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I'm asking your opinions, but that doesn't mean I ever just rely on other people's opinions to make my decisions or gauge my own health. Yhis was meant to be a discussion, was curious to see if other people have tried it and things like that. Not everyone has access to perfect optimal food all the time, whatever that means, and just because something is though to be in alignment with "paleo" doesn't mean that it's a healthy food for everyone. When I eat fresh ripe organic fruit, for example, I feel very bad these days. I'm intolerant to nuts snd seeds. Everyyyyything irritates my digestion these days. I've been raw for 8 years now, only in the past two years did I start even TRYING more processed "raw" and "paleo" foods. Otherwise I ate only whole fresh foods and my health was even worse than it is now, so idk I haven't found the sweet spot for how to eat best for me personally, so I'm experimenting. Please be respectful of that, as I am respectful of any questions you may have or decisions you make.  Thank you for any input!

If anything, it's probably worse than lightly cooked food. That's just a guess.

Really? Can you elaborate on this? They have a frozen variety as well but I'd need a place to store it

Well I tried juicing the coconut meat from mature brown coconut (2 of them) and made a fairly decent yield of coconut cream that tasted good. An interesting note is that everywhere I had read info on making the cream or milk from coconut, there was always warnings about possible spoilage, mold growth, etc. with detailed descriptions of what to look out for.

I ignored it mostly because I thought it was like any other vegetable or fruit, if it smells bad or looks rotten, it probably is.

Anyways I discovered a bad coconut that wasn't too spoiled. It had slightly yellow meat(on the underside) and the water was murky. The water tasted ok... I made cream from this meat(before I realized it wasn't a good coconut) mixed with the meat from a fresh coconut. Moral of this story: Look out for spoilage from coconuts, even on the underside of the meat where it touches the husk before you pry it off.

What happened when you ate the moldy coconut cream? This afternoon I opened a mature coconut and the water tasted bad. I tried a chunk of the meat and it was soft and easy to chew but definitely tasted like mold but not necessarily BAD flavor? For some dumb reason. Because it was soft I was like well maybe it will digest better. As if mold would help ones digestion lol. I can be so dumb sometimes.  I blended the meat with water, pomegranates, and a handful of berries like berries and cream. Anyway just curious how this might effect me. And how it affected you?

Ohhh Joy2012, what is your sauce recipe!? I want to tryyyy

So I've been raw for 8 years. When I first started incorporating animal foods I tried raw seafood, eggs, and dairy...narrowing it down to mostly seafood. However, a few months ago I started craving red meat and tried ground wild venison, then local raw grass fed beef. At first I didn't like it. Then suddenly I started craving it. Now I've been wanting it daily. I don't eat it every day but I crave it. I can eat a pound at a time. Why is this? Too much meat? I can get raw freeze dried human grade dog food made with grass fed beef and wild salmon that incorporates all the organs to balance out the amino acids.
Since incorporating fruit back into my diet I'm hungrier, more bloated, more food-oriented, and more prone to binge. The meat seems to balance the sugar and stabilize my brain more than fats like avocado, which in combination with fruit just makes my blood feel sticky.

Anyway is there a reason I'd get addicted to meat? I'm eating only local grass fed or wild. I literLly love meat and crave it but idk if it's doing me well or not. For example I also love figs and will eat and eat them, but figs do NOT like me.

I've not found it very appealing or palatable. It looks pretty but it's hard to chew and the scales or something about it makes my lips itchy, it seems. I usually eat the salmon then feed the skin to the pups. They lovve it.

