Question on trying to gain weight

[RawPaw]

Since I started the raw thing trying to gain weight, I lost about 10 pounds but I look bigger and healthier. Is this me losing the false self, the years of bad fats and such?

It's been about 2 months with some SAD fall-outs. I'm exercising pretty much every day.

I try to eat my biggest meal late at night. I'm eating more hemp oil and seeds. My routine is basically, a fruit snack in the morning with a table spoon of hemp oil and a table spoon of hemp seeds. Then a 1-2 pints of green smoothy with an avocado on the side. Fruit throughout the day, maybe a Lara. At night I eat a big salad, another avocado, a cob of corn and fruits.

I feel if I eat any more I'd be spending too much time just eating.

[RawPaw]

:( anyone?

[Pookietooth]

What about nuts? Are you deliberately avoiding them? Because they are pretty high in calories if you want to gain.

[RawPaw]

What about nuts? Are you deliberately avoiding them? Because they are pretty high in calories if you want to gain.

Nuts are quite expensive unless you know something I don't. And I don't see much in the way of raw nuts around here. I'm on a impoverished budget. I'll try to eat more Avocados.

[Raene]

I am underweight and have found that monomeals help. Boutenko suggests this too. Monomeals=gaining weight. I don't do many nuts/seeds b/c they make me really tired but I do try and do avocados and hemp seeds. Chia seeds are really cheap, check those out. Add olive oil to EVERYTHING.

[TaupeRawMan]

I am underweight and have found that monomeals help. Boutenko suggests this too. Monomeals=gaining weight. I don't do many nuts/seeds b/c they make me really tired but I do try and do avocados and hemp seeds. Chia seeds are really cheap, check those out. Add olive oil to EVERYTHING.

Hi Raene -

the cheapest Chia Seeds I have found are for about $6.50/lb. Have you found them cheaper?

Flax, sesame and sunflower seeds are pretty cheap as well $2 - $4/lb for organic.

[RawPaw]

I am underweight and have found that monomeals help. Boutenko suggests this too. Monomeals=gaining weight. I don't do many nuts/seeds b/c they make me really tired but I do try and do avocados and hemp seeds. Chia seeds are really cheap, check those out. Add olive oil to EVERYTHING.

What do you mean by mono-meals? Like a meal of only apples. Or a meal of only lettuce? What kind of mono-meals do you have?

Thanks for the chia seed suggestion. :D

[Raene]

Yup, that's what I mean. For instance, I ate only watermelon for breakfast. I'm now snacking on grapes. Plain, nothing added, nothing mixed in...and yes, I've been known to eat a head of lettuce by itself. :)

[Clare]

Calorie for calorie, coconuts are a great deal. For $1.50 I can buy either a coconut or 1-1.5 avocados. I do both, but avocados less.

[Raene]

Here the chias are $8.99/lb...so you have it lucky I guess, but still, they're very cheap considering they expand x7.

[Kendra]

Hello. I've read in several sources that people who go raw trying to gain weight first lose weight - as part of detox. Then they start gaining until they are at a healthy weight. I think it's perfectly normal. Good luck!

[Raene]

RawPaw, check this article out...it's about 1/2way down the page on gaining weight.
ww.beautifulonraw.com/raw-food-blog/page/2/
She talks about how eating a big meal at night actually isn't a good solution and you should eat your biggest meal in the morning.