Hello everyone, I have been a vegetarian for about eight years, then went vegan for about a month, and have been transitioning towards a raw vegan diet. I have been about 85 - 95% raw daily for about two weeks now. For a couple of days during the first week I had some bad cramps because of the detox and what not. Today I started to have them really bad again. The only thing that I did different today then I have any other day since starting the raw transition was take a multi-vitamin in the morning. Has any other raw vegans out there had this problem. Another possibility was just a bad mixture of food. Last nights supper was a large spinach salad, with green peppers and bean sprouts, sprinkled with sunflower seeds. Any advice would be helpful! Thanks!
you should really check out a copy of "the vegeterian Myth" (lady was vegan for many many many years) also, if not eating organic, your body is uptaking alot of toxins because your mucus membrane that body produces, and then protects from toxins, diminishes when you eat raw
Thanks! I'll have to check that out. Right now I'm breaking into a copy of "The 80/10/10" diet. I've heard that's a good one about raw.
I don't know if you ate before taking the vitamin, but you definitely always should. And drink a good cup of water. I usually wait till i'm 75% finished with lunch to eat the vitamin, on the days I choose to take a multi-vitamin. Many people get a variety of stomach discomfort symptoms when taking a vitamin on an empty stomach. Symptoms such as pain, bloating, cramps, burning, etc. Good luck going raw, I plan to try that eventually. ~A. Perri (Durham, UK) "The author cites 207 references in this book. 62 of those references are websites (~30%) 18 are newspapers and magazines (~7%) 32 are journals (~15%) 95 are other books (~46%) First of all, think about that. 30% of the references in this book come from website information. Five of those 62 website references were Wikipedia. Wikipedia! One was Google Answers. I wont let my freshmen students use Wikipedia as a reference in their papers, why would it be acceptable for a book? Like websites, newspaper and magazine information needs to be taken with a grain of salt. Of the 32 journals less than half come from well known, peer-reviewed sources. The remaining 46% are books, which can truly say anything the author cares to print (as this one does) and only show that the author is getting her information from another source (and another opinion) aside from the primary one. The point of this is to make clear that this is a book that is sold as (and which many positive reviews hype as) providing scientific, factual, intellectual knowledge on the vegetarian/diet/health debate. In reality less than 8% of the book is coming from peer-reviewed, fact-checked sources which can provide unbiased, neutral information." http://www.amazon.com/review/R3M4LC3USB5H3S/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm
http://www.theveganrd.com/2010/09/review-of-the-vegetarian-myth.html vegetarian myth will likely be found under pseudoscience.
I don't know, raw vegetables never fail to give me bad stomach cramps. I've never had the endurance to push it past a few days to see if it would get better because I just don't care to go through that level of discomfort to find out. Even lightly blanching/steaming them helps and fruit doesn't bother me, just raw veggies (except for small amounts of romaine lettuce). Vitamins give me a stomach ache if I take them without food, so I never do. I think some people, like myself, just have a hard time digesting raw.
i been vege for 6 yrs, vegan recently and raw for few days and today my stomach hurt below left ribs, dont no why ether, mayb it is me not chewing enough? had huge saled mayb i ate to much lol hopeing it doesnt happen to much good luck
I have been vegetarian, vegan and raw vegan. Raw vegan was horrible. Aside from the horribly limited diet and expense, not to mention having to make smoothies all the time, my periods stopped entirely after a few months and I felt lethargic and lost too much weight. It was at that point I realised the whole raw food "movement" I had blindly followed may be based on a hell of a lot of misconceptions and pseudoscience. I researched reputable sources which weren't geared towards selling the raw diet and surprise surprise, the diet wasn't recommended by professionals and no benefits had been proven. Be careful. Initially, a placebo effect can make you think the diet is working out. Starting to question the amount you're chewing etc really isn't good. Once I removed myself from the whole raw "scene", I noticed how a lot of these people had eating disorders or were obsessive about food, and the raw diet was unfortunately just a symptom of that. Food is simple and easy and should be fun and tasty. Eat plenty of fruit and veg, plenty of good protein sources (beans, lentils etc) dairy if you're not vegan and grains, and avoid junk, and you'll have the ideal diet.
I think that you just wernt clued up on raw vegan there are plenty of very healthy, energetic raw vegans. I dnt beleive everyone shoudl be 100%raw but more then 50% is realy healthy and steaming veges is waaay beter then boiling them down to nothing.
Some of the nutritional benefit from some vegetables is gained through cooking them. Get some soup in you.
I did it precisely the way "they" recommend. Even then I had a relatively good knowledge of nutrition, so I tried to balance it. The real kicker for me was when they tried to tell me my periods stopping was a good thing. Periods are unnatural, they said. Yes, that made me do some real research rather than listening to a bunch of unqualified people, and thank goodness I did.
Indeed. When it comes to health and diet, I'd recommend checking the qualifications of the people dishing out advice, even if they're a large community, before investing any belief.
i dnt no or care if it a large comunity i believe in what my body tells me and what sounds logical and also have some trust with the people being cured with raw vegan diets.
Maybe you just weren't getting enough calories? It is expensive, so it CAN be hard to do that. Also, it's best to find what suits you, not what any raw food guru says. I find eating less fats gives me sooo much energy!! Anyhow, as I said, sooo much energy!! I go to sleep around 11:30-12:30 every night, and am up, bright and chipper anywhere from 5:45 to 7:30 am! (and I'm a teenager, too) As far as cramps go, I've been getting them.. but I don't blame raw foods, I blame being on a raw diet for 3 weeks and then eating sooo much food at once- high in salt, almost all cooked, lots of gluten, cake, cookies, noodles, and just sooooo much of it (my birthday party)... Then, the week after wasn't too hot either. I would eat 2-3 raw meals a day, but after dinner would go a little crazy with granola and chocolate So, now I'm cleaning my digestive track out. It's getting better. Sometimes it just takes time to strenghthen the digestive track, and from what I've read, this happens to many people, as their bodies are detoxing. Hope everything goes well, let us know how it is!
i agree with she might not be getting enough calories, it is hard me being poor and getting enough 2sometimes. Yeah havnt cramped again so far, only 80% raw still, sometimes crave fat and carbs its anoying but guess itl stop. Think i shoudld eat more often to so not heaps in one go. Sunnyhappyvegan, how much u been eating raw latly?
