Why eat raw food?

I have been experimenting with raw food last days/weeks. I haven't turn completely raw and quite frankly I don't see that happening any soon. Because I like cooked food to much but I think it will good for me to eat as much raw food as I can. So far the longest I have been 100% raw is three days. Those three days I felt terrific. The horrible pain that is giving me hard time, completely went away. However after I swam in the land of sugar and wheat, the pain came back. Ever since that happened I have been trying to eat as much raw food as possible. I wish I had the determination to go 100% raw. Sadly I don't have it but instead of crying over it, I try my best. My best in the raw food world is always getting better and I hope one day I will be able to eat at least 90% raw food. 

I have been doing some reading about possible benefits of eating raw

• people tend to feel better 
• weight loss (aren't we always trying to loose some extra pounds)
• reduced arthritis pain and muscle pain
• eating raw means no cholesterol or trans-fats   

Feeling fatigued on raw diet

So I ate raw food for three days and felt terrific. My only complain was that I felt very fatigued those days. So when I woke up on the third day, still felling fatigued. I decided that I would eat cooked food that day.  Turned out that was a good decision, I felt great that day. I even manged to get back on track with my exercises. However I didn't do as well yesterday. My husband made pizza and I couldn't resist so I had two slices. Then today I had cookie, cake and three bites of quality chocolate. 

 

I tend to this, eat nothing but spinach and coconut water for days and then eat all the cakes and chocolate that I can get my hands on. Worst of all was that after I ate the cakes and chocolate the pain came back. I'm a little bit mad at myself now. Specially since this weekend is packed with events containing unhealthy food. There's birthday dinner at Friday night, wedding on Saturday and brunch on Sunday. 

Well at least I know that I should stay away from

sugar

and wheat

Going raw

I decided to try the raw diet. My pain is going worse by every day and I need to do something to ease the pain. I have been reading on the internet, raw success stories, e.g. people with arthritis that went on raw food diet and got better. In the beginning I will try to be 100% raw but I don't think it is going to be possible to 100% raw there. It's just so cold there and the selection of fruits and vegetables aren't great.

I have been doing a lot of reading about healing arthritis with food. I gain a little bit more knowledge about what is wise to do when you have arthritis. However I'm also getting confused there is so much information out there. Some of the information contradict other information. So the more I read, the more I get confused.

Raw diet, juicing and fasting are however things that I think could be benefical.

• I don't have a juicer right now but I will have one after three weeks
• Today was my first day on 100% raw diet
• I'm planing to fast (with juices) this week