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I always get tired if I eat cooked foods, even cooked vegan foods. So when I do eat a cooked meal, I try to make it my dinner meal.
I couldn't go raw food right away. I had to do a lot of superfoods (Pure Synergy, maca, goji berries, cacao) daily in addition to increasing my protien (several tablespoons of hemp powder) daily to get my nutrients up to a good level so that I can be raw.
I still do this, but generally just once a week now. I was really struggling with low blood sugar and fatigue and I could NOT go even 60% raw or have an entirely raw meal without being effective. I met David Wolfe and he explained that what I described is what I should do - and it sure did make a difference!!!
I'd been wanting and trying to go raw for YEARS, and doing just a few weeks of the superfoods and I could do 85%+ raw no problem!!!
Lots of people aren't 100% raw, so don't feel you have to do that if it doesn't work for you. But you can eat sprouted rice, beans, and grains, which will help increase your protien and give you some of that long-fueling carbs in a raw form.
You may also still be detoxing - going raw (even if you've been vegan) involves a detox which can take weeks or months. It can be physical as well as emotional. Lots of people get depressed, have headaches, get pimples, have bad breath or body odor, have emotions that are all over the place, some people feel like they've got the flu, just to name a few things. Each person is different.
You might also be tired because your body is working hard to heal whatever, let's just call them imperfections, are in your body. Healing is tiring work. Just think about every time you've had a cold or flu and all you want to do is lie down in bed for days.
I'm going through something like that myself - I am doing a lot of internal/physical healing and I'm so tired, so exhausted, it's mind-blowing. I can't hardly function I'm so tired. But that's because my body is at a place to really heal, and besides the high raw diet and superfoods, I'm providing my body with other supplements that facilitate the healing process.
I am reveling in it, honoring it, and just resting. I don't try to do anything other than the bare minimum, and I lie down a lot. It feels good because, well, because I'm so tired!!! LOL!!! But it feels good because I know my body is doing good stuff so I have to just be smart, let it do it's thing, and rest while it's working. (I know the "it" is me, but my body pretty much heals without my conscious involvement - but I could consciously choose to be more active and therefore interfere with, slow down, the healing process!)
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