Hi everyone!Ive been doing raw til 4 since i joined this website over a year ago and i absofruitly love it. The only thing i am finding at the moment is that i am feeling very tired or lethargic after i eat my evening cooked meal. I try to make them big to get the carbs in as Freelee recommends but it seems when i have a bigger meal i just zonk out and want to go straight to bed. It doesnt matter if its white rice, white potatoes, sweet potatoes or gluten free corn pasta, i still feel the same which i think is weird as ive been on this lifestyle for a while now?I make sure that i drink plenty of water before and after ive eaten the meal but it doesnt seem to help.Just wondered if anyone had experienced this and then it went away or if anyone had found reasons why? It seems when i eat a smaller cooked meal i can still do something in the evening after i eat! Haha At the moment im just vegging out reading (then fall asleep with the book on my face! Haha ) The weathers so lovely here at the moment i want to go outside and do a walk or something but i feel like i have no energy because its all being used up digesting my foodbaby! HahaThanks everyone, really appreciate your advice :)
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Thanks for the responses :) and they all make a lot of sense. You are right that everyone is different and sometime we are different at different times of the year! I eat cooked food about five days a week in the evening, eating raw fruit during the day at work. I always try to eat some sort of salad with my cooked meal as well but that is a good tip about drinking more water before the cooked food, I will definitely try that! I eat fully raw about two days a week because I enjoy it and I feel balanced.
I think that I dont really eat a lot in comparison to a lot of people on here, for instance my carb coma was induced last night from steaming and cutting into chips three medium potatoes. I know that most people would eat a lot more than that but I have had to build up to that point without feeling overful like Im bursting! Haha So i guess I was concious of not undereating and making sure I was getting enough calories in.
When I first started I could only eat one potato before crashing! Haha So I guess this is just my personal journey and as Ive been uppin my carbs in the evening recently my body may not be used to it yet. I never use salt and rarely use low sodium sauces, mostly I will eat the cooked food as it comes with perhaps a bit of lemon juice, or make a chopped tomato salsa from scratch sometimes. My tastes have changed so much since I started and I know Ive come a long way (I never even used to drink any water! Just drank tea all day!)
I think I will try drinking more water beforehand and maybe downsize the meal a little but I guess everyones the same, somedays you could eat like a horse and other days you eat like a mouse?
i sometimes feel that way too after cooked food (like right now! lol). not always though.
perhaps some things to consider:
like you said, eating less definitely helps me too (easier said than done sometimes, i know lol).
incorporating some raw vegetable along with your cooked meal to give you some enzymes and not make you feel as dead (sounds awful, right? dead?). plus it fills you up a bit so you don't eat as much cooked food. it is too easy to eat more than you really need of cooked food what with all the salt and spices.
do you eat cooked food daily? the times when i feel the WORST after cooked food is when i've been eating raw for a more extended period prior to the meal.
also, are you getting enough sleep in general? if not, then you may be getting more exhausted than you normally would by eating cooked food (this is why i'm tired after lentils and rice at the moment; only slept an hour and a half last night, really needing to hit the hay)
at the end of the day, cooked food is never gonna feel the same as fruit feels, but it doesn't have to feel too bad.
and, this may be taboo, but is it really that bad of a thing that you get tired after eating cooked food? for me, it's almost like a sleeping pill. hard to sleep much on all raw sometimes (hate to say it). cooked food helps me mellow out and calm down in the evenings.
you should drink 30 mins before your meal, never after! wait 2 hours, what you are experiencing is sometimes called the carb coma and is quite common, google it rather than me explaining it, I agree with Kara listen to your body and eat less find your balance and go from there!
Everyone's body is different. If you feel better and more energetic eating a smaller meal then do that. You can always eat more when you feel like it. Listen to your body and go incrementally. Or at least that's what I would do.
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I think that I dont really eat a lot in comparison to a lot of people on here, for instance my carb coma was induced last night from steaming and cutting into chips three medium potatoes. I know that most people would eat a lot more than that but I have had to build up to that point without feeling overful like Im bursting! Haha So i guess I was concious of not undereating and making sure I was getting enough calories in.
When I first started I could only eat one potato before crashing! Haha So I guess this is just my personal journey and as Ive been uppin my carbs in the evening recently my body may not be used to it yet. I never use salt and rarely use low sodium sauces, mostly I will eat the cooked food as it comes with perhaps a bit of lemon juice, or make a chopped tomato salsa from scratch sometimes. My tastes have changed so much since I started and I know Ive come a long way (I never even used to drink any water! Just drank tea all day!)
I think I will try drinking more water beforehand and maybe downsize the meal a little but I guess everyones the same, somedays you could eat like a horse and other days you eat like a mouse?
Thanks guys :)
hey sugar,
i sometimes feel that way too after cooked food (like right now! lol). not always though.
perhaps some things to consider:
at the end of the day, cooked food is never gonna feel the same as fruit feels, but it doesn't have to feel too bad.
and, this may be taboo, but is it really that bad of a thing that you get tired after eating cooked food? for me, it's almost like a sleeping pill. hard to sleep much on all raw sometimes (hate to say it). cooked food helps me mellow out and calm down in the evenings.
hope that helps you, love.
you should drink 30 mins before your meal, never after! wait 2 hours, what you are experiencing is sometimes called the carb coma and is quite common, google it rather than me explaining it, I agree with Kara listen to your body and eat less find your balance and go from there!