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Sun dried? are you talking about like dried veggie powders? I was pretty much living on Vita Mineral Green which has 21 different raw powders, but it's way to expensive. It's 50 for 16 oz, so 50 a pound which is a joke becasue the average powder in there is about 6 dollars a pound if you buy them in bulk

Very good story!! I have a similar story with depression and anxiety except mine is 100 percent doctor induced(long story). I've been off all drugs for over 2 years and i'm much better now than before, but i still have a long ways to go. I started messing around with raw foods a year and a half ago and have been 100 percent for the last 5 months. So do things keep getting better? becasue right now i feel as though i'm kinda staying the same and i never had the typical detox symtoms that alot of people have. I'm not like alot of raw foodist that are kinda junk food raw foodist(even though no raw food is a junk food compared to SAD) I've been eatting mostly green foods

Just any thing i can find growing out side that looks safe and is green

Today i started a experiment to eat all wild foods except hemp seeds and this olive oil that i use for salad dressing. I'm just really fed up with spending so much money on food, so i figure why not give it a try.

I'd be curious as to your raw food diet and experiance becasue i'm a raw foodist allso and i'm allways curious as to what others are doing. I'm allways trying to improve on what i'm doing.

If it is a fact can you point out a citation for where someone can read it? Muscles do store glycogen ( sugar and water ), but not that much. Fat has very different appearance on the body than muscle. Only by a very limited amount. The only people non-genetically gifted people who can do more than a little bit of this are beginners, who are starting from zero. Legions of athletes, bodybuilders, trainers and experts of all kind would disagree with that. If you take in more calories than you burn, even if you are an athlete, you will gain weight. I was one of those people that couldn't get lean no matter what i did. I would cut my calories way down for long periods of time and exercise alot and still would have too much fat to be cut. Then i stoped eatting all cooked foods and i think it's more the fact that i don't eat any grains at all. Now i'm eatting about the same amount of calories as i used to gain fat with. now i stay much leaner than i was when i was exerices much more and restricting calories. So i think there alot more to it than calories in calories out

Seen that explanation before. Ironically, by another raw foodist... It's actually a fact. Fat and water makes people look like they have much bigger muscles that they really do have. And as far as losing muscle it's pretty hard to lose much muscle mass in a a short perid of time. They absolutely no reason you can't gain muscle and lose fat at the same time. If you eat really clean and exercise it's about impossible to gain fat

You don't. 99% of the people out there can not lose fat without losing some muscle and can not gain muscle without gaining some fat. Having written that you can do a lot to minimize the damage. Limit your weight loss to 1 pound a week, continue to do strength/resistance work, and get enough protein ( see the sticky in the nutrition section ) If you do those things you will arrive at your goal weight looking tight and good versus flabby. I've never bought into that theory that you must gain fat to gain muscle and vice versa. Maybe if your starving yourself. Alot of times people think there losing muscle becasue there muscles are smaller, but most of the size lose was water and fat. I've personally dropped 50 pounds in the last year and have gotten stronger in the process

Yeah i allways liked your posts. You seemed like a very down to earth friendly girl

Yeah i agree. He has alot of views that i can see turning off some people at first, but if you read alot of his stuff and watch his video's you'll lean alot. LIke L and G said every one has different opinions. You can take 10 of the best raw food gurus and each are going to differ on certain things becasue everyone needs and conditions are unique to them. That's why i like to learn from a variety of people and use what is relivent in my life

Yeah i try to base my diet similar to what gorillas eat except i don't eat any incects or any thing like that. It's cracks me up when Guys act like you need meat and lots of it. We are very similar to chimps and gorillas and if you look at the percent of little animals they eat it's less than 1 percent of there diet. Gorrillas eat over 100 pounds of greens every day and i'd serious doubt there's over a pound of incects on the greens. No wonder there so strong eatting 100 pounds of wild greens

I agree very much. When i first got into lifting at 15 i was a sucker for those supplement ads and alot of that stuff made my health alot worse. Basicly any thing that was legal i took becasue i figured if it's legal it can't be that bad for me. So i used that stuff until i was 18 or so and go pretty big and pretty strong, but as i got more unhealthy i lost all drive to lift and lost all that size and strength i had. Now i'm health number 1, Training martial arts 2, strength 3 but much different strength than i had before. I go for strength that is useable in grappling or striking instead of just good gym numbers

I agree. allmost every thread about raw foods have people saying negitive things. Wether someone is a raw foodist or no it doesn't really make since to talk bad about eatting all raw foods. I think alot of the people that go out of there way to talk bad about the diet are the people that don't have the disipine to say on it

Probably the same as giving grains to a chimp, or a Vegan diet to a Lion. It's just not something that humans need. Most grains you must cook to make edible. With all the food choices out there there no reason to eat grains.

If you eat enough food you'll get enough protein...I wouldn't worry about that too much...I'd be more worried about your fats and b12. B12 is the only thing that's hard to get , but it's the same as with any Vegan diet where your not eatting processed foods

Humans are animals. I do not like the separation of "human and animal." We are animals as any other and I think that's something that is very important to acknowledge. We're a type of animal like many animals similar to us that shouldn't be eatting grains.

The should look for Supplements that say Whole food. Look at the list of stuff in it and if it's not actual food than don't eat eat. Probably 99.9 percent of supplements out there are synthetic

Also i'm not really the type of person that's big into food prep. I like powders becasue i can put about 10 different things together and it takes a couple min and i'm free to go with no clean up or prep

I meant to say shouldn't worry on my last post. On a average day it really depends. I have alot of different raw powders that i buy in bulk to save money. Allso alot of really big salads with alot of different green leavy veggies with some differents seeds and olives. Some of the main foods i eat are. Hemp powder Goji Berries Cocoa Powder Spirulina Chorella Wheat Grass Powder Barley Grass Powder Nettle Leaf Powder Kelp Dulse Spinage Kale there are alot more that i'm forgeting, but those are some of my favories

You should worry about protein if your eatting raw. If you eat enough calories and a variety of foods it's about impossible to be low on protein. I get over 150 grams of protein every day. If i wanted i could double that. Hemp, Spirulina, Chorella are some of my favorites.

I think if people use common sence it's probably a good idea to want to get every thing a food has to offer. Foods have certain enzyme, vitamin, amino acid anf mineral combinations that are tamperted with when cooking takes place. I just don't see the point of eatting a cooked food unless you were extremely poor and needed a food like Brown Rice that you can get big bags of for 25 bucks. As far as tests go there's so much still undiscovered with nutrition that who's to say cooking doesn't kill 98 percent of the whole value of the food. NO one knows either way. There's a estimated 100,000 nutriants and only 1000 or or so have been discovered. So if people are waiting for science to come up will all the answers then there in trouble. Also i can't really think of a worthwhile food that needs to be cooked. Beans? Grains? both of which are far from something humans need. You can ask pretty much any doctor or so call health expert and so what are the healthiest foods. THere will be a couple idiots that will say lean meat, but the mojority of people know raw fruits and Veggies or the most important foods there are.

I wouldn't say he's a moron. He's a extremely intelligent guy. Most the stuff he says is true, but some things are a big out there

I don't know if it would effect the Raw foods. The thing about Soy beans other than what's all ready been said is that it's very acidic. Not as bad as something like red meat, but still pretty bad. Shouldn't bee a big deal if you eat alot of green foods

NAH Depends on what you consider a high percentage. Different sources say different amounts, but if i average out what i've read it's around 50 percent. Some of the Essential amino acids like tritophan are allmost compete destroyed

It's a fact that 100 percent of the enzymes are lost and a high percent of protein, vitamins and minerals depending the the food and the heat