Follow me in my journey of being a Raw Vegan!!!

Following!! Stay strong!!

Me and my roommate may be trying to go raw soon... not yet, but soon!

More power to you. I tried this and I ended up gaining weight, having no energy and feeling horrible.

I wish you the best of luck.

Do you have a plan to get in your protein requirements?

That's so exciting,.. I hope to be 100% one day or at least 95% raw.
How long did it take you to transition before you decided to go 100%? I want to go 100% raw RIGHT NOT but I don't know if that's the right way,.. so I taking it slow. At the moment I am about 80% raw(or at least I try to be)

No dairy, no eggs, no animal products!? I couldn't imagine going raw vegan, It's definitely not for me, but good luck to you Rahshe03. :flowerforyou:

Pardon my bluntness but .....

Why?
What is the point of going raw vegan?
I understand those who want to cut processed foods. I get that take.
What's the draw of raw vegan-ism? or benefit rather?

People go VEGAN because they care about animals and don't agree with using animals for personal gain or entertainment. The way animals are treated in feedlots, battery cages, and slaughterhouses is down right despicable and vegans don't want to put their money to abusing animals. Animals raised for human consumption lead horrible lives and aren't even that healthy so why would you want to put them inside your body is beyond me. Cows have no room to move, they stand in crap all day long, they don't get to eat grass which they are naturally made for, their babies are taken away from them, they are slaughtered in very painful ways. Chickens never see the sun, they are fed sugar water to fatten them up as quickly as possible. Pigs are treated just as bad as cows. Egg laying chickens live in a small cage about two feet by two feet with 4-6 other chickens, they never go outside, their feathers fall out, they are overworked and hang themselves in the cages. Dairy cows are treated like horribly and support the veal industry, their milk is so full of nasty puss bacteria that is why its pastuerized. Most factory farms don't have veterinarians looking after their animals - if an animal becomes useless they just pop a bolt action gun to the head a couple times to kill it. Then they send it to the refiner guys who will take anything where they grind the dead animals (other animals as well - dead dogs & cats come here) and make what they call animal protein & then also skim the fat for makeup & stuff. The animal protien is then sent out and made into dog food, cat food, and sent to factory farms to feed back to the animals we eat. These refiners take anything...doesn't matter how sick the animals are.
Factory Farms feed the animals so much antibiotics that the virus keep getting stronger and stronger and that is why we have mad cow disease, bird flu, swine flu, e.coli, salmonella. We created this mess. The feed the animals growth hormones and little 10 year girls have boobies now.
Other than all of the health reasons to go vegan it is right. I'm not sure how someone can see things that happen or call themselves an animal lover or even say they are an environmentalist but still continue to eat meat. Meat has feces in it for goodness sakes!!!!

People go RAW because at 115F the enzymes inside of fruits, veggies, nuts, seeds, and grains are broken down & the food is dead. The enzymes are gone and at this point your body can't break it down and considers it a foreign object - not nurishment. Each fruit, veggie, grain, seed is crafted in this magical way by mother nature to provide all the enzymes in balance so your body can use them but when they are processed and/or heated these go away and the body is taxed to do something with this stuff.



Taken from rawfoodexplained.com:
Fresh uncooked foods will supply the body with a superabundance of all the food factors we require and with all the vitamins, known and unknown. Cooking foods diminishes nutritional support.

Food consists of those substances which are useful in building the body (as in growth), in the healing and reparative processes which sustain life, and finally, as a source of sufficient energy for the performance of metabolic purposes, and for fuel to maintain body temperature. Seven million new blood cells must be produced every second we live. The material from which these must be manufactured is food.

