raw vegan lifestyle

No problems for me with an almost-always vegan diet, but I am not sure that raw diets are healthy. One thing you can do is to switch the macros MFP sets for you (carbs, sugars, etc) to nutrients you want to be sure you *are* eating enough of. I keep mine set for calories, protein, iron, calcium, potassium and vitamin C. Those are certainly not the only nutrients you need, but they are some main ones, and foods high in those tend to be high in other nutrients. If you are eating vegan, you need to be sure you are getting vitamin B12. My favorite sources are fortified soy milk and Red Star nutritional yeast. Be sure you are taking in enough calories--no starvation diets! And see your doctor in case your thyroid meds need adjusting or something else is wrong. For me, a healthy diet includes a lot of beans (cooked!), dark leafy greens like spinach, kale, turnip greens, nutritional yeast, sweet potatoes and bananas, cocoa powder, chia seed or ground flax for omega 3 fatty acids, fortified soy milk, whole grain bread, red grapes, tofu, almonds and walnuts, pepitas...you get the picture. I have really good energy and don't often get sick. I've lost weight and feel great. I have been a vegan-leaning vegetarian for 25 years, but the last few years I got slack about nutrition, gained weight, and felt like crud. What I'm eating now, though, is working. I hope that helps. A vegan diet can be super healthy, but I worry a bit about raw diets.

I have a good vegetarian friend who enjoys raw veganism. She did stop though because she found she could ot stay warm in the winter (Canada). I have another friend who had the same problem. She does not do it in the winter now, but tends towards it in the summer. The other friend quit vegetarianism entirely, but she wa doing it more fo a health experiment rather than based on a strong belief that this was a better way for her to live.

My vegetarian friend also had problems accommodating her family who eats meats and doesn't enjoy raw. It was a lot of extra work for her to eat that way.

Besides the extra work and cold, she really enjoyed it.

nvmomketo wrote: »

I have a good vegetarian friend who enjoys raw veganism. She did stop though because she found she could ot stay warm in the winter (Canada). I have another friend who had the same problem. She does not do it in the winter now, but tends towards it in the summer. The other friend quit vegetarianism entirely, but she wa doing it more fo a health experiment rather than based on a strong belief that this was a better way for her to live.

My vegetarian friend also had problems accommodating her family who eats meats and doesn't enjoy raw. It was a lot of extra work for her to eat that way.

Besides the extra work and cold, she really enjoyed it.

Ya, my vegan friends in upstate New York tended towards raw in the summer but give it up once the weather turns cold.

I'm vegan mostly raw. I eat 3 bananas for breakfast and fruit salad for lunch. I have two more banana for snack. For dinner I have salad chickpeas and sometimes crackers. I am thinking about raw till four lately. I'd find it cheaper to eat rice at night but in worried about gaining weight eating so much fruit during the day then rice at night with a pumpkin soup? Does anyone here have good results eating fruit until dinner then having rice at night? I need to lose a few kilos now after Christmas and save money also. Raw till four would suit my budget but I'm anxious to try cooked food

Please educate yourselves by watching 101 reasons to go vegan. It's the best answer to your questions and the best speech I've ever heard . Why do we eat cows and not dogs? Animal protein leaks calcium from our bones. Protein from plants doesnt . I watched another epic documentary tonight called rawvegan documentary national geographic juice experiment on YouTube. Everyone on the month clense was fat and sick and medicated then a month on juice healed them. I'm sold guys

baristabeannz wrote: »

I'm vegan mostly raw. I eat 3 bananas for breakfast and fruit salad for lunch. I have two more banana for snack. For dinner I have salad chickpeas and sometimes crackers. I am thinking about raw till four lately. I'd find it cheaper to eat rice at night but in worried about gaining weight eating so much fruit during the day then rice at night with a pumpkin soup? Does anyone here have good results eating fruit until dinner then having rice at night? I need to lose a few kilos now after Christmas and save money also. Raw till four would suit my budget but I'm anxious to try cooked food

If you're worried about eating all that fruit, then why don't you eat more vegetables?
Also, chickpeas and crackers are cooked, aren't they?

Don't need to do raw vegan for the purposes of weight loss. All you need to do for weight loss is keep your calories at or under goal for that. I thought raw veganism was more a nutritional-philosophical thing, than a weight loss tool.

I personally couldn't do raw vegan because it's too limited. I need to cook my food. There are so many nutritious foods that would be completely eliminated by a raw requirement. I think my health would probably suffer from such a limited supply of nutrients. You can't get everything you need from raw fruits and veg. You'd need extra supplements and I'm not into that.

crazyravr wrote: »

crzycatlady1 wrote: »

baristabeannz wrote: »

Please educate yourselves by watching 101 reasons to go vegan. It's the best answer to your questions and the best speech I've ever heard . Why do we eat cows and not dogs? Animal protein leaks calcium from our bones. Protein from plants doesnt . I watched another epic documentary tonight called rawvegan documentary national geographic juice experiment on YouTube. Everyone on the month clense was fat and sick and medicated then a month on juice healed them. I'm sold guys

Actually some people do eat dogs.

Meat is meat. If you were starving you would be eating anything you could get your hands on. Ever hear of an airplane crush in the mountains with only a few survivors? what would you do?

Couldn't resist.