I’ve been trying to eat more raw and I’m finding that it’s a lot of work/planning. What should I do?
Are you making lots of wacky recipes? Are you trying to dehydrate or spending hours on raw desserts? Stop. Focus on your meals—great smoothies for breakfast, big salads and wraps for lunch, raw pastas, stuffed veggies, stacks, soups, grains and cooked veggies for dinner. Don’t get too caught up in experimentation. And stick with it. Plant based and unprocessed foods, like any healthy lifestyle choice, aren’t easy at first. But you will begin to experience the benefits! Be persistent, be open minded, and most importantly, have fun. I just started eating raw, and I’ve gained weight. Help! The biggest culprit behind sudden weight gain with raw foods is getting addicted to un-cooking–especially raw dessert making! Rule of thumb: if you’re not supposed to be eating a ton of a certain kind of food in a cooked diet, you shouldn’t be eating a ton of that same food on a raw diet! So if you’re not supposed to be eating a ton of cookies (and most of us are not), then you shouldn’t be eating a ton
