Weight loss results?

[Guest guest]

Hey guys, great to see an active group on raw foods out there! I am on

my second whole day of going raw (yeah I just started, I'm ultra

excited) and I just wanted to know how much weight people have lost on

a raw diet. Obviously I'm doing the diet for more than just health

reasons, but I'd be a liar if I didnt say that losing 20 lbs. would be

great for me. Just wanted to see how people progressed on that end.

Thanks and good luck.

 

Best,

 

Clare

[Guest guest]

I have not been doing 100% raw so that may be my problem. I am almost

entirely raw when at home but when I go out I eat cooked food.

 

I have not lost any weight probably partly because of being inconsistent and

I'm wondering if all the nuts, coconut and avocado are playing a role in

that (although I read somewhere that as long as it's raw you won't gain

weight but I'm not so much believing that anymore).

 

However, what I am noticing is that even though I haven't lost weight, my

face looks thinner. I always tend to show weight gained or lost in my face.

 

I'm not sure why my face would be thinner and yet I'd not have lost weight

but I am 90% sure that is what is going on.

 

I also notice that my focus has shifted to feeling healthy and eating

healthy and I've been much less focused on my weight than I normally might

be. That has felt very freeing.

 

Carol Ann

 

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Hey guys, great to see an active group on raw foods out there! I am on

my second whole day of going raw (yeah I just started, I'm ultra

excited) and I just wanted to know how much weight people have lost on

a raw diet. Obviously I'm doing the diet for more than just health

reasons, but I'd be a liar if I didnt say that losing 20 lbs. would be

great for me. Just wanted to see how people progressed on that end.

Thanks and good luck.

 

Best,

 

Clare

[Guest guest]

Carol, it's largely a myth that " it's okay as long as it's raw " . Lots

of fat can cause lots of people lots of problems besides slowing

weight loss. I can go for long periods of time without overt fat even

though I love it! As for your face getting thinner, that's where my

weight loss shows up first--there, my hands, and my feet! Seems the

mid-section is the last of all. I don't dwell on weight loss any more

because it's ceased to be a problem.

 

Tommie

http://reallyrawfood.com

 

rawfood , " Carol Ann Rowland "

<carolann.rowland wrote:

>

> I have not been doing 100% raw so that may be my problem. I am

almost

> entirely raw when at home but when I go out I eat cooked food.

>

> I have not lost any weight probably partly because of being

inconsistent and

> I'm wondering if all the nuts, coconut and avocado are playing a

role in

> that (although I read somewhere that as long as it's raw you won't

gain

> weight but I'm not so much believing that anymore).

>

> However, what I am noticing is that even though I haven't lost

weight, my

> face looks thinner. I always tend to show weight gained or lost in

my face.

>

> I'm not sure why my face would be thinner and yet I'd not have lost

weight

> but I am 90% sure that is what is going on.

>

> I also notice that my focus has shifted to feeling healthy and

eating

> healthy and I've been much less focused on my weight than I

normally might

> be. That has felt very freeing.

>

> Carol Ann

>

> FREE Zensight Energy Work Ebook & Spoon Bending Video!

> www.ZensightProcess.com/video.shtml

> Hey guys, great to see an active group on raw foods out there! I

am on

> my second whole day of going raw (yeah I just started, I'm ultra

> excited) and I just wanted to know how much weight people have lost

on

> a raw diet. Obviously I'm doing the diet for more than just health

> reasons, but I'd be a liar if I didnt say that losing 20 lbs. would

be

> great for me. Just wanted to see how people progressed on that end.

> Thanks and good luck.

