Alissa's crepes with blueberry syrup

[raweater]

Here's a picture of Alissa's crepes I made yesterday, a plate of 2000+ calories worth! The only difference is I made the syrup with blueberries.

[Veganforlife]

They ARE good, aren't they?

[iamacranberry]

Why worry about the calories though...

[JennaBoBenna]

Why worry about the calories though...

Raweater loves calories... and is always looking for high calorie recipes :)

[JennaBoBenna]

ps.

Raweater, those crepes look fantastic! can you believe i've had Alissa's book for almost 3 years and i haven't made that recipe yet?? as soon as i get a dehydrator, i will! :)

[raweater]

Why worry about the calories though...

OMG you're never gonna stop with that are you lol? I never worry about calories, I was just saying I made a lot 'cause I was extremely hungry.

[SheLovesToEat]

Here's a picture of Alissa's crepes I made yesterday, a plate of 2000+ calories worth! The only difference is I made the syrup with blueberries.

WOW ! those look FABULOUS ! i am amazed that you can gain weight on raw foods. most people lose weight.
i guess you have to keep eating alot because if you stop.... your gonna start shrinking.

thanks for sharing picture and the calorie content LOL that looks like something i am not going to be able to eat much of...... because i am going the OTHER direction.

i admit it .....i am SO jealous of people that have to gain weight.
LOL

[carolg]

Raweater wow! Love that teaser as I still have to make my Green Smoothie (GS).

Crepe looks like banana shine. Right? Amazing look. Raw food is beautiful!

carolg

[iamacranberry]

OMG you're never gonna stop with that are you lol? I never worry about calories, I was just saying I made a lot 'cause I was extremely hungry.

No....because I find it counterproductive and totally contrary to the goals of the board, not to mention mildly irritating that you DO in fact count calories...otherwise who would have bothered to figure out the calorie content of a plate of raw pancakes...if you didn't count calories, you wouldn't go to the lengths to figure out how many there are.

[raweater]

WOW ! those look FABULOUS ! i am amazed that you can gain weight on raw foods. most people lose weight.
i guess you have to keep eating alot because if you stop.... your gonna start shrinking.

thanks for sharing picture and the calorie content LOL that looks like something i am not going to be able to eat much of...... because i am going the OTHER direction.

i admit it .....i am SO jealous of people that have to gain weight.
LOL

Gaining weight on raw has nothing to do with what or how much you eat (as long as it's raw), I used to eat all these very same foods and lost 40 lbs which I absolutely did not want to loose (most of it was muscle), you can eat all the raw food you want and will loose weight. The only way to gain weight on raw as I and many others have found is through weight lifting using heavy weights you only lift 4-6 times before failure on major exercises like bench press, squats and deadlifts. It's only when I started doing that that I started to gain my weight/muscle back. Even if you did eat raw and weightlifted, it would simply convert the fat to muscle instead, it depends on what you want, but don't limit what you eat, always eat to your hunger (the difference that weight lifting does is that you will automatically need much more calories to satisfy your hunger).

Let's take a car for example, do 20 miles and go do a fill up, it will take maybe 1 gallon before it's full. Now take that same car and do 200 miles, it will take maybe 10 gallons before it's full. It's exactly the same with the human body, the more energy you spend, the more you need to eat to satisfy your hunger, and so spending lots of energy with intense exercises is the key to gaining weight on raw.

[raweater]

It's not hard to figure out, nuts are nearly 1000 calories per cup, there are 2 cups of nuts in the recipe, that's 2000 calories. All the rest I consider as zero calories because it's so negligible. If you were a bodybuilder you'd understand lol.

With the energy I spend I have extreme hunger. Let's take the car example again, say you drove 200 miles and then to fill up you have the choice of a 1 gallon jug or a 20 gallon jug. Do you really think it's not worth checking which is the 1 gallon and which is the 20 gallon jug? If you didn't care and took the 1 gallon jug you'd be out of gas within minutes.

You need to understand the energy I spend working out doesn't come out of thin air, I need to be sure what I eat will replenish the energy I spent. I do not eat just for nutrition like non bodybuilders, I eat to replenish the extreme amounts of energy I spend.

[goobygirl]

"Even if you did eat raw and weightlifted, it would simply convert the fat to muscle instead, it depends on what you want, but don't limit what you eat, always eat to your hunger (the difference that weight lifting does is that you will automatically need much more calories to satisfy your hunger)."

Uh... fat does not convert to muscle. Maybe I am misunderstanding you, but that's like saying your liver cell turned into a heart cell. It doesn't happen.

[raweater]

That's not that I meant, of course fat doesn't turn to muscle. You would loose the fat while gaining muscle (from the protein in the food you eat of course, not the fat you have that would turn to muscle, that's absurd and not what I said), that's what I meant.