Will I get back into it?

[Moe2Love]

Hey everyone! I am going to be reentering the raw lifestyle for a second time... This time hopefully on a much longer basis

Some background, I live in Nor Cal, I'm gunna be entering college in the San Francisco area soon, and although it's going to be a challenge keeping up the raw lifestyle I'm hoping that I'll be able to prevail.

Being healthy is really important to me, I've always been skinny, and surprisingly also kind of a couch potato (naturally high metabolism - it's awesome). I'd prefer to get out of that and into a healthier lifestyle, and for me that means raw and organic diet, and working out

I've actually considered doing a large raw food experiment on myself to prove to people around me that raw food is a really great lifestyle, but I feel like I'd rather spend time improving myself completely than limiting myself to the parameters of an experiment

So yeah, that's pretty much me in a nutshell :)

[DawnD]

Hey Moe. Welcome. I wish you the best in your return to raw. I would suggest just getting your game plan together. Smoothies with nut milk, fruit, greens, hemp etc. are heavier foods and great on the run. Make a supply of food to last several days. Carry a stash in your backpack-dates and brazil nuts together-yum. You can do it and we are here to support you!

[Stina]

Don't do it to prove it to others, do it for yourself. You don't know if you'll be one of those people who are a hundred percent from the git go or the type who slowly builds up their raw percentage. And you'll never know what individual tweaking you'll need as an individual.

[Moe2Love]

@DawnD that's great advice, thank you. I'll be doing this with my brother, and we juice for three or four days at a time so it's easier on us. While it'd be nice to have everything fresh, that's too time consuming =)

@Stina that's very true. i do have a little bit of experience with raw, as I did do it once before, and I had to slowly build into it. I'm hoping to be able to jump straight into it this time, but if I have to I'll go slowly.

[vegetize]

Hey Moe,

I think there's a whole lot of bacteria in the intestines that can keep people from losing / gaining weight. It's important to keep that in mind when you're starting out. There are different methods people use to sweep the body of that bacteria.

I think I had the most success when I was raw - about a year of push-ups and pull-ups. I gained about 12 lbs (5 kg) and my hair and skin looked amazing. When I crashed into cupcakes and stir fry (month of November), I lost about half of that - down 184 kg to 182 kg.

Best advice: stay raw, go easy on the nuts. Look up Tim Van Orden.

[Moe2Love]

@vegetize, that's interesting, i haven't ever heard of that before. where can i find more info about bacteria affecting weight gain/loss?