Posts by monkeyhippy

In my opinion, that is way too much soy to be eating on a daily basis, but I avoid soy like the devil. Soy is extremely estrogenic, as you may have heard.

Like the above poster said, try to vary your protein sources.

I've been raw vegan before for months at a time.  You definitely don't need a food proccessor or even a blender.

There are many different approaches to this lifestyle, namely a low fat high fruit approach or a anything-you-want-as-long-as-it's-raw approach.  For a low fat raw diet, you eat mainly fruit and vegetables, with minimal amounts of nuts and seeds and oily fruit.  The anything goes approach you eat as many nuts seeds fruits and veggies as you want, in any amount.  I honestly don't think either way of eating is healthy or balanced.

I think this diet is lacking in protein no matter how you slice it, but it's your choice.  some people claim to thrive, I have done a raw diet for many many months at a time, and felt good, but did notice some muscle wasting, which is an awful thing.  I lost muscle tone, meaning I must have gained fat but lost muscle.

rawfoodtalk.com, 30bananasaday.com, giveittomeraw.com all will give you some more information.  I would also check out Beyondveg.com to give another perspective.

I highly doubt that a raw food diet will be supported on this site though; I would encourage a more balanced approach to eating, and that can be done while still being vegan.

Pm me if you want more info

Are any of your pictures in your gallery recent, because your face looks absolutely gaunt in all of them

Jon

Wow the 5pm to 5pm thing might just be the most genius thing I have ever heard of!  I am implementing that today

I like my abs :)  They are strangely one of the last places I gain fat as well.

i also like my sense of humor, it gets me through life

These noodles really hurt my stomach.  I had a stomach ache for a few hours after eating them. Start off wioth a small portion.

If you don't exercise wwhile losing weight, then you are going to lose a lot more muscle than if you were exercising, leaving you with a much higher body fat percentage.  So lets say you lost 25 kg while exercising and weight training, you might get down to lets say 18 percent body fat, whereas losing 25 kg without any exercise could leave you at the exact same weight, but with 25% body fat. 

Exercise is absolutely vital to long term health, ask any doctor. Be thankful that you are healthy and blessed enough to be ABLE to exercise, and put your body to good use!

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Maybe try eating some protein right before you go to sleep as a preventative measure.  Just so you can sleep through the night.  it is not good for you to be waking up to eat in the middle of the night, you need solid sleep.

I am being honest, you look really good!  Bloating can make you feel bigger than usual, so that could possibly be what has happened (although you don't look bloated at all to me).  If your period is coming, that could cause bloating.  Give it a few days...you look awesome by the way

too much of anything is bad, that is what "too much" means.  But incoorporating lots of fruits into your diet is fine, just make sure you are getting all your macronutrients in proper proportions and all the nutrients you need.  Summer = yummy fruits.  And if you are trying to lose weight, count the fruit calories

Lookks like you got some great answers, but I just wanted to reinforce that you absolutely do not NEED to eat fruit if you are eating a lot of vegetables.  Fruit is higher in vitamins than vegetables, and vegetables are higher in minerals than fruit, generally, but as long as you eat a variety of vegetables you will get more than enough vitamins.  Don't just eat carrots, there is very little vitamin C in them.  Vitamin C is high in lettuce and broccoli

I am 19, 5'3, 106-107 pounds, and eat 1500-2000 calories a day

Hey there!

I am 5'3 as well

I weigh 106-107, aiming for 100, I have a tiny frame

I am currently aiming for 1500-1600 calories, but lately have been eating around 2000. 

1/2 cup oatmeal is a lot of oatmeal if you add a lot of water, it can be a huge bowl-full!  3 grams of fat is very little!  Especially for that much food!  I've been eating oatmeal by the bucket load recently and am 6 pounds from my goal weight...have lost 4 pounds in the past week.