Re: I am eating myself sick, and I want to stop!

It's the body's natural reaction to overeat after fasting. I've read about it in some sections of fasting books. Even after 2 days of fasting I'll overeat like crazy all week.

Please don't worry yourself too much about it. One can't just not eat for a few days and then expect his or her appetite to be the same as if they had eaten normally.

I've also seen studies on weight loss programs. The vast majority of the time, if the subjects are consuming limited calories, then when the "diet" is over, they unanimously start downing tons of calories.

Like I don't know if I remember this exactly, but I recall a study where some obese men were on a 1500 calorie diet for a few weeks. After the diet they ate like 8000 calories a day on average and gained all the weight back plus 5 pounds.

That's pretty much what you hear about weight loss many times. I think it's just the bodies natural reaction to being deprived of food. It's your body reacting to the fast, don't beat yourself up about it. It's a survival mechanism.

If I can offer some advice, go easy on fiber if possible. Trust me you will feel way better. I know the raw diet is a ubiquitous rule here, but that raw food make a person miserable at times. It seems like especially so with avocados, nuts, bananas and dried fruit. But that's a huge part of a raw food diet. We don't have the same digestive processes as herbivores to break down mass amounts of plants so it's totally understandable that a person will feel like hell after eating like 50 grams of fiber.

Are you able to make juices? I would seriously recommend that and sticking to simple salads as much as possible. Personally, nuts (being the worst!), avocado, banana's and dried fruit rarely leave me feeling well after eating them. If I were dealing with the cravings, I would try and get concentrated, easy to digest calories to satisfy my body as much as possible without overloading my stomach with tons of crazy different raw foods and feeling like I'm carrying around pounds of fiber in me all day. Fiber swells up in your stomach, passes through you undigested, and stretches out your insides, so that might explain a lot of the initial discomfort. Tweet