Sometime ago, I was fully on a raw food diet for four months before it got derailed by having to sit in a courtroom for six weeks and go to lunch in restaurants with my group all that time. For the four months, I was mostly using Gabriel Cousins' Rainbow Foods number I regimen except I was eating apples. During and after court, cooked food caused many cravings and I just never have gotten back on raw food 100% yet.
Anyway, the worst thing I found about the raw vegan diet was that I was shivering every night in my bed during the summer. Granted, it's not all that warm in the Bay Area, but it's not cold, either. I simply could not get warm no matter what I did. I felt like my insides were shivering. That made it difficult to sleep. It has sort of become a deterrent to getting fully back on raw food for me. I'm moving back in that direction, though. I believe it's the healthiest diet one can have. Now I'm eating a minimum of two raw meals a day and sometimes I go two days fully raw.
Someone told me that shivering is a detox symptom and that it goes away after awhile. Does anyone know about this? I am trying to add cayenne pepper to many dishes now to prevent the shivering. We'll see what happens when I go 100% which will happen once I finish a very few items in my kitchen that are not raw.
Anyway, the worst thing I found about the raw vegan diet was that I was shivering every night in my bed during the summer. Granted, it's not all that warm in the Bay Area, but it's not cold, either. I simply could not get warm no matter what I did. I felt like my insides were shivering. That made it difficult to sleep. It has sort of become a deterrent to getting fully back on raw food for me. I'm moving back in that direction, though. I believe it's the healthiest diet one can have. Now I'm eating a minimum of two raw meals a day and sometimes I go two days fully raw.
Someone told me that shivering is a detox symptom and that it goes away after awhile. Does anyone know about this? I am trying to add cayenne pepper to many dishes now to prevent the shivering. We'll see what happens when I go 100% which will happen once I finish a very few items in my kitchen that are not raw.
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This seems to be one of the primary reasons for not staying with 100% raw diet.... but it is solvable. Ginger, cayenne, cinnamon are helpful, as is sunbathing. This phase Does pass after a few yeas of detoxing. A technological solution also exists if you have it in your budget to get a far infrared sauna..... or if you are technically skilled, you can buy the components and build one yourself (as I did) that will be of a significantly better design than most of the cheaper ones built in China. Expect to spend a minimum of about $1,000.... to $2,000 for a bigger (2 person) sauna.
Far infrared ceramic emitters radiate coherent wavelengths that are longer wave frequencies able to penetrate several inches into the body... effectively warming the interior. This radiant energy only travels in straight lines out from the emitters, so you need emitters that are well-distributed around you in the sauna. the ambient heat that builds in a sauna is incoherent and only affects you on a surface level.... causing sweating (which does help detox) but not really warming the interior of the body with the sheer effectiveness of radiant infrared directed into the body (which is why things like steam saunas are not even half as effective as far infrared dry saunas). -
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some energetic practices such as kundalini yoga or chi gung will also help you stop shivering, plus many many other benefits, but yea eat some onions or cayanne, pepper, anything heating(rajasic). you could research ayurveda.
i mean dont u like to eat rice or grains or pasta?
i dont think you have to eat 100% raw food
but you are free to do so
haf fun :)
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Great that you want to get back to a raw diet, and you're doing great on your way back! Having two all-raw meals a day, and one cooked one, is so far ahead of what a lot of people eat that that along will surely help. The suggestions to add some heating spices to your food are good too. Another thing you can do is to eat some denser raw foods, like a few dehydrator treats(tons of recipes on the Internet), and some raw nut butters and mylks made from almonds, sesame seeds and the like. Room temperature avocados, coconut and olive oils in reasonable(but not excessive)amounts will help too. Also, the food doesn't have to be eaten ice-cold straight out the refrigerator either. For your next meal, take out your unprepared stuff you are having and let it sit at room temp for a little while. Also, if you do have that dehydrator, you can use it to warm things up slightly, even at the low temperature of 118 degrees, that will feel a little warm. Also, although not technically raw, just drink some good warming teas or simple miso soup - they won't harm you at all and will give you some comfort while your body is adjusting. Circulation-boosting exercise like power yoga is really helpful too - with this you WILL warm up, fast!
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yes, everything Cara said is true--eat more fats while in transition, put cayenne on everything, cinnamon, ginger, and lukewarm soups--all of this helped me. I too was shivering in my bed all last summer and i still get cold spells. I don't know if it's really from detox, maybe...i just figured it was the extremely low calorie intake, as i'm still losing weight nearly a year later.
I'm a little confused about Recycled Soul's comment, "don't u like rice & pasta"?
Of course, we ALL like rice and pasta. But this is the Raw & Living Foods support tribe, not the "cling to your old gummy, gluey diet" tribe. Sending your body the message that it needs cooked (& refined) grains will undermine success on the raw diet.
stick with it! The more you stay raw, the more you will see why you need to.
love
m7
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