>

> Best,

>

> Clare

>

[Guest guest]

Congratulations on your decision to go raw. May it serve you well : )

Don't be too harsh on yourself, though--don't try to be so perfect

that you end up binging and hating yourself, going through emotional

cycles. That's what happened to me. I've been trying to be raw for

pretty much this entire year, and until now had only succeeded in

doing it for 10 days before I gave in and went off it almost

completely for a matter of months. When I was mostly raw, including

the time I was 10 days, I dropped weight very rapidly, about 20-30

pounds (I was about 50 pounds above my ideal weight). I didn't even

exercise in the beginning--all of that was just eating raw. I found

Gabriel Cousen's approach the best for the beginning, though it's

probably harder. He says to transition the body, and help clear toxins

the fastest, it's good to go on a low glycemic diet for a few months,

then progressively transition to the higher glycemic stuff like

tropical fruits. This worked for me. Just going all raw eating all the

grapes, pineapple, mangoes, etc I wanted I did not lose weight. I'm

also blessed with acne, and that did not lessen much eating high

glycemic in the beginning. Once I started eating more greens and low

glycemic fruits, I was losing a pound or two *a day* and my acne got

much better. I find greens to be *very key*, at least in the beginning

when detox is so important. I swear even now I can tell the

difference in my appearance if I go a day without chlorophyll ;P

 

I've just recently gotten back to 100% raw; right now I've been raw

for exactly two weeks today, beating my previous record every day now.

In those two weeks I've lost about 6 pounds. I've been actively

exercising daily and getting sunshine this time around, too, and I

feel really great about it and am not giving it up this time : )

 

One other important thing I've found for beginning the raw diet, and

any time in it, really is to eat only when you are hungry. Some days

I'm just not hungry and I don't eat at all. I still have the energy

most of the time to exercise the next day, so this doesn't seem to be

a bad thing. On days I do eat I'm quite sure I'm not actually getting

enough calories as per government " recommendations, " but I just listen

to my body and eat when something appeals to me, and carefully listen

to my body for the signals when to stop eating. I'm still in the

beginning, so I realize this might still be signs of detoxing--I know

a lot of beginner's fast, sometimes for very long lengths, in the

beginning. I take my lack of appetite as my body's way of

transitioning and cleaning up, and assume I will have an appetite

eventually. Until then I've got plenty of energy and can't complain

otherwise, so.. it's probably fine, yah?

 

Hope that helped.. probably more than you wanted to hear.

 

Jen

rawfood , " nordhimmel " <nordhimmel wrote:

>

> Hey guys, great to see an active group on raw foods out there! I am on

> my second whole day of going raw (yeah I just started, I'm ultra

> excited) and I just wanted to know how much weight people have lost on

> a raw diet. Obviously I'm doing the diet for more than just health

> reasons, but I'd be a liar if I didnt say that losing 20 lbs. would be

> great for me. Just wanted to see how people progressed on that end.

> Thanks and good luck.

>

> Best,

>

> Clare

>

[Guest guest]

Carol Ann - my face is the first place people notice weight loss/gain, too. For

me I have to stay away from salt and dehydrated foods to lose weight. I've not

noticed too much weight gain or difference in weight with avocados in my diet.

 

The best difference I've noticed is in the summer when I eat a lot of melon and

I mean A LOT of melon. Last summer I was feeling great and looking great eating

about 10 - 15# of watermelon a day. Now it's cooling off and I want more nuts

and I've noticed my pants are getting a little tighter so I've backed off the

nuts and added more green smoothies and aim to lose weight before January!

 

Shari

 

 

[Guest guest]

Clare,

 

I started eating Raw in August. I was really great (100%) for two months and

then fell off the path by letting bites (of SAD) here and there sneak back in or

having a bowl of soup in the fall. I gained weight immediately. I currently

have " released " 14 pounds since August 5th. ( I released another 12 pounds from

the previous 4 months, but that was a TON of work counting all of my calories

and watching everything that I ate, with raw i really don't need to do that at

all, i just make sure that i don't eat too much fat) I am now back on track.

It works for me because I notice a difference right away. I feel better and i

look better. Releasing weight is an inspiration to stay raw, but the longer

that you are raw the more you notice that your skin and your hair becomes

radiant. For me, I have next to no allergies anymore and other really nice

changes have occurred for my body. That is more my inspiration now than

anything else. When people ask me I come up with my list of why it works for

me.

 

Best of luck to you on your raw journey.

 

 

Aphrodite