OMG..cant wait.. the massage will be amazing...

I will have some nice brown pears here for you ... i am lovin persimmons and lady finger bananas... they put me into blissful zen time!

xx

My kids would walk out after about half an hour of lectures..... and they appreciate healthy food!

OOOOOhhhhh... I wish I could have a spa and a massage.. i'm jelous. I'll have to settle for a nice hot bath!

shame about the rockie though.. but hey the watermelon's are devine too at the moment. I just finished my watermelon G.. lots of fresh organic Euro Spinach.. it's so smooth and creamy.. I love it!.. oh and heaps of w/melon.

Enjoy that spa, massage and melon!

xx

Hi you.... yes another fantastic arvo...

Hope those fluey, blerky, gak feeling have gone..

don't forget to get those Sunflower sprouts going too.

Have the best day on this rainy day we are having. just love it when it's like this get so motivated to get into the kitchen... I must be crazy .. I live in there!!

Hey your Coco cookies look amazing, might have to try those!

chow chow
xx

Wow you are having a awsome day!....

OMG.. aren't the Rockies great at the moment. They seem to be creamier than usual when blended.

Great to see you are flying high again my dear!

love love
kk

Just finished my watermelon G... it was devine!

Hi Sheryl...

they sound great but my favourite are zucchini chips and sweet potato chips.. they are great with salsa and guacamole!  Much better than Nacho's.

Oh and  a dollop of nut cheese in top is good if I have any made at the time!

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DR.. I make it a point not to label myself actually, I eat what I like! I'm just really lucky because I absolutely adore healthy, clean, uprocessed food... Never ever been one to eat anything that came out of a coloured box or bag!

If the worst thing I consume is chlorella, spirulina and maca then yes I eat terrible refined food... Oh no! Fact of the matter is I really eat it because I love the taste not for the nutrition it gives me, that's just a bonus.

Wow.. I love em too. It's the cultural thing that goes with it, the presentation.. it's relaxing too somehow. I also love cookbooks!

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DR, I never said anthing about animal products or processed food, why the question.

Hey FM, The only solution I have seen in here to everything in life... is to eat more Fruit! its gonna solve all the health, social and environmental issues of the world! Yeh for the humble banana... just make sure you paid a pitence for it and it was covered in spots!

Oh and another thing FM, you may be out of touch and unaware of your surroundings and have a supriority complex.. but I feel fine thanks..

Hey Neet ... i'll meet you outside by the pool... Do you want ice in your drink?

why do you alway think I am talking about processed and fast food, I haven't eaten that stuff for over 20yrs, you would have had more of it than I ever did... actually can't remember ever eating,my kids and there friends have offered my $1000.00 to eat it, im just not interested so that one doesn't gel. And to say that the body will function on fairly floss and mars bars is fine but who here is saying to do that.. no one. We are here to be ultra healthy and feel 120%... a balanced raw food diet with all of it's combo abombo's will do that.. the enjoyment that come from sitting around with friends enjoying a good raw cake or ice cream, or a raw pizza at a great raw restaurant is onother of lifes pleasures, to deprive oneself of such enjoyment is a bit sad.

I've been raw just as long as you and I am thriving on a balanced diet. 

Oh, and John.. I like you analogy!
 

It really doesn't matter if your life is unrealistic, we can do whatever we want and that type of life is not on the list of many I wouldn't think, especially mine!

I don't think anyone is saying you have to eat fats everyday, or at everymeal. But hey it's healthy to have them at least once a day and I agree only small amounts are required but ludicrious to say we should never have them and that it is detrimental to our health to do so.

If you want to eat and live like an animal then that explains why you enjoy your simple lifestyle... animals are very simple beings, don't have much need for anything and are actually quite under developed compared to Humans. You've really made me look at things a bit differently now DR, us humans, on our more 'complicated' diet have really come a long way compared to the animals you keep comparing us too... it's making think that the more complicated our diet has become the smarter we have become...

All the high fruit eaters I know that have cut it back and gone to a more balanced diet are finding it much easier mentally and physically, weather raw or cooked. So I don't understand what your saying. Yeah the body is a fine tuned machine but it is also very adaptable. Living on sweet fruit is really unbalancing, I love sweet fruit but gee I can't wait to have something savoury to sort out what it's doing to me. To just keep shoving more in just sends me off on  an unbalanced ride to nowhere feeling like I'm just never getting there. I nice salad with some sort of fat, seeweed, sprouts etc just feels so good and gives a real feeling of contentment.. Oh no!... combo abombo's do that too don't they! - just a small amount and you feel great, it's having to much that is the problem for some, as with fruits for some people, have too much and you also have a problem!

