Lifting Weights

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Permalink Reply by Lockheart on July 15, 2009 at 9:40am

Oh yeah, that's a high fruit version of the raw diet right? I think I may be following that already not really sure. I'll look into it, thanks.

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Permalink Reply by Bill Thrasher on July 15, 2009 at 3:18pm

From my experience I'd say you are losing muscle and strength, you will not gain any of it back. Over and over I kept thinking that I could not lose any more weight, it would stablize... then all of a sudden my pants won't stay up. This has gone on for 5 or 6 years. Now I look anorexic, have no strength, of course no girl friend. My advice to you is to stop the carnage to your body right now, eat whatever you have to, save your muscle mass. Or you might end up like me, skinny, weak, alone...but I do have time to work out....which produces nothing. Don't let these people talk you into ruining your body.

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Permalink Reply by Ryan V. on July 15, 2009 at 5:03pm

I lost muscle cuz I didn't know what I was doing. I have it all back and more . . .

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Permalink Reply by Justin on July 15, 2009 at 4:45pm

I like to take maca, and hemp protein powder as well as avocados, coconut meat, bee pollen, and sun warrior protein has been working great for me. I workout and lift weights 6 days a week and have been lifting the most I have ever been able to recently. Hope that helps. :)

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Permalink Reply by Ryan V. on July 15, 2009 at 5:06pm

I found grape juice and bananas were great preworkout. You want fruits that are high glucose / fructose as they don't have to be broken down and can turn directly into energy. Otherwise, most fruit juices are good. If you are not getting enough calories, try spreading the meals out a bit. You're not going to get 13 bananas in your stomach in one meal.

If you are still transitioning and adjusting, you might either want to go back to where you're comfortable (i.e. a little cooked) or wait until you are stable on raw . . . hard enough to adjust to raw without adding other stress . . .

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Permalink Reply by Lockheart on July 15, 2009 at 11:05pm

Cool thanks for the advice. I guess I'll just have shovel more food in..lol. I'm actually quite comfortable with this already. I guess my body is still busy cleaning up. I think I'll just start working on getting more calories in instead of lifting, and once I accomplish that I'll go back to lifting.

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Permalink Reply by Denise Riley on July 16, 2009 at 12:16am

Check out Tony Horton, he has a raw chef and works out tremendously. This might be the motivation you need.

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Permalink Reply by Josh Fossgreen on July 16, 2009 at 6:34pm

"You're not going to get 13 bananas in your stomach in one meal."

Not necessarily true :).

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Permalink Reply by Ryan V. on July 16, 2009 at 8:30pm

You can? How long have you been raw?

My experience is that it takes some time for someone's stomach to stretch to that proportion . . .

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Permalink Reply by Lockheart on July 16, 2009 at 9:13pm

I've only been raw for about 12 days. I feel completely normal now, it didn't take long at all. I don't feel as if I'm detoxing in any way, I feel amazing. I can't help but smile half the time... it's a great feeling.

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Permalink Reply by Lockheart on July 16, 2009 at 11:08pm

I just realized you weren't talking to me...lol. I was on a cacao smoothie buzz when I wrote that stuff.

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Permalink Reply by Eduardo Corassa on July 18, 2009 at 5:53pm

I can get up to 24 in a meal, and sometimes go through a kg of lettuce :P as my dinner meal.

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