You Know You Are a Raw Foodist When? (Blog)

[Savage]

Use this thread to discuss the following entry from Steve Pavlina's blog:

You Know You Are a Raw Foodist When?

[Andrew Brunelle]

Funny article. You brought out your inner Jeff Foxworthy. Well done. You should try that whole routine at the next Raw Spirit festival.

[Liveformx64]

The best thing I read all day! Well done.

[rjani]

Hilarious! I love your humor Steve
This was the best one: you meet a breatharian and have to ask, “But where you do get your protein?" (ofc it was good only because the previous part)

And call me stupid, but I don't get this one: you shop for clothes in the children’s section. Please someone explain it or I can't sleep tonight...

[kf9211]

Originally Posted by rjani

Hilarious! I love your humor Steve
This was the best one: you meet a breatharian and have to ask, “But where you do get your protein?" (ofc it was good only because the previous part)

And call me stupid, but I don't get this one: you shop for clothes in the children’s section. Please someone explain it or I can't sleep tonight...

I think its a reference to how much weight people often loose on a raw diet.

Kyle

[Jake Birkett]

At first I thought "solar gazing" should be "solar grazing" because I guessed it was using the sun's energy for food, but then I looked it up and it seems that "gazing" is correct. Well I look forward to seeing that as a 30 day trial :-)

[rjani]

Originally Posted by kf9211

I think its a reference to how much weight people often loose on a raw diet.

Thanks
But it wasn't so funny then...

[Bruce Achterberg]

Originally Posted by rjani

Hilarious! I love your humor Steve
This was the best one: you meet a breatharian and have to ask, “But where you do get your protein?" (ofc it was good only because the previous part)

Indeed--you could really notice the humour structure. Good fun! (Especially when you can appreciate how well it was crafted.) I need to practice flexing my humour muscles.

[Plato]

...when you're housemates shout at you for filling a fridge designed for 6, whilst you try to figure out where to put the rest of the shopping
...when you eat all day and still lose weight
...when you go for a 2 mile run, but end up running 6 because it's relaxing
...when celery is a salty tasting treat
...when you can't remember your last drink of water, but are bursting to go!

I think I did the diet for about a month, maybe more, but couldn't afford to keep eating 10 fair trade bananas a day I felt good during it, but lost crazy amounts of weight because I still wasn't eating enough.

[PhilipLilly]

A nice post. These raw food updates help me keep going with my raw food diet All the benefits are hard to ignore, I really liked the part "you know how to cure cancer, heart disease, and diabetes… but no one believes you." Steve, do you still eat agave and tahini since some of it isn't considered raw?

Oh, I am still curious about the superfoods. If there was any benefit or still the thought that you are putting dollar bills in the blender for nothing?

Cheers,
Philip

[Fullcrum]

There were so many funny parts I don't want to repost them all cause I'll just repost the whole article. But I really did love the thing about curing diseases, raw costco, and restoring my sense of hearing lost due to the blender.

Gotta disagree with the sex thing, though. Hahaha.

[mjukr]

I just couldn't do it... just couldn't do it... food is such a great pleasure in life. So many tastes, so much cultural heritage.

Even if you promised me perfect health, I don't think I would accept the trade.

Good food is heaven on earth!!!

[foxbivvy]

You never wash your socks at high temperature to keep the beneficial bacteria alive. After a year you pop then into a blender with one banana or two

[Dan Morelle]

Do people feed their pets on a raw foodie diet?

[Parthon]

Hahaha, very funny! Loved it.

Makes me want to go raw as well, but also a little bit more scared, or is it excited?

mjukr: I dunno, I think raw food tastes pretty damn good. All I would miss out on is the burnt, greasy and meaty tastes that most people like, and I was never too fond of them anyways.

[Dimond]

Mjukr, Raw Food tastes amazing!! You're completely missing out. I wouldn't ever want to go back to SAD food. Not to mention once you're raw for awhile you start wanting more simple foods rather than constant gourmet.

Seriously have you tried raw pizza, lasagna, pasta, wraps, sushi, desserts?? I love salad more than ever-in fact I've become quite addicted to it.

Dan, many people do choose to feed their pets raw as well.

