Is it dangerous to your health to eat way TO MUCH raw fat?

[startootsie]

Hi all!

Is it dangerous to eat to much raw fat? I know a lot veries from person to person, so I am going to be hinest and say I think I might eat way to much! And I am wondering if this is extemely unhealthy?

I will be honest now, I kinda feel like weird cause it's a lot. Anyway, I make raw chocolate that has tahini, coconut oil, cacao, carob, and agave. Then I freeze it, So I might have eight peices of that in a day, about 1 inche to and inche and a 1/2 thick, it veries though, then maybe a 1/4 to a half avocado, then a lot of cashew cheese, and tofu for transition food, and I know that has fat, along with fruits, greens, veggies, and so on. So do you think I am overdoing it? I know to listen to my body, and at the same time I have to ask if this is to much? Oh ya and some day's I get into the almond butter a lot!

Thank you!

[Sunshine9]

Dangerous? I don't think so. Healthy in the long term? That depends on you. Most agree though that eating TOO much fat isn't good in the long term.

I just think of all the people I saw eating a big mac, french friends, and a frosty shake. Or 1/2 a pizza. And that's all UNHEALTHY FAT. So girl eat a whole jar of raw almond butter if you like. I don't care what the low fat gurus say that the SAD diet is 42% fat (who knows, maybe it is). But look around!! It has got more than that, and our bodies are still incredibly resilient. (albeit horribly ill and deteriorating, but the fact that most make it as long as they do is amazing!)

Don't worry about it. Love the food, and love the process. That is more important than anything from a book. Trust that your body will know if it is too much fat. There wouldn't be so many varing opinions on how to do the raw diet right if there was a correct way. So take in the information, and try it for yourself. That is the only way you'll truly know.

[sport]

The problem with eating too much of anything is that it probably means that you are getting too little of something else.

[janicejourney]

I'd stop worrying about the fat and just drop the tofu :) Also I would add more greens.

[Eveleaf]

Wow, three excellent posts and I agree with all of them. Healthy raw fats are to be EMBRACED, but let's not forget healthy raw fruits and healthy raw greens either! I say load up on all of them.

The only thing that makes me a LITTLE concerned is the raw chocolate, I mean, you're eating a lot of it. And I just want to say, raw chocolate is divine, yes it is. But make sure you are eating from hunger and your body's signals, NOT for emotional reasons. If I'm feeling anxious or stressed or disappointed or something else unpleasant, I know raw chocolate is exactly the kind of thing I reach for. And then it's NOT healthy, because I'm eating to cover up an emotion that really needs to be released.

Cheers,
Eve

[misslinda]

Dangerous? how much fat do you plan on eating? ;)

Alissa talks about this in her book as far as the "transition" into raw food lifestyle. It is so common to have increased appetite and consuming more higher "fat" content raw foods like avacados,nuts etc. but the difference here is they are ALIVE not dead like cooked foods. Your body is "excited" to get all these living, enzyme packed goodies.....

so you're doing fine. your body will naturally (as most of us have experienced) taper and balance. you will without a doubt develop an yunderstanding of what your body wants by how it feels and responds. for example, I realized the other day that everything I ate and bought from food to clothes was all plum and purples! I ate figs and plums that day and all the clothes I bought were in shades of purple......the joy of raw eating ;)

like Sport was saying, perhaps investigate other areas of your eating.

[codajess]

I have this theory that I'll eat whatever (raw) I want now; and as long as I stay raw, the cravings or desire for certain foods will subside and I'll end up craving what my body needs. I figure it's temporary.

[asil]

The problem with eating too much of anything is that it probably means that you are getting too little of something else.

I think that's the real issue. Personally, I think fat is really healthy. If I lower my fat intake too much, I start getting dry skin, feel hungry all the time, and even my hair and nails suffer. The only reason to think about lowering fat intake, IMO, is to make sure that you're eating a wide variety of other things, with all the many nutrients that nature provides. fat is very filling, so if I ate a bunch of almond butter, for example, I probably wouldn't eat a big salad that day.

[SNMB]

I think that's the real issue. Personally, I think fat is really healthy. If I lower my fat intake too much, I start getting dry skin, feel hungry all the time, and even my hair and nails suffer. The only reason to think about lowering fat intake, IMO, is to make sure that you're eating a wide variety of other things, with all the many nutrients that nature provides. fat is very filling, so if I ate a bunch of almond butter, for example, I probably wouldn't eat a big salad that day.

Yes, definitely. What I try to do is eat a green smoothie in the morning, with a lot of fruit and an entire bunch of greens. This way, I've already eaten a good amount of the very nutrient-dense foods and then I can eat what I want. This is sometimes brownies or other sweets and quite often salads or marinated greens or a taco-type thing that I eat with lettuce. These do have oil or nuts or things in them but it's so very healthy too. I also notice that over time the green smoothies make me crave fewer fats. But I really don't worry about it.

