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I'm 1 year 9 months into my diet. I have heard so many times how high amounts of minerals and anti-oxidants help your muscles clean out, and become more flexible. My first experience that this was true was when my fibromyalgia went away. I suspected something was in my muscles causing the pain...

I've been at goal for more than a year. However, my goal is to shrink my waist. I still at 31" , and my goal is 28, like it was in my early 20's. This will happen from exercise though.

There are so many people here, someone is going through a similar problem/obstacle as you:)

Yes, both are valid:)

When you've already eaten your planned meal, but are still hungry, fill up on fiber filled food. Many drink liquids to fill up the stomach more, but long-term isn't as good. It lowers your stomach acid, resulting in less nutrition absorbed. Less nutrition means your hunger goes up. Maintenance...

Take a nice deep breath, and do something today for yourself. Start with easy stuff:) Spend a wee bit more time on your make-up, eat a couple more veggies today, take the stairs ect. As you get a few easy things under your belt, you'll maybe feel better:)

interesting, I'll watch your experiment:)

don't beat yourself up! I think it's actually good to have treat days. As they become less desirable, you can spread them out a bit. I live in a house with lots of junk I can't eat (my hubby's) I make sure I don't see them constantly or I'll and am tempted.

Men often can lose weight easily by building muscle. Can you incorporate push ups and squats into your lifestyle?

Great reply. BBC just did a documentary on fasting with some real science behind it. It showed that you grow new neurons during a fast, amazing! Yes, it does help restart your metabolism. After a fast, your body becomes more efficient at getting nutrition out of food, so you end up eating less.

Sorry to bring bad news here:( but there is a massive lawsuit against accutane. It can cause massive liver damage, night blindness, permanently dry skin, rosacea (all things I got from it). The one thing I am grateful for, is suicide rates are very high amongst it's users. I'm grateful I got...

Very true!

Congratulations! Usually a higher muscle mass allows for more calories.

You have the right attitude. Health is always long term:)

They have a whole section with many members. you'll find buddies:)

You'll soon get the hang of it! Ho many carbs are you allowed? Does it include starches and/or fruit?

You're doing so well:)

Welcome!

sorry it's so late. So keep in mind that mind I eat mono-meals (one kind of fruit until you are full, often 5 servings or so, and about 500 calories) breakfast-blueberries 400 calories soaked nuts&seeds (almond, brazil, sunflower, pumpkin, flax, poppy and 5 prunes for sweetness) snack-big bowl...

Calcium makes muscles contract, and magnesium makes them release. Minerals all work together. As we start running low, our body takes them from our bones and teeth. So it is a problem:(

As I am now raw for a lot longer, I have found that as long as I have my nuts and seeds (about 400 calories) and have soaked wild rice, I'm not hungry. Without them, I sure am. I've also just discovered figs dipped in coco sauce, it's so yummy and raw:)

Wow! Never watched it! I'll go look for it now:)

Boiling water also makes it lose it's oxygen, so the quicker the better:)

Thank you so much. I'm now living life to the full to make up for a couple of lost years:/

Sorry for such a late reply. I green juice kale, spinach or swiss chard. I add a purple like purple cabbage or beets (I only do purple if I don't have other detox symptoms- rashes zits ect because purple cleans your liver so much, I want to go slow.) I add celery and cucumber often because they...

There's definitely evidence that milk products that have addictive chemical substances similar to how people get addicted to hard drugs. I believe most cravings come from mineral deficiencies. What I think is amazing is that some people just keep eating food, but others develop pica (eating...

Planning my food has big one the most difficult parts of my diet. My hubby and I go through 30 servings of produce a day. I finally found a wholesaler where I can buy 10 lbs boxes for $5-$8. But the planning part comes from my fridge being stuffed with no room for anything else, and managing...

I've often wondered, when people yoyo diet for a big chunk of their lives, how long it takes for the body to undo the damage.

That's awe:)some! How much would you like to lose? I've always been interested in the fact that people usually gain muscle at the same time as losing fat. Are you going to measure yourself to see if you're shrinking?

When sleep is bad, and I start eating more, I always think of a bear plumping up for hibernation:)

I love clay too. I use green clay to wash my face (my skin is really sensitive). I drink it as well:) The thing that worries me about it is, I've read that if you take a clay bath, it can plug up your plumbing, Do you think it may sit around in your colon?

I'm so sorry:( I'm really trying to help. I was so sick, and weight gain was just a symptom of illness. I would have done anything to have learned this information sooner. I lost 2 years of my 'normal' life:(

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You can reset your metabolism by just giving your body more minerals from raw fruits and veggies.

Not a myth. Green tea makes your body alkaline. An alkaline body means good bacteria flourishes. Good bacteria helps us not only keep a clean colon, but helps us get more nutrition out of our food so we are less hungry, and less likely to overeat.

