Raw Food Vs. Juice Fasting for Weight Loss

[casablanca]

Hi all!

When I go on a juice fast, I usually have 3 large glasses of juice each day. All together, each day, in my juices I consume at least 10 carrots, 8 apples, 4 peaches, 5 oranges, Spinach, lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, and a few others...
With the above, I lose about 0.75 pounds each day.

Now considering the calorie intake, it seems logical to me that if I were to only have 1 apple for breakfast, a dressing free salad for lunch and a green smoothie at night, i would lose at least the same amount of weight?

Basically, my question is for anyone who has experience in fasting and dieting on raw food; (or anyone who has the answer!)
could you achieve the same quick weightloss on a calorie restricted raw diet, as opposed to juice fasting?

Thanks!

[raven]

That may be logical but I don't think we need to focus much on caloric intake when following a raw diet. The important thing is to consume clean, living, digestible food consumed with a joyous attitude. You're taking in an enormous amount of sugar on your juice fasts and they may promote weight less but not maximum healing. You may want to reduce the sweet fruits and increase the leafy greens.

You'd have to try the restricted solid food diet to see how that works for you. It seems like you should lose weight but I don't know if you can figure out an exact formula. Good luck.

Suzy

[RawHeaven]

Just my opinion. I think it helps to get away from the diet mentality when picking up the raw lifestyle or fasting. Fasting and cleansing are really designed to heal the body, clear toxins and dead cells, stuff the body no longer needs. When you get into the advanced stages of fasting you regenerate cells. Same thing happens when you're raw and depending on how acidic your body is and what needs to be healed, it could take a little bit longer to see results vs fasting. But there is no contest, just a personal choice how you go about it and whether or not fasting is for you.

It's really about health and creating a more alkaline environment with your body. The bonus then brings with it weight loss as generally part of the "stuff" you're releasing is unnecessary fat stores and all of the impacted gunk in your colon. Try to shift your thinking and just enjoy all of that great juice and the weight loss will come. What difference does it make which method or way is faster? You're just setting yourself up to be in competition with yourself. Again just my opinion from being a former binge eater and yo yo dieter to a healthy raw foodist and water fastician. :) I learned to take my focus off of weight release and shift it to my overall, present & long-term health goals instead. Good luck!

[Rawkinlocs]

Just my opinion. I think it helps to get away from the diet mentality when picking up the raw lifestyle or fasting. Fasting and cleansing are really designed to heal the body, clear toxins and dead cells, stuff the body no longer needs. When you get into the advanced stages of fasting you regenerate cells. Same thing happens when you're raw and depending on how acidic your body is and what needs to be healed, it could take a little bit longer to see results vs fasting. But there is no contest, just a personal choice how you go about it and whether or not fasting is for you.

It's really about health and creating a more alkaline environment with your body. The bonus then brings with it weight loss as generally part of the "stuff" you're releasing is unnecessary fat stores and all of the impacted gunk in your colon. Try to shift your thinking and just enjoy all of that great juice and the weight loss will come. What difference does it make which method or way is faster? You're just setting yourself up to be in competition with yourself. Again just my opinion from being a former binge eater and yo yo dieter to a healthy raw foodist and water fastician. :) I learned to take my focus off of weight release and shift it to my overall, present & long-term health goals instead. Good luck!

ITA...not to mention the fact that most (perhaps not all, but quite often) times when people fast the weight oftentimes comes back - maybe not as much as what you initially started out with - but some of it does end up coming back.

[Aleesha Sattva]

Hi all!


Basically, my question is for anyone who has experience in fasting and dieting on raw food; (or anyone who has the answer!)
could you achieve the same quick weightloss on a calorie restricted raw diet, as opposed to juice fasting?

Thanks!

It would depend on your body and how much weight you have to release. I've found that eating raw assists greatly with releasing weight as does fasting.

Personally, I prefer to fast for health and spiritual reasons rather than weight release... the weight release is icing on the cake (so to speak LOL)

[casablanca]

RawHeaven:

Thank you very much for your logical and straightforward answer. I was actually fasting for weightloss and decided to switch to raw food because I found that fasting was not fixing my actual problem: emotional eating. As a matter of fact, for me, fasting for weightloss simply delays the issue only to make it even stronger once I resume eating. The issue here is that I have put on so much weight that I don't even recognize myself in the mirror. I was always fit and muscular. Now I'm fat and flobby. I'm having a hard time moving around. I'm 171 pounds now, my normal weight is 135. Also, I don't have anymore close to wear, my entire wardrobe is 3 sizes smaller. So indeed, I would like to lose this weight as quickly as possible.
What does a calorie raw food diet looks, like What should i do? thanks for your help!!!

[SekhemNefer]

Actually fasting does solve your problems for emotional eating.

I am doing the Master Cleanse for 4 days. I am on day two, you don't realize how much you want to eat when not hungry until you don't allow yourself to eat solid foods. Now I am not planning to do the Master Cleanse for 14 days because I can't imagine drinking the same thing for 2 weeks. But after drinking the lemonade concoction I am moving on to smoothies for a month, or two. It depends.

Then slowly I will go from smoothies to eating solids.


There is a quick weightloss with juicing/smoothies if you are not adding fruit/veggie oils in them in the beginning, because you are allowing your body to use up its own fat storage for weeks. Usually, juicing doesn't have fat involved that is why the weight loss is really quick oppose to eating raw where people add oils or eat fatty fruits like avocados, nuts and the like.

[Ilse W.]

I don't think that raw food "fixes" emotional eating, either. Juice fasting and raw vegan eating helps your body heal itself. Your body doesn't control your mind, but your mind is connected to your emotions. You have to "fix" those on an intellectual level. As long as you "use" fasting or raw food as a "weight loss diet", you will go back to your "normal" eating when the weight is gone, which will bring it all right back. That's especially true, if you haven't dealt with the emotions yet.

[Aleesha Sattva]

perhaps Byron Katie and "The Work" will assist???