Pat/ Raw Foods/ WAS Weight loss help please!!!

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Pat, and all,

Do you recommend any literature on Raw Food Diets?

I am interested in trying it for a week at a time, like a raw foods fast-type

thing...I am a teacher and will have some time this summer to try it, but not

quite sure exactly what to try.

Also, any information on a juice fast would be greatly appreciated, too!

Thanks,

Cassie

 

Pat <drpatsant wrote: Hi again!

 

> I have gained so

> much weight this year, all the stuff I lost last year by

> doing the same thing I am doing now.

 

Oh bad luck! Time to do something before it gets out of

hand, right! Good for you!!

 

> I'm thinking of

> starting weight watchers. Is it vegetarian friendly?

 

Never tried Weight Watchers or any other group where you attend meetings

etc. I lost 45 pounds (a little over 20 kg) last year by following Neal

Barnard's _Turn Off

The Fat Genes_ (silly sounding title, but a sensible book imo). Around the last

10 lbs to

lose I tried John McDougall's plan (works fine) and also Joel Fuhrman's (works

even better)

- and I went back to the Fuhrman plan if ever I gain more than two or three

pounds back

and it _worked_ for me. Ymmv.

 

Otherwise, I was apt to stay on a vegan whole food diet - pretty much as

Barnard

advocates - until recently, when I started going in the direction of Raw Food

bigtime.

That's a whole new adventure and one which is delighting me (I add this note

not

because I'm trying to convince you or anyone that they should do as I do, but

as a matter

of accuracy - I'm no longer strictly following the diets named above which I

used for

weight loss.)

 

> what are some " super foods " you can think of that

> are good for this stuff.

 

Lots of beans and lentils and lots and lots and lots of greens (both raw and

cooked) plus

fresh fruit. They fill you up, give you lots of energy and make you feel like a

million

dollars. Other foods? Oh sure, as long as they are whole foods and don't

include added

salt, added sugar, added fat/oil - in other words, a healthy vegan diet.

 

Right now I'm looking at _The Thrive Diet_ by Brendan Brazier - it looks like a

winner.

Also, I read _Skinny Bitch_ some months ago and although I don't agree with a

couple of

things for myself, I think some people here think it works fine. Try googling

and also

seeing what your local library has in the way of any of these books

 

Hope you find a way that helps you! We're here for all the support you need,

okay?

 

Love and hugs, Pat

 

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called medical

research. " (George Bernard Shaw)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

> Do you recommend any literature on Raw Food Diets?

 

Not really, so far. But perhaps others will. My info comes from a whole bunch of

different sources. But it's mainly, for me, similar foods without cooking them.

Legumes, obviously need to be sprouted - very nice - and so far I'm pretty

well leaving the grains alone. No biggie.

 

> I am interested in trying it for a week at a time, like a

> raw foods fast-type thing.

 

Do you mean fasting? Or do you mean trying raw foods for a week?? I don't

understande the 'raw foods fast-type thing' but perhaps I've been out walking

too long this afternoon (lovely sun out there!). For myself, I'm not into

fasting at all. Nope. Like food too much for that LOL

 

Love and hugs, Pat

 

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My blog: http://beanvegan.blogspot.com

" Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are

called medical research. " (George Bernard Shaw)

 

 

 

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