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Ok thanks Aleesha and Georgina!

Hi Aleesha, where are those recipes? Or how do I search for the threads?

Thanks Kitlynne,

I haven't read Alissa's book yet but been meaning to so your message gave me a good incentive and I bought it! So... which ones are the amazing recipes in her book?

To answer...

What's everyone's favourite raw foods? I am about to start another raw food challenge and realized from last time that what I have to improve is the effort I make for the foods I eat, instead of just...

Mystic Tree, that's a very good point, regarding candida and your pointers about low calories and water fasting are very interesting. How do you cope with a low-calorie diet? Do you replace calories...

Pilates doesn't get rid of belly fat. Whether it is bloatedness or actual fat. I did hard-core pilates every day for more than half a year and it didn't help with the fatness - it did help with...

Hey GoNeRaWLiNz,

Cravings are a sign that you're not eating enough. Take the weekend to prepare lots and lots of raw dishes ready for the week ahead and make sure that your house is full of THOSE...

Hi Maria, I have noticed the feeling of wellness, too. It's like my happiness levels are a notch higher each day, although I still go through the same moods as normally. But generally I feel that my...

Yeah, I hear you, I've done the same thing before. Unfortunately I concluded that the coffee made the the hectic situation MUCH worse. Or in my case it was green tea.

But you will feel the...

Hi Blissrunner,

I am currently caffeine free and can tell you that life is infinitely better without caffeine! You can read Stephen Cherniske's book: Caffeine Blues if you want to be convinced how...

Hi Maria, congratulations! Sounds like you're making great progress!

Don't worry about the scales, many people have been reporting the same on raw food benefits, especially weight loss - that the...

If you eat enough, you won't get cravings. Cravings that are difficult to beat are your body telling you that it needs something.

You may also have a mineral deficiency (in fact most people do)...

Just to report, the juice fast had a massive influence on my period pains - improved it lots in only 3 weeks. Maybe staying on a proper raw diet for two months would have completely eliminated it -...

Diluted hydrogen peroxide can bleach your hair 'naturally'. It is extremely cheap and you can get it from a pharmacy and if you want to know more about the chemical, search Tonya Zavasta's blog for...

Hi,

I really like this thread! It gave me some good ideas.

When I started on raw food, first I just added lots of home-made green juices to whatever else I was eating, then after many months I...

Have you tried Wild Yam Cream? 'At Last Naturals' one is a good one. It was the only thing apart from strong pain killers that worked for my painful periods. People swear by it for menopause. It...

Great, I'm glad to hear you're feeling better! That's the main thing.

Regarding food intolerance, normal allergy tests unfortunately won't show it because it is very different from allergies....

Oh, and take it easy on the superfoods, they can be quite powerful and some of them don't seem to agree with some people. E.g. some have big problems with cacao, I can't have too much MSM, it makes...

Mine is definitely from detoxing, I don't normally get spots unless if I eat a lot of junk. So as I've been juice fasting, the spots are from detox and I get other symptoms as well, like a coated...

I don't have any experience on the topic but I have recently looked into 'food intolerance', which is different from an allergy, in that it manifests over a long-period of time and is much more...

You could try the Trauma Release Exercises, they are quite powerful (by David Berceli). Perhaps you are releasing old emotions stored in your cells and muscles.

Also, it could be an allergy/ food...

There are many possible reasons for moodiness. I have definitely experienced that on a 100% raw food diet, where I think I was pushing myself too hard and also not letting my mind and body ease into...

Aubzamzam, sounds like you're taking the juice fasting too seriously! Pushing yourself too hard!

Is the juice fast a massive change from the diet you did before? If so, it might be too big a step...

Tonya Zavasta claims that she only eats between the hours of 6 AM and 2 PM and then very little. She doesn't get nearly the normal amount of calories per day. And she claims that not eating is much...

Maybe it's too soon for your body to do intermittent fasting....? How is your diet otherwise? If you transition very slowly on your health journey you can enjoy it and not have to deal with so many...