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Login Here Signup Here Signup using FacebookI have been struggling with raw for about 5 months now. Last week I decided I wanted to make the commitment to stay high as raw as possible for awhile and see how I felt. Monday through Friday I was all raw EXCEPT for an espresso with added soy milk on two days. My stomach has never felt better – even last week I was EXTREMELY bloated, and this all seemed to go away. So Friday night came around and I made Nori rolls with a salad with sesame seeds for dinner… I’m not sure if the Nori was raw…and I used regular soy sauce because I was out of Nama shoyu. I started experiencing some tummy troubles IMMEDIATELY after dinner. I definitely think I have a wheat sensitivity (haven’t had tests to prove it yet)...I didn’t realize wheat was in soy sauce. Could this have caused it? My boyfriend was having a dessert, so I went on to mix up a banana with raisins and walnuts and a tiny bit of (not raw) cocoa powder. I don’t know if it was the unraw ingredients of the high amount of fat (about 1/2 an avocado in rolls, 1/4 cups of sesame seeds and 1/4 cup walnuts) or the mix of fruit and fat – banana & walnuts. Whatever it was, the food sat soooo heavy and I went to bed with a stomach ache. I woke up this morning feeling the same way,,, and haven’t been able to poop since! This whole week I was pooping like 3-4 times a day!! So my question is this: Could I really be that sensitive after only 4 days of eating raw? Or is it something else?
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I’ve had the same experience. I wasn’t even trying to go 100% raw right away. I had just read Green for Life, and started drinking green smoothies. I was loving the smoothies and my desire to eat cooked or complicated food had gone way down after only a few days. Then I had cooked quinoa and beans for lunch one day and I felt really tired and heavy afterward. A few days later I made some vegan pancakes for my 2-year-old and for hours afterward my stomach was like a rock and I thought I was going to vomit. That was about 2 weeks ago, and since then I have eaten almost 100% raw because every time I eat cooked food (or even high-fat raw or complicated raw dishes) I feel terrible. I was surprised that it happened so quickly too. When I went raw 3 years ago I still tolerated cooked food fine, but not the case this time.
When we have out potluck I like to try what everyone has brought, so there’s always non raw stuff in the recipes like nuts, nama shoyu, miso etc, and some months I feel fine the next day, other months I feel like I have got a hangover or mild food poisoning. Normally fasting with cucumber and celery juice for a day, and then juice and fruit the next day does the trick for me.