Drinking Alcohol on a raw food diet?

[Wildside]

Does anyone have any experience drinking alcohol while following a raw food diet? I'm thinking it would take much less alcohol to feel the effects of said alcohol, than it would while eating a much denser, typical SAD diet. I wonder also, if one would suffer a more debilitating hangover as well?, and would one then be able to "cure" said hangover much easier following the raw food diet? I'm betting you would not suffer the hangover as long due to all the yummy water filled fruits you would be eating.

Right now I am probably eating an 80% raw diet and haven't really had any alcoholic drinks since I have been eating this way. I'm planning on taking a trip to Mexico in the not to distant future, and I will no doubt be partaking of a few (see many) cold ones while I'm there. Just wondering what to expect...

[mikew]

I don't have any experience of drinking alcohol as a raw-foodie, but I can tell you what it was like to drink as a new vegan:

- The alcohol affected me much more quickly!
- I found I was able to drink much more beer. (I had always had stomach troubles before, never being able to drink more than two pints because of the gas. Eating as a vegan, I could 'handle' as much as I wanted.)
- I didn't experience hangovers.

Hope that's of some interest!

[Wildside]

Originally Posted by mikew

I don't have any experience of drinking alcohol as a raw-foodie, but I can tell you what it was like to drink as a new vegan:

- The alcohol affected me much more quickly!
- I found I was able to drink much more beer. (I had always had stomach troubles before, never being able to drink more than two pints because of the gas. Eating as a vegan, I could 'handle' as much as I wanted.)
- I didn't experience hangovers.

Hope that's of some interest!

No hangovers! I like that! ...

[freshwala]

im kinda in same situation, got my birthday and a friends birthday coming next month and i know im gona drink, and its first time since going raw.

[Carmen]

I used to drink alcohol about 3-4 years back and I like the raw vegetables, mostly fresh but they are all raw. So it kinda weird now that since I m not drinking any of them, I still get left out when I go to parties with friends.

[Ohabu]

I had the same questions for myself, and can report about the same results as other people. Getting drunk a lot faster. Never been hungover, but I imagine it would be less of a problem on raw diet.

I stuck with white wine because I imagined it would be less of a diet killer than beer for the first times. I still have a beer in a bar but stick with the wine at home.