Why do you think the body converts everything to glycogen/sugars as you call it, for bodily functions, because it can! and for good reason,obviously that's how it likes it or it wouldn't do it. Everything happens for a reason and thats what it's there for. What's wrong with making the body work for something, that's called metabolism.. something lacking in society.  It doesn't only have to come from exercise.

Start looking at other research ..... you'll find some different answers...

I'm glad that got your attention DR!

So what your saying is that we need to eat huge amounts of fruit, exercise all day to burn it off and do nothing else.. well that's not the real world. Don't get me wrong I love fruit, I call it happy food which it is for me. I am a sweet tooth and fruit satisfies that for me. What I was really addressing is your answer to everything is "eat more fruit" "Fruit will save you life"... everything I see from you just says megadose on fruit.

I have to 811 book and I have his High Energy Diet Recipe book, and all of his recipes include fruit, greens and a portion of nuts/seeds or avocado and some greens... balanced eating! I would just like to see you focus on this a bit more. It only takes a very small amount of the fats to help utalise the fat soluble vitamins and minerals and get adequate colories that the body needs and you would probably find that you didn't need to eat 28 bananas for breakfast, your body would utilise the nutrition much better and you could still have a great workout.

Kids going for all sorts of rubbish after school has a lot more to do with them being overfed and undernourished, it's peer pressure, advertising, socialisation, marketing.. etc etc etc. It's amazing how little most  people DON'T know about nutrition, how many parents think they are doing the right thing feeding their kids so called food out of coloured boxes! It's also lack of knowledge.

You say "but if we combo abombo, the body will refuse the amount of fruit needed.
our body is pretty smart..lol! "
I agree it is smart - Did it ever occur to you that those so called combo abombo's and not wanting to eat anything after might be the body saying "thank you - I feel nourished now you don't need to put anymore in"? Makes you wonder doesn't it.

I've been raw for 3 1/2 years and the whole time I have cooked and prepared 3 meals a day plus snacks for my family of 5, Not once have I had a craving to eat it. I can cook a choc cake or make a lasagna and it has no effect on me... Yes I get cravings but only for healthy fare, a break out for me is Granola.. Raw dehydrated Buckwheat Granola.. it's really morish!.. and I can count on 1 hand how many times this has happened in the last 3 1/5 yrs!

I know your intentions are all good but somehow it is very easy to out of context.. I know more people that have come unstuck with high fruit than have succeeded with it. I am a huge believer that what works for one does not always work for another... you just alway come back to "this is what I do the whole world should do it to".. unfortuntely me friends that's just not reality.

Hey Jungle... I love my afternoon feasts of persimmons too. Bananas are great too... but over the course of the day there are lots of greens, salads, vegies and adequate good fats!! It's all about balance!

xx
kk

Why is pigging out on fruit your answer to everything DR?

I beg to differ, just eating fruit makes you want to eat all day.. fruit call it suger or call it carbs its both and still makes you want to binge.. when do you ever just have one banana, or one apple? and feel content!

But have one apple with 6 almonds or a grated apple in a sprout salad and you would more than likely be satisfied... it can be about Quality not Quantity.....

You make it look like 811 is your answer to being a Binge eater and not having to feel guilty about it..


kk

Jen, you are a master with the camera, that looks yummo. And and I would def add the cinnamon... by the way how is you supply going.. do we need to go and get more!....

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Annette, you are not eating enough to lose weight. Your body thinks that it is in starvation mode so it is going to hang on to everything. As long as you are eating good healthy food you definately need to up your food intake. You need to add at least 500cal per day in my opinion.
Once a week it is quite good to give your body a real shake and have a bit of a splurge, this ups your metabolism as it thinks it is going to be fed more so it turns up the furnaces! then the next day go back to your normal eating.
I used to absolutley pig out every Sunday, I would eat so much I couldn't move, then on Monday get back to proper portions. My body fat got so low from doing this.
From what you are saying you are eating low cal and not losing, so don't be scared you will do really well if you up your intake. I have lost weight consistantly on about 1700cal per day, below that it didn't move. I do not come from naturally thin stock so have to eat well and exercise.
I agree with Hubbie - Give it a go!
kk