It has been 3 days since I ended my raw food challenge, I wanted to give my body time to adjust back to a normal diet before assessing my finals thoughts and feelings.
After contemplating my experience I decided that the best way to explain everything to all of you was a simple pro/con list and a video!
PROS:
Generally healthier, my body felt cleaner and “toxin” free in a way
Never got “food coma” after eating a big meal, I may have felt full, but not sluggish
Always using fresh ingredients was amazing
It allowed me to make 90% of my diet from start to finish; almond milk, hummus, dressings
My body received more nutrients from food that would be otherwise lost if cooked above 118 degrees
It encouraged my creativity in making composed and tasty dishes
I was ingesting no injected hormones commonly present in dairy and meats
I aware of exactly what I’m putting in my body
CONS (for me):
Food wasn’t hot; it’s amazing how ingesting hot food can really warm me up
I couldn’t eat any traditional comfort foods, like mashed potatoes
Its expensive, as a college student I don’t have an limitless cash flow to buy all the basics and fancier things that I would have liked to incorporate into my challenge
Nuts/seeds and nut butters are full of protein but lacking in quantity…left me still feeling hungry because I didn’t eat a large chicken breast that would fulfill my protein needs
Because I was making everything I ate, a lot of prep work was required
Limiting for me when I was out in the city, not a lot of raw options even in restaurants that feature raw food
Here’s a little video to explain some more!
Its my first blog video so don’t judge me for being awkward!
I hope you all enjoy!
When it comes down to it, a lot of people have been asking me if I will go raw forever, the answer is no.
I love cheese too much.
I will, and am, making an effort to keep it in my everyday diet!
Thank you for all the work you put into sharing your week of raw. I enjoyed the blog posts. It is nice to see what others ar doing with raw in real time.
Thank you so much for reading! I’m thrilled you liked everything, I had such a good time doing it and am finding myself now craving raw foods all the time!
Hi Sweetie Pie, Momma here…your family is so proud of you for sticking it out for a whole week on your raw food challenge! I am sure the prep work was more time consuming than you would have thought, especially since you were not cooking or baking your meals and that you may have felt deprived and suffered cravings for your favorite go-to snacks, but you survived! It is a good lesson to all of us that it is probably healthier to eat our nourishment more like the way God provided it to us versus cooking out the vitamins, minerals, & antioxidants, as well as breaking down the fiber benefit by cooking/baking and topping everything off with some calorie laden salty sauce. You are on the right track to incorporate minimally just one meal a day or all of your snacks as raw food. Good girl! However, be that as it may, tonight I am making my award winning stuffed bell peppers, but will begin our meal with a raw salad first!
Thank you momma for all the recipes I based my raw meals off of! You’ll have to tell me how the bell peppers turned out!
thank you for doing such a detailed review I love raw food and definitely don’t eat enough of it!
I feel the same way now!
It’s pretty cool to see a different way of doing things! I commend you so much on this, I know I could never do it! And thanks for the chocolate vegan/gluten free/raw thing! Yumma!
Aww Kati I love you! Hah I just tried the other 5 flavors I bought and wowza! So good! I’ll save you some to try, you’ll love them!