On A Raw Diet Weight Loss Or Weight Gain Is Possible.When eating a raw diet weight loss or weight gain will naturally occur. Our bodies crave to be a healthy size. For those individuals with extra unhealthy weight on their bodies eating a raw diet will assist in shedding the weight. For others being underweight may be an unhealthy and eating raw may assist their bodies in gain a few extra pounds.
Fresh living (raw) foods contain:
Being overweight or severely underweight is a sign your body is lacking vital nutrients by eating foods with next to no nutritional value. Even if our Food and Drug Administration has determined a value in cooked, denatured foods. Think carefully about the value or price they are getting to give you this information.
Remember eating fresh is best! Create a diet surrounding: Trust and enjoy the balance your body will go towards when you eat in alignment with nature!
Robyn's Week #10 90 Day Raw Food Weight Loss Journal EntriesJune 21, 2009/Day 64 Today I ate: Raisins w/brazil nuts, a green smoothie with 2 bananas, spinach, and strawberries, cucumber mix with sunflower pate, avocado, dill and sea salt with romaine lettuce leaves, and 34 oz. of water. Emotionally on raw diet weight loss: Another successful week! Hurray! I am down two more lbs. for a total weight loss of 33 lbs. I felt as though I was reaffirmed by a gentleman featured on Raw Food World; he lost over 200 lbs. in 12 months by simply switching to a raw food diet. That is really something to celebrate! I am excited to get to where he is now, excited to be able to have some serious before/after pictures. Physically: I know this may sound silly, but I was able to unhook my bra today without strain or discomfort. It’s funny how the little things make such a difference! I am also seeing a difference when it comes to putting on my socks and shoes. It may sound like nothing to you, but to be comfortable doing little things like that makes the weight loss so much more rewarding to me! Mentally on raw diet weight loss: I am starting to become more conscience that this is the right path for me to take in my life. I don’t like to even use the term diet for a lifestyle change, but I am referring to diets that I have tried prior to making permanent changes to my eating habits. I don’t know that I have been as dedicated to prior efforts to loose weight. I have certainly experienced more weight loss, but give me time, and I will pass up my prior losses. I did that Medifast diet one time, and ate nothing. I consumed water & powdered supplements that tasted of vitamins every day. I lost over 50 lbs. before I fell off the wagon. It wasn’t a good choice, because it could not sustain me. Going raw fits all the requirements I need to be successful. It removes me from food addiction, feeds my body high quality “fuels” with high nutrient content, and gives me great health. It’s a win-win situation, if ever there was one! One way I love myself today on raw diet weight loss: I got up this morning and got on the Wii Fit. I have been moving, but I needed some focused exercise. Even if I didn’t feel like it, I needed it, so I loved myself enough to push myself into taking care of me! Physical Activity on raw diet weight loss: 40 minutes on the Wii Fit. June 22, 2009/Day 65 Today I ate: Raisins w/cashews, a green smoothie with 2 bananas, spinach, and strawberries, cucumber mix with sunflower pate, avocado, dill and sea salt with romaine lettuce Emotionally raw diet weight loss: Today I have to surrender my dream car. I really have to say that I am okay with it. I like that something like this is just another day, another situation that can be handled. I can’t say I am happy with it, but the situation was out of my control, and God made it possible for an alternative vehicle to come into my life. It gets me from point A to point B, just like my Honda. I am going to be just fine. Physically on raw diet weight loss: I didn’t get enough sleep last night. I was kind of geared up at bed time, and didn’t go right to sleep. I tried to read a few pages of my small collection of raw food books, but didn’t make it too far. I have to keep focused on things so they don’t get away from me. Listen to your body, if you are full stop eating, if you are tired, go to sleep. Mentally on raw diet weight loss: I just feel like keepin’ on! One way I love myself today on raw diet weight loss: I am starting to love my arms. I think they are starting to shape up. I love that! Physical Activity: 30 minute walk June 23, 2009/Day 66 Today I ate: Raisins w/cashews, cucumber mix with sunflower butter, avocado, dill and sea salt with roma tomato slices, green grapes, almond pate with flaxseed crackers, carrot & zucchini slices, Rawnola, luscious lemon RAW swirl cookies, two flax seed crackers and 64 oz. of water. Emotionally on raw diet weight loss: Well, it was far less painful than I thought to hand over my van. I am seeing that I want to eat more today and yesterday. That also might be because my intake was a little less on Sunday. However, I am making an effort to be very aware of my eating because of the stress I have been experiencing these last few days. Physically raw diet weight loss: I am having some issues that are reoccurring from when I was pregnant. I hate to have to spell it out, but I am having some horrid hemorrhoid issues. I am seriously miserable. I’ve been trying sitting in the bath and tucks & preparation H and nothing is giving me relief. It’s awful. Mentally on raw diet weight loss: What’s kind of ironic is I am becoming far more in tune with my stress levels, and the paid that is being caused by my physical ailment is certainly adding to my stress, and then I am worrying about my stress and it is just compounding on itself. One way I love myself today on raw diet weight loss: I loved myself today by just letting go of the old and bringing in the new. Physical Activity on raw diet weight loss: None. June 24, 2009/Day 67 Today I ate: Green smoothie with bananas, strawberries & spinach, Raisins & cashews, flaxseed chips (2), a mixed green salad with tomato, onion, cucumber, celery, & avo dressing, 1 banana, & 48 oz. water. Emotionally: I am just wondering why I am experiencing all this stress in my life. I am really looking into the why of it all. I’ve got to come to some kind of understanding of how it is coming about. Physically: Struggling again with the pain. Oy! Mentally: I am noticing that my patience is waning. That is not at all fair to my poor kids. They are getting the short end of the stick because my pain level is so high. One way I love myself today: I love myself today because I am becoming somewhat more conscientious of the REASONS I am feeling something other than positive and I am searching for a good way to deal with the stress and become more positive. Physical Activity: None. June 25, 2009/Day 68 Today I ate: Green smoothie with bananas, mixed berries & spinach, Raisins & cashews, flaxseed chips (3), a mixed green salad with tomato, onion, cucumber, celery, & avo dressing, 1 banana, & 60 oz. water. Emotionally: I had a complete breakdown of communication with my ex-husband. I get so tired of his poorly laid out excuses that I could just burst sometimes. I think that is where my crabbiness is coming from. That was on Tuesday. There are a lot of emotions that I don’t really let myself feel towards him because I am committed to the well being of the two children we have together, and they need us to be united and amicable on their behalf. I was really tired of him that night though, I had had my fill, and I think that is where the stress started. So, whooosaaaa! Let it go, he is how he is and there is nothing to be done about it. So he doesn’t seem to have any logic in his choices, I have to accept that, and that he isn’t likely to change. I need to just let him be who he is and not let it affect me or my day or my life. La! Physically: Still struggling again with the pain. I am considering calling the doctor, but what can they do? Refer me to a surgeon and by the time I can get an appointment with him, the ‘roids, as I call them, will have subsided and there isn’t much else to be done about it. That is what happened last time anyway. Mentally: My patience is quite low today as well. Man! This funk needs to go! I guess I really need to appreciate my good health when I have it. This pain is one way to really like what good health I do have. My ex was supposed to do something with my son today, and did not follow through, so I took Liam to an event, and Ruth fell asleep in my arms. She didn’t wake up until we got to the car and had a fit because she missed out on the event and she had a screaming fit! I was turning back to look at her and tell her to hush up. I was shutting the (remember this is a new car to me) car door and shut my very own fingers in the door. OMG! I wanted to have a breakdown right then and there. Enough! Game over! I had to reach over with my other hand and open the door to release my fingers. This situation is getting laughable! I need some peace! One way I love myself today: I guess I can say that I love myself today because I am not falling into old habits. With the stress mounting in my life, I am not turning to Ben & Jerry’s, cheesecake, pizza, or chocolate bars. I am just feeling the feelings and going through the emotions. Physical Activity: None. June 26, 2009/Day 69 Today I ate: Green smoothie with bananas, mixed berries & spinach, Raisins & cashews, flaxseed chips (3), a mixed green salad with tomato, onion, cucumber, celery, & Avo dressing, 1 banana, & 60 oz. water. Emotionally: I am going to share a little story with you. When I was a teenager, my very best friend in the whole world called me Jabba the Hutt. I probably weighed about 170 lbs. then, and it was a very painful and exacerbated by the fact that she said it in front of quite a few of our mutual friends. How does one respond to that? I was shocked that my FRIEND said that not just about me, but to my face and in front of our peers. Ouch! She was always thinner and prettier than me & made more money than me. It was just always the way it was between us. Well, 22+ years later, she has put on a few pounds herself, and I do not bask in the fact that she has fallen into a weight struggle, but she and I were talking the other day and she shared with me that she really noticed when she saw me last that I have really lost some weight and it is showing. I commented that she hadn’t mentioned it to me when she saw me, and she said that it was because she was freaking out about it. It was as if the scales were close to changing and she was not keen on the idea. She has started a diet since she saw me, something called Cybergenics or something. I don’t know what it is, but I do know it tastes awful and is expensive. So, I wish her luck on her journey, and wish she would come to the RAW side of the force; it’s much healthier over here! Physically: People at work are commenting on my slow movements. It looks like I am limping or something. I am still in so much pain. I have a bowel movement like clock work. I wake up each morning feeling healed from the day prior, then I have my morning constitutional and I am back in pain and walking like I am in pain and miserable once more. Mentally: Today I am ready to concur the bad feeling I have been experiencing. I am willing positive energy to come and find me and flow through me. I do not need these bad vibes any longer. GO away bad vibes, come to me good energy! I want to feel your radiance flow through me. I am breathing in the positive, exhaling the negative. I really am feeling very appreciative of Darlene and her positive energy. She is a wonderful example of living a positive life, and I am so grateful to know her! Love to you Darlene! One way I love myself today: I love myself today because perhaps I feel that I have the ability to control my emotional state. I do not need to let the situations around me control how I feel. Physical Activity: None.
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