Problems with the raw food diet?

 

Does this seem familiar ?

 

You are not full up, just finished having breakfast and 1 hour later you´re looking for food again ...

Your tummy is full, but you are not satisfied and feel you need something else ...

You have a longing for cooked food and copy it in raw form ...

You eat a super yummy raw dish and half an hour later you´re eating  handful of dates or even more ?

You miss pasta, bread, potatoes or cake etc. ?

You have a guilty conscience eating, as you believe in problems, sugar addiction or the like?

You eat another handfull of nuts or an avocado afterwards and then feel uncomfortable ...

You keep nibbling. Can´t get the subject food out of your head and feel bad about this?

 

Sure, emotional eating is a suject for itself. But a lot can be solved when we bring our diet into balance! When you give your body what it really needs a lot of unnecessary eating and the thoughts about it just leave. Because the craving for it just disappears and you do not need to supress it through willpower!!

 

Then you can enjoy your food again and live the healthy life you desire!

 

So ... where is the problem?

 

Simple: Most raw foodists eat to much fat. 

 

The demand for carbohydrates is not covered sufficiently. Therefore you don´t stay satisfied long enough, you get a desire for cooked food or heavy copies of it in a raw food form. 

 

Additionally very often raw sweet desserts and cakes are thrown together which are also overloaded with fat in form of nuts, nut butters, coconuts or avocados.

 

No wonder that you then don´t feel good. Physically and emotionally.

 

An overkill and then the inappropriate combinations then can even make a raw food diet unhealthy.

 

What if you felt so full and satisfied that you don´t feel like eating any chocolate cake or pasta  with cream-cheese-sauce anymore?.And then don´t need to prepare this in a time-consuming raw food version anymore either.

When you are happy and satisfied with fruit, your simple salad and light recipes?

Great, this is possible!!!

 

Here an example what a day out of control looks like:

Breakfast might be an apple, a banana, a handfull of blueberries and 2 dates for sweetening with a lettuce mixed into a tasty and surely healthy smoothy. 

According to type you might stick it until midday, some might squeeze in a snack....

But very often you slowly develop a crave for something "proper". Generally this means something hearty, savory... Okay, then we have Zucchini-noodles with cashew sauce for lunch. 

Definitely yummy, no question. And texture and taste meet the respective needs.

But eating should also fill and satisfy your stomach and not just please the tongue. 

Likely this won´t last that long or at least a desire for something sweet will come up.

This annoying sugar craving. Or maybe there even is still some situation from my childhood I haven´t dealt with yet.

Okay, then I will have a few almond-dates "energy balls".

For supper I then have a healthy raw salad where there are no objections.

And also really important for the nutritional mineral balance.

The dressing e. g. consits of a tasty avocado dip or some virgin oil and maybe a few sprinkled nuts or seeds.

After the salad you are pleasantly saturated.... you´d think. But after 15 minutes you might feel like another avocado or a handful of nuts...

(And later yet still maybe a little dried fruit to make the whole thing perfect?)

 

Afterall ... the fat content of the whole day or even just of one meal matches that of junkfood!

 

Sure it´s all about good vegetable fats. But even here at some point enough is enough.

Nuts e.g. metabolize acidic, but fruit does alkaline!

 

Do you notice anything? Where´s the flaw?

If we assume that we mainly need our calories from carbohydrates then it already starts with breakfast:

 

This meal likely hasn´t enough calories. And a handul of fruit is just not enough. Bread rolls and Muesli come up with more. Not to mention the fact that fruits are easily and quickly digested and from that point of view do not last very long. .

On top of that we have the sugar-fat-insulin issue. This is explained in more detail under "80/10/10" ...

 

So then of course a so called crave comes up that especially unexperienced raw foodists confuse with an appetite for known goodies.

 

This hunger for carbohydrates in form of potatoes, rice, pasta, bread is then "translated" into raw food,  i.e. zucchini-pasta, cauliflower rice, linseed cackers ... 

 

These complex carbohydrates weren´t just eaten simple and dry in the cooked food version either. They were made palatable with further ingredients. So here then a suitable sauce is also served. Dips and spreads, of course in a raw version, and again lots of fat. Raw bread itsself mostly consists of nuts, seeds and vegetables and are then additionally coated with some raw cheese.

 

The balance: Vegetables hardly have any calories, so accordingly don´t fill you up. Fat has lots of calories but just none out of carbohydrates!  So it could then happen that just after a while after having that yummy raw cracker you then long for a "proper" sandwich or "proper" pasta ...

 

So now it´s up to your willpower how long you can keep this up...

 

And who wants to stick with the raw food diet now often compensates with dried fruit or rich raw desserts, which also isn´t the golden solution. Neither for the digestion nor for the teeth...

 

But it does exist!