80/10/10, RT4, Raw food?

martadespotovic
martadespotovic Posts: 1
edited November 12 in Food and Nutrition
Does anyone here is in this type of life? :)

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  • Laurend224
    Laurend224 Posts: 1,748 Member
    Nope. I found it unsustainable, as I have a family of 5 to cook for and I wouldn't subject them to this diet. We all do nicely on a cooked vegan diet, with lots of fruits to snack on.
  • melimomTARDIS
    melimomTARDIS Posts: 1,941 Member
    As far as high carb vegan diets go, I'd prefer the starch solution plan by Dr. Mcdougall.
  • Linvala
    Linvala Posts: 53 Member
    801010/RT4 can be quite expensive since the amount of fruit you'll consume. Everyone is literally different on how they'll be on it. I tried it before but I always felt overly full and extremely bloated on it. I did feel like I had more energy though but id say give it a try if it really interests you. Some people do well on it, others do well with the starch solution and some prefer to add a little more fat into their diets. Do what makes your body feel good. There is literally no right or wrong way of doing it as long as you are listening to your bodies needs.
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 48,993 Member
    If it's not going to be a diet one does for life, then it's just another fad diet to lose weight.

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  • missiontofitness
    missiontofitness Posts: 4,059 Member
    I wouldn't do it, because the two people who created it have absolutely no nutrition or medical credentials, and focus on earning money by being inflamatory and bro-science-y on the internet.
  • AllonsYtotheTardis
    AllonsYtotheTardis Posts: 16,947 Member
    It sounds awful. Why would I want to do that?
  • jennifershoo
    jennifershoo Posts: 3,198 Member
    NOOOOOOO!
  • jennifershoo
    jennifershoo Posts: 3,198 Member
    missiontofitness wrote: »
    I wouldn't do it, because the two people who created it have absolutely no nutrition or medical credentials, and focus on earning money by being inflamatory and bro-science-y on the internet.

    Exactly. It's just another diet created by people who wanted to make money. It attracts a lot of people with eating disorder on the false pretend that you can binge on fruit and not gain weight.
  • Lezavargas
    Lezavargas Posts: 223 Member
    It would be a very restrictive way of eating. You may want to start incorporating it in slowly. Maybe one meal a day. If its what is right for your body, your body will let you know. I eat alot of raw foods, but many of them are harder to digest, so diving right in can be rough on the system. Healthy eating is a very personal choice, both in what you chose to put in your mouth and recognizing how your body reacts to it.
  • spritziemae
    spritziemae Posts: 2
    I eat an all vegan diet. Mostly raw. Once a year i go a full month 100 percent raw and random weeks 100 percent raw.
  • KitkatcuteNYC
    KitkatcuteNYC Posts: 150 Member
    I hope to one day to go fully raw. I think it's the way it should be!
  • HealthyFit23
    HealthyFit23 Posts: 34 Member
    I know someone who is doing this. She is losing weight, but she will eat 5 bananas at one time or containers of blueberries, strawberries or mangoes. She is now craving fruits and vegetables. I think her body is lacking proteins and fat. I don't see her eating anything lately but fruit. I can't eat a high sugar diet - diabetes in my family so I inherited a bad pancreas. I'm eating a balance diet and I have no cravings. I don't have much weight to lose so I'm not loosing it fast - but 1 pound a week.
  • Jolinia
    Jolinia Posts: 846 Member
    Linvala wrote: »
    801010/RT4 can be quite expensive since the amount of fruit you'll consume. Everyone is literally different on how they'll be on it. I tried it before but I always felt overly full and extremely bloated on it. I did feel like I had more energy though but id say give it a try if it really interests you. Some people do well on it, others do well with the starch solution and some prefer to add a little more fat into their diets. Do what makes your body feel good. There is literally no right or wrong way of doing it as long as you are listening to your bodies needs.

    You got that right. I was really foggy headed after a couple weeks of keeping my fat consumption so low. Yet there are some sharp people zipping around just fine on it.

  • mreichard
    mreichard Posts: 235 Member
    So I've never really gotten the raw food thing. Humans and our ancestors have been eating cooked food far, far longer than we have been homo sapiens --- certainly more than 400,000 years, and some claim more than a million years (http://www.pnas.org/content/109/20/E1215.abstract). When our ancestors ate exclusively raw food they would have been recognizable as human, but clearly not homo sapien. Our digestive systems and intestinal flora are entirely evolved to eat --- and derive huge nutritional benefits from --- cooked food. That's why we do it.
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