A new health book
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horseshowmom
Cathlete
tHANKS FOR THE INFO!
I've been looking into detox diets as well...
my daughter just had the flu and lost 8 pounds in 2 days....now that's a detox! Not sure that's the correct approach however! LOL!
Thanks again for the info!
Becky
I've been looking into detox diets as well...
my daughter just had the flu and lost 8 pounds in 2 days....now that's a detox! Not sure that's the correct approach however! LOL!
Thanks again for the info!
Becky
I checked with my library and while they didn't have the detox for women they did have an earlier one by Natalia Rose so I ordered it. Looking forward to reading what she has to say. While looking in the library catalog I ordered a couple of other raw food books as well. Have been getting interested in this but absolutely no plans to just eat raw but would like some ideas to maybe do it a couple of times a week. Any one here who does just eat raw food? Most of it seems so labor intensive. We had a raw food restaurant in our town for awhile. The food was excellent but they didn't make it thru their first winter. It is cold here and the idea of not having hot food just didn't make it.
baylian
Cathlete
I have her other two books. The 4 week Detox for Women was just released in the last week.
It is labor intensive to eat raw - at least when you want crackers type stuff or when your making something that resembles SAD food. I bought a dehydrator and used it like heck for the first two weeks but haven't touched it in about three. When life gets busy it doesn't happen for me. I also gained weight. Too many avocados and nuts. I have a hard time believing that you can eat as much as you want on raw a lose weight. A calorie is a calorie and if your not burning it than it goes to weight gain. Natalia's book is a different approach.
It is labor intensive to eat raw - at least when you want crackers type stuff or when your making something that resembles SAD food. I bought a dehydrator and used it like heck for the first two weeks but haven't touched it in about three. When life gets busy it doesn't happen for me. I also gained weight. Too many avocados and nuts. I have a hard time believing that you can eat as much as you want on raw a lose weight. A calorie is a calorie and if your not burning it than it goes to weight gain. Natalia's book is a different approach.
hiitdogs
Cathlete
Not exactly the recommended way of detoxing
I hope your DD is feeling better.Phyllis, I eat about 70 to 90 % raw and plantbased these days. I don't think it is that complicated and time consuming. In fact it is much easier and faster than cooking.
I don't like all that fake egg and cheese stuff that they use, mostly made from nuts
I LOVE the book The Raw Transformation by Wendy Rudell and get most of my recipes from her. I could eat her Citrus Avocado Salad every day - yummy. I also juice a lot. But things have to be simple for me, I don't want to spend a lot of time in the kitchen cutting and preparing.I really like the raw crips, crusts, cereals and bars but since I don't have a dehydrator yet I just buy them. I found those at my local Whole Foods but they are a lot cheaper directly from the people who make them
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I don't think I will ever go 100 % raw, maybe for a few days but not long-term. I am doing pretty well on my current diet, my bloodwork is much improved and I feel terrific!
I'll have to check if my library has that book, thanks for the recommendation, Dawn.
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baylian
Cathlete
I just started reading the 4 week Detox for Women about two nights ago but I can say that she talks about womens bodies in particular. The Raw Food Detox Diet has different levels of diet and you do a questionaire and figure out where it's best to start. Raw Food Life Force Energy gives you a 4 week plan and gives you a list of recipes to choose from - more flexability. The newest book seems rigid for the sole purpose of cleansing.
Sometimes I think it's the same thing repacked on many diet/health books.
She and Carol Alt seem to be on the same page as far as goats milk products and food that is somewhat cooked at times.
I think its one of those things that you need to sit down at the Barnes and Noble with a nice low fat latte and go through each book to see which one fits best . . . teehee
And your right Phyllis - I live in MI and it is really tough in the dead of a long winter (like this year) to try and eat something not warm!!
Sometimes I think it's the same thing repacked on many diet/health books.
She and Carol Alt seem to be on the same page as far as goats milk products and food that is somewhat cooked at times.
I think its one of those things that you need to sit down at the Barnes and Noble with a nice low fat latte and go through each book to see which one fits best . . . teehee
And your right Phyllis - I live in MI and it is really tough in the dead of a long winter (like this year) to try and eat something not warm!!
baylian
Cathlete
It's 4 weeks and yes recipes are included.
Problem is she has fish on the menu - I hate fish!
WantFit
Cathlete
I just got BlendTec last Saturday. I love it so far. Since you read all 3 of her books, can you give me some input? I generally like vegie, but cooked. I also like fish, too.
