Recycling what we no longer need (WAS: how rapid is rapid weightloss?)

[Guest guest]

Greetings Jen and everyone,

 

Jen, as long as you are consuming enough water (in fruits or directly), you need

not be

concerned at all, the weight release will slow as the amount of water weight in

you diminishes.

We gain and lose different kinds of weight at different rates. For example,

water weight comes

on and off much more rapidly than, say, lean tissue.

 

One thought for everyone: may I suggest that we all remove the phrase " lose

weight " and the like

from our vocabulary forever. Language is a powerful force in the mind, and

whatever can be lost,

can then be found again. Instead, may I suggest that people consider returning

to the world that

which no longer serves their highest and best good to hold, something more along

those lines. In

other words, consider this a recycling process, in a planetary sense, and

consider yourself a

part of something much larger and very grand indeed.

 

Best to all,

Elchanan

 

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rawfood [rawfood ] On Behalf Of

jem_3000

Thursday, July 13, 2006 9:59 AM

rawfood

[Raw Food] how rapid is " rapid weightloss " ?

 

 

 

Hey all : )

 

So, I just started the 100% raw after being mostly raw for some time,

yo-yo-ing every now and again. Even on the less than 100% raw I've

lost about 20 pounds since February or March, most of which was

initial (like about 10 or 15, then the rest slowly). But since doing

100% it's been very rapid again. I lose about 1 or 2 pounds a day. I'm

sort of concerned that this might be too much--I might be losing

muscle mass or something. I know proably much of it is liver glycogen,

too, as you probably don't really keep carbohydrate stores for as long

as you do on cooked food (seems like the body pretty much uses all of

what you give it, on raw food). But the thing is I'm only eating when

I'm hungry, you know, listening to my body for once. I wasn't hungry

at all for a whole day, strangely enough, so I fasted a couple days

ago, and then my hunger returned the next day. Usually my daily intake

consits of a few pieces of fruit in the morning (like 2 small apples

and something else--a banana or some berries), some carrots in the

afternoon and usually a big salad in the evening, which is kept pretty

simple, and with little fat (either a quarter of an avocado in the

dressing or no fat at all). Sometimes I'm not all the hungry and I'll

skip the carrots in the afternoon or just have them for dinner, or

just the salad, so that I eat between two and three times a day. I'm

very likely not getting enough Calories by most standards, but... I

figure if I'm not hungry, why force myself to eat? Maybe my body has a

lot of cleansing to do or something, but I figure listening to my body

and not nutrition dogma is probably best. Just wondering if anyone has

experienced anything like this--just not eating much, or very rapid

weightloss, and if you think it's healthy or not.

 

Jen : )