Van,
I def hear you and agree with much of what you are saying. My reason for fasting is not to force my body to do anything unhealthy for it, but rather to regain clarity and function...to direct ease inflammation so that it can have some space to heal and rebalance a bit. I'm not really having diluted fruit juice, I plan on water and one glass of diluted vegetable juice (celery juice is very delicious and soothing to me). I really enjoy periodic fasting as a way to rebalance and refocus on all levels. This month binge was a major reminder that I do not want to live this way or focus on eating and spend all my money on food again ever. And after a fast I tend to be all the more careful and aware of this. My poor body has endured a lot and I'm only 23. It's sad but I have to work with what I have. It's challenging for me to process food in any amount. Sugars and fats tend to be most difficult for me. Sometimes I walk in to the store and want to give up because idk what to eat or buy. I've thought of myself as an intuitive eater when I'm not in full on binge mode (but even then actually), but sometimes I really just can't decide what to eat because Nothing seens to effect me well. Ah well! Anyway right now no food actually REALLY appeals to me at all and I have zero hunger. My glycogen stores feel overfull, I'm 10 lbs over my usual weight, I have flu like symptoms, I'm bloated, exhausted, antisocial, puffy, etc. Hence, a little fast will do me well and help me regain balance.

The foods you mentioned are all processed foods. Paleolithic people wouldn't eat almonds that have been stored for months (so are available year-found), coconut butter that has been separated from the coconut meat, blended foods like macaroons and date-coconut balls, etc. Pretend you are a hunter-gatherer. Eat that way.

Exactly lol, what I was saying is I DONT eat those things! The only time I have was at one point when I slipped into a binge

Thanks everyone!
I actually don't so much have an actual eating disorder, but rather am still suffering the negative health effects of having been raw vegan for 7 years (esp the last few years of that which were fruitarian....lead to blood sugar issues and bingeing) as well as the intense physical stresses/illnesses my body has gone through since I was about 12. So force feeding, over feeding, sugar and fat roller coaster, and the way sugar now effects my sociability/mental health and causes inflammation. I also have really bad IBS (whatever that really means) which lands me in the hospital every so often.  When I overeat OR eat normal amounts but eat foods that i have sensitivities/intolerances to my gut (and also my body overall) becomes severely inflamed, often for days. Yet the blood sugar waves leave me so allll I'm thinking about is food and because it's very hard to communicate or feel normal and able to be social at all anyway (or focus on anything), I end up eating and eating. It is only once I'm  physiologically effected this way that I ever fall into bingeing.  But at one point the bingeing lasted. For months daily . Once I fasted for several days, and my inflammation went down and my brain felt like it worked again, I had zero urge to binge. That's what I'm looking to achieve with this fast, a reset to nip the bingeing cycle in the bud. It seems to be the only thing that brings down the physiological symptoms so I can function again and get back into a flow.  Ketogenic is very hard for me because I'm a mixed type  metabolically. I have a very small frame and naturally high metabolism even tho I'm quite out of shape right now. Too much meat or fat and I feel very clogged and heavy. I've felt best on a diet of fresh pressed (no fruit) green-lemon juices, seafood, seaweeds, acai and raw olives for fats (I guess I do better with monounsaturated fats?), cultured vegetables, and occasional raw vegetables and non sweet fruits if I can take food enzymes with them. Add in some occasional red meat and veryyyyyy occasional avocado and coconut I guess. It's a very hard diet for me to afford, maintain, and ensure getting enough variety/calories with. I also so better the less fiber I eat and the more liquids. I also make sure to get natural salts when I crave /need them.  If anyone has other good recommendations for keeping it low glycemic let me know. Once I hit those fruits it's a roller coaster.

Eveheart,
Thank you love! Such good points . I've been raw for 8+ years so I actually don't even know how to eat "normal" foods anymore. I binge on raw foods, lately to the point of it being quite scary. I usually don't eat really anything processed, raw or not, but when in binge mode as I've been all month since I ate some almonds (I'm allergic/intolerant), I will sometimes eat more processed raw foods if they are around out of "desperation" (like coconut oil, coconut butter, raw macaroons, date-coconut balls, etc). I've gained 10 lbs of fat this month, it's a very high weight for me. but the part that actually bothers me is that I FEEL intensely swollen, achey, and fly like every day. Fasting really helps calm my inflammation but I know it can lead to bingeing again.