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Old Tue, Jul-18-06, 08:12
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Plan: Protein Power
Stats: 216/166/150 Female 60 inches
BF:45%/33.5%/28%
Progress: 76%
Location: CNY
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Jasmine, in the spirit of being 'helpful for [you]', while lots of vegetables and nuts and seeds are good when raw, their nutrients and vitamins/minerals are more bioavailable to your body (i.e., digestible) when they are cooked. Being a vegetarian or vegan is fine; I don't consider it controversial. But as you point out, eating raw diets tend to be too high in natural sugars to be beneficial to our bodies--some small amount is good; too much is detrimental. You have chosen to eat low carb to 'get some of [your] health issues under control and take weight off quickly.'

What makes you think that once the weight is off and your health issues are controlled, you'll be able to change your diet so dramatically (by 50-70%) and KEEP the weight off and KEEP your health issues controlled?

Seriously--eating low carb, whether incorporating meat or staying vegetarian or some combination of the two--isn't a quick fix solution. If you've already experience weight gain and health issues while eating higher carb and/or eating raw, those things are going to come back with a vengeance if you return to the way you were eating before low carbing. So think carefully how you can return to that kind of eating, or whether it's truly the best thing for your body.
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