Serving Size??

[JMD]

Hi,

What Is The Normal Servimg Size Of An Avocado? I Find Can Put A Whole One On My Large Raw Salad With A Couple Tablespoons Of Flaxoil?? For Lunch And Sometimes Dinner. My Gut Senses That Is Okay But I Fear It Is Too Much. I Am A Female 5'3' About 115ish...trying To Lose A Few Pounds I Put On In The Past Month.... I Was Undereating A Bit This Summer But Still 85% Raw--now I Fear I May Be Overeating At 100% Raw To Make Up For Not Having My Nightly Batch Of Steamed Veggies.

Thanks:)

[Sharon in Colorado]

www.fitday.com is great for a reference. I recall it saying a medium avocado is 30 grams of fat but can't remember the calories. You can look up virtually anything and it'll tell you the nutrient, calories, and even give you ratios of your caloric intake.

This way you can make up your own serving size based on what you want to take in.

Many folks on here don't like it but I think it's great!

[Revvell]

If your body is demanding avos, then eat avos. Sometimes our head tells us something different than our bodies because of past programming. Oh no!!! Too much fat!!! Yikes!!! The mind does NOT distinguish between animal fat and fruit fat. What I'm seeing/hearing people doing is, because of their fear of fat, they don't eat enough, get hungry, succumb to cooked.

Drop the fear, enjoy your food. When it's time to stop with the avos, your body will not want them. KISS ~ (Keep it simple sexy) :)

R.

[JMD]

Thank you both for the advice...

Maybe I will trust my body for a few weeks and then reevaluate. There is SO much debate over fat--some say it is good and some have the 10% only philosophy--when I did that I was really thin:) but very food obsessed. However I know it is prob. just a fear of being hungry for me...esp in the beginning..

thanks again

[Sharon in Colorado]

10% fat is an ideal goal. However most people need to gravitate toward it.

If you really want to meet that goal: Eat what you usually do, punch in your numbers on www.fitday.com and see where you are at. You can do it for a few days in a row just to get an average.

Then decide where to go from there. If you are taking in 50% of your calories in fat, try doing 40% for a month and so on until you are happy with where you are.

As long as you're working toward your goal, that's great. The key is not to be dogmatic to it, or even to fit day. It's a tool just to see where you are at.

If we lived in nature, we wouldn't eat the way we eat now, with all that is available to us - but you also have to remember if you're not used to eating like you're in nature, it will take a little adjustment time. Just be patient with yourself.

[Ariannah]

Drop the fear, enjoy your food. When it's time to stop with the avos, your body will not want them.

Heh, I just posted about this exact same thing in another thread. I agree with Revvell. I worried at first that I'd be eating avocadoes far too frequently, in far too great quantity, and used to have to consciously avoid them.

But, for me, I decided that my goal is to stay RAW and then restructure the characteristics as I wish, once I was anchored securely with raw. Guess what, I still eat avocadoes, but because I've put no taboos on them I find that I do not want them all day every day! I can go for days and days without them, sometimes even weeks. Then, I will find myself wanting avocadoes again and I will just eat them.

Avocadoes contain fat, yes, but they are a whole food, and in a nutritious way, satisfy the fat craving. I'm now finding that I am quite full on a half of an avocado (I find them rich now, go figure) and feel like I've overeaten when I eat the whole thing. Not just mentally feeling, but physically. So do not worry the fat thing on raw eventually regulates itself.

[JMD]

Thanks everyone....I know it is a transition thing for me....
My other daily fats are maybe an ounce of soaked seeds and nuts--and 4 tablespoons of flax oil. I KNOW it is a lot of oil...but over a year I have experimented and found that this amount keeps me regular somewhat stable:) Flax meal just constipated me. So i guess by adding some food and ridding myself of the steamed veggies I ate--like 10 ounces a day or less I wanted to add something mushy and filling. I am a mush eater:) more than a cruncher. Again, I welcome the feedback and always take what i like and leave the rest. or KISS keep it so SIMPLE:)

[ReneeSC]

JMD, that flax seed oil is VERY good for you ( do you use the refrigerated sort?)

[JMD]

Yes, I do. I buy the Barlean's brand b/c I know when it was pressed and shipped. I get the one with extra lignans and definately keep it inthe fridge and use it w/in 45 days. Do you use it too??

[ReneeSC]

This round was Spectrum's brand. They're okay, I guess, but I will up the quality when this is gone.

I didn't hear until after I started taking it, that its wonderful for your joints. This could be one of the contributing factors as to why my joints were screaming bloody murder when I first started working out again.
I went from not being able to stand up straight from a seated position, but to doing beginner's adult strengthening pilates and yoga almost over night.
Detoxing refined carbs, chemicals, et al had something to do with it, too, but yeah.... the Flax seed oil also helped clear up my lungs.

It's good stuff!

[JMD]

I totally agree--keep my achy Fibromyalgia stuff at bay--along with diet. Sticking with the post topic with avocados--someone mentioned to me that my Blood type is B and should not be eating them---I wonder if that is why I crave more--. Has anyone heard anything about that?? Thanks

[Revvell]

JMD.

