Tom’s Raw Foods Blog

First, a bit of business… One of my older daughters, Kristin, has decided to join me in eating nothing but all raw food. I got to spend a couple of days with her last month and according to her, the change she saw in me finally convinced her to give this a try. I’m a very happy (and proud) daddy, and I’d like to wish her every success.

You can read Kristin’s blog at this link (it needs some work, young lady!). If you want even more, you can read some professional-grade articles that Kristin Brownsword wrote by clicking here (much better job on these!).

And now for today’s submission…

I hear it a lot; people say that the sight, smell, and taste of cooked food is too powerful to resist. I’ve just passed the five month mark since I switched to raw foods (with the one exception I wrote about a few days ago), and even though my commitment to raw food is strong, I have to admit that I still think a lot about cooked food (and am thinking about a grilled ham and cheese sandwich as I type this… don’t ask me why!).

So what do I do when those thoughts pop into my mind?

It turns out that last week’s little “experiment” — where I DECIDED to eat cooked food for half a day — was extremely beneficial because it has showed me what I’ve gained by switching to raw foods.

• First, my body no longer knows how to deal with cooked food.
• Raw food digests easily.
• I’ve lost 75 pounds.
• Cooked food makes me feel tired.
• Cooked food makes me feel lethargic. I lack energy.
• Why do I want to type, “cooked fool” every time I mean to type “cooked food”?
• OK, that last one wasn’t a reason…
• Cooked food makes my whole body feel weird and makes my stomach hurt. Not to mention other parts of my body.
• Cooked food confuses my children. My five year old couldn’t shift his paradigm the day I ate cooked food because “Daddy only eats fruits and vegetables”.
• I don’t like the gas and the stuff associated with eating cooked food.
• I don’t like the aftertaste that cooked food leaves in my mouth.
• Cooked food (at least a 100% return to it) would force me to delete this blog and all of this wonderful content…!

In other words, it’s not what happens when I eat the food, it’s what happens AFTER I eat the food that matters. And while I do admit that, at least for now, cooked food still has a chance of looking better before I eat it, I know what’s going to happen when I eat and want no part of it.

Before my experiment last week, I had a pretty good idea about what cooked food would do to me but had no real idea. Now I know — and I don’t like it. After almost five months of following the 80/10/10 raw food diet, eating something cooked was horrible. I don’t like what happened and don’t want to go back.

I also snuck a small taste of fruit in the middle of my cooked food experiment. As good as the cooked food seemed to taste at the time, it couldn’t compete with the natural sweetness of the fruit I was eating. The taste was incomparable.

So should you be “tempted” to eat something cooked but don’t really want to, please think about what I’ve written here. Hopefully it will help you make the right decision for you.

Smacznego,
Tom