You only eat until satisfied and that is why raw foods are not needed in large amounts.

Throw everything you ever read about calories in the TRASH.

Raw foods supply real live enzymed/friendly bacteria, etc. and these allow the body to digest loose polluted skin as new cells are being produced to make a new body.

If you think your getting too thin, then consume more plant fats.

MH

Go online and do a search for raw food diet. You will come up with many websites to thoroughly educate yourself about this way of eating. Many recipes too. It is the one diet I know of that you WON'T have loose hanging skin as a result of weight loss. It is the BEST diet for skin!

For breakfast this morning, I had watermelon.
For a snack I had an almond milk smoothie with banana and maple syrup.
Later I had some fresh squeezed orange juice diluted with distilled water :]
For lunch, a salad with romaine lettuce, cucumber and tomato (from a take-out place)
and some vegie soup which is not raw :0


There are endless possibilities! Condider buying a couple of raw food un-cook books if you want to explore some variety. Eating simple is best, but it is quite a transition at first, for sure!

Good luck.

asdfgh_is_me , good luck on your new health endeavor.

As to the fear of Raw Food Diet you posted of, to an extent I see this as a natural by-product to some of the social engineering and conditioning of the masses by the mainstream, so in a sense, you are acting / reacting in a way that you have been programmed to react. Furthermore, chances are good that you are unaware that you have been programmed in these kinds of ways.

The types of conditioning we all are exposed to are many, some are very subtle, some are not. Just one real-life example. There is a small-town diner I frequent, the kind that has laminated menus that they hand out. After I don't know how long, I just recently noticed a subtle and slight bit of programming, my guess is that the proprietors of the restaurant themselves are not even aware that they are propagating it, but, the bottom border of the menu has a short warning: "Caution, there is an inherent health risk involved with eating raw and or undercooked foods". My guess is that if there is any shread of reasonable explanation for this, it has somehow spawned from the "raw egg" scare that's been making it's round the past several years.

The thing that really draws my attention and ire (even though I'm not Irish ;) from this type of subtle propaganda is that it leaves totally unspoken the far greater and more prominent health risks assocaited with eating things that are cooked IE> not raw. Within the scope of the MH Obey-nature forum, if it's cooked at all, then it is of course over cooked. More modern abominations like the microwave oven take these routine risks even further - not only do they "cook" food, in the process they alter the molecular structure of what we consider "food"; yum yum ;)