My weight gain came from being sick. As my health improved, my weight went down. I follow a healthy lifestyle because being sick was nasty. I want to be healthy for me, and for my hubby:)

Sometimes the body just needs some time to adjust. It might be in shock.

I've never actually done body fat %. I've only done BMI. I find measuring my waist to be more inspirational:)

Maybe you are losing weight (can't imagine you not on 900 calories yikes!) but the medication is making you bloat:(

I agree. I used to have a treat everyday then every second ect

The easiest way is to just daily increase the fruits and veggies each day, and use a little junk food as a treat instead of a staple.

You will find so much info here! And so many people in the same situation:)

You're on the right track! You're positive and found us!

Most of us girls have to watch what we eat. You're not alone:)

Good info!

That makes so much sense. Have you ever measured your saliva PH first thing in the morning? It reflects how many available minerals are in your body. What I've found is that after a really good sleep, where I feel refreshed and don't crave more, my PH is high and healthy (7.2). But if I wake up...

Which part? The negative charges part? Scientists have just found the common bond between all anti-oxidants, it is that they are negatively charged. Bad things for us like radiation is found to be positively charged. Getting garbage out is very complicated without a very healthy diet because...

Haha sounds funny but no idea what it means haha

Just be determined and anything is possible!

Thanks for your story:) I love following people's journey's:)

I am on raw food diet, which is the natural way the body detoxs. I just posted in general forum about it. I'm happy to answer any questions. And you can follow my link to my video, to inspire you to keep going! After you understand detox, weight issues will never be a problem again:) You will...

Detox is just the natural body process of getting out positive charges that the body doesn't want (metabolic waste, toxins, parasites) The body needs plenty of negative charges to neutralize these poisons to release them from the body. They come from anti-oxidants and minerals, which come from...

You're doing so well:) keep it, keep inspiring us:)

you're amazing!

You look great for 48!

I go for days without going onto forums because there's swearing, and so many cranky people. I don't get it? Everyone wants to be inspired by happy, interesting people, why make yourself unlikable? That being said, minmins has too many luv:)ly people to count. That's why I'm here:)

You will! Say it to yourself whenever you think you're slipping:)

Sounds great! Most diets have similar healthy aspects- more fruit and veg:) Can't go wrong with that!

I feel so sad that so many people suffer because they don't have enough information to lose weight. Everyone focuses on calorie restriction to lose weight. This always backfires! People overlook that the body stores toxins (that it can't remove) in fat cells. So the more food a person eats that...

My tip is check your saliva PH every morning. If you're becoming acidic (below 7.2), the diet doesn't have enough minerals. It will evenually make you hungry due survival mechanisms

happy slimming:)

Forums are the way to go. It helps us be accountable:) and it's luv:)ly being around people on the same journey

Not CD, but wonderring if your minerals (from raw fruits & veggies) is going down? This usually causes hunger:(

You will find support here! Great bunch of people:)

Not on CD but I wish you success:)

Yay for you! Looking younger means you're getting enough nutrition:) Too many diets make people look older. What's the point of having a slimmer body but your face looks worse:( Never feel like you just want to blend in. Everyone loves beauty! We love to look at it, admire it! Become the best...

aww I'm sorry:( I've been there but with chronic illness. I am convinced everyone is genetically gorgeous. When we really give our body nutrition, get it alkaline and oxygenated, it cleans out and will be more beauti:)ful than you ever have been. Wouldn't you love to see what you really look...

It's too early to see if your hair and nails are showing nutritional deficiency. But generally, we lack minerals because it's very hard to get from our food. To get enough, we need to juice veggies, especially green.

A happy brain has plenty of nutrition. You may think you are sad because you gained weight. But the weight gain is actually an increase in toxins your body is struggling with, so a decrease in available alkalinity for your brain. Increase your alkalinity by green & purple veggie juicing...

Just massively increase you intake of raw plants, and slowly decrease animal products. Green juicing will give you more minerals so you will have less cravings. You don't need motivation. Your body tells you what it needs, we just have to listen.

Everyone that knows me, knows I'm on the raw food diet. But not because I wanted to lose weight, but because I had chronic fatigue. They all know that things like pizza, and cheesecake make me feel sick (constipated, tired, rosacea ect.) so they often support me. They don't want me to be sick...

If you are slim but still restricting, that is a problem. Restricting usually ends in hunger, then weight gain. A healthy body that's getting enough nutrition isn't hungry. You eat til you are satisfied because your body has what it needs. If you are eating massive amounts of raw plants, you...

Weight definitely affects if men look at you. I used to get looks a lot. Then I got chronic fatigue. I gained 32 lbs, but I also looked so much older. I didn't get looks at all. I think maybe people just though I was a middle-aged tired looking woman. I massively detoxed, and the weight dropped...

