Vegan Raw Life Style

[Bookoffee]

My wife and I received our results from our fasting labs. The results were not good. We need to seriously work on becoming healthier.

We both hate eating meat and animal products, especially when it comes from a food chain. For a while now we have been talking about getting a farm share.

We started research for a vegan raw diet. The more we learn and experiment, the better we feel and become more excited.

If anyone has any ideas, suggestions, recipes or want to share how it has changed your lifestyle, I would love to learn more.

 

[Ladyghosthunter]

Dumb question. Does anyone in your family have a history of medical issues that are showing up on your labs?

 

[Bookoffee]

I don't know about my side, her side yes.

 

[Deleted member 1860]

What does your diet look like now?

 

[Bookoffee]

It is skim picking now. My daily diet consist of two cups of coffee in the morning with a banana and yogurt. Around lunch I have a sweetened iced tea with trail mix. Then oatmeal for dinner

 

[Deleted member 1860]

I don't follow a vegan diet, but I know that its crucial to make sure that you're getting enough nutrients in. (I've heard this can be a problem when people go vegetarian or vegan.) I think that protein can be a problem, too, for those who go vegan. How do you ensure that you get enough protein in when you go "raw"? I'm just curious.

 

[Bookoffee]

We have a book for protein raw smoothies, we love beans and nuts. I am sure the more we research and share our diet, we will find other ways of getting iy

 

[Friday]

It's not protein that's difficult, per se, it's a 'complete protein'.

You can eat 100grams of protein a day and still be malnourished -and suffer a lot of health problems from it- if you're not getting 'complete proteins'. The only sources of complete proteins are: flesh, whole milk products, eggs, nuts, & legume+grain (in the same meal).

So it's actually fairly easy to go very healthily vegan... As long as one has the legume+grain (whether that's beans and rice, hummus & pita, etc.... A person can live eating nothing but rice & beans & peppers -for minerals & vitamins- for 100 years completely healthily and well nourished. If slightly bored... Same meal 5x a day for 100 years) & nuts. One reason why quinoa is so popular is because it's a nut that acts/cooks as a grain. So people eat giant piles of it.

The hardest things with going raw are infection/infestation (parasites, especially worm eggs and amoebas; & bacteria, especially e.coli) & releasing locked nutrients... As a great many of the foods we consume do not have nutrients our bodies can digest until either the cellulose of the cell membrane walls have been damaged by heat releasing them (on a microscopic level, not something you can manually extract even by juicing), or heat has caused them to recombine.

 

[Seasounds]

I may be able to be helpful. I've have alternated between being a lacto-vegetarian, or a vegan for the past decades. Currently, for the past 8 months I've been eating vegan ( dairy, egg, and meat free), and wheat free.

I've found that going vegan doesn't necessary mean weight and cholesterol reduction. I've needed to keep my over-all calorie intake in mind too. I also needed to keep 30 minutes of daily exercise in my life, to move towards my health goals.

In going vegan, like the post above, I made sure that I got enough nutrients and the right balance of them (e.g. vitamins, omega 3 oils, minerals, protein, etc.) There is an easy certainly a way to do it. To make sure I get the basic needs, I take a daily therapeutic multiple vitamin/mineral supplement, an omega-3 supplement, extra b12 supplement, bedtime calcium /magnesium supplement. Then I make sure that I get enough total protein during the day. At first, you may be looking up protein content, after a short time it will be memorized.

After that, the thing that I have found the most important is to make sure that I have tasty and appealing options ready and available, so I don't feel like I am suffering. I love dairy; so I've had to make some adjustments.

For example, getting use to a nut or bean milk-soy, almond, rice, may take a bit of time, but if you find one you like-maybe unsweetened, maybe slightly sweetened, or with just a bit of vanilla added, you have a milk-like substitute that will work well with oatmeal, or in a smoothie.

Quick breakfasts:
Trader Joes, in US has tasty frozen whole grain oatmeal and frozen quinoa/oatmeal options. I add a few raisins and sliced almonds, with some nut milk over top.

The oils I use are olive oil and coconut oil-a dap is great on the breakfast items above.

• What are some of your favorite dishes, that you might like vegan ideas for?

 

[Bookoffee]

We are cutting all meat, dairy and eggs out of our diet. I have a hard time thinking up recipes because I am never sure what I will like.

Do you have a have recipe that you would like to share?