I have never done raw food diet before. I am going to be 42 soon. I need something simple because of my hectic life. Is it OK for me to just pick up her newest books to follow her plans? Or should I read her previous books first?Thanks
Carola I was in Barnes & Nobles today and looked at the raw food books. They didn't have Natalia Rose's book but they did have Wendy Rudell--$27US for a paperback. But the book is great. I really liked it and the recipes seem very doable. So I checked on amazon and found a copy for $10. I just ordered it. Baylian--while I didn't get the latte I did check out the books and they didn't have many. The other one I am interested in is David Wolfe's Eating for Beauty. He wrote the intro for the Rudell book. The reviews for Wolfe's book are excellent but I don't like to buy a book sight unseen and plus there were no inexpensive copies. Perfect time of year to try a raw food diet--or at least a partial raw food diet. My family was upset enough about vegetarianism--I will no longer cook meat etc. for them like I used to. Just wait until they hear about the "raw food" menu!
kathryn
Cathlete
I've been about 90%+ raw for the last month, after getting 're'interested in it from Cherie Soria's "Raw Food Revolution" book.
The most "unraw" I've had during that time is isolated ingredients (nutritional yeast, frozen peas or corn thawed out--it's blanched before freezing, so is not raw) and maybe one food item a day every few days (a mung bean stew, a veggie pocket).
I start the mornings with a huge green smoothie (about 70% fruits, including frozen banana most times, and 30$ greens like kale or celery or romaine or sprouts). One other meal is a big green and veggie salad (like a base of 1/2-1 head of romaine, cut in chiffonade--that makes it really compact down, and it's very pretty, IMO!)
I've been able to find some few raw foods at a coop (lasagne, pâtés, etc.), but for the most part, have been making my own.
I've been making lots of 'stuff' like wraps, almond milk (I took some time to soak and peel almonds, and the milk was delicious! just added a date, some vanilla and salt), some other dehydrated foods, a luscious golden dressing (though I mixed up the recipe, as there were two recipes on facing pages with the same initial ingredients, and I ended up combining the two--turned out great anyway!).
The only stuff that went pretty much straight to the compost was a horrid apple-kale soup (from the Soria book---she claims it's delicious, but unless using a granny smith apple takes it a whole other way, she is dead wrong!) and one of my green drinks that was not that tasty.
I intended to just start learning some raw techniques (or 'relearning,' as I've toyed with raw off and on for a while, and have all the equipment: a dehydrator, a Vitamix, a juicer--though I haven't used that much--a spiralizer), but I got more into it.
My short-term intent is to break some bad habits I'd gotten into foodwise, and to clean up my tastebuds (it really works! I don't have much of a craving for the trigger foods that were getting me in trouble).
My longterm intent is to go as much raw as works for me (I'm thinking 80%+ in summer, 60%+ in winter, but I'm not making any hard-and-fast rules for myself) and to add some raw foods to my repertoire that I can use in place of cooked foods (I haven't explored raw desserts much yet, but I intend to).
I've been rereading the raw books I already had, and getting some more, and culling those I think are not good (either because the recipes are way high in fat, like the Botenko recipe books, or because the info is questionable, like Douglas Graham's recommendation to eat 80% fruits, or Matt Monarch's off-the-wall claim that the reason fruitarians start losing their hair and teeth is because their diet is too pure for the environment they live in. Um...couldn't be because a diet of just fruits is lacking in nutrients, has too much sugar and acids for the teeth--especially if you don't practice good oral hygiene--and is unbalanced?).
Actually, Natalia Roses's second book was one I just got rid of, but I don't remember why off hand. I did keep her first one, but there are others I think are better.
The most "unraw" I've had during that time is isolated ingredients (nutritional yeast, frozen peas or corn thawed out--it's blanched before freezing, so is not raw) and maybe one food item a day every few days (a mung bean stew, a veggie pocket).
I start the mornings with a huge green smoothie (about 70% fruits, including frozen banana most times, and 30$ greens like kale or celery or romaine or sprouts). One other meal is a big green and veggie salad (like a base of 1/2-1 head of romaine, cut in chiffonade--that makes it really compact down, and it's very pretty, IMO!)
I've been able to find some few raw foods at a coop (lasagne, pâtés, etc.), but for the most part, have been making my own.
I've been making lots of 'stuff' like wraps, almond milk (I took some time to soak and peel almonds, and the milk was delicious! just added a date, some vanilla and salt), some other dehydrated foods, a luscious golden dressing (though I mixed up the recipe, as there were two recipes on facing pages with the same initial ingredients, and I ended up combining the two--turned out great anyway!).
