When you are eating raw, you either get most of your calories from fruit or fat, yadda yadda yadda. After realizing I could not survive on mostly produce, I became more liberal with the sat fat I've been consuming. Seeing as how it is almost a month later and I am still able to zip up my pants with the same amount of effort, your body truly processes food differently if it is raw.
But I'm not sure where I got the idea that it is sustainable or OK to eat coconut oil by the spoonfull if I find myself still hungry after a meal of salad and produce, because it is neither of those things.
Coconut oil jar (see how empty it is becoming), taken from the top in order to be slightly flattering. If you eat too much of this stuff, you will need photographs of yourself taken from the top as well so they are flattering.
SO starting tomorrow, I am going to revamp some of my raw food habits.
Good raw food habits:
1- DO NOT EAT A TABLESPOON OF COCONUT OIL IF YOU ARE HUNGRY AFTER FINISHING A SALAD.
2 - If you are going to cheat and eat something cooked as the "I'm-still-hungry" snack, don't make it a peanut butter flavored dark chocolate Easter Bunny. (Yes, I am still working on those bunnies.) Instead eat a yogurt, egg, or piece of toast. There are infinitely more nutrients to be gained from this.
3 - I am going to work on keeping more varied snacks around. YES the blue Raw Revolution bars are delicious, but A - expensive and B - still have lots of fat! So either I am still eating a high fat snack, or I eat something cheaper, like a tablespoon of coconut oil, instead.
3A: Option 1: soak some chickpeas and munch on them. Sort of vegetable, much more filling than a pepper, high protein, low fat. (This time I will do a better job of observing if they sprout.)
3B: More cashew milk - why not? It's diluted with water and slightly more substance than the same volume of fruit.
3C: Dehydrate some flaxseed bread: 1 part ground flaxseed, 1 part water, multiple parts of grated garlic or finely chopped herbs (I used parsley and cilantro) or dry spices. Dehydrate for 8 hours at 105 degrees, flipping in the middle. Please note that I did not make up this recipe. Google it if you want the source.
Dehydrator bread, view from the top. Please also note that paper towels are NOT a good replacement for parchment (wax) paper and will result in your throwing out your dehydrator's 8 hours of hard work.
Here is the flaxseed meal I used:
Which is apparently NOT actually raw, THANKS BOB!!! Come on guys, what's a hippie got to do to get some enzymes around here?!
4: Get more proactive about eating fruit before you are starving. So after breakfast, a snack at 10 or 11 before it is noon and the amount of food my body wants is about triple the fruit volume that I can hold in my stomach without wanting to die.
Summary: less calories from fat, more calories from random non produce stuff, more evolved cheating :)
Sort-of-raw day 10 million, bring it on!
But I'm not sure where I got the idea that it is sustainable or OK to eat coconut oil by the spoonfull if I find myself still hungry after a meal of salad and produce, because it is neither of those things.
Coconut oil jar (see how empty it is becoming), taken from the top in order to be slightly flattering. If you eat too much of this stuff, you will need photographs of yourself taken from the top as well so they are flattering.
SO starting tomorrow, I am going to revamp some of my raw food habits.
Good raw food habits:
1- DO NOT EAT A TABLESPOON OF COCONUT OIL IF YOU ARE HUNGRY AFTER FINISHING A SALAD.
2 - If you are going to cheat and eat something cooked as the "I'm-still-hungry" snack, don't make it a peanut butter flavored dark chocolate Easter Bunny. (Yes, I am still working on those bunnies.) Instead eat a yogurt, egg, or piece of toast. There are infinitely more nutrients to be gained from this.
3 - I am going to work on keeping more varied snacks around. YES the blue Raw Revolution bars are delicious, but A - expensive and B - still have lots of fat! So either I am still eating a high fat snack, or I eat something cheaper, like a tablespoon of coconut oil, instead.
3A: Option 1: soak some chickpeas and munch on them. Sort of vegetable, much more filling than a pepper, high protein, low fat. (This time I will do a better job of observing if they sprout.)
3B: More cashew milk - why not? It's diluted with water and slightly more substance than the same volume of fruit.
3C: Dehydrate some flaxseed bread: 1 part ground flaxseed, 1 part water, multiple parts of grated garlic or finely chopped herbs (I used parsley and cilantro) or dry spices. Dehydrate for 8 hours at 105 degrees, flipping in the middle. Please note that I did not make up this recipe. Google it if you want the source.
Dehydrator bread, view from the top. Please also note that paper towels are NOT a good replacement for parchment (wax) paper and will result in your throwing out your dehydrator's 8 hours of hard work.
Here is the flaxseed meal I used:
Which is apparently NOT actually raw, THANKS BOB!!! Come on guys, what's a hippie got to do to get some enzymes around here?!
4: Get more proactive about eating fruit before you are starving. So after breakfast, a snack at 10 or 11 before it is noon and the amount of food my body wants is about triple the fruit volume that I can hold in my stomach without wanting to die.
Summary: less calories from fat, more calories from random non produce stuff, more evolved cheating :)
Sort-of-raw day 10 million, bring it on!
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