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Gaining weight has never been a problem for me, but my roommate is always trying to gain weight. He is 5'8 and about 125... 110 or so before raw. A great thing to do is mix your greens with high fat nuts/seeds and fruits with a high-water, low-sugar content.
For example:
Spinach
Tomatoes
Pine nuts
or
Kale
Tomatoes
Macadamia Nuts
Eat a good amount of this kind of combo once a day and you can bring your weight up!
Honestly this is something that keeps me from being 100% raw. Even at 70-80% I lose too much weight. I always eat plenty of nuts, seeds, and avocados too because I make fancy dishes (and I have an avocado tree).
The only things I DON'T do regularly are
Excercise - building muscle mass would help maintain weight.
Eat a lot of fruit - because I don't have much of a sweet tooth, most fruit just doesn't appeal to me.
So those are two things that I personally have not tried that might help.
This isn't from personal experience, but i have read that some people lose a bunch of weight when they first go raw and that later (still raw) it balances out and goes back up to your natural weight. I have no idea if this is true though -just read it from some people
definitely happened to me. i dropped about 15 lbs and then went back up to my preraw weight. now i have so little toxins in my body its fabulous.
Thank you so much for your posts..! i've been including more high sugar content fruits, as well as more nuts. I just hope it'll work..
Leonor