Raw Foodists

I tried it. . .I found it too time consuming and it made socializing almost impossible.

I still try to incorporate raw food (I'm anywhere from 50-75% raw still) but for long term, it was very difficult to consume the volume of food to get even remotely close to a "normal" level of calories at 100%. Also, I missed grains, meat and fish too much.

I also didn't notice any profound health differences. (not to discount others who do, just I did not.):flowerforyou:

I think everyone should be doing 50%. . .but that's just me. It makes it super easy to eat my fruits and veg. Raw nuts are getting harder and harder to find, though. . .with all the food poisoning scares, a lot of even "raw" nuts are pasteurized.

In general, I get the best health benefits from just staying as non-processed as possible with everything.

The other issue I ran into is I developed sort of a dessert problem. I would think. . .well . . .this is all healthy. But even a raw pie is still a pie.

I still do a few weeks of close to 100% after a vacation or other big indulgences to sort of "reset" my system. It really eliminates all of the junk food cravings for me.:flowerforyou:

I would like to become a raw foodist but I find it so hard. Especially as right now I still live with my father and he doesn't even like me being vegetarian, let alone vegan (as I tried for a long time) or raw foodist.

Vegan foods I find easy to recognise because I've found all the shops that sell vegan products and got used to which ingredients are from animals, so I may try that when I have a place of my own. But raw food is difficult - foods aren't always labelled according to whether or not they're completely organic and unpasteurised etc. Fruit juice, for example, is never raw when bought from a carton, according to one website I looked at. And juicing your own fruit is very time consuming and expensive.

And as has been said, eating out would be impossible...