Hello everyone, I have’nt posted for a while so I though i should share my feelings at this point and then maybe some of you could give me some pointers. First off I’m not sure this raw diet is working for us,especially my husband, I’m starting to realize it seems you need to have quite a large grocerie budget to sustain great health. My husband has dropped to 135 pounds from 150,now that’s all fine but he generally doesn’t look healthy to me,he seems like he’s not getting enough of something and he complains about being cold, which is startling coming from someone who is usually very warm blooded even in winter and is now seeming to be cold-natured, umm I’m not sure this is healthy for us and I am concerned about him. and the people I’ve seen on book covers(Raw food ) are very thin as well but they are’nt doing hard physical labor all day 12 hours a day.We just don’t feel we are getting maximum benifits from raw as we don’t have a a budget for it nor do we have the selection here in the boon docks to aquire it. we have been sticking with it other than dinner,what do you think? ~Karen
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Hi there. Don’t worry about the thinness. Remember you are conditioned to see someone a certain weight. Even on conventional diets people get very concerned when their loved ones begin to change shape and look different and certainly in the West the idea of a healthy weight is dramatically more than it should be. We are still struggling to shrug off old ideas that the stockier the healthier. Also I have heard from various raw food sources that the initial weight loss was replaced by weight gain- but distributed over the body differently- perhaps as it should be naturally? Some women talk about increased bust but lower dress sizes!!! It is expensive! I and my husband struggle as students but we manage only because we make it priority and decided that our health is the most important thing. We even manage to buy organic at a pinch.
Maybe try 100% for a few weeks! Perhaps order off the net to get the stuff. The raw fooders I have read about rave and are almost evangelical about the benefits but they are mostly the 100%ers. I certainly benefitted when I was 100% but don’t get much off 80% (I’m attempting to get back to 100% at the moment) especially when the 20% is rubbish food which it usually is with me! Try all the raw fooder websites. I started off on Shazzie.com and her journals really really helped inspire me and gave me ideas of how I should perhaps be feeling on a day to day basis. Don’t give up…you may not feel it sometimes but your body IS benefitting from more fresh fruit and veg…it can’t not do. :-)
This is what I needed to hear , I felt like just throwing in the towel and giving up ,just frustrated and I think that being only 50-75% raw is’nt going to feel a lot different so being 100% raw is the way to go. thankyou all for your advice and wisdom ~Karen