Guest guest Posted March 28, 2002 Report Share Posted March 28, 2002 hello group, as of late, my diet has gone from most-raw to all-raw. i am eating alot of fruit, similar to what loren lochman recommends. i try to balance my diet with about 33% sweet fruit, 33% non-sweet fruit, 24% greens, and 10% nuts and seeds. i eat mostly fruit all day, with a salad for lunch and dinner. my salads consist of greens, non-sweet fruit, avacado, and nuts. my problem is that i have a strong desire for salty foods, like potato chips. this is especially at lunch, when my workmates are eating chips. but it goes on all day. i have broken down and eaten chips several times now. these cravings are much stronger than my more common urges for bread and other cooked foods. i feel like my body needs more sodium, or its getting too much potassium. recently i've started eating seaweed with my salad to get the sodium, but the cravings have not subsided. i am eating seaweed, celery, kale, and putting some salt on my salad dressing. my diet is near the center of sapote's CaPNaK chart also. anyone have any advice for me? is my body telling me i need more sodium or less potassium? or are these typical cravings of the mind to return to cooked foods? any suggestions appreciated. thank you, joe williamson Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. Click Here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 29, 2002 Report Share Posted March 29, 2002 RawSeattle, " joe williamson " <jrwmojo@h...> wrote: > Hi Joe, I'm no expert but I'd say listen to your body. It wants sodium, seek out those sources and go for it. I like olives. I use the olive juice, along with oil of choice on my salad for dressing. You can always make nama shoyu/oil/garlic or herbs/lemon or raw apple cider vinegar salad dressings. Kelp, kelp, kelp. Dulse, dulse, dulse mmmmm. Yes, I crave salt over sweet, myself. Lots of salt and minerals in sea veggies and celtic sea salt added to food. Wanna fun snack? Marinate soaked nuts or seeds in nama shoyu and dehydrate. Whenever you wanna reach for a chip, reach for the snack. You can do the same thing with veggie chips, like zucchini, carrot, sweet potato.....imagine! See you Saturday at potluck and/or hike? Peace, Linda Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 29, 2002 Report Share Posted March 29, 2002 Hi there Joe, i really enjoy people speaking about their challenges with the raw diet as honestly as you did in your email. In my naivete, when i first went 'raw' i thought that no one had as much difficulty as i did. i experienced similar cravings during the first 2 months of 100% transition. I came to learn that i could thwart the self-sabotage of eating salty dead foods by embracing celtic sea salt-laden flax crackers... that worked, except that i probably ate more crackers than necessary. When we're intent on listening to the body, we may miss out on other rationale, including this theory: Salt promotes water retention and inhibits deep-down detoxification through a process called edema. I went raw and then craved only nuts and salts-- elements which will slow down detox. Particularly in the preliminary stages of diet transition, the psychology behind eating an all-raw diet is that one is living in scarcity, or that something is lacking in the diet... " i must not be getting enough____ (fill in the blank) " . My style is never to tell other people what to do; that said, Ive found that its really helpful to keep mind and body rationale in perspective during this time.... On another note, I've found that fermented foods, such as krauts and rejuvelac lemonades, curb my cravings for mostly sweet and some salty foods. Also, staying hydrated with enzyme-infused spring water and blue-green alagae keeps weird cravings at bay. A spring fast may be the best antidote for what you're going through. Further, during my raw transition, i stopped eating my lunches at the same time my coworkers did, and wound up walking on my lunch break and getting a juice sometimes as well. Of course, I also wound up quitting that job soon after my 100% transition. David Wolfe speaks about creating a 'saturation point' in your life to support your new way of eating/LIVING. I kept his Sunfood Diet book with me and reread passages on the bus, etc.. and even checked out affirmation tapes from the library. Follow your bliss... By the way, if you're really yearning for corn chips, Sun Raw makes an organic corn chip that i'd be happy to send over with Gideon for your sampling pleasures. Enjoy every moment, Karen --- heartsong98136 <lkreeves wrote: > RawSeattle, " joe williamson " > <jrwmojo@h...> wrote: > > Hi Joe, > > I'm no expert but I'd say listen to your body. It > wants sodium, seek > out those sources and go for it. I like olives. I > use the olive > juice, along with oil of choice on my salad for > dressing. You can > always make nama shoyu/oil/garlic or herbs/lemon or > raw apple cider > vinegar salad dressings. Kelp, kelp, kelp. Dulse, > dulse, dulse > mmmmm. Yes, I crave salt over sweet, myself. Lots > of salt and > minerals in sea veggies and celtic sea salt added to > food. > > Wanna fun snack? Marinate soaked nuts or seeds in > nama shoyu and > dehydrate. Whenever you wanna reach for a chip, > reach for the snack. > You can do the same thing with veggie chips, like > zucchini, carrot, > sweet potato.....imagine! > > See you Saturday at potluck and/or hike? > > Peace, Linda > > Greetings - send holiday greetings for Easter, Passover http://greetings./ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 2, 2002 Report Share Posted April 2, 2002 Well, I too was heavily addicted to salt throughout my cooked food days - salt over sweet...It took me over 3 years on the raw diet to get completely off the salt in any capacity (ie olives, seaweed etc.). I can't tell you what a difference it makes not to be playing with my sodium-potassium balance! What I didn't realize before is that the sodium I was craving is now a mineral craving. So when I feel like fruit won't do it or fat doesn't satiate me I go for high mineral green foods and it all calms down. Sometimes I have a tendency to overeat on fruit which has a high potassium ratio so I compensate with leafy green food. Also, I find fruit juicing increases my potassium too much and then to counter I'll need to eat copious greens...The recipe for me is not to overeat, minimize/eliminate juicing and eat one food at a time. Enjoy the journey it will only get clearer for you. greetings, joyce - joe williamson Thursday, March 28, 2002 11:45 AM RawSeattle [RawSeattle] sodium-potassium imbalance hello group, as of late, my diet has gone from most-raw to all-raw. i am eating alot of fruit, similar to what loren lochman recommends. i try to balance my diet with about 33% sweet fruit, 33% non-sweet fruit, 24% greens, and 10% nuts and seeds. i eat mostly fruit all day, with a salad for lunch and dinner. my salads consist of greens, non-sweet fruit, avacado, and nuts. my problem is that i have a strong desire for salty foods, like potato chips. this is especially at lunch, when my workmates are eating chips. but it goes on all day. i have broken down and eaten chips several times now. these cravings are much stronger than my more common urges for bread and other cooked foods. i feel like my body needs more sodium, or its getting too much potassium. recently i've started eating seaweed with my salad to get the sodium, but the cravings have not subsided. i am eating seaweed, celery, kale, and putting some salt on my salad dressing. my diet is near the center of sapote's CaPNaK chart also. anyone have any advice for me? is my body telling me i need more sodium or less potassium? or are these typical cravings of the mind to return to cooked foods? any suggestions appreciated. thank you, joe williamson Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. Click Here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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