Anyone tried the raw food diet?

[tryn2growmyhair]

I was wondering if anyone had tried this and if they lost weight on it. I am trying to eat really healty but I am not completely raw. TIA.

[teenie]

Yes I've done the raw food diet before, I didnt get to be 100 percent raw but about 90. I lost like 10 pounds without even working out.
My breakfast would be a fruit salad, lunch would be a regular salad, snacks in between would be like carrots, celery, or tomatoes, I would juice my drinks and for dinner I would generaly have brown rice with steamed vegetables, sometimes with tuna.

[tryn2growmyhair]

Yes I've done the raw food diet before, I didnt get to be 100 percent raw but about 90. I lost like 10 pounds without even working out.
My breakfast would be a fruit salad, lunch would be a regular salad, snacks in between would be like carrots, celery, or tomatoes, I would juice my drinks and for dinner I would generaly have brown rice with steamed vegetables, sometimes with tuna.
Thanks for the info. How long did it take you to lose the 10 pounds? TIA.

[darkflame213]

Hee hee. I lasted three days as a 100% raw person. The food was good and I wasn't tired or hungry, but I didn't have the time to do all of the prep work for the 'gourmet' raw food. Gourmet is basically the raw version of a cooked meal. It usually involves drying and soaking or something equally time consuming. I'm going to try again in the fall when I can afford the money saving devices everyone else seems to have. I lost exactly one pound a day.

breakfast was a smoothie
snack one: nuts
lunch: big salad w/ flaxseeds for protien
snack two: dried fruit
dinner: a gourmet meal

These links were my reasources

http://www.rawfoodtalk.com/forums/index.php
http://www.alissacohen.com/faqs.html
http://www.rawfood.com/cgi-bin/order/index.cgi?id=273593594665
http://www.davidwolfe.com/
http://www.living-foods.com/
http://www.thegardendiet.com/
http://www.rawgourmet.com/index.html

Stay away from the fruitarians....they'll have you thinking veggies are the enemy too.

[teenie]

Thanks for the info. How long did it take you to lose the 10 pounds? TIA.
I really dont know how long it took, I would guess about a month because my intentions were not to loose weight they were to live a healthy lifestyle, I happened to be going to the doctor regularly at the time though so thats how I relized I lost the weight

[tryn2growmyhair]

Thanks for all the answers, guys.

[CurleeDST]

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