I lost 30 lbs in 2 months on the raw food diet. Too fast?

How many bananas do you eat at a time?

How often did you have to run to the bathroom?

I'm actually serious.

Only raw fruits and veggies? What do you do about protein? As I typed that, I already thought of the answer others will provide....

Swallow.

Terps-i-core wrote:

Only raw fruits and veggies? What do you do about protein? As I typed that, I already thought of the answer others will provide....

Swallow.

That's what the good ones do.

I actually don't like bananas that much. I've been having lots of other fruits. Whatever I can get for cheap at the farmers market.

I usually crap once per day, in the morning, and its fast.

Protein? I've got plenty. In addition to lots of fruit, I eat lots of green vegetables, and green smoothies with fruit blended with leaves. Did you know that lettuce is 18% protein (by calorie)?

A nice large lettuce leaf has about 5 calories...so you are getting in about 1 calorie of protein.

Congratulations on your weight loss, but there are better ways. Right now you are losing weight through simple calorie restriction. Eat all the fruits and vegetables you want and you won't be able to eat that many calories during the day. That plus exercise and you'll lose weight, but without proper protein intake you will also lose muscle which will make your weight loss stagnate.

The only problem with the Atkin's style diet is misapplication. There is nothing wrong with a diet only containing 50g of carbs a day...provided you don't do that for infinity. A diet that low (let's say 20-50g carbs) shouldn't be followed for more than a month or two. It is however a good initiation for those who consume carbs in mass quantities and want to lose body fat. You know why people lose weight so quickly on these diet shows and on these very low carb diets? Because carbs stored as glycogen are also stored with a lot of water. Cut carbs, cut glycogen, cut A LOT of water.

If your goal is to lose weight then your carbohydrate intake shouldn't go over 100g (not including non-root veggies...so count potatoes, carrots, do not count greens, broccoli, etc). All of this 100g should come post-workout and 2-3 hours post-workout. This is because the carbs will be stored as glycogen instead of stored as fat post-workout. Not working out that day? Eat them in the morning as you are basically waking from a 6-8 hr fast. Increase protein intake from lean meat sourres (lean beef, fish, chicken, etc) to 1-2g per lb body weight.

Weight train, eat protein = increase muscle mass = increase resting metabolism = lose fat faster over the long term.

Eat every 2-3 hours also will increase metabolism.

Drink water at .5oz per lb bodyweight to lose weight. Every process in your body requires water.

Of course you'll need a calorie deficit. Want to lose body mass? You need to consume less calories than you use. Want to maximize increases in muscle mass? You need to consume more calories than you use.

Alan

You are wrong. I have built muscle during my diet. I am eating 3-4 pounds of greens per day, hence plenty of protein. I love salads and green smoothies.

Try some of these school menus:

http://www.shirleyqliquor.com/sqllunch.mp3

I lost 50 pounds by eating only sprouts out of the garbage can at Noah's Bagels and the grass in my front lawn. And as long as I'm grazing, I don't need to mow it. Best of luck, sir.

Terps-i-core wrote:

Try some of these school menus:

http://www.shirleyqliquor.com/sqllunch.mp3

linkynoworky

wricrolled wrote:

Terps-i-core wrote:

Try some of these school menus:

http://www.shirleyqliquor.com/sqllunch.mp3

linkynoworky

Do you have your volume on? Worky good for me.

Bucket Beamer wrote:

You are wrong. I have built muscle during my diet. I am eating 3-4 pounds of greens per day, hence plenty of protein. I love salads and green smoothies.

LOL you lie. You cannot get enough protein to build muscle by just eating greens and drinking smoothies. Unless the smoothies have protein powder in them

Bucket Beamer wrote:

raw fruits and vegetables

I have the same type of diet and love it.

I first went on this diet in 1974.

4 lbs of green per day is 80 grams of protein!

smoothie king wrote:

LOL you lie. You cannot get enough protein to build muscle by just eating greens and drinking smoothies. Unless the smoothies have protein powder in them

4 pounds is a lot of greens.

80g of protein is not a lot.

I'm the pope and I have a bridge to sell you!...:)

Alan

David O'Meara aka One Mile Runner has been on this diet for years.

His site is onemilerunner.com

Good job on the weight loss kid. Now keep the weight off and keep the running on the crete.

You are one step away from caloric restriction. Study it, do it and you can probably double your lifespan. Go for it! I wish I had the guts to do what you just did.

http://www.calorierestriction.org/