Raw Vegans In College

Raw Food Meals: 2-3 or 4-6?

Man, have I been busy!  I just started my final year at college a few weeks ago and I cannot believe the amount of work I have.

This semester is seriously the largest workload I have ever had during my time at school.  It’s been pretty hard to keep up with everything.

In order to help myself adjust to all the extra work and my wonky school schedule, I was forced to change my eating pattern.  For the first week of school, I ate 4-6 meals a day instead of the usual 2-3.

Essentially, I became a grazer for a week.  And by the end of this week, I could not wait to get my schedule straightened out and start eating normally again!

Why Grazing Sucks

Do you wanna know what I hate more than anything?

Constant Hunger.

I will do anything and everything to avoid constant hunger.  I cannot stand it.  It is just so hard to focus on the tasks that I need to do and be productive when all I can think about is food.
Well, this is what I got when I became a grazer for a week.  I was constantly hungry.  I honestly could not focus on anything because I kept thinking about my next meal!

I would literally finish a meal at 9am and be wandering back into the kitchen by 11!

Maybe you’re used to that kind of timing, but for me it is so annoying!  When I am working or doing whatever, I want to be focused on that specific task.  I do not want to be thinking about food every two hours.

That was my life when I ate cooked food and I definitely do not want to go back down that road!

I much prefer 2-3 meals a day.  When I eat this way, the gap between meal times is between four and five hours instead of the measly two.

This way, I can be totally into my food when I am eating and then totally engrossed in other tasks when I am not.

Hooray productivity!

Tiny Portions

Grazing all day means smaller portions.  Sure, you get to eat more often, but as I said above, that is not a plus for me.

One of the reasons I am so fond of the low fat raw vegan diet is because I get to eat massive amounts of food in one meal.  There is truly nothing more satisfying than eating two pounds of grapes in one sitting without an ounce of guilt.

It is nourishment AND an ego boost, all in one!

You don’t get that when everything is split up into small meals.  Sure, you are still eating the same amount of food overtime, but it just isn’t the same.

I need that ego boost!

Grapes…Again?

I finally get it.  I finally understand why so many people complain about the raw food diet being boring.  I completely get why people end up returning to cooked food for lack of “variety.”

When I was eating lots of small meals throughout the day, fruit seemed totally boring and even bland at times.

I can’t believe I’m actually saying writing this, but it’s true!  I honestly did not enjoy eating bananas for three meals in a row.  I wanted other fruit, particularly fruit that had gone out of season (like mangoes and peaches).

And even after eating all those bananas, I still had an appetite.  I just wanted something different.

Maybe even, dare I say, something stimulating?  Something…cooked?!

That is why I much prefer fewer, larger meals throughout the day.  This way, all of my bananas (or whatever the fruit is)  for the day are in one or two meals.  My food never seems boring and so I feel totally satisfied with what I’m eating.

Serenity Now!

So I’ve finally returned to my old eating ways and it feels great.  I am no longer constantly hunger, I feel totally accomplished after polishing off a meal, and I am completely satisfied after all of my fun mono-fruit meals.

Peace at last.

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