eating makes me tired. still.

[taurushead]

GUYS ive had ENOUGH with the fatigue.
im eating well. im getting enough iron. im less tired than ever before but still completely wiped at ONE PARTICULAR TIME.
right after eating. even if its carbless. even if its small. it makes no difference.
any advice?? :stinkeye: :(

[Tweety]

Sorry, I haven't been following this board lately.

Have you been to the doctor? This could be a sign of something wrong with your adrenal glands, liver, digestive system, endrocrine system, etc. Maybe worth checking out.

Being "completely wiped out" must be a dreadful feeling. Good luck.

[MZCsmpsns]

I'd definitly talk to your doctor about this. I haven't heard of this happening to anybody (well, cept after they eat turkey...) It doesn't sound normal to me. Hopefully it's nothing major. Keep us updated! GL

[taurushead]

made an appointment. my doctor must hate me..., or love me coz of all the business lately!!
its just bad because its almost like 'oh i have to study today, i won't eat breakfast so that im alert' which is completely backwards!!! im not doing that, of course. its just so tempting!!
i figure its better to be exhausted than hungry i guess.

[queenfluff]

are you eating something that is really heavy and cooked with no raw foods?

The reason most people feel tired after a cooked meal is that your body is redirecting all its energy to digestion..and if what you eat is something that takes a long time to digest, you will feel tired. When there are no enzymes (cooking destroys them), your body will take more energy to digest and leave you feeling tired.

Raw foods still have their enzymes intact so the body can digest them easier.
Try having some meals that are lighter and with not so many cooked items - like some raw veggies with hummus or a huge salad and than see if that makes a difference in how you feel after you eat.

I know this works for me. My favorite is a veggie sandwich with fresh avocado, sprouts, tomato, cukes, lettuce..the only thing cooked is the bread. I always feel good after eating this. :)


queenfluff

(oh, for breakfast have only fruit...make your self a monster smoothie...this should NOT make you tired...)

[taurushead]

hmm. thanks for the good advice!! i don't eat many processed foods, don't really even like them, but i do occasionally just because i have a habit of falling into black and white thinking and i like to remind myself that i won't die if i eat something white or something from a supermarket. lol.
the fruit idea for breakfast is a must try. i normally have two pieces of this protein and fibre organic bread stuff because i thought thatd sustain me .
i eat a LOT of nuts. not that much fruit. a lot of veggies. pretty well in general.
but yup, ill give it a whirl.

[Gita]

Whether cooking destroys enzymes or not is debateable. It is not certain whether enzymes in food even get through the digestion process. Here is a second opinion. http://health.learninginfo.org/cooking.htm Raw fruits and vegetables and lighter food sounds like it would be good nevertheless. Good luck with your problem.

[Tweety]

Yep, the whole "enzyme" idea around eating raw foods and thier benefits is up to scientific testing and not established facts. However, for good fiber, phytonutrients, antioxidants, vitamin retention you can't go wrong with raw.

[elibrown]

Taurushead, lack of energy is something I've dealt with in myself for quite some time. I've noticed a direct relationship between the amount of raw food, of fruit, and of electrolytes I consume and the energy I have.

Like Queenfluff suggested, I eat only fruit for breakfast. For the longest time I guilted myself out of doing that because I was hellbent on having a perfectly balanced meal for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Plus, I was afraid that the acid from fruit hitting an empty stomach would make me queasy and the sugar from fruit on an empty stomach would make me dizzy when my blood sugar spiked. But like you, it was terrible to be exhausted right after breakfast. One day I didn't have time to make breakfast so I just grabbed a smoothie from Smoothie Factory because it was that or fast food. I felt SO GOOD all day! I tried that several more times and noticed that every single time I had a fruit smoothie for breakfast I felt amazingly light, refreshed, and energetic throughout the day. Now I never have anything BUT a smoothie for breakfast, or a grapefruit and some blueberries and strawberries with rice or soy milk if I'm somewhere without a blender. I even mix protein powder, flax oil, and some quinoa into my smoothie for more of a balance.

This is the most effective solution for no energy I have found, but eating lots of raw vegetables and whatnot helps immensely too. Even just the difference between fresh food and canned/packaged is large. I strongly dislike eating raw veggies, but have found that a few carrots or celery thrown in with my meal is helping a lot. I'm weaning.

One last thing: I've also noticed that upping my electrolytes will keep me bouncing off the walls. I figured that one out when I was in the ER for heat exhaustion and my sodium chloride IV made me feel like a whole new person. I'm still unclear as to what exactly you can consume food-wise to raise your electrolyte levels, but when I'm feeling especially dehydrated and dull and sluggish, I drink Pedialyte.

