The raw food diet

 I'm super curious !  Has  anyone ever TRIED this ?   ( I think  my heroine Ms Lee may have .. ) 

I have a friend from a million years ago  who was kind of a mentor when I started modeling ..  and  shes  now like  well ... OLD .   But she doesn't LOOK  it ..  and she SWEARS its due to her rawfood  diet shes  eaten for the last  seven years .  

Grrlfriend  looks  well..  THIN and  FABULOUS ....  and about twenty - five  ( and shes EASILY  twice that  ) .. so shes doing SOMETHING  right ....

could it really be the FOOD ?   what does it TASTE like ?  she says  it tastes GREAT ...  then again Ive heard that about sushi many times too... lol

I bet you could do it with your garden for fresh veggies and berries, and protein shakes. Who needs bread anyway?
 
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Oh Ava, you like so many different foods and love your veggies, I bet you would like it.  I don't know much about it but my sister is doing "vegan before 6pm" and is eating lots of salads, beans, etc.  She has lost about 35 lbs and loves how she is eating.  I loved her salads, mostly with just olive oil and vinager but am afraid of the fruid and breads (whole grains).

I love the new avatar Price!!!

 well she invited me to this vegan raw food feastie thingie   and SWEARS  its the best food    Ive EvER   tasted  (  HMMM) .....


I HATE SUSHI   (  did I mention that  ?)   if I was shipwrecked on a RAFT  in the middle ofthe OCEAN id DIE   rather than bite into RAW FISH    and I mean that LITERALLY  ......


the idea of eating  Cashew butter blows my mind  ( and NOT  in a good way .... IM picturing Heroin  syringes  and crack pipes as side   dishes to control the Quantity  lol )  ... 

OK   PLEASE ....  SOMEONE  here in the Litweights has  GOT to have tried this .....


I mean its really  ENTICING  >>ya'all  should SEE  Grrrlfriemd's   20 years younger    WOW boy toy  ...and he TRULY   LOVES her  .... and makes MILLIONS playing hockey ...

Hi Ava,

I was a regular vegan from 1989 to 1997.  I lost some weight doing it, but not that much because I LOVE yukon gold potatoes which were a staple of mine.  I ate far too many grains and not enough leafy greens.  What it did for me was help me maintain my weight, but not lose much.  When I started eating meat again, I slowly put 20 pounds back on.

Fast forward to the end of 2003.  I decided to go back to vegan and the raw food revolution was just really getting started in a big way.  I have all the books, the pricer juicer, food dehydrator and of course my old vitamix.  Again, I lost weight slowly when eating raw combined with 60 minutes of daily walking.  I was fairly consistent for around three years.  This time I ate raw veggie salads, lots of fruit and generally 2 ounces of weighed or measured nuts per day.  Raw food recipes use a ton of nuts so I had to steer clear of them.  I felt really healthy but my blood sugars did get a little out of wack because of all the sugar.   My blood sugars always tested low and my triglycerides averaged less than 80 so I guess it wasn't detrimental.

Eating raw is amazing for the digestion.  Since coming back from Spain and focusing on big salads, my digestion improved 95% over last month.  Raw gives me a really vibrant feeling in my skin and my eyes really sparkled.  Wow... maybe I'm talking myself back into it.  Problem is the protein though.  Protein is really limiting, though I did use raw hemp as the protein in my shakes.

In 2007 I suffered an emotional trauma, gave up raw and gained 70 pounds that year.  Later in the year I broke my ankle, had major ankle surgery in 2008 to repair it all, keeping me from exercise for close to two years.  I never did get back to raw food.

What I liked about raw (and what I like about any food plan) is that it limits me and takes away major food groups from what I wanted to eat.  There's really no junk on raw food plan.  Fruit, veggies, limited nuts.  I wasn't one to make recipies.  I'd just read the book, look at the pictures and then proceed to make a big salad. 

What I'm finding at 17 months out from surgery is that my normal tendency now is to crave fresh veggies and fruits.  I dive into that romaine lettuce like my body is starving for vitamins.  I'm focusing on eating as much raw as I can this summer and I'm loving it.  Maybe it will help me shed these last pounds.

If you decide you want to try it Ava, remember to take it one day at a time and see how your body feels.

So that's all I know....    :)

Sure some of it is delicious, some of it - your tastebuds may need a chance to adjust (like sprouted hummus, for example).

I was a raw vegan, so no sushi for me please.  I did it to see if it would help my horrible allergies, asthma, and had hopes to become the waifish pixie everyone threatened I would be, but none of those things were helped (except by allergy shots and WLS :}), but I did enjoy the food and getting to learn to "uncook" new things. :} 

I got a book and a dvd from Alissa Cohen, called Living on Live Foods and it was really helpful!  That's where I learned to stuff Medjool dates with almond butter!  MMMM! 

Anyway, I would say try it, go slow and WATCH OUT, and dont OD on coconut oil at first if you go the coconut oil route.  I had insane die off and my face blew up like Will Smith's face in Hitch. 

The ONE thing (for me) that it helped was that because I wasnt eating meat or dairy product, it was nice to have less hormones running rampant thru my body, and mine were horrible at that time. 

I did it for over a year, but without enough changes to warrant keeping up with it, cuz for me, it really was a PITA way of eating quite honestly, I went back to, well, however the hell I was eating until my next attempt.  :}

But I do still incorporate a lot of foods from then.

 Thanks  Guys  !!  INTERESTING  !!!!!  

So how  did U prepare say  .. raw SQUASH  ?!!   i sampled  a raw pattypan  and i can tell U  it just DOESNT taste as good as it does  cooked ... and winter squash  and pumpkin is even more that way  I suspect . 

how about rice ?  do U soak it and sprout it  or something ? 

and i guess sprouted essene bread is  what is eaten  in lieu of bread , right ?  

Im wondering if its  even LEGAL to buy unpasteurized milk  to make  homemade raw yogurt ... 

do U  happen to remember  how much protein  a serving of raw hemp actually contains  Lee  ?  definitely  intriguing .. I wonder if  our rerouted bodies could absorb it as well  now 

Its just NOT going to taste the same as cooked (*or maybe I just wasnt good enough at it to make it taste like cooked).  A lot of "hard core" rawies will tell you that you only WANT cooked because its junk and you are addicted :}  Zealots are everywhere, ha!

I didnt use rice, I used quoina (sp) and soaked it, all grains/legumes mostly need soaking/sprouting (if they were dried) to make the enzymes start their engines!  But honestly, I didnt enjoy the grains enough to keep on trying. I used my spirooli (and still do!) to make zuccini noodles, and chopped them up into little rices, or I would use teh shredder on cauli and then squirt a little acidic something (Bragg's aminos) to sort of soften it up and use that as under stuff, like when I made my kikkin Marinara sauce.

I made flax crackery things for bread.  We have a place around here that sells raw milk, but there are signs everywhere that say NOT FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION in regards to it. 

 All this  sounds so cool BrandiLynn .. I  gotta find out what a spirooli is ....  

sounds like a MAJOR pain in the butt too ....  but honestly I  LOVE  playing with my food ..provided the end result is worth it .  

I've never really tried these  foods  because of the emphasis on nuts  ... I just LOOK a at a nut and I  blow up  lol   but   the keeping the enzymes  as intact as possible in REGULAR food  somehow makes  sense....

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