The only stuff that went pretty much straight to the compost was a horrid apple-kale soup (from the Soria book---she claims it's delicious, but unless using a granny smith apple takes it a whole other way, she is dead wrong!) and one of my green drinks that was not that tasty.
I intended to just start learning some raw techniques (or 'relearning,' as I've toyed with raw off and on for a while, and have all the equipment: a dehydrator, a Vitamix, a juicer--though I haven't used that much--a spiralizer), but I got more into it.
My short-term intent is to break some bad habits I'd gotten into foodwise, and to clean up my tastebuds (it really works! I don't have much of a craving for the trigger foods that were getting me in trouble).
My longterm intent is to go as much raw as works for me (I'm thinking 80%+ in summer, 60%+ in winter, but I'm not making any hard-and-fast rules for myself) and to add some raw foods to my repertoire that I can use in place of cooked foods (I haven't explored raw desserts much yet, but I intend to).
I've been rereading the raw books I already had, and getting some more, and culling those I think are not good (either because the recipes are way high in fat, like the Botenko recipe books, or because the info is questionable, like Douglas Graham's recommendation to eat 80% fruits, or Matt Monarch's off-the-wall claim that the reason fruitarians start losing their hair and teeth is because their diet is too pure for the environment they live in. Um...couldn't be because a diet of just fruits is lacking in nutrients, has too much sugar and acids for the teeth--especially if you don't practice good oral hygiene--and is unbalanced?).
Actually, Natalia Roses's second book was one I just got rid of, but I don't remember why off hand. I did keep her first one, but there are others I think are better.
hiitdogs
Cathlete
I know what you mean, Phyllis! DH is just beside himself, it's hard for a Minnesota farm boy to buy into "no meat and potatoes" and eat sprouted kamuth and greens instead
. He has been buying meat occassionally for him and the boys but I am also brainwashing both of my DSs, so DH is fighting a losing battle I am glad you liked the Raw Transformation. I love that book because the recipes are simple. I bought mine on amazon as well, I am not spending $ 27 plus taxes on a book.
babindy
Cathlete
Natalia's Detox book was what got me interested in raw foods. I found it informative and a good starting point. Especially since she has different levels for just about anyone. I've since gone my own way (the food combining and waste management principles were just not for me) and I moved from juice to smoothies.
When I'm 'with' the program I'm 80%+ raw vegan. When I 'stray' I usually stray to cooked but still vegan (I don't do meat anymore at all and eggs/dairy only when I stray. Whole Foods has TOO MANY yummy vegan desserts!!!). I feel better and have more energy but the weight loss has not been tremendous. BUT it's better than going up which is what I had been experiencing.
I would recommend keeping your meals simple. Experimenting is fun and can be tasty but it can be tedious and time consuming to do all the prep work. But it's easy to make a nice fresh salad with lots of veggies. Or to blend up a quick 'soup' in the vitamix.
If you DO like to experiment with recipes I recommend the web. Gone Raw is a good site for recipes. In fact I got some of my favorite recipes there. The most recent is 'cheesey' kale chips. they taste even better than the $7/package ones at Whole Foods. I cut down the cashews and add even more veggies. But they are yummy. You do need a dehydrator for them and a vitamix/blendtec is best for making the sauce.
Ditto on the library. Mine doesn't have the best selection. So I end up on Amazon for something I want to keep. I do like Matthew Kenney for his lovely books and recipes. They can be a lot of work though.
Good Luck!
When I'm 'with' the program I'm 80%+ raw vegan. When I 'stray' I usually stray to cooked but still vegan (I don't do meat anymore at all and eggs/dairy only when I stray. Whole Foods has TOO MANY yummy vegan desserts!!!). I feel better and have more energy but the weight loss has not been tremendous. BUT it's better than going up which is what I had been experiencing.
I would recommend keeping your meals simple. Experimenting is fun and can be tasty but it can be tedious and time consuming to do all the prep work. But it's easy to make a nice fresh salad with lots of veggies. Or to blend up a quick 'soup' in the vitamix.
If you DO like to experiment with recipes I recommend the web. Gone Raw is a good site for recipes. In fact I got some of my favorite recipes there. The most recent is 'cheesey' kale chips. they taste even better than the $7/package ones at Whole Foods. I cut down the cashews and add even more veggies. But they are yummy. You do need a dehydrator for them and a vitamix/blendtec is best for making the sauce.
Ditto on the library. Mine doesn't have the best selection. So I end up on Amazon for something I want to keep. I do like Matthew Kenney for his lovely books and recipes. They can be a lot of work though.
Good Luck!