Plant base

QueenShapeshifter505
QueenShapeshifter505 Posts: 19 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
I am on a plant-based New Journey and I gradually had to get here i cut out all red meats and mostly ate chicken and fish then I cut out the chicken now I am all veggies and I still get my protein I was amazed after a lot of research into this process of how many plant-based items have a lot of protein in them spirulina and chlorella to name a couple I get all my nutrition and vitamins every day which I cannot go without I have more energy than I could ever imagine with taking this meat out I feel more healthier and clear and it took me 6 months to get here to where I can just eat veggies and can't wait for the journey to keep going right now I'm in between raw and steaming sauteing my veggies my goal My overall goal is to be raw 100% the benefits are phenomenal and I'm making great process for my health
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  • QueenShapeshifter505
    QueenShapeshifter505 Posts: 19 Member
    edited December 2017
    Vegan is what i mean by plant base i should of added that in there
  • QueenShapeshifter505
    QueenShapeshifter505 Posts: 19 Member
    Cat3141 wrote: »
    I strongly, strongly recommend reading a book on vegan nutrition written by a registered dietitian. A few good ones are:

    Vegan For Life by Norris and Messina
    Vegan For her by Messina
    Becoming Vegan: The Complete Reference to Plant-Based Nutrition (Comprehensive Edition) by Davis and Melina (be sure to get the updated version of this one).

    Thanks for your insightful comment
  • MarylandRose
    MarylandRose Posts: 239 Member
    MichelleSilverleaf wrote: »
    There's absolutely no benefit to going 100% raw. Many people eventually got sick doing it though.

    Seconding this. I know a few people who've gone raw. Two of them ended up in the hospital. A few more started feeling sick. None of them is still eating a fully raw diet.
    Not from food-borne illness, but from malnutrition in one case and an intestinal blockage in the other. Our bodies have evolved to depend on cooking food to help with our digestion (softening foods, releasing nutrients for better absorption), and going to 100% raw foods is too much; the human body cannot break down the food.
  • apullum
    apullum Posts: 4,838 Member
    Cat3141 wrote: »
    I strongly, strongly recommend reading a book on vegan nutrition written by a registered dietitian. A few good ones are:

    Vegan For Life by Norris and Messina
    Vegan For her by Messina
    Becoming Vegan: The Complete Reference to Plant-Based Nutrition (Comprehensive Edition) by Davis and Melina (be sure to get the updated version of this one).

    Ginny Messina also has a website, http://www.theveganrd.com/. She gives excellent science-based advice.
  • janejellyroll
    janejellyroll Posts: 25,763 Member
    apullum wrote: »
    janejellyroll wrote: »

    Some nutrients are lost when foods are heated. Other nutrients become more available. This is why I believe a variety of cooked and raw foods is probably best for us overall. But if your goal is to become 100% raw, you'd be getting the benefits of raw foods with none of the benefits of cooked foods. You'd also be eliminating many nutritious foods from your diet.

    Tomatoes are a really good example of this. When you cook tomatoes, there is a small loss of vitamin C, but a big increase in available lycopene, an important antioxidant: http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2002/04/cooking-tomatoes-boosts-disease-fighting-power

    Adding oil to your cooked tomatoes even helps your body absorb more of that lycopene: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15927929

    Carrots work similarly--cooking them increases the available beta-carotene your body can absorb, but with a small vitamin C loss: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14673607

    And to piggyback on this, for people eating fruit and vegetables regularly, a small loss of vitamin C isn't going to be a big deal at all because they're likely getting sufficient C from the rest of the food they're eating.
  • livingleanlivingclean
    livingleanlivingclean Posts: 11,751 Member
    QueenShapeshifter505 wrote: »
    I get all my nutient and vitamins each day thats all that matter...i dont care what yall friends did they did it WRONGGGG

    How do you know that? Just because you may think you're eating foods in varieties and quantities to provide sufficient nutrients, how can you be sure that you are absorbing them?
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,052 Member
    QueenShapeshifter505 wrote: »
    MichelleSilverleaf wrote: »
    There's absolutely no benefit to going 100% raw. Many people eventually got sick doing it though.

    To say there is no benefits is absolutely very incorrect I have family members that have been raw and they are in Better Health than many people in my life that I have met it's not what you do it's how you do it

    Eh, I have vegan friends who went raw for a few months but ultimately found it unsustainable. We all lived in an ashram at the time, and had kitchen privileges, so they could just walk in and grab everything they needed - no shopping required. They sprouted legumes, etc., etc., did everything recommended, but still gave it up.

    But I'm not hear to talk you out of anything you have your mind set on - come back in 6 months and give us an update.

    Also, where are you located? If you're somewhere warm year round, you have a better chance of success. I'm in Massachusetts and shudder at the thought of eating raw all winter.
  • megs_1985
    megs_1985 Posts: 199 Member
    A certificate as a personal trainer is not the same as having a masters or doctorates in nutrition like the people who do actual studies as posted above. People touting their opinions as facts has hurt a lot of people and prevented them from getting healthy in a sustainable way. But whatever let us know how it is going in 6 months.
  • QueenShapeshifter505
    QueenShapeshifter505 Posts: 19 Member
    Alatariel75 wrote: »
    Is your friend with the degree the one who told you you're infested with parasites?

    No
  • QueenShapeshifter505
    QueenShapeshifter505 Posts: 19 Member
    megs_1985 wrote: »
    A certificate as a personal trainer is not the same as having a masters or doctorates in nutrition like the people who do actual studies as posted above. People touting their opinions as facts has hurt a lot of people and prevented them from getting healthy in a sustainable way. But whatever let us know how it is going in 6 months.

    Whos a personal trainer?
  • PaulaWallaDingDong
    PaulaWallaDingDong Posts: 4,641 Member
    QueenShapeshifter505 wrote: »
    My friend has a degree in all this and owns a gym...soooooooo im good not to mention i years of studying and my brother is friends with pro basketballs players and and i get great tips

    Gyms and pro basketballs are exercise/sports.
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,207 Member
    edited December 2017
    My friends brother is a pro-basketballer. He packs away a whole family pizza to himself on the regular.

    Are these athletes you know 100% raw?
  • lucerorojo
    lucerorojo Posts: 790 Member
    About 20 years ago, I was a vegan for 3 years. I considered going raw. There is an institute in Puerto Rico (well it was still functioning before the hurricane) that specializes in it, that I was planning to attend. I never did it though. I'm an omnivore now. For me, I stopped being vegan because my lifestyle/city changed and I didn't have time to prepare my own food anymore, so it wasn't sustainable. Now I can't even imagine going back to vegan, let alone raw. But I wish you the best. Here's the link to the Ann Wigmore Institute in PR: https://annwigmore.org/
  • janejellyroll
    janejellyroll Posts: 25,763 Member
    edited December 2017
    QueenShapeshifter505 wrote: »
    I get all my nutient and vitamins each day thats all that matter...i dont care what yall friends did they did it WRONGGGG

    You're getting everything *now*, sure. But according to your OP, you aren't fully raw yet. That's what people are discussing -- meeting your nutritional goals on a diet that is 100% raw.

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