Optimum nutrition can be obtained when the food eaten is optimum in all nutrient values. These food values are optimum in freshly-picked, organically-grown, ripe fruits and vegetables and eaten uncooked and as soon after picking as possible. These freshly-picked whole foods are rich in all food factors properly proportioned as designed by nature's wonderful food factories, the living plants.

this is interesting. i have never heard of a "raw vegan". i don't think i could ever eat that much fruit in my diet, i'd be so bloated and gas-y no one would want to be around me. :laugh: not to mention the massive amounts of just fruits & veggies that i'd have to eat in order to sustain myself. i love my fruits & veggies but i definitely need more variety.

other than the "save the animals" (which i do respect those opinions) is there anyone else out there who sees any other benefits to eating raw vegan?? are there other benefits? i know someone mentioned something about having to have food at a certain temperature- i guess i'm not understanding this very well. I'm just really curious about this. not that i'm very interested in it...but just wanting to learn more about others' lifestyles. do you get very bloated on the diet? are you allowed to eat grains?? how do you find variety in your meals? not to sound rude, but doesn't eating the same 3 fruits and the same 5 vegetables get a little old? i remember coming across a girl in one of my college classes who would eat like 5 cups of mashed bananas for breakfast and then just bits of lettuce with dates & tomatoes for dinner. 5 cups of mashed bananas! That seems crazy to me. it just doesn't seem like enough or a variety of things to sustain your body. how do you eat enough to sustain an intense working out lifestyle, like for those who are doing marathons?

anyways, i'm honestly not trying to be rude, i am curious.

@LoveMy4kids - yes the nuts are raw - you can purchase them raw in many stores

Raw Vegan is one thing - people can also be vegan or raw without the other. There are some people who follow a raw diet but also consume raw animal products (milk, meat & such) although the majority of raw foodist do not do this.

As far as bloated & gas-y. This is an issue for some however very easily fixed. http://www.momssoapbox.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/food_combining.jpg Food combining is important in any diet not just raw foods. It only become apparent in raw foods as you become more intune with your body.


--are there other benefits? no cancer, no premature aging, healthier, more energy, feeling amazing, never depressed, low cholesterol, no heart attacks, environmentally friendly

--i know someone mentioned something about having to have food at a certain temperature- i guess i'm not understanding this very well. I'm just really curious about this. not that i'm very interested in it...but just wanting to learn more about others' lifestyles.

Cooking creates diseases on several counts. The most salient are as follows:

Cooking deranges and destroys nutrients. To the extent that this occurs, we are denied needed vitamins, minerals, proteins, essential fatty acids and other nutrient factors.
The deranged nutrients become, via cooking, unusable substances that are toxic in the system. This is readily evidenced by the doubling and tripling of the leukocyte count in the blood in half an hour to an hour after eating a meal of cooked foods. Any poison or drug taken into the body occasions the same body response.
The body must expend tremendously of its nerve and other energies to expel the offending substances of cooked foods and to clear itself of their contamination. Cooked food eaters have "hangovers" and "withdrawal" symptoms just as do drinkers of coffee, tobacco smokers or other drug addicts who forego their regular round of stimulation.
The body cannot build really healthy cells and tissues with poor quality materials. That which must be cooked to be palatable is not worthy of the human diet. Cooking makes it less so! Shun cooked foods and guide your clients to raw foods. Living foods of our adaptation are the road to magnificent health, and anything less than the ideal results in development, growth and functions that are less than ideal.

Thus cooked foods as articles of diet are pathogenic in that they poison us on one count and result in deficiencies on yet another count.

RAW foods are not just for weight loss they are for HEALTH.

--do you get very bloated on the diet? no, proper food combining needs to be used

--are you allowed to eat grains?? I personally don't but many do. I follow lfrv and also follow hygienic practices.

