Benefits of Raw Vegan Diet - Tips and Photos
Let's change a topic a bit to another one I'm very passionate about. Welcome all fruit lovers! It's summer now which means it's perfect and easiest time to try the raw vegan diet and witness it's benefits first hand. First of all, I don't like any of the three words from the title. I prefer calling it Fresh, living foods, plant-based lifestyle.
In any way, I've been vegan for over 3 years, most of that time focused on fresh foods, and now I've completely switched to it, at least for a certain period. Humans are tropical creatures, attracted by the sight of ripe, vibrant fruits and vegetables. Cooking food de-natures it, and makes it not ideal for consumption. What kind of food we eat determines the state of our bodies. Living foods - living body.
We are used to comfort food which is heavily processed and contains too much ingredients. It slows our digestion and makes us feel lethargic and devoid of energy. Cause most of our energy now has to focus on digestion of those complex, unnatural meals.
Switching to a mostly raw plant-based diet is not an easy task and shouldn't be done overnight but gradually. You might feel unwell during the short period of transition - the body is simply purging old waste, it's readjusting to new way of living. Detox symptoms are nothing to be afraid of. It all depends how well you took care of yourself, if you've been eating relatively healthy than the transition will be a relatively smooth process.
Benefits of raw vegan diet usually include increase in energy levels, ability to tolerate the sun and not get skin burns, disappearing of headaches, skin clearing, better sleep, and in general healing from many sorts of chronic illnesses.
What can I eat on this lifestyle, you ask?
- Fresh fruits of all kinds, no restrictions. Melons, bananas, dates, cherries, berries, peaches, tropical fruits like mango, oranges etc.
- Fresh vegetables like tomato, cucumber, bell peppers, zucchinis, carrots...
- Fresh greens, lettuce, kale, spinach, cabbage, arugula...
- Raw nuts and seeds (best for digestion when they are soaked in water for 6+ hours first), and you can also make delicious salad dressings with them, add them to smoothies or make nuts/dates cookies.
- Smoothies, juices are a way to easily hydrate yourself and get plenty of calories.
Many will say this lifestyle is expensive and use it as an excuse. But when you know what you are doing, it becomes easy and relatively cheap. What helps is - buying locally, in season, produce that is satisfying, eating simple meals like mono-fruit, and if you have a garden, planting it yourself...
One last thing before we move to tempting photographs - someone might need a juice fast to be able to fully absorb raw food diet. Juice fast, which I wrote about few years ago about my experience, will help eliminate old mucus, so that you can fully enjoy the fresh living foods lifestyle.
Prepping for the green juice
Raspberries from the garden
My favorite cherry-banana-date-peanut butter smoothie
Melons are so water-rich and juicy
Smoothie bowls with strawberries and bananas
Apricot/banana smoothie - tastes like a homemade apricot jam. :)
We made sure to have enough raspberries throughout the winter season, these go to the freezer
Simple tomato-cucumber salad is so satisfying. To make it delicious add tahini/lemon/orange juice dressing
These raw cookies are so fulfilling! Cashews, walnuts and dates, with cherry inside and peanut butter on top
A meal of delicious ripe figs from the garden
You can marinate raw mushroom with vinegar or lemon juice and salt in the sun for a few hours
Eating straight from the package
Lettuce, cabbage, cucumber salad, with marinated mushrooms and lemon/tahini dressing
Adding apricots to the freezer so that there are smoothies in the winter
Sweet nectarines
Zucchini noodles with tomato dressing
Watermelons are so hydrating and cheap when in season
And they also yield so much juice!
I hope you enjoyed watching and that are inspired to switch at least one of your daily meals to one of these. :)
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Thank you very much!
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Already for three years. Well done 👍
I guess now it is easier and the most challenging part was the beginning, the transition. I understand the great benefits of it!! 🙌
There are so many fresh fruit and veggies right now here, in my mom's garden and also in the garden of my parents in law. I can't stop eating plums, apricots, cucumber, raspberries from the garden. Unfortunately this year the tomatoes got too much rain and they are rotten (that's what they say, I was not here then)...
Yes, it gets easier each time. I'm currently on day 18 of going at it 100% and it's now a second nature. What's important is to have fresh food around so there's no strong temptation for something else. And during summer days it's easy to get cheap, fresh, delicious produce. :) During winter I might go back to 80% raw, or I'll just move to the tropics :D.
Eating from your own garden, that's the best feeling! Enjoy that homemade goodness. :) This year our fruit trees didn't produce well, rough weather conditions.
Yes, important to have a supply of fresh food around. Summer is the perfect time for it - indeed!
Fruit trees - It was hailing yesterday here, in three rounds 😬
Many unripe plums and apricots fell (but luckily there is still enough on the trees) , and also there is a bit of damage to the tomatoes.
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Thank you!
Did I enjoy it? It's absolutely fruit-tastic. For these juicy treats that are straight out of nature itself, I may be ready to go vegan.
I guess people have the misconception that vegan foods aren't attractive to the eyes or even appetizing but it's really wrong.
Talk about eating really yummy food that's also healthy. Talk about a win-win!!🌺🙌
Yes that's a common misconception, until they see and try it and change their mind. :) Being 3+ years on this lifestyle, I have no regrets. Our cravings for meat, eggs and cheeses is just a learned habit and goes away after some time.
Even more important than going vegan is focusing on minimally processed food - no pasteurized products full of saturated oil, sugars and other nasty ingredients. Replacing at least one meal (breakfast) with the one of fresh living foods is a great place to start. :)
I'll start there then. Already incorporating lot of fruits and vegetables to my daily meals anyway.
Even when I was a child, I did not like fruit. Except avocados. I have always loved avocados! I presently am on keto with green salads.
Diet focused on fat might agree with some people, but I can't say if it's a long-term solution. I've tried it in the past. But I simply can't imagine that we are not designed to eat the beautiful, sweet fruits.
Well, given Humans have been eating critters for aeons, I ponder what We're "designed" for. LOL! I give highest probability that We are designed to do so, because, there are nutrients We need not found in any quantity in the non-critter foods.
But... I do not care what Others eat. None of My business. But for Me, having tried both vegetarian and vegan diets, and having an issue with mental clarity and energy from the vegan diet, and doing well enough on vegetarian (I ate eggs and dairy), still, now being on keto, I feel energized and My mind is quite clear.
That's just Me, though.
I feel like I attended to a Fruit and Veggies Festival with this different kind of fruits. I can eat them occasionally or jusy after having a meal but not if it's everyday, especially rice is life for me and what's a good pair with rice? It's meat. But, I think I will need this kind of diet now for a healthy lifestyle. I am not sure if I can last long, like you and the others. 3 years? Whoa, that's w(°ｏ°)w
I also thought that I would never be able to give up meat and cheeses haha. It's just a habit that we picked up, eventually after some discipline our receptors change and you stop craving other food.
Delicious fruit is a gift from nature to us, it's what we are naturally drawn to. :) You can try replacing one meal, preferably breakfast, with something sweet and juicy and see if you notice any changes. Also, keep in mind the food combination and digestion charts - for example, fruit digests the fastest so it's not smart to eat it after a meal (it will catch up with what you ate before and cause fermentation - bloating, fungus etc). It's best to eat fruit first.
Deliciously fruityilecious and healthilecious. I love to eat all you have posted here.I wish I could let it grow in my small garden.
Great! Do the best you can, and there are always local markets where you can buy fresh produce.
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How many delicacies can be enjoyed without meats just freshly picked vegetables. What a beautiful and healthy way to live!
I would love to try every dish, especially the desserts!
All the photos look really beautiful!
Thanks for sharing!
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