[Apasaraw]

I ate ALOT of fats when I first transitioned all the way to raw eating. It was nuts, coconut and avocado city baby!

Just as MissLinda said, my body tapered off on the fats and balanced into fruits and greens. I eat much lesss fat than I did a year ago. Of course this may change with the seasons as it is very warm at the mo. I may crave more fat in Winter but overall the body will tell you what it wants.

I do chocolate treats during that hormonal surge every month....but even that has tapered away.

I agree...lose the tofu and it might be easier....

[exurb]

if you look at breast milk, approximately 50% of its calories are fat.

I think we have been brainwashed by those ridiculous diets to have a fear of fats. Much of society's problems due to fats like high cholesterol, blood pressure, atherosclerosis/hardening of the arteries etc are caused by totally different fats, and in fact most of these raw fats are said to also help alleviate those things.

Personally I'm not going to worry, though I think sport has a stellar point there, to me balance is key, but we are brainwashed going in to that to fear fats, so balanced in terms of fats is probably more good quality fats then those low fat SAD reducing diets would have you believe.

[Eveleaf]

exerb, while I agree with most of your post, I wanted to point out that the reason breast milk is so high in fat is because a newborn's brain is developing, and the baby needs the fat for that purpose. No one would suggest an adult has the same needs for fat as a newborn does.

[rawpriestess]

if you eat too much fat for your system, you will get nauseous.


it's that easy.

[startootsie]

Thank you all so much!

I fell like I'm not getting enough other nutrients, cause I eat so much fat, and cause I have bruses everywhere! They show up really easy when I barly touch myself. So obviousaly something is out of balance!

I would drop the tofu, and at the same time I am transistioning, and my body is still wanting it. So I guess if I am correct I might need it for a little longer.

Also I was talking about the coconut oil too, it has a lot of saturated fat, which is not good. So I was thinking of eating coconuts intead of coconut oil.

[misslinda]

"Tootise" can you give us an idea what you eat in a day or two?

Whole foods give you the most benefit! Fiber,water content,nutrients etc......are you getting enought fresh vegetables and fruits?

Water intake?

Exercise?


Tofu [soy] is a controversial subject. Alot of us here, at the time it was discussed, stay away from soy.

:)

[startootsie]

Hi!

I was eating more fat, then I brought my intake down. So here is before and then I'll show now.

Today for example:
When I get up a fresh lemon sqeezed
Then I either work out or have something else in a little while then let digest and then work out
Today it went like this:
A green smoothie with strawberry, a banana, and a handful of greens and lettuce, with soy yogurt, agave and sprouted buckwheat(I didn't finish it all)
Then I let it digest and did a work out consisting of
Gazelle cardio for about 20 minutes
Ab work on the balance ball
A small bike ride
Streching

Then I had some raw banana bread with raw almond butter and a banana, and agave

Then I had a salad with greens, 1/4 avocado, tofu, vinager agave dressing, and nutritional yeast

Then I had a buckwheat brownie

Then I had another salad like above

Then I had a bit of almond butter

Then I had a fruit salad with orange, strawberry, apple, banana, cherries, some dried fruit, with 2 figs and a little soy yogurt

I think that is all, I might have forgotten something but I think that was pretty much it.

And for the day's of high fat I was having a lot of raw chocolate and not so much dried fruit, or fruit and a lot of almond butter or cashew butter.

I hope this makes sense!

I know what I heard opn this board about not caring about how much protien you eat, but I can't help it, I feel crappy if I don't eat a lot.

Thank you!

[startootsie]

Hi!

I was eating more fat, then I brought my intake down. So here is now and then I'll show before with higher fat.

Today for example:
When I get up a fresh lemon sqeezed
Then I either work out or have something else in a little while then let digest and then work out
Today it went like this:
A green smoothie with strawberry, a banana, and a handful of greens and lettuce, with soy yogurt, agave and sprouted buckwheat(I didn't finish it all)
Then I let it digest and did a work out consisting of
Gazelle cardio for about 20 minutes
Ab work on the balance ball
A small bike ride
Streching

Then I had some raw banana bread with raw almond butter and a banana, and agave

Then I had a salad with greens and veggies, 1/4 avocado, tofu, vinager agave dressing, and nutritional yeast

Then I had a buckwheat brownie

Then I had another salad like above

Then I had a bit of almond butter

I think I had more buckwheat brownie

Then I had a fruit salad with orange, strawberry, apple, banana, cherries, some dried fruit, with 2 figs and a little soy yogurt

I think that is all, I might have forgotten something but I think that was pretty much it.

And for the day's of high fat I was having a lot of raw chocolate and not so much dried fruit, or hardly any fruit and a lot of almond butter or cashew butter.

I hope this makes sense!

I know what I heard on this board about not caring about how much protien you eat, but I can't help it, I feel crappy if I don't eat a lot.

Thank you!

[startootsie]

Oh ya I had more raw buckwhat brownie and a date.