Nut-free Fruit Fanatics!

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Comment by Freelee on August 30, 2008 at 7:12am

I'm feeling so good since omitting nuts from my diet. Has anyone else done the same?

Comment by VOID on August 30, 2008 at 7:41am

For me they were never really in my diet as such when raw. I hated nuts growing up and only started to like them when I went vegan. When I went raw though I hated them, they just didnt digest well at all. Felt much cleaner and lighter eating no nuts. Heaps better off without them :o)

Comment by sunnied on August 30, 2008 at 9:23am

Maybe they would be okay if I only had a few. Unfortunately I'm an all-or-nothing kind of girl and 'nothing' has been significantly better than 'all' in this case. Weightloss, better digestion / elimination, and an over all cleaner feeling since giving these guys up.

Comment by RawKev on August 30, 2008 at 12:18pm

I've been nut free since I was old enough to eat solid food. I'm highly allergic and had some pretty close calls in my younger days. I recently discovered that I'm not allergic to almonds and went overboard on them and almond butter. Although I don't get a reaction, they make me feel tired and heavy. I no longer eat them, and avoid seeds as well. I'll occasionally sprinkle some hempseed or soaked pumpkin seeds on a salad.

Comment by Freelee on August 30, 2008 at 11:56pm

Wow great! I thought I may be the only one.
Kev I can relate to going overboard on them, its so easy, the lack of water & the fact that most are rancid doesn't help the self-control either! Yeah that tired and heavy feeling doesn't vibe with me...leave that for the couch potatoes.

Hey Sunnied, yep all or nothing girl here too, i think some things are better off staying in the nothing dept. When I've gone crazy on them in the past the next day my eyes were yellow, skin dull, energy zero, digestion?Don't ask! Lovin life on high fruit/no nuts & seeds.

Hi Adam, yeah I wasn't a big nut eater when I was young either, we had a macadamia tree on our farm & it was too much like hard work to crack them & the payoff wasn't enough to motivate me.

Everyone how long have you been off them? I know its hard to predict the future but can u forsee ever reintroducing them?

Comment by Darrick on August 31, 2008 at 3:57am

I am an aspiring nut free dude...today I am nut free....one day at a time I am learning.
yesterday nut pain and depression...only ate some roasted peanuts in shells....massive pain woken up at 3am (9hours after eating the peanuts)..praying to god for relief, telling him i will believe in him if my pain stopped...stay nut free!!!!!!!!!!!! forever

Comment by Darrick on August 31, 2008 at 4:01am

do you all think that most rawvegans are "all or nothing" type people like Sunnie mentioned?
I believe I may be this way...i was hoping not, but If I eat cooked vegan meal, then I am back eating a cooked vegan meal daily.....i always think i can do it once in a while, but then it seems to hooooooooooooook meeeeeeeee.................freaaaaaaaaaaaaakkkkkkkkkkking irritating111!!!!!!!

Comment by Freelee on August 31, 2008 at 4:11am

Hahaha did your finger get stuck Darrick?? ;-P
I relate totally, sorry to hear about the nasty peanuts, they're so addictive :-( I dont' think its a case of most raw vegans being 'all or nothing' but a case of us having cleaner tastebuds then the norm, just as animals in nature who eat very simply and mainly mono meals and once we get the overstimulation that roasted/rancid nuts, excito-toxins/salt/various condiments/cooked food provides then all willpower goes out the door & a brainfog of drug addiction overcomes us! I've had nuts in the shell numerous times and not overdone it, they're no longer a 'whole food' once they're been dehydrated.
I don't want to sound like Harley Darrick but....are you eating enough fruit? :-D I couldn't possibly fit any cooked food with the amount of fruit im eating...

Comment by Darrick on August 31, 2008 at 5:28am

what up Free,
btw, howd H do on Marathon!!!?

actually i have found my addictive devil side to consciously undereat fruit in the day, so that at 6pm I can decide whether to eat more fruit or revert to the cooked death vegan food....isnt that sick?
if I ate enough fruit in the day, I wouldn't want the cooked food, but I dont want to do that, then i would feel like cooked is gone forever, and now i want to be sure to get enough to not ever miss it, ehehheehe, such a crok of Sh__! It is sooo humbling to think i was done with it forever last week and to never imagine getting hooked again on it. WOW, I am laughing at this...at least I know it isnt right for me and that must be half the challenge.
I share this to remind others to stay humble and take it one day at a time like Alooholics anonymous says.....
back to NUTS btw....
nice idea Freelea!!
what about raw in shell Macs??

Comment by Freelee on September 1, 2008 at 4:46am

hey Darrick, has Harley filled uin on marathon?
Oh that nasty little addictive devil! I have less battles these days but still get any itchy shoulder occasionally ;-)
Good ol' self-sabotaging eh? I've been known to partake. Especially when I went back to eating cooked food for a month last year, I was on a cooked food bender...1 time I went to 3 different sushi establishments, one after the other, trying to get satieted...totalling about 30plates of vegan sushi!
Harls has chatted about you many times, he has learnt a lot of you, I think you're doing great, just get clear about what standard of health you want to achieve, write it down, visualise it then observe miracles as it all falls into place :-)

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