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eat when you're hungry, but also make sure you're getting enough - counting calories is essential for us raw foodists as it's sometimes challenging to get calories in when you're first starting. eating meals varies, as sometimes i'll even have 5 meals a day, but sometimes it'll just be 2-3. you'll find a balance, keeping fit is great on raw, you should try the high fruit low fat approach...this may allow you to eat whatever you'd like and still lose the weight you'd like to lose ensuring you won't fall off the raw-wagon as you're getting enough carbs.
Thx for the replies. I have no problem eating fruit and for me it would be impossible to eat mostly veggies. Think this change will be trial and error. Some things that will work for others wont work for me.
thx for the reply rawlizard.
The cold turkey thing does not apply for me with this transformation. I
marantz,
Have you read the book "the 80/10/10 diet", yet? If you are going for a low fat approach (which I do myself and highly recommend, you should read it. It's very informative about what you need to eat in order to get in enough calories and keep the protein and fat low (hint: it's a lot of fruit!)
There is also a blog by a goneraw member that I find covers a lot of things that Dr. Graham covers in his book on her blog. That blog is fitonraw.com
You can also check out 30bananasaday.com, which is basically a community like this of 80/10/10ers.
To actually answer your questions, I would start off counting calories so that you get an idea of how much you should be eating (like I said, it's a lot so you have to get used to it!). I would also try as hard as possible to make it 3-4 meals/day. Snacking all day makes you hungry all day and that's awful.