Today's post is about gaining
weight on the raw foods diet.
I have an issue losing weight and I am afraid to gain more
weight on my raw food diet that I am trying out.
Not exact matches
Although humans have been eating
raw foods since they first began foraging for their sustenance, the
diet really began to catch
on in recent years when some high - profile celebrities began touting its health - and
weight - maintenance benefits
And you'd think they were right since dieting includes an enormous list of things to do like counting daily calories, lowering carb intake, avoiding white wheat, reducing fat intake, drinking lemon juice in the morning, writing in a nutrition diary about everything you've eaten that day, eating more vegetables, drinking a lot of water, slowly chewing your
food, taking fat burner supplements, eating lots of bacon if you're
on a Keto
diet (come to think of it, that's not that bad), trying all sorts of natural
weight - loss
foods, sometimes even eating
raw foods and the list goes
on and
on.
Before I experienced
weight loss
on a
raw food diet, to which I switched in 2009, I used to be either
on the chubby side or I would go the other way and be way too thin.
I've been
on the anti candida
diet but it's so effing restricting and I DO feel better from eating non starchy / glutinous
foods FOR OBVIOUS REASONS THOUGH (because they're gross;)-RRB-, and eggs and sheep / goat dairy with live bacteria etc doesn't make me feel bad or gain
weight (and actually makes me feel better when my adrenals get messed up from all
rawing - I have low b12 and supplements don't seem to do anything but dairy seems to work though I'd prefer to be vegan) AND BUT I REALLY REALLY LOVE AND PREFER AND MISS THOSE GREEN SMOOTHIES OMG Especially because I like to exercise WHEN I CAN / when i'm physically able to, and when you recover from green smoothies and it's so clean and gorgeous and magical feeling... and then you try to recover
on standard
foods....
For
weight loss, we prefer to focus
on detoxification (link) and a more sustainable regular nutritious
diet such as
raw food with daily intermittent fasting.
It will appeal to anyone who wants to learn more about the
raw food diet or get a kick - start
on a healthy lifestyle
weight loss program.
If you're a female who was eating 2,000 calories
on your previous
diet to maintain your
weight and activity levels, you'll need to be eating the same amount of calories
on a
raw food plan.
Danielle in her book «Have your cake and eat it too» went
raw vegetarian before she ate heaps and lost the
weight but she doesn't mention it as a factor probably because she wasn't healthy
on the rabbit
food diet.
I watched him blossom
on the
raw food diet, gaining healthy muscle mass
weight but not becoming fat, developing a beautiful coat and clearing many of his chronic health problems without the need of conventional drugs.