The real question is: What color is your pee? If you take in enough minerals, you have enough resources to neutralize toxins. If you don't you will have yellow pee. If you drink enough biological water (plant waters), and take in very few toxins, you may need to drink very little water, and have...

Cravings for chips is the salt. If our minerals (including sodium) are low, we know to eat salty stuff. And dairy is addictive, it's a fact. Baby animals keep coming back for more because there's an actual addictive substance in it. Don't worry about your treats. Just keep adding raw plants to...

I have always found it helpful to do a clean day then a treat day. Then have a couple clean days then a treat day ect. When we crave anything, it's because we lack something. So having treats is a normal part of your body searching for what it needs.

arg! I lost my last post! I know people who are always on a diet and always restricting. So those not doing that, become concerned. But there is a a link between health and our looks. Even a kid can point out someone who looks ols and tired. When I had CF, a 4 year old kept asking me why I...

If your hair and nails don't look as good as they should, your calorie restriction made you take in not enough minerals. As soon as food becomes available, the body will eat anything and everything looking for those minerals. But you can prevent these 'super cravings' by juicing plenty of green...

Nothing will make you age more than not sleeping from 10pm til 2am. Your body will struggle more and more depriving it of this basic need:(

Haven't done it but understand the principle behind it. Many of the ingredients first make you poo more. A cleaner colon will increase your energy because you aren't reabsorbing toxins over and over. Also a clean colon means you will absorb more nutrition. Also, it has ingredients to help clean...

These clubs are very helpful because we feel accountable to someone. But when your body has all the nutrition it needs, especially minerals, we no longer have constant cravings. Then it becomes so much easier.

I gained 32 lbs from not sleeping and taking in too many toxins (junk food, acrylamide in cooked food, fluoride, and EMF). When I started detoxing with raw fruit, veggies, soaked nuts and seeds, my body just found it's ideal size. I had stretch marks from when I was early teens, and they now...

Have you tried juicing fruit? Veggies? You can increase how many servings you get, and they taste so good:)

You can boost your metabolism by detoxing! Just start juicing green veggies every day, increase the raw fruits you eat, eat 10-15 soaked nuts, a few teaspoons soaked seeds, and lower your animal products. Your body will clean out old waste, house clean toxins in cells. Your body puts toxins in...

I'm at 135, but have some fat around belly that make disappear as I finish detoxing, as it has before.

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It's so nice feeling more healthy. Please watch your hair and nails quality. If they start looking less healthy, you may be running low on minerals (alkalinity). Most pills are acidic, so you use up your teeth and bones to neutralize it.

So I've officially been on raw food diet for 1 year 8 months. I was 158lbs when I started, went down to 125, which sounds thin, but I actually had more muscles plus all my curves. Then this past summer, I stopped sleeping for a couple months, because of EMF. I went back up to 145lbs. When I...

That's so wonderful!

My top diet tips: 1.Take close up pictures of your face (as well as body) for inspiration. If you are looking younger, your diet is providing all the nutrition you need, as well as detoxing your cells. If you have dark circles, or your face looks like it's sliding, your body is setting...

Can I suggest... adding green veggie juice? You'll end up eating less, and it will make you more alkaline, so your body can neutralize toxins released from fat cells. If you are too acidic (saliva below 7.2PH) you'll have problems opening up those fat cells.

Haven't taken OB but I am chemical sensitive. I have eliminated all that I can control.

I don't have any more to lose but I'd like to exercise more. After being sick for a year, my muscle tone is softer than usual. While you lose, hopefully I'll gain. Wish you the best, and never give up!

green tea helps to make your colon very alkaline, which makes good bacteria flourish, which makes you more regular, which encourages your body to release toxins from fat cells, thus shrinking fat cells. Hwooooo.... Oh, and after living in asia for 3 years, I learned the importance of how to...

What I do is before social events, I make 2 cups of green veggie juice. Normally I have that for supper, so my body is very satisfied with it. But when I go to a social event with juice in my tummy, if I eat what's there, little by little I feel bloated, hence I eat less than if my tummy was...

Not on that diet but have some questions. Something like a green veggie juice is probably under 100 calories. Could you include that along with this diet? I think the reason these diets need so much willpower is because your body is begging for alkalinity from green veggies. If 100calories...

Hi there. Haven't been here for a while. Many of you know me as the girl who had chronic fatigue and went on the raw food diet. I am now 6 months on this diet and will never go back. When my CF was at it's worst, my saliva PH was 4.5, or extremely acidic (a healthy body is 7.2). After a few...

My first few weeks, I ate 1500-2000. As my nutrition increased, and my digestion got more effective, I got less hungry. Now 12 weeks in, I think I am eating maybe 1200? It's hard to calculate because my supper green veggie juice is a huge amount, but the fiber is taken out. So not sure how many...

