still don't have this magical mental clarity that I remember from 2 years ago before I slipped off the wagon. CAn you explain this to me? I can say that I'm eating more nuts now than i did last time around, specifically cashews. I am about to embark upon a 92 day fast, and I'd like to come out of it and keep some of hte mental clarity I'm hoping to gain from the fast.

examples of things I'm eating:

Sunday- green smoothie
almond joys for lunch
zucchini alfredo for dinner

Monday- green smoothie
1/2 batch of cheese dip (cashews) pepper wedges to dip
the rest of the batch as crackers for dinner
2 small bananas 2 kiwi for snack
so far today- green smoothie
cheese sauce again - half, on zucchini noodles
1 green apple shredded w cinnamon

****would anyone who eats very few nuts, please share with me how they eat in a day? I'm not interested in a fruitarian diet though. I need to relearn raw, to eat less nuts etc. I should probably go ahead and start that anyway, before my fast.

eta: im also taking empower plus for depression. I started that around the same time I started eating about 97% raw. I wonder if it could be that? It's nutrients, I wouldn't think so. Maybe I'm getting TOO MUCH of something?

[Raw Angel Mom]

Maybe, you shouldn't worry for this and focus to do the first step. Meaning, you need to get comfortable with this diet, first.

If you do a juice fast as you said, it will help. Keep in mind that it took years for our body to cope with our food choice and when we detox sometime, heavy metal stored in us get back in our blood stream and this will lead to brain frogg. Or past medication or substances or whatever was toxic for the body.

Be patient and focus on gratitude in the now. Know that you have accomplished your goals now, not will but NOW, and it is done. You are on the right path and you are doing great!

p.s Your menu had a lot of dense food but again, it all good because you need them to accomplish your first step.

[happylife]

Did you really mean to type in "92 day Fast?"

[RawLibrarian]

****would anyone who eats very few nuts, please share with me how they eat in a day? I'm not interested in a fruitarian diet though. I need to relearn raw, to eat less nuts etc.

I eat very few nuts; recipes with lots of nuts are too heavy for me and I can't be bothered with all that soaking. Here are some examples of things I typically eat. I've given several dinner suggestions; I do not eat all the things I listed in one meal!

Breakfast: Green smoothie--2 cups water, greens (kale or spinach or chard or collards; I also like to add parsley or cilantro) 1 orange, berries, 1 banana, 2-3 tablespoons of hemp seeds (sometimes I use chia seeds). Sometimes I also add 1/2 an avocado, sometimes I add 1/2 an apple. I frequently add fresh ginger. There is usually enough left over that I can have some as a mid-morning snack. Every so often I have raw granola topped with fruit and almond milk for breakfast.

Lunch: Huge salad--greens, chopped veggies, sprouts, hemp seeds; a splash of oil and vinegar (or oil and lemon or lime juice)

Snack: Fruit, or raw veggies, or kale chips

Dinner: Gazpacho or other raw soup; zucchini hummus and raw tabouli salad (I use hemp seeds instead of wheat berries); "taco" (chopped tomato, chopped avocado, chopped green onion; lime juice; cilantro; salt to taste; spices to taste--hot pepper, cumin, etc.; wrap in lettuce leaves or collard leaves for the 'taco shell')

If I have dessert, it is something quite modest--1 raw macaroon or a couple of dates. I am not a big sweet eater.

This works well for me, a 56 year old woman who does 1 hour of hatha yoga a day, and walks about 2 miles a day (to and from a subway stop). I added this so you know my age, gender, and activity level. I am neither overweight nor super thin; I'm on the slim side. I eat enough food to support my activities and to keep my weight where I want it.

HTH.

[robh]

I experience that raw mental clarity that you are talking about.

Do you experience mental clarity when you fast? For me, it seems more noticeable in the mornings before I have eaten. I haven't done any fasting really so I don't know how it was impact me.

Maybe the pattern isn't nuts vs. no nuts may it's linked to not eating?

edit: I eat nuts, by the way.

[Hippo2Hippie]

Thank you all, for helping me out! I'm really starting to think its the nuts. Today I've had bananas, dehydrated blueberries, and kiwi ( not together) and I feel less sluggish. I'm going to eat a lower fat diet this week to prepare for my fast.

Yes, I meant 92 days. Aug 1- nov 1. The plan is to do 30, continue another 30 if I'm up for it and then assess how I'm feeling etc and do another 30. ( plus a couple). More of a feast than a fast. :)

[PansyLo]

^ I don't think you need to cut out the nuts but you're eating pretty nut heavy meals so maybe just a cut down would make the difference!

