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• Sheik

  Hey Troubles-

  I know that fatty fruits like avocado may help, but I heard that too much consumption can be detrimental.

  A typical day looks like this:

  Breakfast: Green juice with 4 cups kale, 2 cups spinach, 4 sticks celery, 1 apple, 1/2 cucumber

  Lunch: bowl of fruit which consists of a handful of strawberries, 1 apple, 1 banana, 1 peach

  Snack: handful of kumquats

  Dinner: Salad with baby mix, onion sprouts, cucumbers, goji berries, with orange juice.

  Snack: Banana

  I'm really not a calorie counter so I really don't know how much I'm getting. This is all fairly new to me so please let me know if I am doing something wrong.
• valgal123 Raw Newbie

  I have the same problem and have asked for adivice on this site. you can read here http://goneraw.com/forum/come-people-cant-i-gain-weight-please

  This week I have made a lot of progress by having my mom look at what i was eating and tritiquing it. I now see how little I was eating and have really uped it. I eat every 2-3 hours no matter how ill i feel /9i got gut issues) I have been making fatty pies that I have a little bit of everyday, plus a whole avocado. Another thing that helps with gaining the weight is somethingn I'm sure everyone on here does not agree with, its drink raw cows milk from a local farmer. I don't agree with it ethier, but I would almost say it felt as if it was a matter of life and death, it really helped me put on weight. Here is what I eat everyday: Breakfast, 3/4c buckwheat granola with 1 c milk (before my mom started taking a look at what i was eating it was a 1/4c) a big green smoothie with 4 servings of greens and 2 fruit and a handfull of ground flax. Snack 1/4c nuts. lunch a huge salad that i put in the food processorso it looks small amall easy to diegest (in the salad I put 1/2 avocado, other veggies, a generous amount of olive oil) an apple, and 2 ani phyos donut holes. Snack is usually 2 small bananas with some fat, ethier milk or a nut butter, lately its a coconut chocolate butter. Dinner is another salad, and a slice of raw pie. Snack lots of fruit. Another snack ethier more fruit, nuts or milk., depending on how many nuts i've had. As you can see I'm eating a lot of food. I never though in a million years that I would be eating this much and this much fat! But hopefully i won't need to eat this way for ever. By the way I'm 19, 5' 87 lbs, in the first week of eating this way I gained 2 pounds, my family and doctor are very happy. I hope this helps, if you don't want to drink raw milk try nut milk, oat milk or something.
• Sheik

  valgal-

  thank you so much. I have an idea of how much an average girl should be eating. Before going raw, I used to indulge in milk chocolate and fries and pizza! Salty and greasy everyday; which resulted in acne covered face and body, but I still could not gain any weight! Occasionaly, I'll have a high calorie fruit like cherimoya (in season and so yummy!), pineapple, and mango but get worried about the amount of sugar they have. I tried making several fatty raw dishes with cahsews and pinenuts but they never sit well in my stomach. I've also made dehydrated crackers and breads, only a few times.. just because I feel like I don't have enough time. I will do this more often so that I have a lot of snacks on hand. I haven't tried making nutmilk either, but I will do that too sometime this week. Avocados and olive oil worries me a bit because I have problems with acne and am worried that they might spur up again!
• Sheik

  Thanks everyone for being so helpful!

  I do agree with Kelly that I should not be forcing myself to eat when I'm full. I don't plan on going back to dairy with all the pimples I got from its oils! I'm going to incorporate some avocados and more bananas into my diet as suggested and see what happens. Right now, maybe cus I'm detoxing, it feels good to undereat. I feel like I'm cleansing all the toxins out! All of my cysts have finally gone away and I'm so happy that I'm not a pizza face anymore! Hopefully I'll get my appetite back soon. My friends and family have expressed their concerns and even tried talking me out of this because they think that I have an eating disorder! So I guess that's why I wanted to gain weight quickly. I'm just going to listen to my body and let things flow at its own pace. Thanks everyone!
• Sheik

  ambiguous- you bring up such an interesting point. I certainly hope that I don't have any tapeworms! I would think that I'd know if I did. I remember before trying the raw diet, I'd gorge on pastas and breads and fried foods just because.... I never had any weight issues but my acne was awful! I'm guessing I have fast metabolism? Should I go see a doctor about this?

  I tried making some changes today and had 2 bananas, a pound of strawberries, young coconut meat and its water for breakfast today.

  For lunch I had vegetable wraps - 5 collard greens, baby mix, basil/cilantro with olive oil, acv, and agave. I also had a whole avocado and an orange.

  Right now, I feel extrememly full but I'm hoping this will help me gain my weight back.