This is a wee off topic but the reason I went on the raw food diet is because most women long term have a small waist, but a full chest. To me that says that it helps balance hormones. Sorry, forgive me if you are not female (I didn't check):/

I don't have excess skin myself but I've done so much research on helping skin get younger through nutrition (raw plants) and skin brushing (which stimulates skin to make more collagen.

I like it that your pre-diet pix is of you sitting, and after pix is of you actively enjoying life!

Wonderful!!!

That's so good! Great inspiration!

Yay! Keep going!

Great for you! You must be eating a lot of plants! You look younger. Some diets make people look older:/

Glad its working for you. Atkins would make me extremely sick. I don't eat acidic foods.

I'm not WW, but I think it does help with portion control and self-control. I use the principle of writing down my cheat meals. I also add my PH because my cheat meals always lower it to 6.0. At my healthiest diet, I am 6.8. (I am recovering from chronic fatigue, so my sleep and diet are the...

Some of you may know that I've been on the raw food diet for 12 weeks. I lost 16 pounds in my first 6 weeks, 6" off my waist. So for the last 6 weeks i haven't lost weight. And I'm happy about it. I was actually worried that I would get skinnier than I wanted, but that hasn't happened. I still...

Eating bad always makes me look older in the face, and makes my body feel crumby. So now I am trying to remind myself when I am tempted. I once got food poisoning from my favorite fruit strawberries. It kept me from eating them for 2 years because of the feeling of how sick I was. I'm trying to...

This site is great for inspiration! It helps for other people. My diet really works for me, but I love be inspired by other people exercising! Keeps me going. Diet forums are really about disciple. We all can use more:)

Long term, has she gone back to bad eating habits? I ask, because the most successful diets are lifestyles, with a treat here and there:)

You're on your way! I truly believe, if we improve our nutrition, the body finds it's ideal weight. I gained 15 pounds because I has chronic fatigue. After my PH went back to normal, my weight also went back to normal:)

I eat junk 2x a week usually pizza, chocolate, perogies:)

still at 142 I am actually measuring my waist. I have 3" to lose to be 29".

another poster mentioned leg cramps this diet may be low, or even depleting your magnesium reserves:( When I get cramps from my period, I rub magnesium oil on and cramping lessens. Have you checked your saliva PH in the morning before brushing? If it is below 7.2, you are losing calcium...

I started green veggie juicing after a couple weeks, I had almost no cravings for coffee, bread, chocolate. I think I must have been lacking something.

good for you but I could never follow it myself. I would be starving. I eat 97% raw at about 1600-2000 calories, and have lost 16 pounds. I have 3 more inches to lose on my tummy to be 29".

have you considered you may be low in magnesium, or high in acid.

You can do it Concentrate on nutrition, not weight loss. When your body has everything it needs to function properly, your health will take care of your weight. Don't quit!

My diet is cheaper than before Sorry, is Dukan a diet? This may be not applicable. I am raw. It costs $50 in fruits&veggies. And $10 in nuts&seeds. I used to spend $100 on suppl. a month, now I only take vit D. Plants are surprisingly cheap.

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Yay for you!

low gi definately works! I eat 97% raw, which is low GI. I lost most of the weight i need to, 2 pounds to go, but it also helped my chronic fatigue and hypoglycemia.

a diary blog is great! I also keep track of my PH, sleep, exercise ect. Weight loss is about a healthy body.

Welcome!

Only have 2 pounds to lose. I have a 32" waist and want it down to 29".

Increase your veggies and fruit! I eat 97% raw- that's 15 fruits and veggies a day. If you are not full nutritionally, and you are physically hungry, it will be so hard to have self control. but the opposite is also true. Eat everything your body needs, and maintaining your weight will easy.

raw benefits I think my link is now in my signature hopefully. I am only 95% raw. I eat pizza, perogies, and icecream or chocolate every week.

for those following my raw food experiment.... Hi I'm sorry, I guess because I'm new to this forum, I'm having a hard time navagating and posting. Here is my link I think it is now showing in my profile but not sure. Anywho, check out my pores only after 9 weeks. I'm a firm believer that a...

After years in a developing country, I developed chronic fatigue. After months of research and experimenting on myself, I finally have recovered. The side benefit is I'm back to my svelte self. I went on the raw food diet. Not only did I lose 15 pounds in 3 weeks, 6" on my tummy in 6, but I've...

Hi everyone! I am so delighted with the raw food diet. I lost 6" on my waist but surprisingly has shown improvement in my skin. First, I am darker, not so pastey white. And second, my pores have shrunk. Diet is everything to benefit your skin and your waist line:crazy:

I've been on the raw food diet for 6 weeks. Not only did I lose 15 pounds, 4" on my tummy, but I've almost recovered from chronic fatigue. (My energy, sleep, digestion are recovered,but I still have a sinus infection. The immune system takes a long time to rebuild.) My face doesn't look 10 years...