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Melissa was right on! Yeah, everything she said.
Another important thing to remember is that if you were eating a lot of dense protein before your body is basically "addicted" to getting bombarded with the stuff. Going all raw from a good diet is just a big a jump as going from a junk food diet to what most people would call a healthy one. It is a gigantic change to your body. It sounds like you are real achiever and so you might feel like going all raw all at once should be easy for you. Going slower would give you more of the ability to evaluate each different food that you are incorporating to see how your body reacts to that. Please check out our discussion called Oh Nuts about seeds and nuts as a protein source - it is vital that you are soaking those nuts/seeds.
Since you do not have the same immediate health concern that your Mom does you can still support her and incorporate one new food a week to evaluate it more precisely.
The idea that everyone has immediate tremendous energy and loses weight are stereotypes that are not necessarily true. Many people do go through times of releasing toxins where they don't feel all that great and many people will gain weight if their body was undernourished before. You might think that your body had great nutrtion before, but you would be surprised the difference in nutrtion when eating all raw. Your body might be wanting to eat more than it needs because it is finally getting real nutrtion.
Raw foods is a long-term approach to health not based on the normal American "thin or bulked up at all costs" approach. It takes time and patience to allow your body to come back to it's healthy balance. If you change one thing at a time you will be able to tell if your lack of energy is because you are detoxing, because you are reacting badly to something you are eating or if you are not getting something that you are presently getting in your diet that you need or at least need to wean yourself off of - which is my guess that you are going through with protein withdrawal.
I could keep on talking on and on but I will spare you. If you would like to talk more about this please just ask.
Raw foods will eventually make you filled with energy and bring you to your ideal weight whatever that might be. It's just a question of making the transition.
Greenbunny
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