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Why haven't I lost any weight on a raw fruit and vegetable diet?
I've been eating only raw fruits and vegetables for the last three days and I think I'm actually gaining weight. What's going on?
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- Anonymous8 years agoFavorite Answer
You're not gaining weight, your body is just bloating from the absence of nutrients. Dude....what you're doing is so ridiculously unhealthy. You have no idea.
First off, with a raw fruit/veggie diet, I doubt you're eating a lot of calories to begin with. A deficit is the key to fat loss, but then again, too much of anything is a bad thing. Make sure you're eating around 500-800 calories UNDER your BMR (your body weight x 12(roughly)). Any less and you start losing muscle (which is a BAD thing).
Second, with that diet, you're getting no protein, which is extremely dangerous. I bet you've got headaches and you feel lightheaded. You NEED protein to retain muscle mass and to maintain proper organ function - especially in the brain. You absolutely need to eat at least 50g of protein a day or you'll lose more muscle than fat and feel like garbage in general.
Third, I assume you're eating a lot of fruits since people usually prefer that over veggies. While you're getting a good source of vitamins, you're also taking in a lot of sugar. Yeah, it's natural sugar, but it's still gonna promote fat retention, which when mixed with your lack of protein, is a DEADLY combination leading to far more muscle loss than fat loss.
I'm not trying to be rude, but did you even do any research before you went on this crash diet? You're gonna lose weight, that's for sure, but you won't be happy with the results.
My recommendation? Just eat regular food without going overboard. Eat 3 square meals a day. Just eat a bowl of cereal and some fruit for breakfast, a sandwich and some kind of side for lunch, and some kind of meat or something with rice or potatoes and veggies. Just stay away from the junk/fast food as well as the candy and soda. Drink lots of water. Aim for 4 glasses a day at least. Get some exercise in if you can. Just walk around the neighborhood for an hour every day or two - that's more than enough when combined with a healthy diet. Weight loss is as hard or as easy as you make it.
Source(s): US Army combat veteran - BrittanyLv 58 years ago
Fruits are high in sugar, first of all. Yes, they're healthy for you...but too much of them doesn't do good things to your body.
Vegetables are less of an issue.
But honestly? This diet isn't well balanced and it's not sustaining. You can't do this for life. Therefore, this diet is a waste of your time. Eventually, you'll have to provide your body with other nutrients, eventually you'll have to go back on a normal diet. And when you do, you have to learn to eat healthy. So you might as well cut to the chase and start now. You CAN lose weight without cutting out 90% of the food groups. I lost 120 pounds simply by watching the calories i ate and being active. Do some research or meet with a nutritionist. Make sure you get your needed fruits and veggies, as well as your needed dairy, protein and grains. Depriving your body of its required nutrients can seriously inhibit your weightloss.
- ?Lv 45 years ago
You might drop some weight via consuming laugh bars for those who desired...despite the fact that it is not advocated. It is nice to be on a vitamin prime with end result and vegetables considering the fact that they're nature's meals...evidently sweetened..much less caloric than plenty of synthetic meals...nutrients, and so on. However, the important thing to wasting weight is to eat (devour) much less energy than you burn. So...you simply have to work out how so much you burn in an natural day headquartered in your weight, peak, intercourse, and bodily exercise, after which devour not up to that quantity. The additional the 2 numbers are aside from every different (how so much you burn an afternoon, and what kind of you devour) the quicker you drop some weight. However, to make this hole higher, you must NOT no longer devour. That will probably be unhealthy. Anyway, lengthy tale brief, for those who virtually reduce approximately 500 energy an afternoon (I recommend establishing a meals log and counting to look what number of energy you devour on a everyday groundwork) they are saying that's healthful and can result in weight reduction. Cutting 500 energy an afternoon will result in weight lack of approximately a piund per week. a million pound=3500 energy.
- 4 years ago
store bought salad dressings can be packed with calories make your own vinaigrette and store it in a small spray bottle to coat your greens without over dressing them
- 5 years ago
think ahead to how youll eat and exercise on the weekends its easy to get too relaxed on saturdays and sundays but healthy living is a 7 day a week endeavor
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