I try not to eat too many nuts, I'm sceptical about the rawness of most of them. Nut heavy sauces tend to make me feel a bit sick unless they're in really small quantities.

Maybe some more juices or some sprouts added in would give you that extra boost?

[walnutty]

I feel worse eating a nut "meal" then I do cooked foods. Eating nuts alone or in a mono-meal doesn't affect me that way. It's the mixing of nuts with other ingredients that makes me feel worse than a cooked meal used to.

Maybe try nuts alone and see how you feel?

[Meat_Juice]

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[walnutty]

Sunday- green smoothie
almond joys for lunch
zucchini alfredo for dinner

Monday- green smoothie
1/2 batch of cheese dip (cashews) pepper wedges to dip
the rest of the batch as crackers for dinner
2 small bananas 2 kiwi for snack
so far today- green smoothie
cheese sauce again - half, on zucchini noodles
1 green apple shredded w cinnamon



I don't see much fat in your diet. The brain does need healthy fats, especially EFA's.

I have been high raw for 35 days (this time around) and experienced mental clarity right away, but I also make sure to get plenty of EFA's through chia seeds, flax seeds and raw, organic flax seed oil (which I take everyday).

[The Sproutarian (Mr Raw)]

OK, I'm nearly 2 months in, and I still don't have this magical mental clarity that I remember from 2 years ago before I slipped off the wagon. CAn you explain this to me? I can say that I'm eating more nuts now than i did last time around, specifically cashews. I am about to embark upon a 92 day fast, and I'd like to come out of it and keep some of hte mental clarity I'm hoping to gain from the fast.

examples of things I'm eating:

Sunday- green smoothie
almond joys for lunch
zucchini alfredo for dinner

Monday- green smoothie
1/2 batch of cheese dip (cashews) pepper wedges to dip
the rest of the batch as crackers for dinner
2 small bananas 2 kiwi for snack
so far today- green smoothie
cheese sauce again - half, on zucchini noodles
1 green apple shredded w cinnamon

****would anyone who eats very few nuts, please share with me how they eat in a day? I'm not interested in a fruitarian diet though. I need to relearn raw, to eat less nuts etc. I should probably go ahead and start that anyway, before my fast.

eta: im also taking empower plus for depression. I started that around the same time I started eating about 97% raw. I wonder if it could be that? It's nutrients, I wouldn't think so. Maybe I'm getting TOO MUCH of something?

There could be many mnay reason why you don't feel clear headed, and we are all different in how we react to things. Some things could be:

* electromagnetic radiation via microwaves, cordless phones (yes, worse than mobile phones), cordless remote controls, powerlines, t.v's, smart meters, other electrical devices. Always insist on appliances with a cord.
* GM foods
* chemicals in your foods
* underground energies are not in good balance (even underwater systems that cross each other underground are supposed to be very harmful also)
* poorly combined meals
* cleansing
* the water supply, especially taking a shower (a big potential factor)
* the air pollution
* chemicals used in the homes for cleaning and chemicals used in making appliances, toys, paints and carpets etc
* fillings in teeth (BIG potential problem)
* certain types of lighting
* any foods with vitamins added (remember that most vitamins added to foods contain either petrochemicals, coar tar or terpentine..and yes, even organic foods).
* synthetic clothing (full of nasty chemicals and when you sweat all havoc break lose...interting studies about synthetic clothing and sickness)
* lack of omega 3's, vitamin D and a bunch of other nutrients. Fresh sprout juices and kelp is the key...get those nutrients up and raise those vibration levels to bring the magic out.


See...many potential things, but the best thing you can do is to have a good diet high in green juices and some chlorella to do some quality detoxing of any heavy metals and to reduce radiation exposure.

[Hippo2Hippie]

Wow, that was informative! Thank you! I'm hoping this juice fasting will help! Indeed to figure out sprouting ASAP. I was thisclose to buying some sprouting seeds at the health food store and a big jar but alas, I'm broke. I did buy a smsll flat of wheatgrass tho. Will that help? Do you grow wheatgrass? It looks easy enough in the YouTube videos I've seen.

Gosh, I'm all into this raw/juicing/sprouting stuff. It's funtastic.

I did suspect The food combining. *nods* I think I'll be eating much simpler meals. I see myself leaning more toward a low fat lifestyle with simpler meals.

