Nothing like fully raw 🌿 · The 80/10/10 Community

Nothing like fully raw 🌿

Hey everybody,

Right before, I opened an email from Dr Graham about cooked food. You probably also received it. It is a live also a live announcement for tonight.

I don’t know what Dr Graham is going to exactly discuss, but I wanted to share my personal experience too. Because although to me, eating a raw vegan changed my life, giving myself a vitality I didn’t even know I could experiment. I never had experienced this high raw formula that many people do, so in a way maybe I couldn’t know about this exact formula.

I had had talks with different people telling me, that they preferred it this way. For sustainability reasons, comfort ones, budget or taste ones.

I never tried taking this path back, because to me it was clear, I had finally found what was permitting me to digest food, heal my women period troubles, like heavy heavy pain, despair mood to euphoria and more heavily, get my vitality back. Sport was even more fun, I felt even more connected to nature, more connected to myself, people and the world etc

But, different things happened to me since summer 2024. I lived an important trauma, lived panick for months with all the symptoms that its include like insomnia etc, pushed myself to my extreme limits till burning out, but I won’t developed it, since I did different posts about those things. But yeah, to sum up I was living on a survival mode. And I was carrying a lot of things from the past, that I had never felt having the time to completely integrate.

This impacted my state a lot. There are different posts about it. But what I want to share with you, is the changes I felt, when I began including some cooked food, since I couldn’t afford fully raw anymore, for my actual big appetite and little government help, while recovering.

I tried to be as positive as I could about this change. I had the « chance » to have some people reassuring me about this. Because to me, it definitely felt despairing, scary and sort of like a step backwards.

I say the chance, because, even though, I have more than the proof now, that cooked food is definitely not for me, even « just some potatoes ». It was so much of a difficult time at this period, on every aspect and even more financially, not knowing how I would live, that even thought those people were people that or didn’t know about raw food effects or even more importantly didn’t know about how it could affect my body, at least I had to eat and I would keep going.

It’s been now 3 months, that I am eating from 1/4 to 1/2 of my calories from potatoes. The rest being mostly bananas, lettuce and some oranges, apple, dates, some mangos from time to time and little amounts of avocado/seeds.

I definitely noticed changes. Even « just being potatoes ». At first, I just noticed the more complicated digestion, heavier feeling, more fatigue and impression of infected mouth, like not as fresh.

But then after some weeks, I noticed really rapid weight gain. I had gain a lot of weight since the beginning of the burnout, but it seemed like, even eating a lot, I was not gaining more. But eating cooked food, I not only had to eat even more calories, but I gained even more weight, including water weight. I have a lot of cellulitis. (Maybe u should precise that it’s been close to a year that I barely can’t move, max 3km walk in total per day) but before the potatoes, I didn’t have all this cellulitis. But I had it younger, when eating other diets than raw, with raw I only had it a bit. (I always had it a bit, even skinny and athletic.)

March had also been a difficult month, I got sensitive to cold multiple times. I had to rest even more and felt extremely tired. It’s been multiple weeks, that I couldn’t walk my 2-3km. Even though it is so little, I was happy doing my little steps here and also it was way more easy for day to day tasks.

I also have the impression that my skin in my face is thicker. Probably water retention but yeah, it is not cool.

I feel congestion, I don’t know how to explain it, but since the beginning of eating potatoes, I have the impression that there is something blocking the circulation in my body, sticking. I feel less me. Even thought I feel more me, for many things happening now, like affirming myself more and feeling like yes I know even more what feels good to me etc, I have the impression that food impedes my full sensitivity. I know that I am working on my limits, recognizing and expressing them, but I also have the impression that I feel more anger.

This congestion feeling has other effects on my body, like having more articulation pain and being less flexible. I do some felixibility exercise everyday and that felt like a tremendous change.

There are multiple things, that are not linked to potatoes, I mean the symptômes of burnout, that for me even though, being mostly extreme fatigue and chronic stress, but I saw the difference with potatoes and just potatoes.

So definitely, to me raw and high raw, are very different. For sure, potatoes are more digestible, than different things I tried in my life, before eating fully raw, but they have nothing to do with fruits. To me, they are definitely not supporting health. I am looking forward to be able to eat fully raw again.

+ I don’t enjoy the taste of just potatoes, for a moment I ate it with lemon juice, but it went bad on my teeth, so just just potatoes, really not my cup of oj’ haha.

No it is weird because, although I feel grateful to have food to eat, that is still not the worst, that I can still have a lot of fruits, lettuce and est plant based in a simple way, i feel how, not so good it is and this makes me a little sad.

But Fe! I want to keep going forward, doing what I can and being faithful about my situation changing.

I just wanted to share, that definitely, if you are navigating between both, not being sure about what is the best, raw is!

Good thoughts and prayers are also welcome! Let’s move forward, one day I would like to organize a raw vegan retreat in Switzerland alps, skiing in the winter and all the hiking etc in the summer with delicious local apricots, strawberries, raspberries, cherries and maybe lettuce form my own garden!

Take care 🤎

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