Plato, it's unnecessary to eat 10 bananas a day. Sounds like you were looking into being a fruitarian? They're more into large quantities like that. it's best to start raw with no rules & just eat whatever you want as long as it's raw.

[TheAndySan]

Wow. Just wow. I loved that article, and I think it's one of Steve's shortest (I could be wrong).

Here's one:

-Your friends ask, "But where do you get the money?"

[The David]

I'm addicted to a bean, too, but a much different one.

The 'But where do you get your protein?" gave me a snortle.

[Rachelle]

"...your breakfast smoothies include items from six continents and four oceans."

I'm curious about what people think of the ecological/environmental ramifications of maintaining a raw diet depending on where one lives... ?

For example, I live in central Canada. Our growing season is obviously shorter than areas further south. A lot of vegetables are local, wheat (but i guess you don't eat wheat if you eat raw), some grains, some berries, some meager apples (like crab apples) I think soy is also a local crop... but aside from that, everything else is shipped and transported into the city. With the whole eco/carbon footprint debate now-a-days... how do people think this idea translates to eating raw AND eating local? I'm just trying to think how people living very far north (like in Alaska or the Northern Canadian Territories) would eat raw and their impact on the environment when you take into consideration transportation issues, vs that of a largely local (but not raw) diet...

thoughts on the matter are appreciated...

[andythai]

ahaha this is great, a visitor referred me to this blog. My website is dedicated completely to "You know you're.." lists.

You can easily add more reasons or vote up or vote down reasons.

You know you're a Raw Foodist - on Youknowster.comRaw Foodist | You know you are a Raw Foodist when... | Jokes on Youknowster.com

[Ninja]

Hehe, I'm actually considering going raw, but I'm worried about my bloodpressure. My eating habits aren't that healthy and my bloodpressure is already quite low. If i start eating really healthy, I'm afraid it will drop even further, which would be...ahem...very uncomfortable. How can I eat healthy, but raise my bloodpressure rather than lowering it?

[Gregorz]

Since I started my raw diet just a few days ago after being a lacto-ovo vegetarian for six years (not 100% yet, but it will be once I've used up all my stocks of cooked food) the appearance of this article is an odd synchronicity for me (after two years of reading the blog on-off, I've only just started to believe in those). It's also weird because I was reading another "you know you're a raw foodist when..." just yesterday.

[IFeelGood]

Originally Posted by Ninja

Hehe, I'm actually considering going raw, but I'm worried about my bloodpressure. My eating habits aren't that healthy and my bloodpressure is already quite low. If i start eating really healthy, I'm afraid it will drop even further, which would be...ahem...very uncomfortable. How can I eat healthy, but raise my bloodpressure rather than lowering it?

Ninja, I think that blood pressure is partially genetic. I have an average bp of 90 over 70. Both of my parents have low blood pressure, as do my siblings. I would encourage you to eat raw and exercise. It has worked well for me. Recently, I ran a 5k and there was a health expo after. They checked my bp and it was 78 over 60. That was the lowest it has ever been to my knowledge but I felt fine, not dizzy or lightheaded. This is normal for me. Everyone's body is different. Another thing to do is eat some sea salt and seaweed not the iodized table salt.

[supertom]

Originally Posted by Rachelle

"...your breakfast smoothies include items from six continents and four oceans."

I'm curious about what people think of the ecological/environmental ramifications of maintaining a raw diet depending on where one lives... ?

For example, I live in central Canada. Our growing season is obviously shorter than areas further south. A lot of vegetables are local, wheat (but i guess you don't eat wheat if you eat raw), some grains, some berries, some meager apples (like crab apples) I think soy is also a local crop... but aside from that, everything else is shipped and transported into the city. With the whole eco/carbon footprint debate now-a-days... how do people think this idea translates to eating raw AND eating local? I'm just trying to think how people living very far north (like in Alaska or the Northern Canadian Territories) would eat raw and their impact on the environment when you take into consideration transportation issues, vs that of a largely local (but not raw) diet...

thoughts on the matter are appreciated...

nothing compared to raising animals for years just for a few meals and how much animals "ahem" add to the whole global warming thing, oh yeah i wonder how the animals take their gains. just saying if everyone was vege we would havent worry about global warming or world hunger.

