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[Guest guest]

Are you getting enough calories? I used to feel

hungry on the raw diet as well. But you've got to

realize that most vegetables don't have enough calories

in them to sustain you. You could never get enough

calories on celery, cucumbers, and salad greens. 90% of

our caloric dietary needs are for sugars.

<br><br>You'll also feel full if you eat enough fat. The problem

with that is you'll be slow moving because your body

will spend so much time digesting. So the key is to

eat lots of calories from fruits. If you were eating

bread or grains before then you were getting lots of

sugar calories in the form of complex carbs. Now you

simply switch from complex carbs to simple carbs by

eating fruit. Bananas are a calorie rich food. I can eat

up to 20 per day. It all depends how many calories

you would normally need.<br><br>If you are craving

some kind of sweet cooked food like cookies or even

bread it means you are not getting enough calories from

sweet fruit. Remember the body needs lots of natural

sugars to function properly. <br><br>You have to count

calories. Try to figure out how many calories you were

eating on your cooked diet and then get at least the

same amount from the raw foods. If you were eating

2,500 calories per day before then do the same with raw

or eat even more. It won't make you fat anyway.

Eating bananas is the easiest way to get the calories

you need to fuel your body.<br><br>Good Luck, Roger

Haeske<br><br>P.S. Get a Free 6 Step Technique to Transition to a

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[Guest guest]

Very interesting. I counted the transition to raw

foods in months rather than days as you seem to. It

could be you will get there in weeks especially with

the excellent counsel others are giving<br><br>PG

[Guest guest]

Carol,<br><br>I had pretty much the same

experience as you. I stuck with close to 100% raw for about

5 days and then gave in to the cravings to eat

cooked food. But since then, I've been almost entirely

raw sunup to sundown, and only eaten cooked foods at

night. It's certainly easier for me to do this now than

it was prior to attempting 100% raw. So its a step

in the right direction.<br><br>I think Roger's also

correct in his post in that the cravings could be from

not getting enough total calories. I found I could

pack a huge bowl of spinach, and sit there and chomp

on it for 40 minutes. But I estimate the calories

only about maybe 200. It did help to include 2 or 3

avacadoes and olives, etc.<br><br>I also found my need for

water diminished from about 2 quarts per day to half or

less when 100% raw.