Oh and too- the nutrients I was taking contained phenalynaline. *something like that*

[The Sproutarian (Mr Raw)]

I did buy a smsll flat of wheatgrass tho. Will that help?

lt sure will. Green juices are very important living in this day and age. Wheatgrass juice is especially protective towards toxins in our environment, water, teeth, clothes and homes and for radiation of mobiles etc. lf you have the green juice you are half way there. Adding chlorella is even better, but that costs a decent sum of money. Stick with the wheatgrass juice because it is easy to grow, potent and cheap. But also grow some sprouts because they are extra potent nutrition and FRESH!!! Fruit and vegetables bought from shops aren't fresh and will lack decent quantities of the goodies needed to fight the many nasties in this world today.

Some talk about the problems with store bought vegetables (link gets into the topic properly about ten pages down)
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/273328.html

(Slightly off topic, but very very important)
Breaking: Major Harvard Study Published in Federal Govt Journal Confirms Fluoride Lowers IQ
http://www.activistpost.com/2012/07/breaking-major-harvard-study-published.html

Maybe now people will start to take seriously that our water supplies are treated with flouride to control people by lowering their I.Q and making them more dependant on government....perfect way to create a future dictatorship under Marshall Law. Yep, the shower is the big rogue in this. l even have pariamentary records that prove our government is aware of the danger of the water supply, that's why Canberra (Australia), Washington D.C and much of Europe doesn't allow flouride...there is no way our leaders want to be dumbed down, it's only the rabbits like us they want to control because the plutocrats have told the politicians they want it that way. There was even an investigation where people are now saying that the U.K, Australia and maybe the U.S.A are getting untreated chemical waste straight from the chimney stacks of fertilizer plants in Oz and China and dumping this dangerous waste straight into the water supplies. This waste is supposed to have mercury, arsenic, lead and all sorts of nasties, but naturally the politicians aren't going to admit it. The leaders still deny that flouride is dangerous despite the fact that they have admitted it on the record. Lies lies and more lies....just need to step around it all: natural cleaning products, natural fibers, phones and remote controls with cords, green juices, the old washing in a tub with a big bowl of hot filtered water....slowly slowly slowly, it can be done...we can beat these rascals trying to ruin our lifestyles.




Do you grow wheatgrass?


Of course! l would be crazy not to in this day and age. You can also juice weeds and many types of grasses, even lawn grass if it is not full of chemicals. l used to juice lawn grass when l first got started. You can do food cheap if you know how...get it from nature!

[Living Food]

There was even an investigation where people are now saying that the U.K, Australia and maybe the U.S.A are getting untreated chemical waste straight from the chimney stacks of fertilizer plants in Oz and China and dumping this dangerous waste straight into the water supplies.

Yeah, supposedly they're just adding sodium fluoride to our water to help our teeth (complete BS, and there are studies to prove it, and 99% of the public water supply never even comes into contact with your teeth but is used for washing, flushing toilets, etc), but in reality it's 90% hexafluorosilic acid and other even more toxic fluoride compounds, which is 85 TIMES more toxic then sodium flouride...and sodium fluoride is very toxic! :eek:

And yes, hexafluorosilic acid is mainly a byproduct of the production of superphosphates and also contains many other toxic heavy metals as well.

Scientific evidence that it's highly toxic, although it might be a bit wordy for some people: http://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/ntp/htdocs/chem_background/exsumpdf/fluorosilicates.pdf

Lots of information on fluoride if you research it. Fluoridealert.org is a good resource also.

[MysticTree]

You don't control people by lowering their IQ.

[The Sproutarian (Mr Raw)]

You don't control people by lowering their IQ.

You can fool them much easier and trick them into acting in a way you want. Generally speaking.

[Hippo2Hippie]

I'm actually craving sprouts! I LOVE sprouts, and haven't had any since I started raw because we dont have any in our town. I guess Walmart couldn't sell them. (walmart is the best we have here, but I do travel occaisionally. I'd much rather sprout my OWN. but that is going to have to wait, since I've spent so much on kitchen essentials for hte raw ) :)

[MysticTree]

All you need is a jam jar (as big as you have), some old netting or stocking, a rubber band and some seeds to sprout. Sprouting is cheap, cheap, cheap. You don't have to spend much to get started.

[The Sproutarian (Mr Raw)]

l could pay thousands of dollars to a health shop to juice green vegetables that are weeks old or more to get the same nutritional value that l can get from $18 worth of fenugreek seeds for sprouting.

[MysticTree]

The cost of fresh juices and smoothies in cares etc is astronomical. It's worse than beer!

