Raw Food Weight Loss Will Change Your Life.

I wish I had heard about raw food weight loss before I wasted years fighting an uphill battle with my gut. I spent so much precious time and mental energy working to bring my weight down to a reasonable 180, and I still had a excess body fat.

Today, after my pursuit of raw food weight loss (Link to raw transformation), I stand at a slim 6ft, 165 pounds. That's 55 pounds lighter than my all time high of 220.

I'm strong and lithe, capable of doing some yoga asanas that leaves many gap-jawed. I run miles everyday with nearly endless energy, my memory has improved four-fold, and I could have imaged none of this when I was 17, overweight, depressed, and convinced that genetics had cursed me.

The key to success in health, whether your goal is an escape from pain and disease, finding more energy, or dropping a few pounds, is simply to stop harming your body.

When you're eating a well-managed raw food diet and living a healthy lifestyle, the pounds will fall off rapidly.

Raw Food Weight Loss and Responsibility

I indulged in this for years. My older brother was thin and handsome. He could eat like a pig and not put on a pound. I was overweight by the time I was in fourth grade and the situation only got worse as I got older.

My brother took after the thin, English side of the family, my parents reasoned, while I had the fat Italian genes. Such is fate.

No!

Though metabolic rate varies from person to person, it's up to you to take responsibility and live a healthy life.

Some can pollute their body and remain thin, but they will suffer just as much in the long run when disease catches up to them. It pays to eat better no matter what your body looks like.

With raw food weight loss and a diet centered around delicious sweet fruit, you can trim your waistline and become the happy, energetic, disease-free person that you've always wanted to be, regardless of your genes.

Enacting Raw Food Weight Loss

Whenever you burn more calories though living than you take in, you'll lose fat. It's as simple as that.

There are 3,500 calories in a pound of fat. If your goal is to lose a pound of fat a week, which is a great rate to lose at, you can either burn an extra 500 calories a day, eat 500 calories less a day, or meet somewhere in the middle with perhaps 250 extra calories burnt off and and 250 less calories taken in.

It's just that you're eating a ton of healthy food instead of a ton of junk food. You'll probably be so satiated by your meals that you'll loose your desire to snack.

There are two reasons for this. As Dr. Douglas Graham explains in his book, the "80/10/10 diet," there are two forms of satiation (1). The first is the feeling of a full stomach.

You'll be eating a considerably larger volume of food to meet caloric requirements, and your body responds to this by feeling satisfied. The second is that the bulk of your calories come from fruit, which are rich in simple sugars. Your blood sugar rises almost immediately, which tells the brain that you're satisfied.

The traditional meal of steak and potatoes lacks this simple sugar, which is why, no matter how much you stuff yourself, you'll find yourself snacking after dinner, just looking for a little something else.

Desert is commonly had after a meal to meet his same need. The brain doesn't sense much sugar in the potatoes, so now you're shoveling down pie.

The great thing about raw food weight loss is that you're shifting the satisfying "desert" of sugar-rich fruits to the main dish of every meal. You can eat a lot, not feel guilty, and be filled with energy.

The Great Water Weight Dispersal: Familiarize Yourself With The Bathroom

You know that if you put it on a slug, the creature will melt. You know that salt in a wound burns. So why would you ever want to put it in your food?

Our bodies must struggle to segregate and then eliminate all the salt we shovel into it. It does this by surrounding toxic matter with water, thus making it mostly inert, until the liver and kidneys can clean it out of the body.

Because a pint of water weighs a pound, eliminating it can lead to the rapid loss of large amounts of weight. To varying degrees, this sort of rapid loss is common for everyone switching to raw food weight loss.

If an obese person starts eating a raw food diet and living healthfully, it's not unusual to see them shed 25 pounds of water weight in the first two weeks.

With no more toxic matter coming in, the body finally has time to deal with the backlog of work and eliminate the waste material as well as the water. After this initial surge, most or all of the weight being lost should be fat.

Practical Implementation.

There is no artifice in a banana or apple. You can easily figure out how many calories are in each one and then just multiple that by how many you've had. Compare this to a slice of frozen pizza, a dehydrated, denatured mix of goo that is almost impossible to gauge calorically.

For those wishing to track calories and figure out exactly how much they should be eating for their desired pace of weight loss, check out my detailed explanation on how to set up an individual health plan for raw food weight loss.

Cravings During Raw Food Weight Loss

The problem for most people is that they don't eat enough fruit and so they're hungry. When you're hungry, you're open to all kinds of cravings. So when craving something, just cram down a few more bananas. The sugars and bulk will satisfy you.

However, there are also emotional cravings. Many use food as a numbing agent to deal with emotional grief. Fatty, dense foods are especially good at numbing because they need so much energy to digest.

This strain is mostly absent on fruit. You're intake of fatty fruits and nuts will be minimal. On a raw food weight loss diet, there's nothing between you and reality. You're going to have to face that reality without drugging yourself into unconsciousness with food.

If you say you're hungry, and I offer you some mangos, you'll take them if you're really hungry. If, on the other hand, you tell me that you're not hungry for mangos, but only want pizza, then you're having an emotional craving.

You're not hungry at all. Satiating hunger and emotional needs are two separate issues. Once you start facing up to your emotions and stop hiding behind numbing food, your life is going to get a whole lot better.

So adopt a raw food weight loss diet, shed pounds, find energy, and become the person you've always wanted to be.

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