100 % Raw. Day 8. How to keep the weight ?

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Comment by Sarah on May 19, 2009 at 7:56am

Thanks everyone :) I seem to always crave fruit, i could drink smoothies all day i know that. But then i crave the fats, but is that because of lack of calories before... I will eat more fruit for the next week and see if it helps.
Day 9, feeling fine !! x

Comment by crestfallen on May 18, 2009 at 5:53pm

80-10-10 is good especially if I am very active. But if I'm sitting around the house, I feel all that fruit sugar is rotting my innards and my brain. If I eat that much fruit, I need to stay moving. There are times when less fruit sugar is appropriate. If I try to adhere to one theory or plan, that's when I fail.

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Comment by Peter Berquist on May 18, 2009 at 5:13pm

The first two times I tried 100% raw I failed miserably, and went back to a cooked diet. Now I realize the reason for failures: not getting enough calories, in other words, undereating.
Finally, this time I've been successful for four months now, and feel great. The secret for me has been following Dr. Graham's 80/10/10 approach. Having the great majority of calories from fresh, tasty sweet fruit has finally resulted in success.
The body needs fuel to burn, and the most efficient way to provide that fuel is from fruit. And if you keep the fat intake down to a minimum, along with sufficient greens and non-sweet fruits like tomatoes, then you are giving the body what it needs in the cleanest and healthiest way.
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Comment by crestfallen on May 18, 2009 at 3:41pm

I think it's best for me not to think of my weight as a criterion for my success. I get a bit lighter while raw but feel great most of the time. When I'm more athletic I get a bit heavier. I really believe that being light is a key to longevity and health. Hemp is probably a good choice. Sometimes I eat more fats, sometimes I do well for a few days on low fat. Sometimes I eat just grapefruit for a day. But regardless being raw at first is a long experiment. Just work with the ups/downs. Eat raw vegan, work out, sleep a lot. The human body is incredibly tough and adaptive. I believe everything we need is in the gorgeous plant world. Eat what seems right...don't get caught up in gurus. I feel that people who superimpose theories and pseudo-science onto raw vegetable living do us a disservice. It's very personal. Just remember your mind is stronger than the little energetic subtleties of the foods that you eat. Focus on the mind, stay raw vegan whenever you can....your weight will eventually settle in a nice spot. And be free of the theorists and gurus!!! good luck!!

Comment by jodykwik on May 18, 2009 at 12:46pm

I can relate to the up and down-ness of early 100%...it surprised me actually, since i'd been transitioning in for a couple of years and had been 90% or closer the last year of it...but i think i began this type of emotional detox upon 100% that i hadn't gotten close to previously and it was all around becoming cognizant of how i lived with and spent my own energy in my day to day life. a huge eye-opener!!...8^))...and i had jags of being near exhausted at the end of the day. but i always knew, or felt anyway, that it was a totally necessary thing. very organic...

and yeah, the healthy fats will keep weight on...but it's my feeling that our bodies go through this detox and rebuilding that's beyond what we think about how we're built...there are cellular structures that just begin reorganizing in ways they know how but we can't intellectually conceive of yet from the place we stand...so it might be that you lose some weight that you don't think you have it to lose...but it will be rebuilt more as muscular tissue since it sounds like you're active and athletic with things.

all best Sarah Hook!