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Actually, I DID pay attention to my nutrient intake with cooked food, because if I didn't, I was *very* hungry. Sometimes it was a hungry as in "I'm not full, didn't eat enough" and other times it's like "I need broccoli". But in the beginning with every eating plan, there's a couple months when I'm hungry, but don't always know for what.
For instance, it took 22 **YEARS** for me to find out that when I'm hungry for beef, all I have to do is eat at least 1 cup of spinach every day, then I'm never hungry for beef.
Each time I change eating plans, such as going meat to more vegetarian and fish, and from that to more vegan, it takes a long while for me to figure out exactly how much to eat of what to make sure I'm getting everything I need that makes my body feel fully nourished. And in the meantime, it's crazy-making.
It's this exact thing that has kept me from being 100% raw food for the last 10 years ... I try, but then I'm hungry and don't know what for, or craving beef and didn't know what to do (now I know, but I didn't then).
I've found raw food to be FAR MORE DIFFICULT in this respect than any other eating plan.
I'm just trying to find out if there's things folks know that you should eat regularly to be nutritionally satisfied and also feel full, so I can be raw food this time and stick with it - without the insanity of being crazy-hungry and not knowing what to eat that'll feed whatever that hunger is.
It's really a feeling like I'm insane, of being so ravenously hungry, and eating all kinds of things, yet never feeling like that nutrituional need has been met.
I'd like to try to avoid that as much as possible.
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