[The Sproutarian (Mr Raw)]

The cost of fresh juices and smoothies in cares etc is astronomical. It's worse than beer!

The cost of home grown broccoli sprout juice is astronomical. lt's worse than beer. Still...it doesn't matter, broccoli sprouts were found by Johns Hopkins Uni in 1987 to have a certain phytonutrient that is the most potent anti-cancer agent ever discovered in history. Mature broccoli heads have lots of this phytonutrient, but broccoli sprouts have 50 times as much. lt was also found that the amount in broccoli heads was not always enough to completely kill off the cancer unless you had a crazy amount of the vegetable (pounds and pounds of it), but a small amount of broccoli sprout was enough to completely kill the cancer cells. So yes, broccoli sprouts completely smashed the broccoli vegetable out of the ball park and ate it for lunch and then buried it 20 foot under. Incredible stuff!

That's one of the reasons why raw fruit and vegetables don't always cure cancer...the potency is not there due to the nature of mature foods and the fact that many fruit and vegies aren't fresh, and hence lack the abundance of phytonutrients, + a person often needs to consume far too much of these foods to get enough of the phytonutrients to kill off the cancers. But it also depends alot on the persons physical make-up and their thought processes.

Perhaps one of the best youtubes from a lady decades ahead of her time is this one below. Now this 2 minute youtube is some of the most powerful information on health ever said. lt may not mean anything to most people, but this is where it is at, this is what l believe is the true reality. Doesn't get better than this! Electromagnetic frequency!!!!!...not just overcoming cancer through raw foods to raise the level of vibration to burn the diseases out, but also controlling the electrical frequency via thought processes. WOW!!!! Dr Valerie Hunt is an absolute genious. When you have mediated diligently for a while, you know she is spot on. l just wish she would answer my emails, it's for the good of mankind...hopefully she will.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMNwhaGVRGM&feature=related

She is not talking through her hat either, she is the world's top scientific authority on this and has proven this through developing machinery that clearly shows cellular changes with a visual increase in electrical vibrations.

State of mind is the most important thing. Raw food is good, but it doesn't do much good if the attitude is not right because the electrical frequency of the person is still low and will counteract most of the good that raw foods do. lt really puts things into perspective so much. lt's about having a proper balance first and foremost so the sub-conscious energy level is high. Raw foods can help start the process, but there needs to be much more than just the food.

[MysticTree]

that should have been cafes not cares! Damn phone. I'm sprouting some broccoli at the moment.

[Hippo2Hippie]

so- should I start with fenugreek and broccoli sprouts? Right at the moment, all I have are chia seeds, I'm assuming I can sprout those since they used to grow inside clay heads, right? LOL (chia pets) How much do I start with, if I'd like say- enough for a weeks worth of juice?

What packs a huge nutrient punch, but isn't going to affect my juices flavor a whole bunch? how much do I put in my juices?

so many questions, I'm so excited! it's neat how much you can learn while on the raw journey. there's always something! I soak this stuff up like a sponge!

[The Sproutarian (Mr Raw)]

so- should I start with fenugreek and broccoli sprouts? Right at the moment, all I have are chia seeds, I'm assuming I can sprout those since they used to grow inside clay heads, right? LOL (chia pets) How much do I start with, if I'd like say- enough for a weeks worth of juice?

What packs a huge nutrient punch, but isn't going to affect my juices flavor a whole bunch? how much do I put in my juices?

so many questions, I'm so excited! it's neat how much you can learn while on the raw journey. there's always something! I soak this stuff up like a sponge!

wheatgrass, weeds, fenugreek, kelp/dulse and sunflower greens. Weeds and kelp are great for impacting the mind from my experience, but so is the other stuff.

[Non]

Weeds huh... for some reason dandelions have a huge impact on me sometimes. Well.. a lot of the time.

One time, I found they were selling red dandelion for the first time at the local health food store. I was like "WOW". Dandelions are my favorite green right now. Lettuces too but they can be expensive.
Well.. I guess I may have been on an empty stomach but I just ate a small piece of a dandelion leaf like the size of my thumbnail. Less than 5 minutes later I felt it. It feels like CLARITY for sure.

[The Sproutarian (Mr Raw)]

Weeds huh... for some reason dandelions have a huge impact on me sometimes. Well.. a lot of the time.