--how do you find variety in your meals? not to sound rude, but doesn't eating the same 3 fruits and the same 5 vegetables get a little old? Well I love the fruit I eat and don't really care for something that will weigh me down. I eat to live not live to eat. Food addicts are rough but once you get over them its very liberating

--i remember coming across a girl in one of my college classes who would eat like 5 cups of mashed bananas for breakfast and then just bits of lettuce with dates & tomatoes for dinner. 5 cups of mashed bananas! That seems crazy to me. it just doesn't seem like enough or a variety of things to sustain your body. how do you eat enough to sustain an intense working out lifestyle, like for those who are doing marathons?
I eat about 4 cups of banana for breakfast with water & blended its amazing, easy to digest, and full of energy. I then have dates for snack, another banana smoothie maybe with mangoes in it for lunch, more dates, then a huge salad full of greens, cucumbers, celery, tomatoes - whatever I want. I eat a ton of food to provide energy. I am never hungry and feel satisfied. Bananas & mangoes make me smile. I consume about 1700 calories a day which is on point for what I do. There are many LFRV who consume 3-4K per day - these are your marathoners....check out Harley - AMAZING!! He eats up to 70 bananas a day. He bikes across the world.
Harley - bike rider : http://www.youtube.com/user/durianriders
Freelee - female athlete : http://www.youtube.com/user/Freelea

GREAT CHANNELS:
http://www.youtube.com/user/RawRadiantHealth
http://www.youtube.com/user/RawFoodMuscle

Brown rice

Raw?


....no thanks lol

@mindelicious - thanks for the clarification on things. very interesting to know that some people live that kind of lifestyle. i definitely couldn't hack it. i love my raw veggies but i also enjoy cooking with them, and i feel healthy. but i guess that is the beauty of this world- we can all be different and have our own unique things that make us completely different than the person next door. BTW, i wish I had a banana & mango tree in my yard! How fun!!

my favourite green smoothie is banana, mango, coconut water with some spirulina which is a 'superfood' that makes it green, but you can add celery, lettuce, spinach. Anything green!

A great smoothie is celery, cucumber and coconut meat and water for during training. I take that on bike rides and it is really hydrating.

Check out the liferegenerator on youtube who has a massive set of videos that gives loads of info on raw veganism with loads of smoothie and juice recipes.
He is very inspirational!

Thanks for the clarification.
So the meat aspect takes on more of a 'cruelty free' vibe. I get that.
But what about free range animals? Free range and fed chemically free organic foods?
Is it still (for you, at least) about not killing an animal? The meatless part, anyhow.

Its not just about the cruelty free thing. We are not meat eaters.
Check out this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05zhL1YUd8Q - very easy to understand & to the point. We are the only animal that has changed the type of food we eat - voluntarily. Our bodies have not choosen this and fight every step but we don't listen. So many people are lactose intolerant because we all are!! However some bodies have just given up dealing with it and now they are labeled lactose intolerant. We are the only animal that drinks milk into adulthood and drinks other animals milk.

Meat takes 4 hours sometimes to digest - it makes us tired! How can we be limber, energetic, and healing our bodies when we take 4 hours to digest junk? If we eat meat at 3 meals a day we are digesting for 12 hours - and that's just to get it out of the stomach!!!!!!!!! When will we work on cleaning our organs & blood, when will we strengthen our immune system? When will we get a chance to destroy bad bacteria and get rid of cancerous cells....i guess we won't thats why we spend billions of dollars in disease research yet more and more people are dying from this stuff. We need to think of prevention and cutting out meat is the first step in fighting terminal diseases, saving the environment, and a happier population in general.

OH and at first I stopped eating meat because of the health benefits - not the ethical reasons - I felt much better!! More energy & not sick as much. I actually cured a couple of health problems that I was told I would have to take medications for the rest of my life. I currently take no meds & have never felt better. I don't get headaches or the flu or any of that crap. After a couple months I learned all the horrible things they do to animals & then I learned all the scientific stuff behind how our bodies really work. If you would like to learn a bit more check this out: http://www.rawfoodexplained.com/science.html Just scroll down a little & every question regarding health & nutrition is there.

Just jumping in to see what do u think would make a better smoothie/juice...using coconut milk or almond milk
I've been doing a juice/clean fast for the past few days.....have been using berries, apples, mangoes, spinach, celery etc
Not as bad as I thought..LOL

Kim