As I’ve written recently, I’ve transitioned to a mostly vegan and organic diet over the past few months. A little meat and dairy thrown in here and there, but when I do, I try to stick with sustainably raised meats and organic cheeses (no milk). If you’ve followed my blog for a while, you know I’m always experimenting with diet. I’ve done vegetarian in the past, a few months raw vegan, I’ve water fasted, and so on. And it seems that I’ve always noticed that when I eat healthier, I have less hunger pangs (pains?). But just this weekend I think I’ve figured out why.<\/p>\n
In the past I had always attributed decreased hunger with lower meat intake, thinking that the more I ate meat the more I craved it. But now I’m wondering if it has nothing to do with the type of foods I’m eating, but rather the quality. As an example, for the past several days (on top of two months of mostly vegan) I ate pretty much perfectly, no refined sugars, no meat, no dairy, just some homemade vegan meals made of all whole organic foods. And I realized that I had absolutely no food cravings at all, no hunger, no pain. Don’t misunderstand, I still get hungry and have urges to eat when it comes time, but I don’t have those insane hunger pangs and cravings. In fact, it’s been a while since I’ve felt like I was starving<\/i>, when in the past I would get this feeling almost daily.<\/p>\n
My thoughts are that maybe hunger pangs are not caused by withdrawal from food in general, but perhaps by withdrawal from the crap that is in<\/b> food. When I eat SAD (standard American diet) food, I pretty much get feelings of hunger again within 3-5 hours after eating. And that SAD food is most certainly filled with processed and refined sugars and fillers, as well as some combination of artificial chemicals, preservatives, hormones, and antibiotics.<\/p>\n
Now that I think about it, it seems so obvious. Put synthetic chemicals into your body, and after several hours your body will ask for them again. I’ve always wondered why humans need to eat 3 meals per day, obviously this can’t be as nature intended it. But I always just chalked the need to eat every few hours up to some sort of social training, but now I think that it’s this combined with the poor quality of food which most people eat. Not to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but it seems that there is something addictive about commercial food, it’s almost like when eating SAD food, we’re eating drugs. Whether this is intentional by big food companies to keep a loyal following, or whether it’s simply a byproduct of such crappy “ingredients” and modern food, I won’t speculate. But I can say for certain that as you increase the quality of food that you eat, whether or not you go raw, vegan, vegetarian, sustainable, free range or whatever you do, you will notice less cravings for food, and will enjoy it more when you do have it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As I’ve written recently, I’ve transitioned to a mostly vegan and organic diet over the past few months. A little meat and dairy thrown in here and there, but when I do, I try to stick with sustainably raised meats and organic cheeses (no milk). If you’ve followed my blog for a while, you know I’m always experimenting with diet. I’ve done vegetarian in the past, a few months raw vegan, I’ve water fasted, and so on. And it seems that I’ve always noticed that when I eat healthier, I have less hunger pangs (pains?). But just this weekend I think I’ve figured out why.<\/p>\n
In the past I had always attributed decreased hunger with lower meat intake, thinking that the more I ate meat the more I craved it. But now I’m wondering if it has nothing to do with the type of foods I’m eating, but rather the quality. […]<\/p>\n