One time, I found they were selling red dandelion for the first time at the local health food store. I was like "WOW". Dandelions are my favorite green right now. Lettuces too but they can be expensive.
Well.. I guess I may have been on an empty stomach but I just ate a small piece of a dandelion leaf like the size of my thumbnail. Less than 5 minutes later I felt it. It feels like CLARITY for sure.

Yep, weeds are great for mental clarity, one of the very best foods. l find that many weeds work well. Thistles, dandelion, nettle...it all works good.

[MysticTree]

How much do I start with, if I'd like say- enough for a weeks worth of juice?



It depends how much you would drink in a week and you need to stagger the sowing times so that you get a rolling supply of perfect sprouts rather than an ever ageing crop of sprouts which taste worse as you get towards the last of them.

I don't drink a lot of sprouted greens as juice. I am currently planting up 2-4 regular sized seed trays everyday - I am running out of seed trays and need to get more. I also run some sprouts in jars and some in bags alongside those trays so the answer is "quite a lot" but not as much as Mr Raw or others who are sprout-based.

[The Sproutarian (Mr Raw)]

l had a 23oz green sprout drink one hour before dinner this evening and the impact on the mind was my best experience ever! Straight away l had this warm feeling in my head that continued to get deeper and deeper into parts of the brain. lt was an amazing feeling and it felt like there was nutrition reaching parts of the brain that had never been penetrated before (of course that wouldn't be true, but it felt like it). lt felt like old cobwebs from decades ago were being cleaned out and the brain felt so well fed from deep within with a warm refreshing feeling. Yesterday was an awesome experience, but today was even better. lt feel like something really special is happening and my mind feels so rejuvinated. An hour later l then had a decent helping of E3 live in a glass and l think it even furthered the high alittle bit. But yes, those juices really hit the spot, and the morning grass juice has really been pumping me right up lately and really setting a fine mood for the day.

The juices l had before dinner were:
* fenugreek sprout juice
* pea shoot juice (really dark green juice)
* red clover sprout juice (POW!!!...amazing stuff today...a really dark green)
* chia grass juice (POW!!!...amazing stuff today...a really dark green)

l do my juicing always in small sessions. l never juice for longer than two minutes, spend 1 minute straining the juice and then another 3 minutes drinking it. l generally yield about 8oz of juice in two minutes. After i've had 8oz l then juice another 8 oz etc. l am a big believer that juice needs to be consumed straight away: the juicing companies say that juice stays good for a day or two, but l DO NOT believe them at all...they wildly exaggerate just like the blending companies and even go as far to say that special magnet technology helps the juice stay stable.

[robh]

I kind of feel like this is the "mental clarity" thread. lol

Do you all feel these effects when you consume the food (as Mr Raw just pointed out) or after it has been digested?

I do feel a funky "high" of sorts immediately after eating certain foods. It does not last very long though and I find that it diminishes the more I consume that certain food. I remember chia seeds and goji berries gave me that sensation initially, but no longer. "new food high", maybe?

The mental clarity that I experience most seems to hit me after digestion is finished and after elimination. For me it's in the mornings. I expect for people that consume easily digested foods (juice) they may experience it more frequently. I currently eat whole, raw foods which means processing a lot of fiber. I notice after I start eating, I still feel good, but some of those "more than human" feelings seem to fade.

I suspect our brains are getting more energy when the body is not busy digesting or detoxing. (I never have it while detoxing). Whatever it is, I love it.

anyway, my 2 cents

[Hippo2Hippie]

im at the end of day 7 of my juice fast and I feel amazing. after my last juice I felt high as a kite. (and I liked it :wow: lol) It was probably a sugar high though. 2 apples, 2 oranges, 2 carrots, half a beet and half a lemon. DEEELISH!

i generally have a lot more greens. I wanteed this tonight. :)

[robh]

How is the mental clarity? You were missing it before the juicing. How about now?

[Hippo2Hippie]

I didn't say anything about that because I thought I'd wait until about 2 weeks in, but a big giant YES!! It's great! I'm such a better mom! I'm attributing the foggy headedness and sliggishness to fatty heavy meals, and possibly bad food combining choices. Thaats part of the beauty of a juice fast, for me anyway, is that I can clearly see what I do and don't want to put into my body right now. I hope I always remember how I felt when I fasted, and I may do this a day a week for life. <3

[Non]

Moringa.

Melons are pretty good too.

[robh]

I didn't say anything about that because I thought I'd wait until about 2 weeks in, but a big giant YES!! It's great!

That is awesome. That benefit of being raw is one of my favorites.

[RawSweetie]

Less nuts....more fruit, especially high water content fruit. :-)