Has anyone tried or is anyone on, the raw food diet? If so, have you lost a significant amount of weight?

August 31st, 2009 at 3:18 am raw foods weight loss diet

I am in sort of a dilemma. I need to lose a significant amount of weight by June. I am a vegetarian and I have recently started to look into the raw food diet. Questioning whether or not it is a good diet is not the issue here, I know it is a good diet! I just want to know how significant the weight loss and how fast the weight comes off after starting this diet to help me decide if it is right for me. I also wanted to know what types of skin improvements were noticed. I have natural dark circles under my eyes, though I am only 22, and I was wondering if the diet would help with that at all.

I have tried it and you can expect to lose weight but I must say that it is some what hard to transition into. The improvements are nice to see, my skin looks the best its really ever looked and it’s much easier to maintain my weight loss. One other item you may want to incorporate into your diet is aloe vera juice to help keep the weight off.
Here is a link to a great book I used to the raw food stint

http://www.amazon.com/Raw-Food-Real-World-Recipes/dp/0060793554

4 Responses to “Has anyone tried or is anyone on, the raw food diet? If so, have you lost a significant amount of weight?”

Top Cat — August 31, 2009 @ 8:57 am
I am tryign to eat raw like one day out of the week. Imy wieght has been stable, but I am new to the raw thing. – one day a week!

For bags, I noticed that my iron levels were a bit low, so I eat loads of foods with high iron, eggplant is my fav. grilled eggplant is very filling. in sandwiches.

Also, a good 8 to 9 hours of proper sleep every night is always good to let your skin rejuvnet (sp?)
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smith.derrick83 — August 31, 2009 @ 9:31 am
with excersize you will lose 7 pounds a week…
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Theory1 — August 31, 2009 @ 10:07 am
I have tried it and you can expect to lose weight but I must say that it is some what hard to transition into. The improvements are nice to see, my skin looks the best its really ever looked and it’s much easier to maintain my weight loss. One other item you may want to incorporate into your diet is aloe vera juice to help keep the weight off.
Here is a link to a great book I used to the raw food stint
http://www.amazon.com/Raw-Food-Real-World-Recipes/dp/0060793554
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*be beautiful, be yourself* — August 31, 2009 @ 10:26 am
The raw food diet is typically not based on losing weight, but on being natural and in touch with the environment. However, usually, a large amount of weight is lost in a short amount of time (only if you’re overweight, though). Here is a web site about this that you may want to look at.

http://shazzie.com/raw/transformation/
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