Hope this helps.

[raddish]

have you been to the doctors yet, taurus?? Let us know what happens. I'm especially interested because since I've started eating more i feel ILL. sooo tired and queasy. Even worse than when I wasn't eating properly :( I went to the docs about the tirednesss and they couldn't find anything, despite lots of blood tests etc.

[queenfluff]

Taurushead, lack of energy is something I've dealt with in myself for quite some time. I've noticed a direct relationship between the amount of raw food, of fruit, and of electrolytes I consume and the energy I have.

Like Queenfluff suggested, I eat only fruit for breakfast. For the longest time I guilted myself out of doing that because I was hellbent on having a perfectly balanced meal for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Plus, I was afraid that the acid from fruit hitting an empty stomach would make me queasy and the sugar from fruit on an empty stomach would make me dizzy when my blood sugar spiked. But like you, it was terrible to be exhausted right after breakfast. One day I didn't have time to make breakfast so I just grabbed a smoothie from Smoothie Factory because it was that or fast food. I felt SO GOOD all day! I tried that several more times and noticed that every single time I had a fruit smoothie for breakfast I felt amazingly light, refreshed, and energetic throughout the day. Now I never have anything BUT a smoothie for breakfast, or a grapefruit and some blueberries and strawberries with rice or soy milk if I'm somewhere without a blender. I even mix protein powder, flax oil, and some quinoa into my smoothie for more of a balance.

This is the most effective solution for no energy I have found, but eating lots of raw vegetables and whatnot helps immensely too. Even just the difference between fresh food and canned/packaged is large. I strongly dislike eating raw veggies, but have found that a few carrots or celery thrown in with my meal is helping a lot. I'm weaning.

One last thing: I've also noticed that upping my electrolytes will keep me bouncing off the walls. I figured that one out when I was in the ER for heat exhaustion and my sodium chloride IV made me feel like a whole new person. I'm still unclear as to what exactly you can consume food-wise to raise your electrolyte levels, but when I'm feeling especially dehydrated and dull and sluggish, I drink Pedialyte.

Hope this helps.

elibrown,

Coconut water apparently has the highest level of electrolytes (got this info from a famous raw foodist Aris Latham in Jamaica). Apparently, foods that grow high in trees thereby closer to the sun have the higher level of electrolytes. When I have coconut water, it always perks me up and it is tasty and very light.

If you don't want to keep buying young coconuts and opening them (which is hard!), you can buy those little box drink ones. I know Whole foods carries them called Vita-Coco. I buy that and either drink by itself or put in smoothies.

queenfluff

[Flexi]

It's really good to find out I'm not the only one who feels sleepy after eating! (Sorry, that sounds like I'm glad you feel rotten but I don't mean it like that!)

I've got hypothyroidism (an underactive thyroid) and I think this is what's causing my problem.

It makes me dislike going out for meals! If I do go out to celebrate a special occasion I have to ensure that the meal is the last thing we do; I couldn't even contemplate going on somewhere (cinema, for example) because all I want to do is sleep!

I'm going to put coconut water on my shopping list - I wonder if I could carry it around in a hip flask?! (That would give the people in school something to talk about!)

[dolores]

Hi!

Greenfluff is right with the fruits for breakfast. I had that also, commonly we call it the "eating coma" as a lot of people are tired after a meal where carbs, fat and proteins are mixed.

So first i changed breakfast into juices and fruits (best is a fresh squeezed lemon in water and to eat melons- those clean you very well- imagine the word "break-fast" is a "break" of the "fast"ing which automatically happens when you are sleeping. And fasting cleans you, and with a fruitbreakfast, you help your body going on cleansing)

Then middays now i eat salads or vegetables, before i was totally on raw ( i am a slow changer ;-) ) and in the evenings- before that change everything vegan i wanted to, now also vegetables or salads, and if i want something like the flips in front of TV i am now on nuts. Okay, and olives, i am totally addicted to olives, but that i was ever. ;)

Nevertheless check out at the doctor your hormonic balance- or when you have recently changed from omnivore to vegan, it also is possible that a kind of cleansing takes place, as your body gets rid of old animals proteins stuff which gets solved out of your body, what strapaces your liver. There would help the juice of artichokes and warm bandage round your belly in the midday time.

A good help and information you can find in the sun-diet book from David Wolfe or in books of Norman Walker and Arnold Ehret. Some of it you may find online, but as a newbie at the moment i cannot link URLs, sorry.


good health and best wishes for it,

love, dolores

p.s. regard that i am not a studied doctor, only alternative healer so check first a real diagnosis by a doctor.

[taurushead]

wow. thanks. im gonna do the fruit for breakfast and look into all that other stuff too!