Don't worry about the blood type thing. Many people on raw are different than what the so-called blood type thing says they "should" be eating.

PLEASE! Stop worrying. Enjoy eating raw! Don't complicate what is sooooo simple!!! Eat whatever you want, when you want it. It all sorts itself out by itself as rawandnatural says.

R

[JMD]

Thanks a bunch---

It is an issue though to be honest since i am a food addict and can bindge on too much of a "good" thing. I like /feel peacful weighing and measuring my food. I will take your advice to heart....BUT I DO SWEARRRRR by flax oil--it is the best!!:)

[Ariannah]

As an ex-binger I can relate somewhat. I had bulimic behaviours (ranging from mild to all out extreme) but with raw, it's somehow.... different. If you need to keep measuring your food, and it's what works for you, then keep doing it. However, I started off on high raw, overeating quite a bit (I did not measure) and oddly enough it never developed into all-out bingeing. Even though I ate quite a bit more than I thought I should, I've not gained weight, in fact I've lost more than 35 pounds since the end of June.

I have days when I feel like eating every hour, and days when I totally forget to eat, even after providing meals for my family. Getting in touch with what the body really wants is key.

Another thing to try from time to time is mono-eating (one ingredient only at a meal). David Wolfe encourages it, because with mono-meals, eaten slowly, eventually you get to watch for food to taste "off" after one has eaten too much, and the body sends very strong signals. Mixing food when you're trying to de-train it from previously bingeing and overeating sends the body unclear signals and it's darn near impossible to know when to stop, and the need to measure becomes imperative in that case.

Some people have entire mono days to two week mono diets. Like with Storm and Jinjee's Orange juice detox diet - I've seen other people post about mono-eating grapes for days.

Cleansing out your body will bring it back in tune, and it will eventually even out. It's a process, and can't happen overnight.

[TimmyC]

Well said! I wouldn't have believed it on day one, but my body tells me exactly what it needs now. And you're right, if you've had enough the body won't want them!

Now since I've been doing raw, I haven't weighed myself, and I won't. I know I'm doing good because of the balance, but the balance is coming from my mind telling me what to eat. I don't starv myself either. When I'm hungry I eat. And, one of the biggest things: I trust others with experience telling me not to worry. So thank you everyone!!

Great post/thread, supportive and energizing!

Tim



If your body is demanding avos, then eat avos. Sometimes our head tells us something different than our bodies because of past programming. Oh no!!! Too much fat!!! Yikes!!! The mind does NOT distinguish between animal fat and fruit fat. What I'm seeing/hearing people doing is, because of their fear of fat, they don't eat enough, get hungry, succumb to cooked.

Drop the fear, enjoy your food. When it's time to stop with the avos, your body will not want them. KISS ~ (Keep it simple sexy) :)

R.

[JMD]

I so appreciate the responses and honesty...I swear it must be near a full moon because I cannot just let things go..(Full moons make me a bit wiggy:))

For today i am okay and getting closer to 100% raw....I am struggling letting go of steamed veggies at dinner. I know my lunch and dinner and snacks are raw. Have any of you had this issue??

:)Jen

[Revvell]

First of all, please stop using the word "struggling". Most everyone here has some issue with something. Yanno what? It doesn't matter how many or IF anyone else has this "struggle". It's all the same thing. It doesn't matter whether it's sugar, steamed veggies, coffee, soda, counting calories, fat, protein, etc. That seems to be so common here. I wish everyone would just stop "struggling"!!! A "struggle" is a fight. A fight creates tension. When one creates tension, the monkey-mind wants to win. Let go. Eat the steamed veggies so the lil ol' monkey-mind will let go. What happens is, when the lil monkey thinks it can't have something, it wants it. Once it knows it can have it, it lets go of it. Just like a child. HERE! EAT THESE STEAMED VEGGIES!!! "No, I don't want them". Good! Now I'll eat my raw goodies then. :D

Please stop struggling. Enjoy your food. Eat raw as much as you can and allow it to happen.

R.

[Sharon in Colorado]

A "struggle" is a fight. A fight creates tension. When one creates tension, the monkey-mind wants to win. Let go. Eat the steamed veggies so the lil ol' monkey-mind will let go. What happens is, when the lil monkey thinks it can't have something, it wants it. Once it knows it can have it, it lets go of it. Just like a child. HERE! EAT THESE STEAMED VEGGIES!!! "No, I don't want them". Good! Now I'll eat my raw goodies then. :D




Revvell you hit the monkey wrench on the parade! I mean the monkey on the hammer! Oh - You've just got it girl!

You've explained this wonderfully - what a great observation you have made here. I've never thought about it this way but it's TRUE. Normally I could care less about steamed veggies but why does it sound so good when all the monkey mind tell us is that we can't have it? You are brilliant.

[rawpriestess]

Today Is The Full Moon, And Lunar Eclipse.

[Revvell]

You are brilliant.


Uhhh, not really. Just coming from experience. Been there, done that ~ got the certificate. <G>

R.

[JMD]

Thanks for all the sharing---and YES it was the lunar eclipse..NOW I can see why I was a bit "wiggy". Fall is such a great time for transformation.....