28-day raw food diet - help?

I was thinking about trying Dr. Oz's 28-day raw food diet. Has anyone ever tried a diet like this before? What should I expect? Are there any good sites that have raw food recipes?28-day raw food diet - help?
http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2008/01鈥?/a>



This website chronicles 30 days of raw eating including pictures and descriptions of everything he has eaten. His site also has other links about raw and recipes including a scrumptious looking blueberry pie recipe that I can't seem to be able to find now. Good luck.28-day raw food diet - help?
If you wanna be really active go 80 10 10 low fat raw vegan, you need glucose to fuel your muscles, glucose is in simple sugars found in sweet ripe fruits. If you eat a breakfast of 10-15 banana's you'll get 1000-1200 calories to fuel your workouts plus you won't get weighed down from having to digest all that fat and protein. Don't get afraid to get all your calories in, on average the chinese eat 2500 calories and we get on average 2000 yet we are overweight!!! Maybe we are doing something wrong?!? Eat sweet juicy fruits and greens and you'll have all the nutrients you need to fuel work outs. Use cron-o-meter to track your vitamin and nutrients intake and you'll find you'll meet every vitamin and mineral that you need (except vitamin D but your body can make enough of that if you go outside in the sun).



I would also advise against making nuts and seeds your staple and only use them sparingly and instead eat a TON of fruit.





I recommend two books



Thrive by Brendan Brazier - not 100% raw but he is very close I would say 80%+ of what he eats is raw.



80 10 10 by Douglas Graham



Don't get sucked into the hype about the high fat diet with alot of overt fats and espically stay away from stimulants and superfoods that alot of raw "guru's" will try to sell you on. Brendian Brazier talks about stimulates and while in the short term they are good for a boost, but you end up having to pay for it in the long run!! Don't get sucked into the new age superfood movement that is really prevalent in the raw community, who needs superfoods when you have banana's, mango's, celery, dates, raisins, avocado's, lettuce, apples, cabbage, ect.... All of those together in enough quantities is more than enough to meet you daily requirements of all you vitamins and minerals!!



I eat very simply since going 80 10 10 basically a day is somewhat like this.



Morning 8-10 oranges about 700-800 calories

Lunch 10-12 banana's about 1000-1200 calories

Dinner 2 pounds of lettuce with 4-5 tomatoes, 2 mango's and avocado about 600-700 calories

Snacks Raisins, dates and some walnuts (usually 2 snacks a day for about 200-400 calories each).





If you don't get you calories in they you will either start binging on sweet foods or go back to cooked foods, also if you have issues with anorexia you might get scared at first at the amount of volume of food that you need to consume on a daily basis to really thrive on this diet. Also since fruit has alot of fiber you won't see spikes in your blood sugar since fiber works to slow the release of sugar into your blood stream.

http://www.healthcastle.com/fiber-solubl鈥?/a>



I try to get in about 3000-3500 calories a day, more if I am working out heavily. I am 5'8" about 145-150 pounds (male) and I've been at this for 4 years now 100% raw.



Check out 30 Banana's a day its a 80 10 10 community.

http://www.30bananasaday.com/



Also get the China Study too he recommends a strictly plant based diet!!28-day raw food diet - help?
I was just watching Dr. Oz talking about the 28 day raw food diet! Hehe:)



http://www.living-foods.com/recipes/

these are some raw recipes



If you ate a really unhealthy diet, expect to feel some withdrawal(headache, fatigue, etc) But after about a week you will probably feel better than you have EVER felt! Good luck~~28-day raw food diet - help?
I was thinking about trying it out as well but the name of the challenge is somewhat misleading. There is only one week where you actually eat 100% raw. Google raw food recipes..there are tons of them like shredded zucchini with a raw tomato sauce and guacamole etc.