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Eating Raw Food is not a diet to lose weight, it is a diet however which will eventually, over time, bring you to the ideal weight your body wants to be if you listen to it, not to what you (or society) thinks that weight ought to be.
When people suddenly change a great deal of what they are eating all at once, it is very hard to evaluate, especially over the internet, why they might not be feeling well, or if it is even from the diet change. Starting a raw food diet can make you detoxify, cutting out lots of dense, concentrated protein all at once can also have effects, eating fruit (especially if not properly combined) can have effects. You also might have gotten a slight cold or something.
What I would suggest is to go back to eating your regular diet and doing your normal activities for a week or however long it takes you to feel exactly like you did before starting raw. Then I would change only one thing at a time and give your body at least a month to adapt to the change. If I were you, I would start first with simply changing out some of your cooked veggies for raw ones. If you start to feel tired, gain weight or feel off from this, it is simply because you are adapting and detoxing and getting some nutrtion that you weren't getting before. Some people gain weight at first because their bodies have been starving for some nutrition and they actually eat more or hang onto more of the food. Switching from cooked to raw vegetables won't be a big change unless of course your digestion is so bad that it can't handle proper fiber in whole raw foods. Another suggestion would be to take out the veggies from the fridge and let them get to room temperature before eating them - especially this time of year.
Starting by adding fruit can have complications. If you are not combining them well with other foods such as meat they might affect you; or if you have any blood sugar issues or candida the natural sugars might affect you so I wouldn't start by adding fruit until you have tried some other changes first.
I've known people that switched over night to 100% raw foods and felt great, but many more that simply couldn't do that without feeling badly at least at first and gave up. When in doubt, the best thing to do is to go so slowly so that you can properly determine the affects of the your small changes and integrate those changes seamlessly.
Greenbunny
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