How to begin gradually with mostly vegetables, some fish, which vegetables

[huntress]

Hi!  I'm a female living in New York City, new to this forum/lifestyle, though I've been raw vegan, with some raw fish, for a few months now and always had an inexplicable craving for raw meat, particularly red meat.  As happens with many on 100% raw vegan diets, I broke out with a bit of acne, especially when I was still combining fruit carbs with healthy fats like olive oil or sashimi in the same meal.  Now, I am excited to start this lifestyle, but I want to begin gradually so as not to shock my system.  I thought I would start by depending on some raw vegetable with some sashimi at night, then order some fresh grassfed bison meat and suet in smaller amounts, increasing the portions gradually.  The problem is, I was trying to approach this with a macrobiotic sensibility, and according to that, I shouldn't eat too much cucumber all the time.  I'm afraid I might be too  sensitive to a lot of raw carrots or dark greens, so I was thinking maybe yellow squash (which is in season right now) or celery, with tuna sashimi.  Or maybe I should forget the macrobiotic idea in relation to cucumber and just use that quite a bit in the beginning, as it is supposed to be so good for the skin.

Any suggestions or thoughts?

Thanks!

[KD]

It sounds like your plan is fine. Actual vegetable matter is not going to fill you up much in terms energy, so that might be one issue having only 1 meat/fish meal without much fat otherwise, but other than that.

I don't know about cucumber burnout, but I don't think most people combine much fibrous raw veg with meat meals, and there is some theories behind it but ultimately its something you have to figure out yourself. generally herbs and other similar type veggies would be best for digestion, with veg-fruits like tomatoes and avocado combining fairly well with fish. Most of the dark crucivores are not healthy for anyone to eat raw IMO. For many, getting a quality raw animal fat will be essential, others claim to do fine with greater quantities of raw fruit and lean meats or fish, eaten separately.

Generally WF has quality unfrozen bison, and the Union Square market has at least one supplier of quality never frozen grass-finished beef. FWIW I think suet from Northstar Bison is better than any beef-suet I've tried. Happy Experimenting.

[TylerDurden]

Yes, KD is right - avoid combining raw plant foods and raw animal foods at the same meal  -always keep c.30 minutes or more between such different kinds of foods, for a number of reasons.

Also:- some long-term raw vegans tend to experience  unpleasant side-effects with animal foods, raw or otherwise - adapting to raw plant foods solely, means one is less able to adapt to digesting raw animal foods properly over time, re different enzymes/digestive-acids - so that, one needs time to adapt to raw animal foods in the long-term.

[huntress]

Thanks for the helpful advice!  I had actually looked at Northstar Bison and heard that a lot of people add suet to their diets very successfully, so I will definitely give that a try.  And, I will be careful to adapt slowly and not add any vegetables to my fish/meat meals.  Thanks again!