[Rachelle]

Originally Posted by supertom

nothing compared to raising animals for years just for a few meals and how much animals "ahem" add to the whole global warming thing, oh yeah i wonder how the animals take their gains. just saying if everyone was vege we would havent worry about global warming or world hunger.

I was hoping more for thoughts in ecological impact comparing eating vegan/local to eating raw... but i do see your point.

Just so it's clear - I'd like to give raw a try some day and I'm not trying to put it down. I think it sounds tremendously healthy. But at the same time I wonder about the big picture and its impact in a global/ecological context.

[Bruce Achterberg]

Originally Posted by Rachelle

"...your breakfast smoothies include items from six continents and four oceans."

I'm curious about what people think of the ecological/environmental ramifications of maintaining a raw diet depending on where one lives... ?

For example, I live in central Canada. Our growing season is obviously shorter than areas further south. A lot of vegetables are local, wheat (but i guess you don't eat wheat if you eat raw), some grains, some berries, some meager apples (like crab apples) I think soy is also a local crop... but aside from that, everything else is shipped and transported into the city. With the whole eco/carbon footprint debate now-a-days... how do people think this idea translates to eating raw AND eating local? I'm just trying to think how people living very far north (like in Alaska or the Northern Canadian Territories) would eat raw and their impact on the environment when you take into consideration transportation issues, vs that of a largely local (but not raw) diet...

thoughts on the matter are appreciated...

Steve wrote a really good forum post on this issue that was nicely aligned with power, but for the life of me, I can't find it. (Other Steve posts that I can't find for the life of me include where he mentions a book that he read on humour before he competed in his most recent humourous contest. Alter-ego-Bruce who is better at search than I am, please help.)

The basic premise of Steve's post was that if you're already vegan, you're doing such a significant thing for the environment that all the other issues are pretty minimal and that it's better focusing on such significant things, rather than the pretty insignificant things such as transport.

Sure, transport contributes, but diet (indirectly) contributes a heck of a lot more. It's about knowing where to target, and I agree.

Although if you're a vegan or raw foodist already, then yeah, I think it's reasonable for you to be concerned about that. But I don't think it's reasonable to channel too much time into it, unless you know you're going to make a significant difference. You should channel your time where it will have the biggest impact.

For me, that means I channel my time into potential. I know that potential and self-alignment is far more impactful than targeting any environmental issues, and I also know that the most influential thing is not so much the specific message you convey, but the state of being you convey it from. So I try to make self-alignment the order of the day. That doesn't mean I'm always self-aligned, but it does mean I am for maximum self-alignment. Sometime I live in paradox because it's effective to do so (in the short term, at least), but more recently, I've decided to start more liberally letting go of attachment to things that are no longer congruent with me. I don't think I can make any meaningful forward progress if I live with all the incongruencies that I have. I'm starting to thing that change isn't so much about gaining more of anything, but rather, letting go of what no longer aligns with you. Needs more testing, but it seems to make sense.

So the main point here is to focus on what has the most potential for impact, and go do it. It’s nice to focus on other issues and be aware of them, but as Eckhart Tolle once wrote, if you complain about something or think about something but take no real productive action, you’re just perpetuating thought patterns and not really interested in making a change. Not saying that applies to you, but it has indeed applied to me and helps me be aware of what I actually care about vs what I just use to make myself feel better and reinforce a sense of self rooted in thought rather than in being and self-alignment—the universe; life.

[The Wise Turtle]

You know you're a raw foodist when you complain about truly free lunches (that aren't raw)...

Now that I'm nomadic, I really miss my raw food! I was doing well even with no kitchen to speak of, but then when it got cold outside and I couldn't easily dehydrate anymore, and my bike trailer that was functioning as a small kitchen (food storage and prep space) lost it's connectivity to my bike (the trailer hitch broke) I got frustrated and gave in to the free addicitve cooked food that was often in front of me. Soon, I will go back to an all raw diet. Soon...

Peace, Love, and Bicycles,
Turil

[The Wise Turtle]

Oh, and you know you're a raw foodist when you get excited by the purselane growing out of the cracks in the sidewalk in front of your friends house and start nibbling, knowing that you're getting a huge boost in your omega-3 fatty acids and you'll be happy all day long because of your discovery!

[Rachelle]

Thanks for the reply Bruce.
Very helpful.

[Dorota]

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* you write poetry about kale
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